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In: One possible motive for the pessimist's temperament  — view comment
No I can't come up with the conclusion you gave earlier because it requires me to tortuously rationalise my actions in a manner that is simply an inco...
November 04, 2015 at 12:57
In: One possible motive for the pessimist's temperament  — view comment
If that's your interpretation then you don't understand what teleology is. It's not a goal or purpose of life, it's the natural consequence of living ...
November 04, 2015 at 12:51
In: One possible motive for the pessimist's temperament  — view comment
The moral judgment of Schopenhauer is "life isn't worth living", which you take into account when making a utilitarian judgment that "life isn't worth...
November 04, 2015 at 11:07
In: One possible motive for the pessimist's temperament  — view comment
Questions for schopenhauer1; 1. How do you integrate Benatar's "hedonistic calculus" with Schopenhauer's moralistic pessimism (e.g. a normative judgme...
November 03, 2015 at 13:05
In: Things at the old place have changed  — view comment
You can't throw around unnecessary expletives here either!
October 31, 2015 at 07:54
In: Should fines be levied in proportion to an offenders income?  — view comment
@"Mayor of Simpleton" It should be proportional to wealth and not income then. Just for you. I think I'll take one of your cats. You know. Hit them wh...
October 26, 2015 at 14:31
In: Welcome PF members!  — view comment
Does anybody have contact with Kwalish Kid? I saw him on a forum but they're not letting me in because my e-mail address doesn't have an internet hist...
October 24, 2015 at 08:23
In: Icon for the Site?  — view comment
http://illuminatisymbols.info/all-seeing-eye/ This should attract a certain type of posters. EDIT: what am I doing wrong with that picture?
October 24, 2015 at 08:19
In: Welcome PF members!  — view comment
I wonder if every PF member here also stops posting at PF but if they do, I also wonder whether Porat calculated that effect in when he decided to buy...
October 24, 2015 at 08:09
In: How will this site attract new members?  — view comment
Same reason I feel I do have the time to moderate here. For me the golden years of PF were 2003-2007 I guess.
October 24, 2015 at 08:06
In: How will this site attract new members?  — view comment
I'd never thought I'd say this, but apparently we need Randroids. :-O
October 24, 2015 at 08:04
In: PF sold for $20,800  — view comment
Even if it was just about money, that was perfectly within his rights too. I'm sorry to hear it was under financial duress.
October 23, 2015 at 17:01
In: Do we really have to have "likes"?  — view comment
I strongly don't care. If there are posters whose delicate sensibilities are swayed by likes or dislikes then it's quite likely they don't have anythi...
October 22, 2015 at 19:53
In: Missing features, bugs, questions about how to do stuff  — view comment
I personally don't think anything is wrong with advertisement generating some income for this site. I think a skyscraper add on the left or right woul...
October 22, 2015 at 10:02
In: Mute Threads  — view comment
Cool. It's like a negative bookmark, so functionally it shouldn't be too difficult I guess. We'll see.
October 22, 2015 at 09:36
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
Currently reading: The Blade of Tyshalle, book 2 of the Acts of Caine quadrology. I stopped reading philosophy or anything serious since I already rea...
October 22, 2015 at 09:35
In: Welcome PF members!  — view comment
Make me...
October 22, 2015 at 07:50
In: Missing features, bugs, questions about how to do stuff  — view comment
I enjoyed that too. We got quite a few things right when it happened. Not that it had changed the world a whit.
October 22, 2015 at 06:16
In: Do we really have to have "likes"?  — view comment
I aim to have more likes than posts so from now on I'll only postulate acceptable theories even if I don't support them. Ps: this works well on a phon...
October 21, 2015 at 15:32
In: Do we really have to have "likes"?  — view comment
Please don't...
October 21, 2015 at 15:22
In: The metaphysical implications of disquotationalism  — view comment
How does this suit you? "the chair exists" is true iff it corresponds to a directly or indirectly observable thing that answers to your meaning.
October 21, 2015 at 15:22
In: Do we really have to have "likes"?  — view comment
If you don't use it, it's pretty much deactivated from your side. Meanwhile, enjoy your first like...
October 21, 2015 at 14:50
In: Missing features, bugs, questions about how to do stuff  — view comment
If we're going to have Philosophy of Religion back, we should get KwalishKid back too.
October 21, 2015 at 14:14
In: Missing features, bugs, questions about how to do stuff  — view comment
JamalRob is the new Porat. After seeing how simply we all gave up information to that Brooklyn thug, he thought, I can do this too and better by lulli...
October 21, 2015 at 13:34
In: Missing features, bugs, questions about how to do stuff  — view comment
It actually appears when you hover over someone's post, not just on that specific space. And you quote by selecting the text at which point a quote bu...
October 21, 2015 at 13:13
In: The Future of the Human Race  — view comment
I care about some human beings...
October 21, 2015 at 13:10
In: Welcome PF members!  — view comment
And here I was hoping the grumpy conservatives couldn't find their way to a snazzy, modern website like this... >:)
October 21, 2015 at 13:08
In: Missing features, bugs, questions about how to do stuff  — view comment
It only counts because people persist in stupidity... definite no. X-)
October 21, 2015 at 07:38
In: Help me test  — view comment
By the way, I have a website I don't use anymore called nousluminous.com (roughly intended as "we illuminate/knowledge lights us/we light ourselves" i...
October 21, 2015 at 07:33
In: Help me test  — view comment
I've been terribly busy in my personal life but just wanted to let you know I support this initiative. I don't have much trust in the old PF site due ...
October 21, 2015 at 07:17
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