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Really? You can easily get a grip on being robbed, raped, betrayed by your boss, husband, your house being burnt down and you being falsely accused of...

Your OP is implying that. You started a thread about Weltschmerz. It seems you were saying that people feel Weltschmerz when they have unrealistic, id...

When people talk about lack of free will, they're usually actually talking about lack of wisdom, lack of omniscience, or lack of omnipotence. (Or, in ...

Because the important thing is to be scientifically correct, even if this kills people, riiight. It's better for a heavy drinker to think, "Once I've ...

I cancelled my subscription to rat psychology long ago. (Tellingly, I couldn't even find a reference to "rat psychology" within five minutes of googli...

That doesn't matter, because free will isn't wisdom, omnipotence, or omniscience. Of course it's possible that with more knowledge, more resources, on...

Really, Tom, really, this is what you see in my comment? He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.

It's past my bedtime! That's the harm!

The focus is on people who claim to have been (devoted) members of some religion (which they specifically name), who named themselves with the name fo...

And grown again. The prospect of immortality gives one infinite hope. If one is devoted to living things, of course.

Gosh darn, why do scientists stick to the definitions of scientific terms as found in scientific textbooks?

Words mean things. If you're using them, then, presumably, you mean something by them.

:100:

I double dare you.

Then off to Humpty Dumpty land it is, where words mean whatever one wants them to mean ... Can't you see how biased you are in favor of those who have...

But then again, "human nature" should perhaps be thought of as every bit as bad as religions typically say it is.

It ties with the OP. What is the purpose of having "a more accurate (less grandiose) understanding of human nature"? Per the OP, it's to avoid Weltsch...

You don't say.

Of course. It's what we have. Who doesn't present themselves as "logical" and "rational"? What ideology is not praised as such? Spock only presents hi...

And you don't think the way you speak about Trump's supporters is abrasive? Trump's supporters or not, they are still people. Yet the way you speak ab...

Or are you perhaps talking about people post(ur)ing at philosophy forums when it's already past their bedtime? Some people go to pubs and drink and ta...

And you take their statements at face value?? Or are you just playing games? Have you ever tried to envision what such an interview is like for those ...

I actually heard them say it. You've got to be kidding.

For some, too late. Of course. Perhaps there'll even come a day when official psychology/psychiatry acknowledge philosophy as a valid approach to deal...

That the field was painted in a particular way is irrelevant. Free will applies to his sense as to whether he felt he had a choice to partake in the e...

Not poorly, but not universally, unanimously. You can see already from people's definitions of "free will" or from the experiments with which they pro...

I'm talking about overriding one's initial negative response to something that is socially desirable, and having a philosophy for doing so. Like my hi...

You apparently decide what counts, by taking sides with those former Christians, former this or that. How can someone even call themselves a "former C...

People often call a NTS fallacy in situations where there is actually a genuine ambiguity at hand. As such, it's not a case of a fallacy at all. Terms...

? I think the distinction between religion and spirituality is mostly spurios, so I usually use a joint term. It's the truth. Some religious/spiritual...

https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.4994907453.7581/fposter,small,wall_texture,product,750x1000.u5.jpg Having high expectations isn't necessarily painful....

... in order to escape our problems, since we can't solve them! Lol.

Because they are incomplete, partial. Because it's not so clear what "human nature" actually is. There is one. It's called "philosophy". Laziness; or,...

They were probaly never insiders, never "in it" to begin with. I used to make a point of reading people's exit stories from religion/spirituality. And...

To me, it is primarily a philosophical difference. To me, asking a drinker "How did you convince yourself that drinking alcohol was worth it?" makes p...

It's about how we talk about it, isn't it? If someone comes to the discussion with the conviction that "everyone is solely responsible for themselves"...

Okay. But whether a genetic predisposition will express itself depends also on environmental and other factors. I'm cautious of blaming "genetics" for...

There is an explanation that nobody likes their first sip of alcohol, or coffee, or the first puff from a cigarette. These are acquired tastes. It tak...

I think this is an American thing, although made popular via 12 Step philosophy. It has that American black-and-white, all-or-nothing thinking in it. ...

You keep bringing this up. To no avail. That's like saying, "I totally refuse to obtain a degree in X, but I still feel entitled to get a job for whic...

I think that's a caricature. It would take a bit to unpack it all.

I think so too, but in my experience, most people consider allowing for different perspectives as somehow wrong, a sign of weakness, self-doubt, lack ...

"Husband beats wife so that she ends up in the hospital with multiple fractures. Because she pervasively refused to learn what he sought to teach her....

Allowing for another's perspective (and first of all, learning what it actually is), surely feels like lack of confidence on one's own part (for many ...

This song captures well what I think stupidity is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9eNTgAuMls Pretense, faking; no sense of fear, loss, danger; lying...

@"LuckyR" When someone says something like "So you think you're better than me because you (drive a fancy car, have a lot of money, etc.)", I wouldn't...

This seems strange. It sounds more like a projection.

It's not merely a feeling. We're supposedly living in a democracy, but not when it comes to alcohol, cigarettes, coffee, and meat. We're supposed to c...

Where on earth is that?? Where I live, not drinking alcohol or not eating meat is met at least with disdain. When I was a vegetarian, I wouldn't dare ...

It's pretty much what the word means. Why not?? Can you explain? I think there are many unsaids here. Qidquid agis, prudenter agas et respice finem.