From standpoint of Catholics who believe in the literal miracles of God and the anti-miracles of Satan, it's possibly a relevant but impolite troll. A...
Maybe what Descartes meant was: thought arises and this cannot be denied (thought=thought). If no thought could arise, no selective ordering of recurr...
Descartes walks into a pub, gets a beer and is kindly mocked by a fellow pubgoer: "I drink, therefore I am." (Bibo, ergo sum) Soon thereafter Descarte...
Why can't we just be fine with the dogmatic horn of the trilemma. Axioms (provisional laws of thought) are the foundation for inferential knowledge. Y...
Said the Buddha to a monk: "It is imperative that you realize that I haven't said anything that you don't already know." The monk replied: "Is that be...
Currently it looks like you're right. Everyone on death row is there for murder. One can imagine the death penalty is suitable for a depraved serial t...
Don't you think there is far more nuance to criminal sentences with respect to who did what and how bad it was and what the law is wherever it happene...
So straightforward a rule but this is from the Quran. I can imagine that if the Passion of Jesus were just another Greek play the chorus could say thi...
You could view a moral code as just a kind of rationalization of social relations that emerge in nature. Take for example chickens. They can't rationa...
He/It is the transcendent outlier and humankind is bewildered/enraged/despaired by the problem/reality of suffering. Just like in attic tragedy, the B...
That Captain America scene seems kind of dumb, unless Rogers knew the grenade was a fake. But if he knew it was a fake and jumped on it only because h...
Our loosy goosey language use is gonna get us in trouble from those who might know better. Careful you don't contradict yourself, or inconsistently/in...
Encountered a passage in Robert Sapolsky's book, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, about the hedonic treadmill/adaptation. Compare ...
Philosophy is intersubjective, insofar folks collaborate to use language and logic to question/analyze what they believe in methodical ways. Is there ...
The scapegoat is perceived as a criminal, a target to blame for social troubles. No doubt there is in the mix of the exercise of this supposed ritual ...
It's all probably far too complicated for us to take any simple speculations too seriously. Somehow proactive violence (planning to take out a psychop...
The chicken was running from a perceived threat but didn't realize that it was crossing a road. It wouldn't have had time to consider the risk if even...
It's worrisome our human history is so rife with genocide/war. We're never out of the woods as far as the potential for mass violence is concerned, th...
Nothing wrong with the anesthetizing power of the black mirror, enrapturing the senses in the glow of a thousand dreams. https://i.imgur.com/UNIAru6.j...
Listened to couple of interviews. Unfortunately he is associated with pandemic controversy, since his term "mass formation" came out of the mouth of R...
Desmet also has something to say about the irrationality of crowds via the concept of "mass formation", the tendency of people to consolidate and purs...
Social instability/stress due to famine, plague or war is classically coupled with the scapegoating myth of the Pharmakos. Today we've these same stre...
The Salman Rushdie attempt is also interesting with regard to the potential escalation of agression/violence. Is Rushdie at an even greater risk now? ...
The archaic Greek ritual of the Pharmakos (a scapegoat ritual sacrifice) is very interesting with regard to the content of Greek tragedy. It is a myth...
Consider Pontius Pilate's supposed ambivalence with respect to the trial of Jesus. The historical hearsay of Pilate paints him as brutal/corrupt gover...
Looking at the Gombe Chimpanzee War we see a very human-like parallel of violence in a social species of our closest living relatives. Chimps fight ov...
Girard's idealized pattern of the scapegoat process requires that a mob unanimously attribute guilt to a non-guilty victim. But he seems to ignore/dis...
There is the popular hypothesis of universal heat death, when the universe reaches thermodynamic equilibrium, where there is a stark lack of different...
I bet the answer is a resounding NO! concerning magnet spectacles. Do electric charges and magnets distort space, in the way that a source of gravity ...
Why would you take "progression" to be a sure thing given the time scales involved? Don't you think there are a lot of existential threats that might ...
We're never going to encounter extra terrestrial life face to face (assuming there is none in our solar system) so it doesn't matter whether we are re...
But all the other therapeutic modalities would do well to find evidence to back up what otherwise would just be a mess of testimonials/anecdotes. What...
Aren't parts relative/abstract fictions linked to the value/perceiving apparatus of a kind of being/observer. Nothing really has (or does not have) a ...
Is this view point arguing for something like the precautionary principle? The discoveries of scientific empiricism always involve trade-offs when app...
What we need now is a non-human mechanistic Fuhrer/Pope AI who can choreograph global sustainability while minimizing human suffering. The trick would...
Is selfishness/narcissism at the root of the more pejorative aspect of "ego"? The only time I ever use the term for ordinary purposes is for folks who...
Is "collectivism" well defined? It seems like the abject example represents the ideology of failed communist regimes, where private property is outlaw...
I guess the hint is now blaring. Sugar did this even if she didn't fully intend to. Is it just a consequence of the world she moves within? Maybe ther...
Maybe we should wait to guess the authors until after voting is finished as courtesy to others. The language of the speakers wasn't especially indicat...
Rather impressive, cerebral, creative, solid sci-fi entry as folks say. The AI is a total self-preserving prick but I suppose that is the set-up for a...
I'd strike out the end of this line. Show us why rather than tell us. Another line I'd remove. I agree with other's commentary. Still enjoyable though...
I like the concept, the event parallel that serves as metaphor. A magical realism vibe. Wish there was more conflict in it of some sort. The guy at th...
Not sure who exactly was speaking as the point of view continually changed but the language was great. Interesting how a single line can tie up a stor...
I was in my room, minding my own business, buggering the local barista. The door burst asunder. "Thou shalt not sodomize!" The authorities cried. "You...
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