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You have my condolences.

Or they realize they actually have a real life to attend to. ;) Although now with the lockdowns, it's becoming hard to tell.

Jordan Petersen, for example.

Oh, and this: To use the H-word, one must either be a Mahayani (supremacist), or someone who doesn't know what it means and how it is used in Buddhism...

This is a false dichotomy. If someone wants to make up their own idea of enlightenment and the path toward it, that's their thing, and they have the f...

Because that music is either bestial naivete, or cynicism that belongs to the theatre of the absurd; neither is conducive to living a productive life,...

I think one needs to be stronger than that, more self-confident, more self-efficacious.

Thinking back several decades when I was growing up, to be different in any way meant to be evil, or at least wrong or defective. What do you think dr...

While I agree, there's another, even simpler explanation, and that is that most people are not trained philosophers. Philosophers are, ideally, suppos...

"Consciousness raising"??! The music that you mention is decadent and lowers one's consciousness.

I think the other poster is talking about installing a music player into the toilet room, so that when the toilet is flushed, music plays. https://www...

Artists love to deny any and all responsibility. Art is a kind of caveat emptor affair, where all the responsibility lies on the audience.

(And they end up being called "trolls" by the forum members.) People tend to be cognitive misers. They are willing expend only a little effort to unde...

If I don't have your sword, your bow, or your axe, then what use are your little words of support to me?

Of course not. Venues such as philosophy forums are essentially intended as echo chambers, and people visit them for that purpose. Yes, I realize this...

Who does??! Esp. when being told what to do or how to behave by people who don't care about you, and who have made it clear that they don't care about...

I think there are two factors to this: 1. people who do that do so as the final act of making clear there are irreconcilable differences between thems...

You haven't been answering my questions. Do you think hatred and prejudice are something idle and avoidable? That they serve no practical purpose? The...

Why do you quote or cite anything, instead of just making stuff up and ascribe it to another person? Hold your horses! Do you believe that what you qu...

What concept of "enlightenment" are you talking about? The actual Buddhist one, nibbana? Because by the standards of early Buddhism, what you're descr...

The illustration above aside, what you're saying here seems to be in line with Adler's will to power, related to Nietzsche's Wille zur Macht. If we st...

Agreed. So, if I'm understanding you correctly -- I'll illustrate on an example: There are three major Viennese schools of psychology, classified by w...

The idea that the self = nirvana, or that once the defilements are done away with, what is left is pure goodness and joy, is an idea that can be found...

Presumably further in the sense of getting closer to making an end to suffering; or at the minimum, going further in the sense of simply having more t...

When you put it like that, it sounds like atman.

I'm going to need a Buddhist canonical reference for this, please.

What is this belief based on? Certainly not facts. Then what about the evolutionary struggle for survival? Do you just dismiss it?

Out of at least two possible sources: a deeply internalized humanism (the beliefs "people are basically good", "life is worth living", "the universe i...

It's fantastic, the stuff that gets ascribed to the "Left" ...

Danger for whom? The superior person? Two things: 1. Who gets to be the arbiter of which person is intrinsically better than some other person? 2. Wou...

For one, I wouldn't deliberately hit myself with a hammer, tyvm, not even for a philosophical experiment! I will remember some instances of where I in...

I think it's more complex than mere stupidity. So much in social interaction is said and demanded between the lines, without it ever being explicitly ...

But how can our own sense of superiority be damaging? Can you explain, other than on the example of the Nazis? You mention the Nazis. On the other han...

But then this points right back at you. How do you respond to that?

How about injuries to one's body that are intended as part of the greater good? Think, for example, of that mountainhiker who fell into a crevice, got...

In daily social life, this works out in such a manner: the person who holds a position of more power gets to have the say over what is closer to objec...

Yes, because despite all the subjectivism, individualism, or relativism, or what is in-effect, solipsism, that so many swear by, they still cannot ign...

But you don't believe you are equal to the Nazis, or that the Nazis are equal to you, do you? Exactly.

You have to admit though, there is something grandiose about these claims of voting fraud.

What if Hitler and other Nazis who committed suicide did so for stoic (sic!) reasons? I have heard in WWII documentaries that some Nazis who committed...

Because the commies destroyed it, obviously, duh.

But why would one have to? I think the real problem with hatred and prejudice is that one hasn't come to the final conclusion that they are in fact _n...

They never saw it as a conversation, a dialogue to begin with.

But where is that "free speech and open discussion" supposed to take place? Every conversation takes place somewhere, on someone's turf, not on some n...

What is the use of such speculations?

In a forum discussion long ago, someone proposed to have solved this problem by pointing out that ethics was originally a part of aesthetics, and that...

This reasoning is tailored after Christian theism. But there are other theisms apart from Christianity (and other Abrahamic religions), for example in...

Nope.

"I think if you asked, most parents would say they want their children to be happy, rather than wealthy, recognised, popular or influential." But what...