Shawn

I typically hold politicians to a higher standard than the masses.

My take: Aging populations living longer, rising costs of living, lack of education among the poor, having more children to support relative to the me...

Thanks for that. Now I better understand the rising poverty rates of our millennial generation relative to well-off whites who benefitted from said di...

So, we practice affirmative action, and decisions shouldn't be driven by emotional reasoning. What's the point?

Yeah show me some evidence of this hypocrisy your talking about.

Haha, but if authoritarians think it's true then so it must be. Ive been following the comments most Republicans are making on CNN news feeds and else...

Two wrongs don't make a right.

What are your views, then?

The truth isn't always convenient to ones views.

It was implied.

So Trump isn't qualified for the position, what else is new?

Rule for Hanover. Wash Fred and get him a nice trim.

Cali is full of health nuts, haha. You know, more disposable income and all that.

Well, he already runs it. I hope to ride along on his wave of success.

Yeah; but, neither can I prove that unicorns or Santa Claus exists. I don't understand your point.

I quit my all my medications since New Year's or as a unconscious resolution for this year and feel great. Planning to move to Las Vegas with a friend...

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/11/politics/immigrants-shithole-countries-trump/index.html

Then I can give you a list of all the most famous physicists, philosophers, and mathematicians with their IQ right next to it.

This is the first time in my life feeling ashamed for being an American. What Trump said today was something only authoritarian dictators do. Shit lik...

OK, found a really interesting research paper confirming what I suspected: Available here. Relevant references to the bolded text: Jones, G., and M. P...

Rule #2. Whereof one cannot speak things must be shown. Pictures, please.

But what of the Stoics and Cynics? Surely their indifference isn't apathetic yet liberating.

Not sure what to say...

PhysicsForums. But I post the same stuff here as I post there, bar philosophical topics which aren't tolerated too much there. I say high powered beca...

Too much intellectual excitement and joy. One has to moderate those mental masturbatory urges, ya know?

I found him pandering after a while, sorry couldn't make it through the first page you linked. But, I definitely liked his parallel between philosophe...

And... no sleep was had. Gotta refrain from engaging in philosophical shit or high powered intellectual topics at night.

3 AM, Sleep for me to be had.

What trickery is this?

The Buddha should suffice in the picture. Whereof one can not speak things must be shown.

Something to envy in our society.

Ah, but how does one prevent the depression? It would seem there are countless ways of trying to get out of it once depressed; but little education or...

Since we're sharing photos and now even videos of beating Fred for being a good dog, I thought I'd share a pic from my room. Enjoy. Wires everywhere I...

Surely, a reductio ad absurdum doesn't need to be pointed out?

Please do go on.

I would say that Plato was first and foremost against incompetence, which Aristotle expanded on or left off where Plato stopped, and philosophers have...

Even upon superficially reading The Bell Curve, one can draw some correlation between higher productivity and intelligence among the population in the...

Fred! You kinda sound like Tom Hanks.

If somebody writes a book about the science of irrational thoughts, beliefs, and behavior, I'll buy it.

That quip... Heh. What a wonderful day in this neighborhood.

I would like to better understand the relationship between cognitive distortions and beliefs in isolation or et ceteris paribus. Meaning, if psycholog...

Thanks for the paper. I'll try and review it in my overabundance of spare time.

Here's the Wikipedia definition:

I started a thread listed below. Let me know what you think. It's 3 AM and I should be heading to sleep. Night. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discuss...

Good question. What's your take on the matter? I think I might have to polish this up before starting a thread. Still reading the Shestov.

In other words, why is there a conceptual gap in the rationale of the classical economist when confronted with their economic theory and the future ah...

Why does that even require explaining, is my point? Isn't it intuitively obvious or am I missing something in their rationale?

Yeah; but, that's a sort of cognitive distortion if we're going to be strictly logical about this. I mean, how does one know if they have 'enough ener...

Hanover, the only conservative around won't come around to the 'Arguing with economics.' thread I started. Boooo!

Fine, then. Allow me to use that term in a different context. How do you understand a term that cannot be quantified, meaning that which is 'psycholog...