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That's awfully impractical, at the very least. To have one's time and efforts commanded by other people like that??! "Freedom of speech" is a dud anyw...

I infer that this is what you're saying. Esp. when you put it like that: Do you think that if Tom thinks Dick is aggravating, this has nothing in any ...

Eh? Sarcasm travels poorly online. You're the one defining health as a matter of conformity to and complaceny with whatever standard happens to seem t...

In their minds, many people already seem to be firmly in Mad Max territory anyway. They have a "survival of the fittest" and "life is a struggle for s...

Talk about yet another form of authoritarianism! Mandatory drugging!

I think people generally don't fear death, but they fear living a meaningless life, and they fear that their options for making life meaningful will s...

I don't know. Do they?

But you said earlier: This emphasis on oneself I don't see in the passage you quote above. Did they believe such things about women as well?

I dare every wannabe stoic to be happy and content even when poor and sick.

No, I'm saying I want to see if the other poster can still be so calm and confident even when he is in the gutter. People sometimes brag that they can...

Enter the difference between God and demigods. By definition, anything that happens has, obviously, been allowed for by God (for whatever reasons perh...

See you in the gutter, we'll see if then you can still be so smugly satisfied with pointlessness.

The problem isn't just China. It's all those poor countries who at a terrible toll on their people and natural environment produce things that Western...

He seems like a constructed, composite character, a literary device. I'm reminded of Polonius: "To thine own self be true" is what people often quote,...

Sure. And as I've been saying, scenarios that are typical for demigods (who are not omnimax, such as the Greek goods) get transposed as if they apply ...

Sure, but since it is unknowable what it is that is truly pleasing to gods (because the gods themselves do not speak to us directly), the subject of p...

Yes ... It's the height of the gardening season here. I get up around 4.30 in the morning (as soon as it is bright enough to see) and start working in...

As if "being aggravating" were an objective, inherent characteristic of a person, and have nothing to do with the way two people interact with one ano...

In DBT, there is the concept of interpersonal effectiveness skills. As the name says, they are the skills for being effective in interpersonal interac...

Is this a longitudinal study of the same people over the course of their work life?

Of course some people propose to have such evidence, it's their reason for being atheists. E.g. "If God existed, I wouldn't lose my job/my partner wou...

In a monotheist setting, you need to start with the premise that God sets all the terms. As such, good is what God says is good. Phrasings like "stuff...

To show that the whole issue of piety is silly.

What is wrong with you??? Are you a robot??? If you get the serious negative side effects of the vaccine, how will you cope with them? How will that a...

*sigh*

It's short-sighted, comparing countries that have a history of being exploited by colonialists (who, BTW, had God belief) and those that weren't.

Think of it as a form of dialectics or eristic. You were talking about a tension between system building and critical evaluation in philosophy.

But God belief makes them ambitious and makes them strive to improve their material situation.

The second premise is false, so the conclusion doesn't follow. On the basis that God is typically defined as just.

This is about general trends in cultural history. Compare Realism and Romanticism, Classicism and Baroque, or Modernism and Postmodernism, for example...

Hence, luck. That's like saying that any type of meditation and any type of sports increase one's self-confidence. They do not.

Vaguely. Does, in your opinion, God belief make people poor?

Whatever can be done by syllogism. God's justice is above man's justice.

State your case regarding the connection between God belief and poverty.

Because clearly, some people have it, and some don't, from early on in life. Then how did those who have it, got it? "Buddha nature"?? That's awfully ...

As already noted by me, several times. Unfortunately, not everyone is so lucky to be blessed with abundant life-affirming confidence, and those who ar...

Then why are there laws against stealing and killing, for example, if those are no-brainers? Something being a no-brainer doesn't mean it needn't be m...

Sure, there are such people. What's your point?

No no no. If you're so eager to talk about risks and probabilities, then you need to present the above claims in terms of probabilities, so that we ge...

The usual Big Issues -- the meaning of life, right and wrong.

Exactly. It appears that the OP is right after all.

Remember, the Iron Lady said there is no society.

Actually, it must be great to feel so confident that luck is on one's side. Getting the vaccine, thinking, "Oh, surely I'm so great and so lucky that ...

Who's advocating that?

Making sure to keep the discourse ever so superficial, eh?

I'm talking about persons. In that case, for a particular person, the probabilities can only be calculated theoretically, not empirically. Which makes...

It was never meant for you to "make sense of it".

Sure, but such things are inconsequential, for the most part.

Trying to embody the confident non-philosopher: once the confident non-philosopher encounters an illusion, a deception, he blames, faults, criticizes,...

I'm talking about your vision, your eyesight, your ability to notice details. Just not in broad daylight. I guess this is one of those things that onc...