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Wayfarer said: You're ignoring the bolded part. Simply put, in order for there to be knowledge that something exists, a mind is needed. Knowledge of e...
January 21, 2024 at 11:28
It has nothing to do with "stereotypes", but with considering the (practical) implications of an idealist stance. It seems your stance would be more c...
January 21, 2024 at 11:15
Straight out of a right-winger's playbook. I can turn on our local right-wing tv station or listen to the right-winger opposition in our parliament, a...
January 21, 2024 at 11:07
Not at all. It's plebeian mentality. There should be more of a difference between on the one hand, Trump and co., and on the other hand, their critics...
January 21, 2024 at 10:30
But why should this be the purpose of Nietzsche's writings? Out of compassion, or political initiative? This doesn't make sense, given that N. saw com...
January 21, 2024 at 10:13
No. Jesus doesn't have a human father. If only.
January 21, 2024 at 10:04
No. Via ferratas seem to be especially popular in the Alps -- in Austria, France, Italy, Slovenia.
January 21, 2024 at 09:58
It's only normal to feel a measure of shame and have social reservations if one is not (particularly) economically/financially successful. That's not ...
January 21, 2024 at 09:52
We have several large trees around the house that need to be pruned and trimmed. It's on me to climb up and do the work. As the years go by, I am now ...
January 21, 2024 at 09:30
I think fear of public speaking is usually due to not being prepared for the speech, or not believing what one is about to say. It's only normal to ha...
January 21, 2024 at 09:13
It seems it's actually just an interface to some other browsers. Anyway, it allows for easy control of text size, without the annoying two-finger enlr...
January 21, 2024 at 09:02
Ha! I switched from Chrome to Samsung Internet. This browser has a text size option easily available. The forum looks quite different, though.
January 21, 2024 at 01:57
@"Jamal" and everyone who knows: Is there a way to increase the text size for TPF on a smart phone? (And not the two fingers option.) Thanks.
January 21, 2024 at 01:43
@"Hanover" lol. Why do you think the world deserves Trump?
January 19, 2024 at 20:00
Indeed. A proper idealist wouldn't care about politics or science, but Wayfarer clearly does.
January 19, 2024 at 19:54
So you know things exist and you don't need a mind for knowing that?
January 19, 2024 at 19:47
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
January 19, 2024 at 19:42
In other words, you can't handle even just the thought of someone not liking you. It's simply a part of life that you're never going to be good enough...
January 19, 2024 at 19:34
How so? Humans and Jesus are not in the same category. What applies to one doesn't apply to the other. The club you talk about is a club of one.
January 19, 2024 at 19:23
What is that?? It seems more likely that you actually wish to be liked by everyone and perhaps can't handle even just the thought of someone not likin...
January 19, 2024 at 14:08
You should have spoken to her, that would have broken the spell. Or perhaps you already knew that, and that's why you didn't speak to her, in order to...
January 19, 2024 at 09:04
It's easier on your ego to think that ... Such is democracy. The irony is that various right-wing political options have a better understanding of dem...
January 17, 2024 at 19:15
It doesn't look like you're trying to understand people's attitudes, you're far too eager to judge. Contempt, contempt, contempt. They're full of cont...
January 17, 2024 at 19:09
I'm talking about fence-sitters.
January 17, 2024 at 18:59
Very well, given the US disenfranchizement laws, the number of disenfranchized people in the US, and those collaterally affected by such disenfranchiz...
January 17, 2024 at 18:58
We're talking about Americans here, in particular. On the contrary. If what you say were true, Biden couldn't be sworn in as president. Yet he was. An...
January 17, 2024 at 18:28
And every time you say such things, a fence-sitter is closer to slipping off into Trump camp.
January 17, 2024 at 18:22
Any why think that the Trumpistas are not like that?
January 16, 2024 at 13:42
It also has to do with the way Buddhist religious tenets are formulated not as commandments (the way commandments exist in, for example, Christianity)...
January 16, 2024 at 13:41
American culture (like so many others) is internally inconsistent, containing mutually exclusive tenets.
January 16, 2024 at 12:52
If a notion of goodness is such that the proposed goodness can be exploited, abused, punished, then this is not goodness at all. If the goal of the ga...
January 16, 2024 at 12:50
To me, it's the default. To me, relationships are dynamic, mutually conditioning two-way streets. Normal relationships, that is. But I also understand...
January 16, 2024 at 12:02
Me neither. Although I have no traumatic history with it. (Haha, I doubt you have it.) In 2022, I bought a basil plant whose smell I love (haven't tas...
January 15, 2024 at 16:39
No.
January 14, 2024 at 19:22
I'm not sure, but playing the good boy/good girl and expecting them to play good boys/good girls certainly isn't working. They just laugh it off.
January 14, 2024 at 19:11
*sigh* I asked, "And how do you distinguish between who a person is and who you think said person is?" Replying, "Okay, seriously, by spending time wi...
January 14, 2024 at 19:08
Does Joshs' post that I've now quoted twice say nothing to you?
January 14, 2024 at 19:05
@"Joshs" said: Ever notice how who you think the other person in your relationship is changes over time, and who they and you are changes through bein...
January 14, 2024 at 18:55
This is what I mean, and to me, these things are obvious. People's bodily appearance is like the picture of Dorian Gray: it depicts all their sins and...
January 14, 2024 at 18:51
Lol. No, I probably haven't. I grow tomatoes, but it's too cold/the growing season too short for such large tomatoes as Barbastro. I grow varieties wi...
January 14, 2024 at 18:45
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January 14, 2024 at 18:30
I'm talking about political correctness, the American parody of common decency. The question is, rather, Do we want to be governed at all? Neither. An...
January 14, 2024 at 18:25
Admitting that you've lost is unamerican. Read again. Indubitably, many people like Trump because he is what they want to be.
January 14, 2024 at 18:01
For (Early) Buddhism, existence itself is burdensome, something to do away with. It seems to me that the Stoics had an overall positive view of life.
January 14, 2024 at 17:19
The problem? Fingers and hands too big. I'm on a classic desktop keyboard right now, so, easy typing. But other than that, the post edit function does...
January 14, 2024 at 17:03
On the other hand, it's about the reader's intentions for reading a narrative. Nevermind whether the writer wants to deceive. Does the reader want to ...
January 14, 2024 at 15:38
That's not new, though, it's been common in literature for centuries.
January 14, 2024 at 15:34
Exactly. And Trump has found an effective way to talk about these things and to take advantage of the politically correct culture that is so prevalent...
January 13, 2024 at 20:06
Hardly anything is more American than never to admit defeat, to remain confident and hold one's head high, no matter what is going on. How many Americ...
January 13, 2024 at 18:52
"In order to succeed, always project an image of success."
January 12, 2024 at 21:55