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Personally interested in that short paper. 15 pages are doable for my feeble mind and would be a good trial run on how to approach abstracta into inte...

What's that? the rain?

Read more Wittgenstein.

Ooo, I thought you might like it. Didn't know it was your favorite. Phenomenology of Perception would be a worthwhile text to go over IMO. But, since ...

You decide. I'm unsure yet.

I think starting with an essay would be a good idea to just get a feel for how these things work out in practice. I'm open to whatever you propose.

I think Merleau Ponty is interesting. I haven't seen his name mentioned on these forums for a long time. Let me know what you think about his works?

Awesomesauce @"John Doe", I hope to participate in anything you set out on reading. I know you are on the graduate level tier so nothing but high qual...

The degree to which this has happened is still a known unknown. We don't know how much Trump is corrupted by Russia. I say we wait and refrain from ju...

Well, I was institutionalized in the military. It was a bitter pill to swallow for me that I couldn't become a soldier or repair ejection seats for th...

Suicide can be justified in some way. But, if you have a family or other people that need you, then no, I don't think suicide is the right choice. The...

I feel you. It doesn't bother me anymore that I'm different than other people. I guess I've come to terms in my own way with my diagnosis. That entail...

Oh, sorry to hear. I've been institutionalized and in hospitals myself quite often. Do you think half the battle is just coming to terms (as harsh as ...

Coming from someone that doesn't like going to therapy, I am intrigued why so many patients with mental illness find it hard to commit themselves to g...

Oh nevermind @"Noah Te Stroete", we talked about this in PM. Sorry, my memory is finicky.

I'm not quite sure. I think that suicide isn't the same as self-destruction. Might need some expanding on my part; but, it doesn't seem like that's th...

Has the impulsivity ever resulted in bad decisions? And, what kind of mental illness if you don't mind me asking? I struggle with psychosis (My p-doc ...

I wouldn't go as far and say that self-destructive behaviour is tantamount to wanting to commit suicide. Just my two pennies.

Expanding on the ToM of a schizophrenic, I can say that schizophrenics have a strong tendency towards magical thinking and overdetermination of events...

As a formerly diagnosed schizophrenic, (now that diagnosis has changed to psychotic disorder, although I have a tendency to become paranoid often), I ...

In my dealings with depression and some suicidal ideation, what has helped me the most is realizing that emotions and feelings subside. What I have le...

I'm still not understanding you here. Are you proposing that someone who unconsciously inflicts self-harm is tantamount to them slowly committing suic...

Haha, I wonder how a child would respond to someone asking about suicide? What a daft thought.

It's a matter of willpower to get better. The scary thing about depression from what I read is that as a person gets better the motivation to kill one...

Yes, I'll settle with that. I might be wrong of course about every name being a rigid designator. Of course, some names can have empty referents. Like...

But, if every name is a rigid designator, then we're left with necessary existents that instantiate necessity. How do you deal with this?

But, I must ask. What has the Russian active measures campaign resulted in, which goes all the way back to the creation of the KGB and now FSB? That T...

Just a clarification. I am not thinking about suicide. It's just a hypothetical situation. I hope to gather all the answers to what one thinks about a...

What's the purpose of asking that? Please elaborate.

You mean the unconscious desire to die? I suspect that they can manifest in those ways. But, suicide is such an act that instantiates all those desire...

In essence, that seems to be the sentiment of a suicidal. Fuck off to you; the world, my family, my life, all my problems. Again, I am not suicidal, j...

And get thrown into a psych ward for running around telling people I am God? Just kidding. So, what's your best argument against suicide?

There's something comforting about wanting to become nothing. It has no qualities or properties that define it, apart from the lack of properties abou...

But, surely you aren't the religious type from my ponderance of you. Or at least this is the hope of the suicidal person, that they become nothing or ...

How is suicide not a courageous act? I fail to see how someone wanting to commit suicide against everything life has to offer as not a determined and ...

It also takes some guts and balls to commit suicide.

Nooo! I have become a Nihilistic Locomotive too. Ahh!

Sorry, must have made a mistake in that regards. Carry on.

There is some Russophobia in this thread. I don't see the point of disliking Russia. Rather we should dislike the current KGB infested leadership of R...

Yes, I've seen solipsistic and trite comments, like the following: "The problems of philosophy are psychological" - Pseudo-Wittgenstein or just made u...

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I think, as a Wittgensteinian, the problems of people are mainly psychological or what we tell ourselves. It's a matter of identifying with a new voic...

So, you don't think we can empathize with someone seriously and quaintly considering suicide? Only sympathize?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtS46Wfsxnw

@"creativesoul", waiting on you.

Point me in the right direction, kind Sir. What pages should I cover? I'm almost close to the end of the lecture I.

What kind of epistemology? Overlap with what?

So, do modal chats differ substantially from talk about what obtains? Do some philosophers restrict talk to things that only obtain. Is modal talk met...

Okay, so since I got that straightened out, what's next?

I simply believe that the fact that it doesnt obtain in our world gives the possible discussion a different meaning. Be it epistemic, ontological, and...