WhiskeyWhiskers

This is a good way of looking at it. At the risk of sounding less helpful, it's like perpetual reincarnation, except there is nothing carried over fro...

I know you like philosophy to be practical for it to be of value, but there are (whether 'useful' or not) ways of thinking about philosophy that do no...

The point isn't that "existence keeps on existing". That's the most superficial interpretation of it, look deeper. There's clearly something which my ...

I'm not speaking 'historically'. I'm talking about a bare underlying idea that runs through some parts of these different philosophies. Like I said in...

My earlier post was quoting bits of Watts from a fairly well-known youtube clip of his (called The Real You). What's funny (to me) is that I have a fr...

After you're dead, the only thing that can happen is the same experience - or the same sort of experience - as when you were born. Only, you can only ...

For some reason I find it more credible that God exists than the resurrection of Jesus happened.

Indeed, it's impossible to compare our experiences when these are (by the very definition of Wittgenstein's mysticism) beyond words. And in that way i...

Once or twice before I've had a really clear realisation that all these religions and philosophies that hold a higher state of mind or consciousness a...

When making every-day decisions in life, I see myself as a strict rationalist. But I sometimes have a crisis of faith where I wonder if my reasoning i...

I wouldn't risk the gall of pretending to know the answer to that question. If there even is one.

If you're saying what I think you're saying, I agree with this observation of Dennett but would say it comes out in a different way. Take his free wil...

This sounds like it should be in a novel, funny. Homosexuality meets Fight Club.

It is hypocritical if you have decided that democracy is at least sufficient to even bother using in the first place. What you really mean by it being...

Do you not see the hypocrisy, or logical inconsistency to be more polite, of favouring democracy when it works for you, but disregarding it when it do...

I hope this makes it clear to you: If I voted to leave but the country voted to remain, I would want the government to follow through with the peoples...

The point is that it is very much up for debate which decision is the right one. You alone do not get to decide that; the country as a whole does. Ove...

Check the previous page. I see no reason why he wasn't being serious. I even asked if he was joking because I couldn't really believe what I was readi...

The hypocrisy of using democracy only when it favours your side is literally a necessary condition of fascism.

No, you're a fascist.

Ah, I understand you now. With such antidemocratic tendencies it's no wonder you want to stay in the EU.

That's fair enough. But would you still be keen for parliament to defy the will of the people if the vote was to remain?

I was obviously referring to the second part.

Is that a joke?

I think your fragmentary knowledge is largely correct (and is probably much less fragmentary than mine). Although I wasn't around when Britain joined ...

I don't think there's anything wrong with this reasoning per se. Due process is critically important in all matters of law, especially when constituti...

Some say feminism is cancer.

Going purely off that one excerpt, it sounds like he's trying to imitate a certain literary style; long, rich, winding sentences. But in this excerpt ...

Ah, the "straight white male" angle. You might as well throw 'CIS-gendered' in there at that point. What I'm saying is that the gay lobby has 'won the...

Any kind of progress is going to seem "fitful" when Islam is involved. If not for one particular ideology, gays wouldn't really have it much better or...

Well I've not specified where I stand on the issue of gender entirely, and my post was only in direct response to your link. In fact, I wasn't even re...

That other cultures have had different views on sex and gender does not mean that any or all of them are equally valid. Ours may not be perfectly accu...

I think it's not past a criminals capacity to lie to save their own skin (perhaps literally in your justice system), or for the kind of psychopaths we...

For me it's a matter of logical consistency, of hypocrisy. Treating the inhumane as they treat others makes one inhumane also. That much is clear to m...

"When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations VII, 65. No doubt he would ...

You clearly do have principles; the principles of 'me, me, and me'. There is more to society than that.

I'm voting to leave the EU. At first I had no idea how I would vote if I was to do it at all. The first clue that began my swing toward Brexit was the...

How to be a conservative - Roger Scruton A book that would have been better titled, What is a conservative? Not nearly as full of 'oughtification' as ...

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This is complete projection. They do not "make people look shitty by comparison", you perceive anything less than their standards to be shitty by comp...

I'm not talking about individuals, but specific cases of the things I quoted actually happening. Call me stupid, but I can't bring to mind any example...

You are going to have to provide some actual examples of these things occurring in the real world for this to be anything more than ultimately meaning...

Why discriminate against individuals who haven't necessarily done anything wrong?

This is equivalent to, "if you hate Hillary, then you're a misogynist". As if there can be no other reason for it. How quickly basic logic is forgotte...

Generalized label - no idea. Form of government - constitutional meritocracy where the public elects from a group selected by the powers that be. Enfo...

Real Time with Bill Maher: “It’s unprecedented, by the way, for the Supreme Court to do this, because this has not been adjudicated so far by the fede...

What do you do when you realise you're desiring not to desire?

Just finished Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl

There's an interesting comment by Pierre Hadot, made in an interview at the end of his book Philosophy as a Way of Life. It's something I've long had ...

SLX, the link you provided just points to the ones own product review page, as opposed to your specifically. Yours is here. Good effort though, I'd li...