No, this doesn't occur to me. The everyday reality is that if one appears poor and weak, people tend to interpret this as "This person must be destroy...
You're asking why is it that TPF is usually not very "accepting of personal confidence as evidence of truth". You suggested the reason for this was di...
Nah. I see displays of wealth and health as a matter of setting boundaries and putting up signs -- "Don't even think of trying to fuck with me, becaus...
Lemmings don't suicidally run off of cliffs. Lemmings do not commit suicide. However, this particular myth is based on some actual lemming behaviors. ...
Where we disagree is whether "those people" are obligated to demonstrate their knowledge to just anyone. I maintain that they are not suchly obligated...
Where Buddhism differs from many other philosophies is in the way it deconstructs the very notion of selfhood and the notion of suffering. But from he...
It seems to me that your problem is about organization and productivity, not necessarily about ideology. As a Stoic, one is supposed to get things don...
To read the works of a particular philosopher as an autodidact is overwhelming, to say the least. Of course, some seem more readable than others (whic...
IOW, rely in whatever infromation has collected in your mind up until this point (much of it is probably trash) and whatever is currently available to...
Yes, you're missing the "big picture" of philosophy. The pragmatic thing to do, as far as the study of philosophy is concerned, is to take up a course...
But we don't know how common that is because we can't recognize those people. Are you in any way suggesting that philosophers are pratyekabuddhas or p...
?? I don't know how come it sounds that way to you. I keep talking about religious/spiritual elitisim, the emic-etic distinction, qualifications neces...
That's peculiar. Can I have a genuine, real yearning for some kind of transcendence, for the transcendent, even though I am religiously/spiritually ho...
Oh, come on. You should know better by now that I'm not an advocate of blind faith. I also don't think that the people who were born and raised into a...
I can't stress the elitism enough. What I've been trying to show is how impenetrable religious tenets are for the outsider. I've been trying to show t...
Stoic apatheia isn't simply apathy, and shouldn't be the natural result of Stoicism, given that a Stoic lives in an orderly, divine universe in which ...
Of course. Seeking fame for the sake of fame, wealth for the sake of wealth, etc. would be wrong from the Stoic perspective. But from what I understoo...
At the level of decision making, it is. Before one can decide for a particular option, one has to whittle down the multitude of options until only two...
Eh? How do you figure that? It's pointless to try to openly discuss a person's interests when the fulfillment of those very interests is at stake. It'...
No, we disagree on this matter. I never push for scientific claims the way you do. I should not have to repeat myself over and over again, for every p...
People will say all kinds of things to protect their interests. That doesn't make it okay, but it is what people do and should be taken in considerati...
No, it's a major one, given the repercussions. I don't have the kind of enthusiastic, confident, optimistic attitude toward the vaccines the way some ...
No. I don't believe such things have much to do with doubt or agreement, politicial or social or otherwise. The simple fact is that lifestyle habits a...
No. Given the side effects I experienced, no. I don't have the health and the energy to be an experimental rabbit for people who don't care whether I ...
Yes, I am. Do I feel safe, do I feel protected from covid? No. I wish being vaccinated would help, but I don't have faith that it does help. I'm also ...
To be sure, you'll need to explain what exactly you mean by the "carrot and stick strategy". Reward and punishment? In the original scenario from whic...
That's strange. One is cautious because one cares about oneself, about one's wellbeing. Related to that, cares about the wellbeing of those who are im...
Where I and several other posters disagree is that I put forward the view that religion/spirituality is something far stricter, less open, less democr...
I find it's far more widely spread than just online, and it existed long before the internet. People have been jumping to conclusions for millennia. T...
Indeed, it's open to all who believe. This is the epistemic and ethical requirement. It's safe to say that most people in secular academia, or at this...
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