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We're not in Kansas anymore.

Unfortunately for theorists, this topic requires some real examples, to wit: When in Rome!

I can't post their real names. But I'm thinking of several religious people who have advised me on religious choice in just this way, and it's also a ...

Then it can go to hell! :death:

Oh, the daggers and stings!

Because the government's freedom of speech trumps your freedom of speech. Yes, or pen and paper, as the case may be.

You keep presenting it that way, though, such as here: I think you've read something into my posts that isn't there, though. Perhaps we need to talk m...

Anyone with the money to posses a printing press (or other media outlet) has "freedom of the press". And this is also pretty much the extent of the me...

I'm interested in the phenomenon of resilience. While there is quite a bit of recent research in psychology about resilience, I find it to be too gene...

But you speak with great confidence. This is enough of a clue.

Owning a media outlet is similar to owning a house. You don't let just anyone in.

In that case, you're addressing a dichotomy I never proposed. It's a false dichotomy. I do believe things start at the individual person, and that if ...

Do you think restricting who can enter your home needs to be justified?

So you refuse to learn? *sigh*

For centuries, it was expected of soldiers to have courage under fire, hence the phrase. And in general, cowardice has always been looked down upon. W...

Of course. But what I see in this is braggartry. When people say or imply in any way that they "have it all figured out", I want to see how they actua...

You're creating a hostile discussion environment that is not conducive to discussing the topics I want to discuss. At the same time, what the vocal an...

For all my dislike of religion in general, I don't believe the above. If you're a wuss, you'll be a wuss, with or without religion. And religion can c...

The likes feature -- "philosophy for the masses" ...

I often find myself wanting to have a proper conversation with Wayfarer, but it's impossible because of all the deprecatory interjections from some ot...

This is a strawman. It's not actually possible to "find meaning for yourself", although it's possible, and fairly common, not to acknowledge one's sou...

Your attitude is not conducive to meaningful communication.

Hold on, that number now shows likes! Yay, go rat race!

I wasn't joking, I replied to your OP request. I thought about what resources could be useful for learning about the topic you raised, and I posted so...

Sure, but the class/caste/segregation system is still well and alive, it's just more subtle. The egalitarianism that is officially pushed on us is ill...

It's not a new idea. The ancient Stoics, for example, set out to be happy and content, regardless of circumstances.

What's going on -- how come that in a thread, under a poster's name, it says 0 posts, or some other small number, when the poster actually has far mor...

You're not being fair. Wayfarer is a rare religious/spiritual person with whom it is actually possible to communicate. While you're painting him as th...

Like I said before, you're optimistic and idealistic ...

Making good use of things is a ridiculous idea? We must consume, consume, consume, until we drop dead? It's perverse to the utmost the way so many mod...

Possibly because it is more rarely witnessed. Bugs are still in many places, but to witness the catching and releasing of fish, one has to go to a sui...

Jeesus, some people here are just trying to help you, as per your OP request. Not to criticize you.

An areligious person was bragging about the benefits of their areligious stance, and I wonder if such people can still brag like that once life gets h...

It's my own experience, and the experience of many seekers who turn to religion when they are facing hard times. Existential despair can be a powerful...

It doesn't get much traction in religious/spiritual settings either. Indeed, a self-respecting philosophizer shouldn't read philosophy books or conver...

I think it would do you good to read some books on critical thinking. Here's a nice one: https://books.google.si/books?id=0fVADwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontc...

And yet all this self-reliance and self-sufficiency of the areligious individualist is built on the work of so many that came before him, including th...

Of course. But atheism is predicated on relative material wellbeing. It's a fairweather friend.

Of course. But this thread is about the proverbial foxholes, those challenging situations that put to the test what one believes and holds dear. Sure,...

Because even hobitses are a pugilistic species, what to speak of humanses!

You started with a speculation, and I added to it. In search of a good idea. *shrug*

Have there ever been any media outlets that started with absolute freedom of speech? To the best of my knowledge, all media outlets have always been t...

It seems your issue is specifically with appeal to authority (implicitly on your part!), because this same theme keeps coming up in your posts. I don'...

Do you mean invalid or unsound, or in fact vacuous? If the latter, then your pair above means roughly the same.

In the above example with the doctor, the patient would commit an ad hominem fallacy (specifically, a fallacious argument from authority), if he concl...

But there are also at least such triplets: hot - lukewarm - cold good - neutral - bad big - medium - small male- hermaphrodite - female up - middle- d...

No, I was discussing an epistemological issue.

And when the mothership comes to save us, you're not invited! Mwhaha!

The fallacy of the artificial example. Some things just don't happen in the real world. Keep it real.

How could it possibly be, when we're embedded in some form of social hierarchy and competition or other? Even at an online discussion forum, if the mo...