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Peterson and the study I linked to are talking about changed preferences about men in women who use hormonal contraceptives.

Heh, maybe that's the scurvy talking out of his mouth!

Studies support this, though, e.g. Oral contraceptive use in women changes preferences for malefacial masculinity and is associated with partner facia...

Obviously, one does not simply carry on with life when someone is wrong.

But they're happy ...

Well, the placebo effect is real. Someone who is eager to see themselves superior to others will reflect this in their eating habits as well. Eating c...

In the beginning of "The unbearable lightness of being", Kundera writes: The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perpl...

Does she propose that it is possible to have a technologically advanced society (and to arrive at it) in some other way than the Europeans did?

It's like when Christians complain how they are not allowed to express their religosity and how they are victims etc. etc. Well, if God is with them, ...

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that oft...

That's a contradiction! How can feminism repress "their natural tendency to flourish through striving to assert themselves in the human "hierarchy of ...

Says Rilke: Solang du Selbstgeworfnes fängst, ist alles Geschicklichkeit und läßlicher Gewinn This is what engaging with a religion on one's own terms...

Oh dear, that's ambitious for philosophy! That's just it: You want to understand and engage with Buddhism on your terms. You're ignoring or downplayin...

I suggest you read some women's magazines, esp. those secular ones targeted for teenagers and younger women. No trace of submissiveness there.

If you don't see the problem with your attitude ... Dude, your default is that you don't care about people, esp. those you expect to listen to you. Bu...

Here's a didactic story for you: The story goes that when the Buddha first became enlightened, he was enthusiastic to tell other people about it. So h...

The advice market for young(ish) women has been filled to the brim with self-help magazines and self-help books for a long time. But there is no simil...

To be clear: By doing what you suggest, one asserts one's supremacy over the text and the ideas it presents. If this is what one is going to do, then ...

Like defiance, overcoming? But that makes it a Pyrrhic victory: remove, undo the self, so that there's no one to cage.

Every now and then, I come across the words of someone (usually an American) who doesn't know European history, nor geography. This person's complaint...

I used to have a problem with this too, but I have since changed my mind. When one is dealing with someone who understands only one thing, one has to ...

Yeah, prevail at all costs, by any means necessary.

Yes. I began watching a debate between him and Žižek, but I stopped because I couldn't stomach the way JP was misrepresenting Žižek's position. It was...

For the bird, yes. It's that theme -- "Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben". That "they're going to get you, they're going to bring you down". And...

How is the EU devolved?

I see it as Kafka's usual theme of impending doom and helplessness in the face of it, and the cynical resignation toward this prospect.

Look at him: that characteristic earnest face, the tense body, never really smiling, a certain coldness and distance in his demeanor. It's what right-...

What is the source of your ideas about karma? I see you mention Sadhguru and you spell "karma" (not the Pali "kamma").

No, the EU is not a country.

This assumes that one believes that one's preferences in political things somehow matter. What about those people who have altogether lost hope in pol...

Fortunately or unfortunately, no. The system of religious beliefs and practices is a closed, self-referential system that works by the principle of se...

Why sugarcoat the Secondary Bodhisattva Vows? A part of the Vows is about vowing to do things that are otherwise considered wrong or harmful, but stil...

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Sure. But I don't see how you can do any of this in some relation to Buddhism. Neither the Buddha nor Buddhists would tolerate you doing that in their...

Sure. And let's not forget that Mahayana is the "Buddhist" tradition that came up with a "spiritual" justification for killing, raping, and pillaging....

I asked you about this: Based on what do you think that?? I think you're looking at the Buddha in a very romantic, idealistic way. A modern re-imagini...

And then infect the vulnerable.

History or centuries don't teach lessons. People choose to take from them whatever lesson they want or consider relevant.

Sorry, I had on intention to disrupt. When I first started reading the debate, it seemed oddly familiar, and now I remembered why: I had a Christian "...

You seem to think that distinguishing between the vulnerable and the healthy is easy (enough), and that it is easy (enough) to effectively separate th...

Not _exclusion_ of emotions, but one that promotes finer, nobler emotions, and also an outlook that promotes greater emotional literacy. You seem to h...

He's just a supremacist, not specifically a white supremacist. Right-wingers tend to be authoritarian, supremacist: "I know and others don't know. I a...

IIn the case of covid, the point of social distancing is to slow down the infection rate, so that the medical system doesn't collapse. Secondly, who e...

This holds true for religious belief as well.

Or so liberal common sense would have us believe. But IRL, no good deed goes unpunished. What's the point of having one's mind operate by the humanist...

It sucks to be made to drink your own poison, doesn't it.

I'm saying that when people are in disadvantaged positions, there is, to say the least, no incentive to change their minds or to overcome their cognit...

Eh? Most people learn by kindergarten that it's dog eat dog world.

So, to go back to where this tangent started from: When a person is not in a position of power, does it make sense or is it economical to retain biase...

When Patrick Jane or Gregory House do that, it's fun to watch and they solve cases and figure out the right diagnosis. But when real people do it, it ...