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Based on a case study of one? With possibly no tests for further covid infection? That's bad science. Not for those who had serious side effects or wh...

What else??

Large projects -- whether it's the power or transportation infrastructure or going to war -- cannot be worked on if people are merely self-governing. ...

And I doubt such is necessarily always the case. Because I've seen religion and religiosity from the inside. Like I said, I know many religious people...

"Am I something more or other than just (my) mind?" Descartes' certainty rests on taking for granted that a person's mind (their thoughts) are all the...

Have you been told, or have you heard others being told things like: "You can't let this get to you!" "Buck up!" "Don't be such a cry baby!" "Boys don...

What you display is what I call liberalism and privilege. And a psychologist, insisting on you-messages? Really? No need to exemplify all the myths an...

If an omniscient person existed would we hate them or cherish them? This would only be relevant if everyone else except oneself would be omniscient. B...

Yes. It's such simplistic dogma, people are being infantilized. Science deals in numbers. But politicians and some scientists who speak in favor of va...

And you'd probably say that this is to our loss?

Also, look at the lives of "saints" (they have whole lists and biographies of them in Catholicism, for example). In many cases, these people were ordi...

Maybe they do, maybe they don't. Note that the word "religious martyr" tends to be applied to anyone who died "for religion", regardless of how they l...

I said that I don't know anyone who does. I suppose there could be religious people who really, genuinely believe what they say. I just haven't met an...

Only a Buddhist dilettante would try to negate or profess detachment from emotions. The actual Buddhist practices are about understanding how thoughts...

Can you imagine a military general, out on the battle field, who is a Stoic?

Are you sure you're distinguishing between 1. the respect that people generally have for high(er) socio-economic status, and 2. the respect that a par...

No, stay and fight! Make your point, stand your ground!

Your lack of considering the role of socio-economic status in interpersonal relationships, formal and informal, is typical for "liberals" ... No. It j...

From Wiki: And then all that about being part of the world and so on. The Stoics were by no means advocating passivity in terms of action, as some mod...

Wrong. They should be judged by the power they legally have. And they all have the same power, whether they are good or bad.

Are you familiar with the work of Matthew Ratcliffe, for example? https://pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/matthew-james-ratcliffe(b72a80cf-1953-...

Look at the DSM. What can you infer: What mentality produced such definitions of mental ailments and the proposed treatments for them? It looks like y...

I think Western psychology tries to educate people about how to be a secular atheist (upper) middle class person. I think that education about "feelin...

This is from another thread but belongs here: Okay, let's try this again, here with a Hindu style version of reincarnation that you should be familiar...

I think this is a modern rendition of stoicism. The original one had methapyhsical underpinnings which are unpalatable to many modern people, but whic...

That's an absolute assertion. And a nothing-but-ism. And you hold that this should be "considered absolute or fundamental to reality, or of first prio...

There can be such harm, for those who don't already believe in God and Christianity. Said harm comes from trying to make oneself believe something tha...

Really? You think you understand reincarnation or dependent co-arising? On whose terms of understanding? Yours or the Hindus'/Buddhists'? But in that ...

No. I'm allowing for the possibility that something, even though it is called an ism, is actually true (and all the explanations, definitions, and the...

Thank heavens I don't eat or drink while at the computer. Otherwise I'd have a lot to clean up after just now.

Not everyone is like the 'Muricans.

It's a tricky word, and I used it for that purpose.

Yeah, especially when he cut up live animals. /s

This is the thread about moral facts, FYI.

Is Stoicism a better guide to living than Christianity? For whom, in what circumstances?

Just realistic.

Pretty much anyone who in any way doesn't obey authorities: Students who don't obey teachers tend not to do so well in school; citizens who don't obey...

It's a matter of logical consequences, not empirical evidence. Can't you see that?

Except that that time never comes. I said that? Where? In your mind?

IOW, with "introspection and wisdom, relying upon ancient texts and time honored traditions".

No need to, as the situation talked about was clearly enough specified: In modern times, under democracy and the rule of law. Democracy and the rule o...

You're not my therapist, nor anyone else's here.

How does our bullied kid decide what to do in regard to the bully??

Leaving aside for the moment that the use of hormonal contraceptives (which are generally preferred) makes STI's have a field day 24/7, 365 days/year ...

Well, then, if you're such a proponent of the just world hypothesis, then you must never criticize anyone or anything or object to anything. Everythin...

How??? Sketch out how what one ought do is decided by interacting with other people! Sample situation: You're a kid in school and another boy is bully...

People won't even do it literally, in traffic or in waiting lines. What hope is there for them staying in their lanes in any other way?

Self-awareness, self-regulation, achieving goals, seeing these things as a matter of skill. From:

Provided one has the money and the political power to do so. In modern times, under democracy and the rule of law, emotional intelligence is becoming ...

The matter is already thoroughly addressed in the concept of executive functions.