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But how do we know those poor people are happy? Because of pictures in National Geographic where poor people are smiling?

Becoming a tree hugger is just at one end of the pantheist spectrum. A fascination with power and being active is on the other end.

And the only proper response to this is hysterical optimism and total faith in medicine?

This is a philosophy discussion forum, not the water cooler. You're jumping to the conclusion that the notion of sacrificing oneself for others is "in...

Why do you tailor your quest by the model of a Catholic proselytizer??

And you want us to believe you'd die for these people?

Why would it be good to have such proof?

The skeptics your OP is seeking to convince.

I'd go sit under a tree until I became enlightened.

Of course, the point can be made that theplacebo effect is real and that the patient's optimism about the treatment can importantly contribute to bett...

Except that in this case, the necessary information doesn't even exist yet.

You certainly don't sound like it. You're far too critical of others to still allow for the thought that you'd be willing to die for them.

Yet the official party line and the pro-vaccination slogans are "Think of others, get vaccinated!" and similar. (Here the Croatian one, for example.)

Depends on one's current health and financial status. The vaccines haven't been tested enough to show what they do to a person who is already immunoco...

What does it matter to you if you end up terminally ill after the vaccine? Do you really take solace in other people benefitting from the vaccine? Are...

This is exactly how it is presented by some governments and people uncritically in favor of vaccination.

No, there are already consequences promised to those who have not been vaccinated. For example, in order to visit a restaurant or cinema, one has to p...

It seems more likely that they already believe such things, rather than having "bought into his lies". It seems unlikely that one person would have su...

A buddha is impossible to define comprehensively (it is said that it takes a buddha to know one). Hence it is impossible to make definitive claims as ...

The way I see it, the point is to understand why a particular question is a wrong question. There are several reasons why a question can be a wrong qu...

I asked: This is a philosophy discussion forum. Read with precision. I asked you about the conman, not about the religious conman, as the issue was th...

At this point, the seriously injured Valeen Schnurr began screaming, "Oh my God, oh my God!" In response, Klebold asked Schnurr if she believed in the...

Character assassination is a classical proselytizing method. It seems to work quite well on many people.

Why do you want to convince them? For their own good? For your own good? But you will not answer this, will you?

Either there's enough gas in my car to get me to town or there isn't enough gas in the car to get me to town. Either I'm dead, or I'm not dead. Such "...

To begin with, this is exactly what you asked for in this thread: Reasons against science. What did you expect???

So you think that a conman "has" cognitive dissonance?

What an extremely uncharitable position to take! I think many people who refuse to get vaccinated or who are skeptical about taking (experimental) vac...

What is this party line supposed to do??

First, I would need to feel a genuine need for it (which I don't). My assumption is that epistemology is done by persons, so no argument can somehow s...

*sigh* I was trying to explain a point about S/stoicism to TheMadFool, in line with the discussion that far. So I asked him a question about a type of...

No, there is no personal god to commune with in pantheism.

It's not clear that in the case of the religious not living up to what they profess this is really due to cognitive dissonance. You'd need to rule out...

This is a poor distinction. Rather, the pair should be belief -- relevance of said belief to a particular person's life. For example, you probably bel...

I have a question: Why does the discourse about this have to be so superficial??

While I don't wish that upon either of you, I'd still like to see how you'd do, what you'd say if you were the ones ending up with the negative side-e...

See, this is the hysteria I'm talking about. Making stuff up like that, black-and-white thinking. Either you're hysterically with us, or you're hyster...

*sigh*

So what? Statistical probabilities calculated for a particular observed group do not translate into the same probabilities for a particular person. Th...

No, but a probable personal catastrophe if one accepts the COVID vaccine.

No, they can't. It's not possible to choose which vaccine one is going to be vaccinated with. At least in some parts of the world.

Follow the money: Health insurance doesn't cover the costs of the treatment of the side effects of experimental vaccines (which is what all the covid ...

Thanks for illustrating my point! The modern day stoic is a passive-aggressive wimp, while there is nothing in the original Stoicism that would stand ...

No. They threaten with eternal damnation anyone who doesn't believe like they do. Because of this, they do not deserve the kind of lenience that you d...

What counts as unacceptable stereotyping? (Or when does stereotyping become prejudice?) On a forum like this? There are discussion forums where alread...

It goes the other way around too: For example, the way Catholic monotheism and the motivation to proselytize were conveniently omitted from Descartes'...

But then why tailor one's quest after a religious proselytizer like Descartes?

On a philosophy forum, it should go without saying that people would do their due dilligence and check with the potentially offensive poster as to wha...

This is a stereotype about white southerners, indeed. For example, when I think of people of the American South, my first impulse is to think of white...

Such obligation would follow only if your motivation for producing your argument would be to convince or defeat others, like Descartes' was.