Darkneos

But again, those are not reasons to not do it. To repeat plenty of people do thinks they don’t like for years. Most jobs tend to be like that for the ...

I think there is a stigma against suicide and that any attempt to portray it as positive by any means is looked down upon or underreported if at all. ...

You don't know that. Perhaps they are calm and happy but see the futility of life. I'd like to think that happiness clouds our judgment and makes life...

Incorrect. Liking something is not a wish to KEEP doing it, only that doing it elicits a certain feeling in you. It's like saying I enjoy dancing. How...

Again, no. There is no such thing as strong or weak genes, only what works at the time. That is essentially evolution. A change occurs, animals that b...

I mean you do know something or else you wouldn't have written this.

Wanting to live isn't something to live for it's what you do. The reason behind it is what is to live for. Being alive doesn't exactly mean you have s...

This isn't really getting the answer I want but more like trying to see what a philosophy forum would say and see if their answers were better than an...

Why not live seems to have more reasonable answers than living itself. Bear in mind that a good deal of the population don't have the privilege most h...

That's not what evolution is nor how it works. There are no strong or weak genes, there is only what works at the time. Happiness from what I can tell...

Exactly there is no logical reason to and yet I do failing to be able to off myself. I'd still choose nonexistence. Normal and healthy psychology has ...

I know that but as I said, survival instincts are hard to overcome. So, unable to do it I do this. You can overcome that instinct and let death take y...

Actually those exceptions aren’t that uncommon. There are many examples of parents who don’t do that. Of course they get reported and you can ask a so...

Hope is illogical because it assumes things will work out without evidence and is privileged because it usually is adopted by those who can stand to l...

Absurd may as well be synonymous with pointless considering how many people live with purpose and in the belief they are correct in how to live. I wou...

If logic can’t derive premises then what is it good for? If it can’t determine if a premise is true then what is it good for? It derives conclusions f...

You clearly didn’t read the part where I said that stuff dies too. My mother doesn’t remember the dreams of her grandparents and my grandmother with d...

Enjoyment is never intellectual since we don't choose what we like or don't like. Some even say that it is not you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k...

IMO sages that were too much of a coward to choose death. As I mentioned before, I don't have to do those things and in death there would be no need. ...

The question that arises is why would you want to when you don’t have to keep living. All that sounds like a chore to make life bearable and when you ...

Counterpoint to that is why put it off then? As much as I want to buy that from what I gather it's not simple at all like that. If that were the case ...

BUt as I mentioned in the above I have no way to know any of that. IF they feel the same things that I do. All I know is my own experience, everything...

how can I know that though? I have no way to confirm any of what you are saying, that others feel what I feel or even feel to begin with.

I just find it odd that they try to get around justification.

I don't think so. There is still a justification required to believe in empirical evidence and that of the senses. You never really get around justifi...

But how do you do that without justification? The point about the trilemma is that everything is ultimately based on three unsatisfying assumptions. U...

That doesn’t sound very reassuring

yeah you clearly don’t get it which is fine but don’t assume it’s unclear when everyone else understands. That being said I still repeat how do we mov...

There's no need, the guy is saying the world is not real or does not exist, that's already grounds for the looney bin.

Or the more likely reason is you are defending a nutter, which seems popular in philosophy. This sort of sounds like the death of philosophy to me. I ...

Which again still doesn't address my point. You keep saying that questioning stuff is what philosophy does. Yet what is the point of doing that when t...

I will reiterate my last point about if they are arguing the world is not real then who are they talking to or trying to convince.

That still sounds foolish to me. Judging by his books it sounds more like the guy doesn't have a grasp on the subjects he talks about. Even his book i...

I still restate my question. IF everything is ultimately based on a set of axioms that we cannot prove and have to take it on faith then what exactly ...

Also Gabriel doesn't seem all there as a philosopher according to reviews of his books: "It is a title that catches the eye but sadly the contents do ...

So then why bother? What is the point of questioning everything if you eventually have to settle on axioms? I mean even solipsism has to take it's bas...

REminds me a bit about berkely and idealism: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3-euw1-ap-pe-ws4-cws-documents.ri-prod/9781138690394/idealism_objecti...

He seems like that "I have to make my degree matter somehow" philosopher. All his stuff when I questioned him was gated behind payment and he wouldn't...

Science in the broad sense. In physics it's still iffy as to what is real, I don't regard the social science definition much since they can't really a...

And people wonder why no one takes philosophy seriously. I think sometimes philosophers invent problems to either have a job or feel like they haven't...

Well just art in general.

Thoughts?

But I'm still iffy on the notion they are getting at. I mean even without the concept of a bird it's not like they don't exist.

I think what is meant is that the borders and distinctions we make between "things" are what we make of them. Sort of like what the guy in the long qu...

Sorry I had a reply that addresses these properties that was part of the previous quote I had listed up above:

The first two pages make remarks about existence in general though.

I don't put much stock in Zen philosophy. It sounds like it's based on an ignorance of neuroscience.

I disagree. The artist believes that what they create and what they see aren't identical but in a sense they are. They believe themselves to be creati...

For the last time, what is the point of all this?

Essentially yes. Which is why I can say no artist is truly creative.