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Hmm, you guys must do an excellent job on covering that issue because that would be inconsistent with my mental picture of Buxte as he had a low view ...

Anyway, I don't know all the details. It would be nice if we could accommodate everyone on this forum; but, maintaining it and not getting paid for do...

Telling someone to suck your whatnot kinda makes the point clear, in my opinion.

So, we ought to be more tolerant to people who become increasingly intolerant to others opinions? That's not a stable equilibrium by any means.

Depends on the context. But, I had nothing against Buxte, just that he became increasingly hostile and grudging against a particular moderator, upon b...

Eccentricities exist on a spectrum of deviating from some norm, no? So, what's the norm?

So, what's the norm here if we're talking about eccentricities?

Superchill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcuPAUdhJLg

Well it's nonsensical to talk about feeling like God. But for all intents and purposes you were tantamount to being a god, at least. That's what I mea...

Almighty flower: :flower:

Dunno, just the vacuous and trite and mundane aspect of living in such a hypocrtical land that is the US. I'm also half Polish and lived there for a w...

So, I've been having a feeling like I might return to Christianity. Catholicism specifically... Yeah...

Yeah. Tu quoque, all around.

What's wrong with that? That's the attitude Mr Phil O'Sophy adopted, and felt like nobody appreciated it, I think.

To treating entertainment as distractions as some form of freedom. I mean, make no mistake, people went to the Colosseum to see other people being cho...

I guess, I'm asking for some alternative. Since, there is none, then the whole argument seems moot. No?

Formalize your concept please so I can better address it, thanks.

Yes, I do think it is a reasonable thing to say. I often think of this forum, as a place where super-egos collide, and if they do, then nasty things c...

Yet, we do it willingly. We spend a silly amount of time watching TV, checking our phones and posting on Instagram what we ate, and in front of this m...

What do you mean? We do live out our lives as slaves to the passions where reason is only instrumental to fulfilling those passions, so isn't your sen...

The point is hard to change prejudices or deep-seated beliefs about people or things. The Roman emperors example was just to illustrate, that people c...

http://www.informationphilosopher.com/knowledge/divided_line.html

As hopeless as this sounds, by distracting ourselves. The Roman emperors knew this best, I think.

Yeah, that's Gandhi level awareness there. Not for everyone.

I've been growing wary of challenging people in any manner or form. It's not my business to reform you or make you a better person, yeah? Although, ha...

:worry:

BTW, I liked your concept @"Mr Phil O'Sophy", but, in practice I'm not sure it would have worked out.

Well, you will be missed from me. All the best to you.

Why do you want to do that?...

The truth hasth been spoken!

I know, right? :halo:

Hey, as long we don't forsake sincereness and charitable attitudes, then by all means.

Uhh, unless necessary, no (in the affirmative). I've been on forums long enough to see how flame wars start, and your thread weaponized the claims to ...

It's just a very hot and spicy thread. Not sure... :rage:

It's :fire:

Beer day!

You might like: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/2000/known-knowns-known-unknowns-and-unknown-unknowns

Oh, cool. We're on the same page then. Posty is me, and Marcus de Brun in you, haha. Ahh, Rummy with the known knowns, the known unknowns, and the unk...

Not as you understand it at least. It's not power over something external, rather internal.

This is confusing. I think I'm speaking with someone called @"Marcus de Brun", am I not mistaken in your identity? Well, then you might be lying but s...

Doesn't the necessitate the problem of agency? After all this is "you" speaking and "me" replying.

You don't believe that do you?

I find it odd that dreams are so easily forgotten, except the most emotionally intense or moving ones. Do you know why this is? I used to keep a dream...

What next then? Reaching out to the world? Becoming a cosmopolitan or socialist? You have led the fly out of the bottle; but, often the fly reminisces...

You're probably right on this account. I would think the brain wave patterns of a lucid dreamer might resemble that more of an awake person than one d...

I'm scary? Jesus, that can't be even true, can it?

Let's stop talking about monsters. I'm getting scared...

But your still dreaming, no?

Yes, I'm considering not participating in the Shoutbox anymore. I'm too sensitive for the roughhousing in there.

What would you call that state of being then?