It's from Tago Mago; a great album altogether. There's quite a playlist to follow on from 'Halleluwah' on that Youtube channel, featuring songs from s...
By "stupid" do they mean 'impractical', or 'no use'? Is undertaking a degree in philosophy going to be useful to you? If so, do you believe it will be...
The idea is that guilt is occasioned by conscience, by moral intuition. Under that view it is not merely a matter of opinion as to whether some acts a...
I think the idea is that I may appear to be happy, but underneath I am really suffering because I am a sinner, lack virtue, and so on. I need not even...
I guess a Christian, or perhaps even a virtue ethicist, would believe that it is necessarily harmful to you. I think a Christian would say that it is ...
It also depends on what you mean by "covet your neighbour's wife". Do you merely mean you feel physically attracted to her when she is present? Or do ...
Do you mean the seeking is the product of the happiness or the happiness is the product of the seeking? I agree we do have both positive and negative ...
It's an interesting question, and I don't have a ready answer to it. To reverse the question; what more could love be than good will? Desire, perhaps?...
I think Hume did not account for the fact that it is not merely a matter of what we can see but is also a matter of what we can feel. We feel mechanic...
I think the point is that causality understood in terms of mechanical interactions of "fundamental" particles is not useful at larger scales (for exam...
No, I'd try to catch it and take it the local hospital. From there it would presumably be taken to a lab where its venom would be 'milked' for antiven...
I find it impossible to think that if I love someone or something, that to the extent and at the times that I do love him, her or it, I do not, to the...
Thanks for your explanation, Timeline. I think there is a bit of a misunderstanding at work here, because I haven't been treating love as one emotion ...
Why would I take offense? You seem to be completely misunderstanding what I have said. By fear of nothingness I mean fear of death, fear of failure, f...
I didn't mean to suggest that I "fight with it"; it's more like the opposite, ignoring it or peripheralizing it. I am not suggesting that nothingness ...
I suspect we all have our demons. The ultimate demon seems to be the demon of nothingness; the void of meaninglessness. For me that demon is always th...
Then they sound like they are temperamentally close to Redbacks. Funnelwebs, on the other hand, are hyper-aggressive. Do you have an aggressive counte...
I would say having the experience is certainly necessary for understanding it. Whether it is sufficient or not might depend, inter alia, upon the kind...
Timeline, it seems as though you want to disagree with the idea(s) in the passage you quoted, but your point of disagreement is not clear to me as yet...
What if it's not necessarily an "arbitrary assumption" at all, but a lived experience; and one that you cannot understand simply because you have neve...
I think it's fair to say that hatred and even indifference are modes of love, or care. We hate or are indifferent to some thing(s) only on account of ...
They're essentially the same thing, aren't they? Take the idea of the warping or curving of spacetime due to mass in GR. To enable a simulated visuali...
Yes, but 'imagine' here has the negative sense of 'allow for the possible existence of', rather than the positive sense of 'forming a definite image o...
It's a nuanced question with many possible interpretations and answers. It is said in Christian teaching that humans are made in the image of God. Spi...
That may be true, but those in power always seem to want to hang onto it; and it doesn't seem to have much to do with theological issues. If Islam had...
It's a complex issue, there may be either theocratic or ecclesiocratic states where the politic is closely associated with the religious. Take a look ...
From Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_secularism /uploads/files/1t/l7tv70bzsc2bp46h.png The role of Islam or religion in the Muslim-major...
I heard recently that the idea that the female Black Widows devour their mates after copulation is a myth; that they only do that when stressed; i.e i...
This is a nice way of thinking about it that puts it on a continuum from totally unimaginable to totally imaginable; the extremes of which are never a...
But. "imagining the unimaginable", that is simply a contradiction, isn't it? I think the problem does lie in the different senses in which imagining t...
Yes, I hate to kill anything unnecessarily and I refuse to disturb the numerous Golden Orb Spider, and other, webs around my house. Even the relativel...
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