Why do many people belive the appeal to tradition is some inviolable trump card? Because for the foreseeable time, it is precisely that: an inviolable...
Oh, I get my "best ideas" while cooking and washing the dishes and when working in the garden. Neverthelss, this seems mostly just like "the churning ...
I often thank people. But I don't feel grateful for life, or for good weather, or that I didn't get electrocuted nor fell from that tree. To whom shou...
A pissing contest, combined with quasi-efforts at healing existential anxiety. Even the serious folks here aren't all that serious, or at least the se...
Are students at schools nowadays, at any level, actually encouraged to have their own opinion about philosophers? Are they encouraged to think in term...
It's an interesting discrepancy: Etymologically, Latin "fides" means 'trust', but Slavic "vera" (related to Latin "verus") means 'truth'. It can indic...
Not every Christian has a Kierkegaardian view of faith, though. Christianity is a religion of adult converts, and it teaches individual eternal salvat...
What is the Jewish explanation as to why are there people who are not Jews? How did those other people who are not Jews even come to exist? Why are on...
To whom are you grateful for all these things? Or do you merely appreciate them? Expressing gratitude is quite popular these days (google "gratitude j...
It's not sustainable to ascribe to and abide by a moral system that disregards how the world really works. Idealism like that drives people crazy. Thi...
Where there are cars and other motorized vehicles and machines with internal combustion engines, there is antifreeze. Cats sneak into people's garages...
I say outsmarten the AIs and their faithful users. That doesn't necessarily mean stop using AIs altogether, but only using them sparsely and deliberat...
Yes ... reminds me of school, and later as well. Many teachers and the whole approach to education considered us to be basically things, automata, rob...
The difference is in knowing how much you can rely on yourself. (There are also practical aspects, like how do you calculate something when you don't ...
It's absolutely vital to know one's place in society, and to actually internalize it. The criticism whispered quietly to the side with one's face down...
That depends entirely on our respective socio-econimic statuses and the relative positions we hold in the power hierarchy. If the person is above you ...
Exactly. The thing is: According to you, so far, the trans community and its supporters are free to advocate for their particular language uses. But o...
Earlier, you talked about being a fool for battling others on how to use words. Then, given your contibutions here, you must be talking about yourself...
Have you noticed how it is typically the wealthy who give up their wealth for the ascetic life, and not the poor? No religion encourages poor people t...
The question is, how exactly have they benefitted under the medical model. The medical model probably helps those who already believe it. It can also ...
How do you up the ante?? Pretty much everywhere, people operate by the principle "Casting the first stone makes you innocent". How do you propose to d...
I'm in Europe. Modern culture, and esp. American culture as its forerunner strikes me as extremely puritan and totalitarian. Sure, they encourage dive...
I don't want to sound too simplistic, but this topic seems to conflate questions about at least a few grammatical phenomena: full verbs vs. auxiliary ...
Becoming fluent in a few languages, understanding the grammar theoretically for each of those languages, and having some knowledge of grammar in gener...
Theoretically, it is possible to translate anything from any natural language to any other natural language. The formulation might be clumsy, but it s...
This is a popular dichotomy, yes, but it's a false one nonetheless. It's a dichotomy that holds only when one attempts to justify religious faith to a...
Indeed. So often, when the word in the translation is rendered as "faith", it should probably be "faithfulness" or "loyalty" instead. "Faith" is a wor...
But that's highly biased, based on an idealization of a very particular category of women. Statistically, it seems few women get that kind of sexualiz...
But why?? It would be understandable if transgenderism would be primarily the domain of artists, actors, performers, who, simply due to the nature of ...
Not just sexes, pretty much everything is being stereotyped. Modern culture, especially American culture as the forerunner, appears to be obsessed wit...
This is only so in a temporally relatively short time-frame. Prior to this, for centuries, both men and women wore long hair, earrings, elaborate clot...
No. Of course, this is a pipe dream, but yes. It would be a trial by combat: The Thirty Years' War and the wars immediately connected to it were a for...
They can only understand something is "only a shadow and a sign" (or the "finger pointing to the moon") if they also know what it is that casts that s...
I think it's irresponsible to bring children into this world without first being sure of metaphysical issues first. But what's done is done, so, movin...
Only if one is in some position of power or a member of an elite. Like there are photos on the internet of some fancy banker who is evidently a man an...
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