Shawn

Wallows in despair.

Oh, but what about self reliance and American Transcendentalism?

Sometimes I think I can read minds; but, no I don't think she knows this. I'll give it a look sometime. Kind of stranded here on my own island. Lookin...

Thanks, I miss Mongrel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbXWrmQW-OE

Yeah, but I want an easy life, not one constrained by a multitude of Maxim's.

Job sure had some good friends, didn't he?

Idleness brings about temptation.

This is a strong argument to make. I don't think it's entirely true though. But, since IQ tests have little to no predictive power on anything else th...

Hey, if you start up something, I'd love to invest in whatever you are able to create. I haven't been approved by Gemini for some reason. Taking a lon...

The thing about the internet is that there's so much opportunity to be realized just from sitting at home. I have a friend whom I gave the idea to sta...

The man is a difficult case to analyze from my perspective, as I'm obviously biased. I grew up with the image of a hard-working person who suffered ar...

Yes, there's the mentality over there to view people as symptoms or in stronger cases pathologic problems, and not view them as humans. I don't know h...

Just plenty of psychological abuse based on calling my mother schizophrenic, bipolar, nervous, anxious, bla bla bla. You get the point. Somehow, I end...

Yes, and whatever else being around prostitutes entails. Keep in mind that as a dentist there's easy access to a lot of opioid-based pain medication (...

Did I mention how much gaslighting was involved in all this? The gaslighting was immense. I feel as though I have said enough. Wallows some more.

Prostitution... His father was an alcoholic, so go figure. You'll think I'm loony but the Russian mob was involved in all this. My mother attests to t...

Yes and no. It's hard to explain, and once again I'm going to be talking about 'me'. So, I was born and raised in the states but moved around the age ...

I was always an empathetic soul, moreso than others from by my take. When I was 8, I cried for a week for being separated from my teacher. Then, aroun...

I honestly, don't understand the context where one has a 'realized personality', it sounds like some kind of metaphysical thing. I do have an anti-soc...

I can only thank the moderators and administrators, you included, for making it possible for me to discuss these matters rather than holding them insi...

You seem to have had some reason for pointing it out though. If you want we can go over said reason. No prejudice, just proposing a thought.

Does that bother you?

Posty is just a boat without a rudder, moved by the whims of his desire. The more he limits his desire the better off he will be, methinks. Self-deter...

How does one respond to this state of affairs? Pick up the trash and throw it away or just let it pile up and create an even stronger cognitive disson...

Rereading Nel Nodding's Happiness and Education. Oh, how I yearn for her philosophy of education to become manifest.

I'd like to share my care for other people; but, I lack the compassion to do so. I feel bitter inside from the realization that people don't care as m...

I get the existential postmodernist drift; but, never really cared to feel obligated in some way to take life by its horns and tackle it with resoundi...

Well, if there is no desire to be egotistical then, there are some options; 1. One doesn't equate one's ego with selfishness. 2. One is selfless (henc...

That book is demonstrably racist. See: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-real-problem-with-charles-murray-and-the-bell-curve/

Watch, Pandora's Promise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD_ugY7pwYM

Seems like the above discussion is a repeat of what would have been said in relation to Bush being president some years back.

I don't catch your drift here. Though I think the allusion is to some evil or darkness inherent in man, no? Yes, governments can be Machiavellian. Wha...

I believe it is both. Again, the wiki entry is filled to the brim with America being the prominent example of anti-intellectual sentiment, based on-mo...

I didn't think the thread would blow up; but, might as well address these posts instead of laying in bed. :halo: Well, yes, America was founded on a p...

I'll start a new thread on the matter...

It's been going on for a while already. I don't see why this has become an issue as of recent. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism...

I wouldn't equate Transcendentalism with the arch-typical American anti-intellectualism right off the bat. It can be used to that end though.

Wallowing is what I do best. Thank you for defining my whole life.

Does anyone else see parallels between Schopenhauer and Transcendentalism? It's like Schopenhauer's philosophy with a positive twist to it.

I have not; but, I do see parallels with the singular thought that inspired my philosophic endeavor many years ago on the old PF. The thought was cent...

Yeah, I remember reading Walden with a sense of reverence during my younger years. It was a rather boring book; but, in many respects a great self-rep...

I can see some benefits to Trump being president. For starters, it exposes the swamp which he claimed to want to drain, such as opening a new market f...

Oh dear. Have significantly lost interest in philosophy as of lately.

I don't entirely agree with this sentiment although I've heard that before the world wars many drugs were legal at the time and people weren't buying ...

http://www.maps.org/research Where did I say that? I'm an advocate for rationally based therapy, be it logotherapy, CBT, dialectical therapy, REBT, ps...

Amen Rich. Amen.

Yes, and paradoxically the less you own the more in control you feel. So, much for capitalism if people knew such a thing and applied it in life? Mayb...

No idea, the interpretations vary greatly. Most people who go to war come back with PTSD, yet they don't seem to disproportionately cause crimes when ...

I believe that acts of great violence, such as public shootings as seen recently or the Las Vegas shooter, are bona fide psychotic experiences, althou...