The question assumes that people must justify themselves to other people. This is an assumption based on moral realism. One might as well cut the crap...
We can, but this doesn't already mean we do or that we will. This isn't limited to having children, it's much more general: from career planning to re...
No, it's more complex than that. In first-world countries, about a half of all pregnancies is unplanned, and about a half of all pregnancies is aborte...
So there is this character Truman who is living on a set of a tv show -- except that he's the only one who doesn't know it, he thinks he's living in t...
Most certainly not. You keep missing my point. My point is that hardship will be easier to overcome if the person is prepared for it. And that without...
*sigh* Indeed, which is where your mistake is. Frankl didn't go into the camp unprepared. He didn't invent logotherapy from scratch while he was in th...
These are the people I'm interested in. How did they make it in life? If they were the proverbial trees with weak roots when they had to face the stor...
And I'm pretty sure that most of them were not thrown in at the deep end, but instead didn't have many hardships when growing up, or their parents tau...
No, that's not the right chronological order. It's fair to say that Frankl was "prepared" for the concentration camps. He already studied existential ...
"Casting pearls before swine" -- that's a way to keep up the appearance of one's worthiness and the worthiness of one's ideas. Because if (some) other...
Why should that be a problem?? To you?? You advocate that everyone should save themselves, and if they can't, that's their fucking problem. There you ...
What are you proposing? You say you don't want to control people, yet there are specific things, such as minimizing government and corporations that y...
People don't necessarily proselytize to "prove the strength of their faith". Some do it "to share the joy with others". Some others do it out of a sen...
Elitism doesn't necessarily have to do with wealth and worldly power. For example, in traditionally Buddhists countries, monks are considered the elit...
I think of some concepts parallel to solipsism: epistemic egoism, epistemic narcissism, epistemic authoritarianism. Narcissists, egoists, and authorit...
Your plan for the betterment of the world isn't based on compassion for people, nor on compassion for planet Earth. It's looks more like an attempt to...
But you clearly do have that desire, when you talk about minimizing the government and the corporations. I'm pointing out where the minimizing of gove...
Oh, you put it like this, making it about (not) controling others. You have a solution for your own life, and the others can just go to hell, those ra...
When people "work for themselves" and when there is minimum government, when people are left to themselves, they are also vulnerable to those more pow...
*hrmph* https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN/MN49.html is not coy. I can think of several others that are not coy. To call the Buddha flamboyant in t...
What I'm slowly getting at is that the narrative of the struggle between good and evil might not be universal, might not be a given, and that it might...
Do you cook? I discovered that cooking turned out to be a very good practice for gauging time. Although mostly in a practical sense, not in terms of t...
I live in a country where there is less government than there was up to some 20 years ago. Take, for example, the laws and regulations concerning the ...
Meh, when people post about their existential problems online, often, someone will chime in with a reference to Camus, which can then come across as, ...
I said: I said: "Getting away with it" does not refer only to not being prosecuted for one's crime by the official legal system. More than that: it re...
Some people's existential problems really are ... such that a touch of room fragrance can put their noisy mind to ease: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Like I said: The prospective conflict isn't just with the police, but primarily with owners who are willing to protect their property and their lives....
It's not up to me to decide how much 2 and 2 is. If there is objective morality, it cannot be up to me to decide what it is. *tempted to do a feminist...
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