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I can relate. I have no idea how I would be like without my meds. It's an appealing thought to get off the meds and live about without them; but, gett...

He came close to losing his mind and suicide while in Norway, supposedly relaxing and thinking about philosophy. That's what going against Proposition...

I didn't know calling Wittgenstein as a 'saint' could be interpreted as offensive. I stand corrected.

Of that I am aware of. I just used the term figuratively.

Good point in the second link. Wittgenstein wasn't a saint but sure comes damm close.

Yeah, can't beat homeostasis... However, there just might be the need to cycle medications over time. In my case, the Zyprexa was working too well, so...

Yes, although I haven't done research, I would think a form of therapy for them would be in the art of ethics? Perhaps I see myself working with inmat...

How does one 'return' to mental health? It seems like a statement worth exploring in how it derives its meaning. Perhaps I should amend what I have st...

I know of many drugs and have researched their efficacy. They don't hold up to some older medications, like Nardil (Penelzine) or Parnate (Tranylcypro...

Yes, I agree that conflating the two isn't wise. Perhaps, it can be argued that immoral and unethical behavior goes against what our conscience would ...

Surely, crime, murder, and other such acts are a sickness of the society in which one resides. Eric Fromm wrote about this in great detail. I really s...

I'm here. Let me meditate on what you said and see if I can muster anything up.

I would like to point out that most of the predominant Western ethical schools of thought originated after Socrates's death and with Aristotle's virtu...

Part of what my first post is implying is that there need not be a 'perfectly justified' or 'absolute truth' in practicing ethics. There can be differ...

That's an interesting point. I think there is certainly a tendency to overprescribe medications like SSRI's ADHD stimulant medication and even antipsy...

Hmm, guess no takers then. I thought it was an edifying thought that what is ethical can be thought to be conducive to a sound and healthy mind?

Yeah, well people are becoming more prone to poor mental health due to various factors that living in modern day society entails. So, perhaps if there...

Aristotle thought differently. He describes attaining a state of eudaimonia, which would seem to be a state of clear and sound mind. There are countle...

Be vehwre vehwre quiet. It's duckwrabbit season.

I have a special place with some philosophers who take their teachings seriously, who are sincere and honest. So, this leaves me with a couple of prom...

I did like the “Tao Te Ching” – Lao Tzu poem though.

I never understood poetry outside of English class lessons analyzing them. I feel like I'm missing out on something but have difficulty in understandi...

An interesting question would be of the sort, can the conceptual schema of a lion be able to incorporate elements of human grammar or is that not poss...

Ah, nvm.

Then how do you go about that if lions could speak we would not understand them? I don't entirely understand that statement or sentence when confronte...

Yeah, but what about qualia? I'm just saying that the notion of a private language or private pain is still being brought up to this day with the ment...

Yeah but what about p-zombies and Searls Chinese room argument?

Meaning is self generated. Posing the question in terms of life endowing meaning to oneself is a categorical error that I see too often to address eve...

Perhaps, it is too much to demand from a person that they are full of compassion and self-love to be able to apply the golden rule effectively? After ...

Yeah, there's that cultural relativism. Yet, the golden rule or the more refined version of it being Rawl's veil of ignorance still is valid given any...

It's troubling when there's nobody around to enforce the rules of good conduct. However, I expect banishment from the society to be in general the mos...

It's interesting to note how some tribes or primitive societies go about the whole ordeal. I'm on my cell and don't have the papers but it would seem ...

Yeah, just the logical follow-up. The quite depressing view though. In part inspired by Harry Frankfurt's, The Reasons of Love.

It's interesting watching the fad move from Bitcoin to Litecoin. Wonder where the herd is headed next, and who's the piper setting the tune?

Yeah, I thought that was an important point worth mentioning.

My whole point with the thread is that we often treat ourselves worse than how we would treat a friend in a similar situation. Here's an example: I go...

No, I'm saying that a narcissist is not concerned with treating people as well as themselves, so the saying has no bearing on their attitude to other ...

My impression is that love for one's self-has to come before being able to apply the golden rule in its true form or effectively. No?

I'm not entirely sure about that. I've read that if you have a predisposition for psychosis or schizophrenia, then it could launch you into a full-blo...

Keep in mind that I was at the time quite a depressed and anxious individual. So, if you are experiencing depression or are anxious, then it would be ...

Too long. Time gets distorted on such drugs. But objectively around 5 hours.

Heh, no difference from mushrooms from every report I've read on it. Anyway, been there done that, not for me.

4-AcO-DMT, psilacetin. A prodrug. As effective and easier to obtain for me.

Just one. Had a psychotic episode on it. Not for everyone. Read about set and setting if your going to try it.

IDK, just feel that I have to be at a high level of mental exertion to understand what I'm reading most of the time, otherwise my eyes glaze over and ...

P.M.S. Hacker, Wittgenstein's Place In Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy. This book is intense.

Matter of taste, I guess.

I'm not concerned deeply with it, due to most of the pee-pee and poopy jokes happening in the shoutbox as a moderator mentioned already. I guess I'm v...

My only concern is with sexual jokes and innuendo's given that the audience can be composed of teenagers, kids, and adolescents. I mean, what kind of ...

I've read that Solaris can be better understood if one assumes the planet to be the 'self'. One of my favorite films.