Shawn

Yes, but I am depressed. How??

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You lost me.

Epistemic closure consists in entailment. If entailment cannot be achieved by negation of totality in your previous awesome post, then epistemic closu...

This leaves open the question, what does substance express?

Then epistemic/ontological closure, then is a fictitious concept?

Could you explain what do you mean by "self-explanatory"? I'm not sure about their ontological status wrt. to brute facts, if that makes any sense. Me...

Great. This has become a complaint thread. This is perfect.

What if I said, that consistency in formulating one's identity (having a narrative) is of supreme importance to an individual. What do you then say to...

Lack of what? Lack of what? That's true; but, I believe that CBT has something to teach us apart from its psychoanalytic settings. I believe that it's...

Are self-explanatory facts the same thing as brute facts, and if not how do they differ? Just clarifying some terminology that I'm and possibly others...

Phew, you had me scared there.

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Holy shit, man. Tripping at 7. Anyway, I used to be schooled by a private tutor that I've been keeping in contact with and he told me I need to try so...

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What do you object to? You're in the right place. It's right here.

True. Yeah, set and setting comes to mind. I just like staying home, so, yeah. How do you avoid fighting? Could this be why I experienced a psychotic ...

That saying is on my second place for favourite sayings. The first is: It is what it is. See the conflict there?

I was speaking from my sole personal experience with psilocybin. It triggered a psychotic state in me. Though the setting wasn't right. I guess it was...

Oh, yeah. I would mostly just be a roofer in regards to solar panel installation. Nothing mysterious about that aspect of the job in my mind.

I guess another way of asking the above, is that if the good is to be rational, according to Aristotle, along with a disinterested concern with the go...

But, let's grant that you are indeed right in your assertion that life is meaningless and futile, hence no reason to produce more suffering in the wor...

Which is what exactly? I'm afraid of committing if there's something I haven't considered here.

But, both these approaches are the product of a complaint. Or to put it another way, two negatives don't necessarily produce a positive in this case. ...

Do you think to elicit self-induced psychotic states of mind are beneficial to disidentification? Psychosis is a form of disidentification from though...

Best regards to you and your father, however this turns out.

Complaints are typically negative in nature. There's discord or unease that arises from their performative action. So, since I like bashing philosophi...

Yes, while I understand that. Complaining breeds complaining, hence the issue with the internet in general, I suppose. Instead, the logical progressio...

So, I guess there is an overlap between the two, which is based solely on agency. That doesn't seem right; but, I digress.

Well, I think that criticism can be justified by some rules or whatever normative framework you can have. Complaints are never justified, though, unde...

But, they surely aren't the same. One can imply the other, and be logically sound in such an assertion, depending on how you view things; but, both ar...

Righting a wrong would be a case of criticism. Without going into the murky waters of intentionality, let's assume it's constructive criticism here. V...

Yes, I think so.

I think you are performing a category error or at least it doesn't fit the definition of what you're formally describing as (constructive) "criticism"...

Thanks. Give me a pointer and I'll see if I can bite the cost. Edit: Just found it one Amazon. Nevermind.

So, when is one's complaint justified?

Yeah; but, what good has complaining ever resulted in?

What does that mean?

If we cared so much, why are we still complaining?

So, California passes SB100, mandating that we go 100% renewable by 2045. I think a career in the solar industry wouldn't be a bad idea for me. Thinki...

So, California passes SB100, mandating that we go 100% renewable by 2045. I think a career in the solar industry wouldn't be a bad idea for me. Thinki...

Because you resign yourself to your problems. Conversely, if you're coping successfully, is there anything left to cope with?

Yes, resigning oneself to the way things are is a coping skill? I mean, embracing depression entails that one accept or resign oneself to the cards de...

So, coping is defined to be dependent on a subjective assessment, or intersubjective assessment of one's adequacy? Isn't that ambiguous? I mean, when ...

I'm on medication that nullifies the effects of microdosing. I tried microdosing while on that medication, but, didn't notice too many effects.

And how do you arrive at a normative standard, when talk about coping with depression?

It's always been there. Just haven't addressed it enough as of late. I still wallow around and feel some hope for the future. I guess you can call it ...

But, what about disidentification? Doesn't that seem like a solution to the meta-cognitive depressive realm? I feel as though, disidentification is a ...

Yes, I would wish that it were easier to get out of my rut. But, as I mentioned before, my depression seems endogenous and deeply buried in my psyche....

Do I what?