Perhaps you should try vaping, with some CBD included as an alternative to conventional cigarette smoking. Nevertheless, there is probably not enough ...
Your point is that it is difficult to follow the rational facts which appear. I struggle with this too, although I am not a smoker! Generally, I find ...
Generally, I was impressed by Whitey's presentation of various logical fallacies. However, the only thing which did make me query it was the summary o...
I wonder how much conventional thinking is about the wish for answers and certainty. The way in which questions keep arising shows how knowledge is st...
As much as trauma and suffering can have a detrimental effect on wellbeing, it does serve the purpose of making people go further in thinking and expl...
I guess that there is also a difference between the idea of philosophy as a basic set of ideas and assumptions for daily life and philosophy as an aca...
In thinking about suppositions and prejudices, it is where philosophy and psychology come together in self-knowledge and critical thinking. In some wa...
I wished to engage with Barticks at one stage because I saw that he did have some interesting but unusual ideas. However, what I found was that he ins...
Forming questions is an important part of philosophy. I often remember a point which you made once which was that asking the wrong questions is like p...
The emotional satisfaction/comforts of logic may be appealing. I am not sure how this would stand in terms of reason and postmodern deconstruction may...
When I first came across the Shoutbox I wondered what was going on. However, after seeing it for over a year, I now see it value because some of the p...
I did think that the picture of the baby was you, so considering the avatar piictue of you shows how imagination comes into play. I made a comparison ...
Getting back to the story itself, I am not sure if I completely understand it but Caldwell's comment about the eyes in the face not changing is intere...
At times, when I was writing on the forum at my mum's house, she used to have a look at the site. She saw 180s Avatar and said, 'A lovely baby. I wond...
I may not have explained that I was not speaking of the story directly but your avatar picture change and was linking it to the story title, 'About Fa...
In many ways I see the current thread as having some diverse opinions, and if anything, what seems strange is that the thread title is 'Positive chara...
I am not sure what many, including yourself, are suggesting for gender dysphoria. There is often such an emphasis on protecting the feelings of those ...
I suppose it is also worth considering what both the concepts of chance and destiny mean, because at times they are used in a rather vague way, almost...
One important question may be what is the link between aesthetics and ethics? I am not sure how it stands as a question in the context of this thread ...
I suppose we should take it all with a sense of humour as it is possible to think so hard about all these issues. Threads start and fade and if we ago...
Just before I log out, in case anyone gets confused and sees it as some kind of sexual pun, when I said that I don't like playing sport it is meant as...
I will leave the discussion for now because I need to get up early tomorrow. It does seem from what you have said that your life has involved a lot of...
You seem to be making the mythical assumption that people who change gender are just people who can't accept homosexuality. It is not that simple beca...
Why can't a person with a female body identify as a gay man? Some, such as Poppy Z Brite, a famous author who wrote, 'Lost Souls' has transitioned and...
It does startle me how people seem to have so much of an issue with what other people do. It may be that 'oddness' in itself is the problem as it was ...
As I know that you are in England now, I am wondering if you are aware of the most controversial trans legal case of Kiera Bell. I would imagine that ...
Yes, Thailand is interesting and it does seem that there is increasing intolerance to those who question the binary. It may be partly that more people...
Yes, the case of Reimer is an interesting case in pointing that gender goes beyond cultural issues. It was certainly a problem that intersex people we...
I have just read that the author Louisa May Alcott, famous for writing, 'Little Women' and 'Jo's Boys' was probably non binary and wished to be male. ...
Yes, there is probably a link between causality and the issue of chance. However, to see chance as a cause is probably missing many other aspects, and...
With regard to the idea of predestination, it has probably developed differently in various philosophy contexts. However, as far as I understand in th...
Your argument about Putin's mother and father in bed is part of the idea of predestination. With the act of reproduction it involves the genetic eleme...
In some ways, it could be argued that it is a waste of talent if people don't make use of it. I know of someone who was a very good violinist but just...
Even though Sheldrake speaks of fields his understanding is parallel with Jung's idea of the collective unconscious, as memory inherent in nature. I d...
I am familiar with the story of David Reimer and it is such an unusual one as I read his autobiography which he wrote some time before his suicide. Th...
Yes, I can identify with your stage fright as I don't think that I could perform on stage, even though my mother used to act on stage. I don't know ho...
I read an article in the news recently in which there is some possibility that the male chromosome may become extinct. This has led to some speculatio...
The idea of cause as being chance would imply no direct line of action and consequences. It is questionable whether the idea of chance is more a refle...
It is good to see you again on the forum and I think that many have missed you. As for the fields, my interpretation is that they have wide reaching i...
Thank you for your extremely detailed analysis. It was a disastrous week. I felt really miserable about having to go be in the teachers' dormitory bec...
Dare I say that it was based on an experience that did happen. The reason why I wrote it was because I did always believe that what my mother experien...
You seem to class surgery and suicide together, as if they are similar when they are not. Surgery may be the healthy alternative to suicide for many. ...
I did wonder if it had been written by you. So many have been shocked by all that has been found out about organisations, like the Christian Brothers ...
I have lived with several pizza delivery motorcyclists in the last few years and they seem fairly happy doing the job. I don't think that I would get ...
It is likely that the reason why I may have not jumped to the conclusion that the character was male is that I have seen some very violent women while...
It is interesting how each of us comes from assumptions, such as whether a character is male or female. I am aware that I may have got it wrong and, m...
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