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See, and because of this attitude, the ease with which you despise and judge, so much art is lost on you. Not that you care, of course ...

Maybe he is a p-zombie.

Well, you're the boss, so we can't really disagree with you.

Or else, some people are using the words "moral" or "??????" wrongly.

Why do you think that is? If they go so far as to venture into Buddhist philosophy at all, then why not do it properly? One would expect as much given...

Can a person be very bright and deeply hearted without having had experienced pain and suffering? I think not. Obviously, pain and suffering per se ar...

This wouldn't be an isolated case, as there is a whole school of Buddhist thought whose basic approach is reductio ad absurdum: Someone like Law would...

Not necessarily. In theistic systems, morality/ethics is primarily about the relationship between God and man, and it's only about how we ought to tre...

Possibly because moral propositional statements can have a predictable effect on people, and this predictability is useful somehow.

You do realize that right-wingers present themselves as the great "defenders of democracy"? That they accuse the centrists and lefties of "demagogy"? ...

Whence that fear? Come on, as a Buddhist, you should do better.

Well, if a person makes claims of extraordinary achievement, what usually happens is that they get ridiculed or ignored. Sometimes, crucified. Drawn a...

Young people tend to be used to many material conveniences. How are they supposed to look forward to live without them? Who raised these young people?

*sigh* Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish...

Not necessarily. If they already feel hopeless about the long-term future of the planet, then they won't be motivated to do anything about it. And cha...

How exactly is this line of inquiry helpful? Can you explain? (Leaving aside how such a calculation should even be possible.) When would humans be off...

What on earth makes you think they'll follow?? Seriously. Can you explain why you think that "showing love, kindness, and understanding" can somehow o...

You should know better. Instead, you're the one with the smug, condescending, self-righteous blowhardery. If you really care about global heating and ...

I haven't thought of interpreting it that way. It's not clear why it would be satirical. It fits right into the culture of his time. Like one of my li...

Which is not suprising, when they are treated with hostility, or at least patronizing.

Hostile attitudes like this are really really helpful, yes. They really really inspire people to change their ways.

Why is it silly? Do elaborate.

A lot of fear that people refuse to address, refuse to introspect.

The phenomenon Trump is relevant because it challenges many people's notions about the world, truth, reality. Notions they hold sacred. What does the ...

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Indeed, the standard feature of American humor is to make fun of others, not of oneself. In that sense, Hanover is an outlier. With his previous examp...

A not that rare surname here in Slovenia is Klobasa ('sausage'). Some exquisit other ones: Zver 'beast' Fraudež (and he was a minister of finance!) Fa...

Actually, what you said earlier about Americans seeing European countries as states has sometimes in fact been my experience with Americans, IRL and o...

And yet there's "Be an island unto yourself / Be a lamp unto yourself". Anyway, this probably deserves a discussion of its own.

Ha! I just learned that I've been using "sour cream" wrongly for so long, and that I should have just gone with my native word.

No wonder then that psychotherapy is such a lucrative business in the US. All that shallowness and denial are a fecund ground for all kinds of psychol...

Come to think of it, the mantra "Everyone is solely responsible for themselves" is what they both have in common (and the implications of this stance)...

Millennia of culture down the drain.

Being able to type an Ü is, of course, an uberpower.

Dear lord ... Perhaps he can be disqualified on medical grounds? Everytime I see a mention of Trump, I am reminded of several Buddhists who are his av...

Where do you get these impressions?? Of course there are home depot type of stores and we do handyman work. *sigh* No, contrary to popular American op...

Please don't be so shallow. Please.

Now that's Facebook style.

Surely whether some reading is promising or not is relative to the psychological, social, ethical, economical context of each particular reading, no? ...

This is indeed a very common belief about how we exist, especially in Western cultures. It's how we are often taught to think of ourselves and to take...

I think the moral realist's point is to treat good and bad in axiomatic terms, to take them for granted, to take one's understanding of them for grant...

But how do you know, _without_ your subjective definitions or beliefs, which act is right and which one is wrong? How can you know anything _without_ ...

Or do you mean that you don't have an authoritarian personality trait (strong enough) to be willing to impose your rules on other people?

*sigh* Men. *sigh*

In that case, what's the point and use of Christianity, or belief in God in general?

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Thats's because you _take for granted_ that "Everything we know points to mind (as an activity) being dependent on non-mind, on material existence/ ex...

(Leaving aside the very specific case of Buddhist monasticism.) It's hard to make generalizations by now, because on the one hand, we have societies w...

What do you mean here by "normative"?

This is a very common axiomatic claim.