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You can interpret it that way if one is sufficiently emotionally charged over the issue, which is completely understandable. I thought the closest sim...

In case anyone is wondering, here is the article that @"tom" is referring to.

Well, you can make the case that both were forced out of their home land.

Must be one of those Wittgensteinian family resemblances.

Hanover would be proud. Are you two related?

I think we might be using "proof" and "true" interchangeably here. Hence, How do we know it's true if no proof is required? If it is an axiom, then se...

There is a hidden paradox here, which I'm reading about in the previous link I posted, if you're interested. Let me quote (I hope at leisure) from wha...

Yes, (was the gift a nudge from China indicating that Germany is ready for communism, one has to wonder). Anyway, I think China learned their lesson f...

I think I hit the jackpot (thanks Google!) in regards to contemporary views of the PoSR and possible criticism it faces in view of Quantum Mechanics, ...

If you would allow me to address this, I believe that communism requires a level playing field for all actors on the global arena. Hence, why I believ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URlVEx9ur7s Some scenes might be NSFW (mild nudity). Good lord I posted my whole playlist (just edited that out). I fe...

You know, I wonder what African American sentiment is nowadays to the troubles and hardship the Palestinians face. They aren't too vocal about it desp...

That sentiment that I've heard so many times is one of the primary reasons for my aversion of reading him. Besides, I have piss poor concentration, so...

When philosophers become kings, eh? Well, given that we require someone with at least some background of education, I tend to think that they can be r...

Just to quell the fears stoked in the OP, our collective aversion for war has kept us more safe than ever in modern history. People are averse to war ...

Could you clarify, as I'm not sure what exactly your asking? If you mean fear in general, I wonder if that is the cause for such situations to arise. ...

Just to go to the logical conclusion of my last post... In many cases people with disorders (read distress) shut off from the world and don't want to ...

Well, I have heard of only one case in my lifetime for whom their schizophrenia was treated via psychotherapy. Some people decide to live with their c...

No cookies for the philistines, apparently.

No, I think I was just spewing BS. Just because I spent a year in college doesn't merit what I said about Marx. I had better read him before I mount a...

You mean, dare someone's overinflated ego doesn't get deflated?

I'm unenlightened so I wouldn't know.

I like how these sexual jokes have taken on a level of absurdity. Almost as if this were a game of one upmanship.

Isn't the first rebuttal of Marx, that he underestimated the power of competition? Given that I went to college for a degree in economics, I think it ...

Well, we can be prejudiced against antidepressant drugs or we don't have to. I see no issue taking antidepressant drugs if there is a clinical need th...

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Hard to say. There are some conditions that are hard to address through therapy alone. OCD seems to be one of them that is best treated with psychothe...

I found something interesting for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRI_ZSh6iF4 Let me know if you like it.

*New Age*, I don't even know what to associate that with anymore.

Interesting. I bet quite a few Russian scholars are turning in their graves at the sentiment that Schopenhauer chewed and regurgitated Buddhism and th...

I see, so it would be premature then. I'll wait. I need to delve more into Russian philosophy as of late. All this Plato this, Plato that, how much Pl...

Post a topic about Nikolai Berdyaev, whom I assume you value greatly. What philosophical truths, gems, or nuggets did he have to share with the world?...

Dude, that avatar is too much. Stop it, I'm actually smiling. *aRE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!11*

I haven't read the entire thread; but, words derive their meaning by the way they are used, and currently talking about NDE is grounded by convention ...

But, that gap will always exist, for as long as we can tell.

It was a happy time in my childhood, watching him come home and visit us kids across America.

I think it's pretty important, at least psychologically or not, for many people. This entails, the desire to better educate oneself, which are necessa...

Agreed, so science serves an epistemic purpose, utility, function of informing oneself, when making valid inferences. I don't think I can boil it down...

Fine, I won't get into semantic squabbles and just straight out ask you the hard question. Namely, if science is a method at arriving at 'truths' (as ...

But, you confused 'truth' for 'facts' in the OP. If I want to make a valid logical deductive argument, I had better get the facts straight if the issu...

Agreed. Hence, my next logical question, is, 'what are facts'?

So, since you agree with that, then instead of the false equivocation about 'truths' that is being made and befuddled other members, we can maybe defl...

Putting on one of dem shoes.

Yeah, well, I tend to think science is capable at arriving at facts, not truths.

So, why not talk about the 'truths' that science is apt at answering instead of the ambiguity of what kind of 'Truths' it can answer? As everyone seem...

Well, some truths are contextually bound, like ethical claims, which science cannot answer or does not care to answer.

Is that truth with a capital T or lower case t?

Mr. Rogers does not approve: https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/claremoreprogress.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/c/31/c31dfbb2-135a-1...

How does one know that? What criteria are we applying here to validate or invalidate unfalsifiable claims as 'unfalsifiable'?

How so? I don't have much to go on about here.