My working assumption here is that morality is a complex system that a single person cannot invent and enforce on their own, and it's a complex system...
Coffee. Another thing that makes me drowsy. If I drink coffee in the morning, I'm likely going to be tired and drowsy the entire day, without getting ...
I watched both, but I'm not sure what to make of them. First off, I don't appreciate mixing serious criticism with humor. I'm not sure what to make of...
In this particular case though, there is an alternative explanation: According to Buddhist principles, Buddhists aren't supposed to drink alcohol or k...
Ha ha. I can easily imagine myself being busy for all eternity planting plants and never getting bored or tired of it. Trees, bushes, grasses, flowers...
Progressive toward what? What are those ideas (that religions tend to oppose) progressing to, leading to? An untreated disease can also be said to "pr...
This sounds like a rather modern phenomenon. There are characteristic differences between Christians of the Old World and Christians of the New World....
Which is so ironic, coming from someone with a position like yours. All this says something about Nietzsche, but not necessarily about anyone or anyth...
This is disgracefully facile. It goes to show you have no respect for those you presume to analyze. Irrelevant. What Nietzsche is doing (and now you, ...
No, that's not what I mean. I'm talking about the importance of _t_talking the _t_alk. There are many things in life that one is supposed to understan...
Here is a thread that has to do with Jewish people. As an analysis of them and some phenomena related to them, you have been offering the arguments of...
Of course. But the greatest trick that religion ever pulled was making the non-religious believe that the religious actually believe all that they ope...
I think of it this way: emotions are the tl;dr of reason. Or, more nicely: an emotion is a summary of a thought-through stance. When you think about o...
This sounds like something from a self-help book. I have trouble believing that what you're saying is really what Nietzsche meant. It sounds just so p...
If a person requires to consume particular substances to display or practice certain mental, emotional, and behavioral skills or traits, this means th...
Of course they do. Although probably not to people who are more emotional than they are philosophical. To illustrate this difference: I once had a bri...
But then this doesn't take into account, well, to put it in gross terms, the value of "keeping up appearances." It seems to me that in many religions,...
Nietzsche is taking for granted that there actually is no God, right? And that as such, no religion has ever received any "divine revelation", but ins...
It also implies that a human can and should find ultimate satisfaction in an unending consumption and constant conflict and struggle. Eat, drink, make...
How is that different from the situation for poor people who have been barred from even more places? In other words, the Jews haven't been the only on...
It would be strange if religions wouldn't fight. When one religion claims to have superior knowledge of "how things really are", this is an automatic ...
@"schopenhauer1" But what was the purpose for this state-issued and state-protected religious freedom? Did Washington believe that all religions are e...
Not everyone engages in othering, though, it doesn't come naturally to all people. This is a problem, for them at least. But to what end? War and stri...
Granted, perhaps that higher standard seems to be justified because of the centuries of persecution. Victims tend to be assumed innocent and morally s...
Oh. I have the book in translation in my native language, so that's awkward to backtranslate the terminology. So I looked up some reviews in English t...
People have been killing eachother over religious supremacy for a long time. The history of antisemitism makes the Jews liable to a higher standard, t...
I've heard it many times. It's not polite to say it, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_as_the_chosen_people Presumably other nations are test...
Just read it. Or else, I selected three reviews/summaries: https://blog.rescuetime.com/digital-minimalism/ https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/D...
When a scientist tells me that "it's all just chemicals/atoms" and apparently expects me to believe it, what are my options? I dare you to tell that t...
Cal Newport is Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. And he wrote a book about it. (Which I actually bought last week, and I rarely ...
Thing is, this othering can go both ways. Others expect me to stop othering them, but they refuse to stop othering me. What does it matter if I stop o...
Notice how in all major religions, the religious doctrines are said to be given to mankind by God, or some other supreme being, or by an otherwise uni...
Of course. Here is such an account, in both directions; firstly, how come birth (ie. living bodies) comes about, and then how the process of birth/reb...
Well, what is your source for reading up on rebirth? The way I've learned it from Early Buddhist sources and Theravada is this: Kamma, therefore, rebi...
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