It's not new. The same phenomenon has existed as scapegoating for millennia. Scapegoating is apparently a psychological need. I once heard an interest...
So work this out: How does a person "stop being a big baby" and how does a person "grow the ability to listen to opposing views without fear that we'l...
Why are you calling them a "mob"? Really? There is a "universal chemistry process" of sorts where this happens, and people are merely passive observer...
Indeed. And now we have a system where justice is on the side of those who have money. What a victory. Not really, they just went from being openly en...
What exactly is that? If most people around you function in bad faith and their main attitude toward others is hostility, while you are the goodwilled...
Watching another person destroy themselves or others gradually destroys people's faith in humanity and it destroys their faith that the whole project ...
Oh god. You keep avoiding the point that the "public" you're refering to, the "subjects" in your "intersubjectively testable" is a very specific group...
Why don't you concur? One doesn't have to be religious in order to understand how at least some of the religious concepts work. (Nor does such underst...
What do you mean by "showing the historicity of the events"? Showing that Eve was created out of Adam's rib? And you take things like that as evidence...
I do hope that your bad faith will somehow come back to haunt you. But if it doesn't, then that's just proof that might indeed makes right, and you ac...
A homosexual man told me that most homosexual men are macho types like heterosexual men. In my experience, the quickest way for a woman to find a good...
Thinking of such traits as permanent might actually be a coping mechanism. I think people are more flexible and more malleable than the official disco...
Will you drop yours? More importantly, mine is a genuine question. I'm actually not sure whether you understand what I'm talking about. There have bee...
What do you know of my growing up, or of my present?! For one, I'm fairly certain that you don't want to be intimate with the majority of people on th...
This still doesn't mean that those who question the nature of human identity are "resenting or undermining people for who they are". Do you understand...
... people for who they are? The way the term "identity" is used in discussions of people's identity, is a misuse, compared to what the term means in ...
This is just the starting point, the initial "cards one has been dealt". After that, development can proceed in many ways. Having a temper or being sh...
No, the question is what determines the importance of whether one is a man or a woman, or something other. Personally, I think gender/sexual distincti...
No, aggressively projecting onto others is easy. Your favorite is to presume ill will by default and to act in bad faith. So you "are" always certain ...
Transsexuals and some other groups are demanding uneven, non-reciprocal relationships with people who are not part of their category. I'm supposed to ...
Of course they do! That's the whole point!! They make themselves look like a woman in order to get the social and economical benefits that women have....
No, it's their source that is holy, and because of their source, they are holy in and of themselves. However, whether a particular person can recogniz...
Which theist? The cradle theist, or the adult convert theist? Because cognitively/epistemically, the two are categorically different. Secondly, what i...
I was addressing your point about those old stories not being taken literally by their writers. If they believed God is very powerful (and they appare...
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12608c.htm Also, search Garrigou-Lagrange's Three ages of the interior life for "quietism" and "acedia". He classifie...
1. What's the use of being an authentically educated person? And just for kicks: 2. What exactly is an authentically educated person? 3. How do we kno...
Oh, Polly, ?????? ??? ?????, as usual. You know, this could have been the beginning of a beautiful friendship. But you just don't want to be friends. ...
What Ciceronianus said has been borne out -- for those who don't already believe. It is sometimes said that one must read sacred texts with faith, and...
Do give three examples where you think an ancient text was intended as metaphorical by the ancient writers. We can then work through which explanation...
Because the meaning of words changes over time, this can lead to confusion if we don't know the etymology and cultural history. The change is not nece...
Normally, religions work by the principle "Do x to get y." Ie. religions make promises, they make predictions as to what you will get if you put in th...
No, you misread the source and direction of my view. Basically, I think people should focus on work. Not on "developing identity" and pursuing luxurie...
We've been over this at least once. Just because a person has internalized a discourse to the point that it seems self-evident, objective, neutral, un...
*sigh* The only thing I "fail" to internalize is a particular popular notion of gender/sex. I don't give it the kind of prominence and importance as m...
How predictable. You cast the first stone, then cry foul. Oh, my hating even the word doesn't impede my acknowledgement that religion/spirituality is ...
Pessimism is a very broad term, hence it's useful to specify it further. An individualist pessimist will simply be written off as "depressed" by other...
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