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I think it's an inherent trait of mankind to want war. Anyone else would call me a Nazi due to their beliefs as a result of social conditioning. As we...

Here's a start, we've all been made into pacifist pussies by social conditioning? How's that?

But, yeah, I'm tired of pissing contests. Can we just resolve the issue by force?

Does there have to be a reason? Quantum mechanics makes the Principle of Sufficient Reason redundant.

I'm ready to join a fight club. Anyone care to invite me?

No arguments with that.

The splendors of capitalism. If companies could they'd put heroin in soft drinks along with cocaine and methamphetamine. Oh the margins!

Been there done that. Not going back. And to think that's this is all for the sake of college. Talk about insanity.

Yay, I think I've found a way to treat my ADD. Has anyone heard of pregnenolone? It basically cancels out the negative effects of THC on cognition and...

Sorry, I was dreaming of living on my own island where I am king of nothing. The picture is a painting by David Hockney called A Bigger Splash. I like...

Let the pissing contest commence!

I posted as a remark to the following: and, My suggestion is that you're taking the rules of entailment under too strict an understanding for it to ma...

Well, omniscience should not be grounds to discredit the epistemic closure principle. So, yeah, do you need certainty in a non-formalized system to ar...

More like, Posty McEconomist. But, if we can invent a near infallible central manager, such as some superintelligent AI, then sure, maybe then communi...

Yeah, and that's the point of the Tractatus. Whereof one cannot speak (say epiphenomena, ethics, love, traits, qualities, even qualia) thereof things ...

What do you mean by that? Yes, the relation of things in logical space gives rise to facts, which is only made possible by a consciouss observer or ev...

Philosophy joke of the day: Communism.

I tend to view this question in terms of a Tractarian ontology of facts, not things. Namely, that information is the description of the arrangements o...

Christ, Blade Runner 2049 was amazing. I know what I'm going to use my MoivePass for these coming weeks. Spoiler: At the end of the movie you realize ...

In case anyone is interested I posted something along the lines of what has been mentioned here over at PhysicsForums. Really great people there too.

I joined PF after he was banned. But, I read some of his posts. I can't recall any specific details as my memory extending from a dialectical method n...

If I remember correctly, he was a professor and grad student from an ivy league school, Princeton if I'm not mistaken. Just reading his posts you knew...

Yeah, *grits teeth*, will see what @Benkei says.

Thanks, will see what I can do or organize.

On a serious note, I think it's worth investing to bring back the content of that forum back online. I'm not suggesting we revive the old PF, just tha...

It's a shame that you couldn't import all the discussions of the old PF and feed it some machine learning software with deep neural nets to have a cyb...

Good 'ol Ford is in it. But, it really is propaganda. Just entertaining propaganda. ;)

Gonna see Blade Runner 2049 on Saturday, the reviews look like it's a hit.

A couple is being robbed. The wife asks the husband, 'Can he be reasoned with?' The robber is a philosopher.

Yeah, as long as you don't burst my bubble everything is fine and will be fine.

I don't understand, are you contradicting yourself or just implying that he could have done more violence if he only had more time to do so?

Well, no guns on Mars would be a good and reasonable start.

That seems like red herring to me. The concern with introducing stricter gun laws would be to curb violence in general from guns, the less impulsive t...

I honestly thought that would be the tipping point for gun control measures. It either seems that we have grown accustomed to these events. Either tha...

Here is a quote that may have saved the world, during the Cuban missile crisis. It really touched me and struck a chord. In some manner, it changed my...

I feel the influence of Jung here. I do agree that images are worth more than what words can say, therefore are we doomed to be led towards idealized ...

Yeah, but we already know how that ends up. Jog your mind back to 1939. Fascinating and horrible times. *On a side note, this is why Europe is conside...

I'm surprised that Europe still thinks gun control will ever take off in the US. One can dream?

Badenland.

I also get the feeling fat Continental philosophy tries to liberate us from the shackles of our evolutionary past. Analytic philosophy is very foundat...

Yeah, that could serve as an example. I get the feeling that people may have not evolved, however they can adapt to an ever changing society.

I think Socrates was a hyper masculine man. Poor Plato, though.

Yeah but how do you know when that trait has been expressed to the required or sufficient and adequate amount or degree. It's almost as though it can ...

How do you know that?

Then what is it? Some unconscious process?

Oh, and to answer your question, I'd say something of the sort of 'logical positivism', 'scientific positivism'...

There seems to be more to it than just an image that can't be realized. Not unlike the concept of self-esteem, there is an image that changes due to t...

You can piggy-back over what modern techno-utopians think about this concept manifest in the form of super-intelligent AI, called the singularity. Or ...

He might as well have been on some powerful adulterants like drugs, sex, and money. I don't know if places like Las Vegas brings out the best or worst...

So, is it a deficiency in some emotion or feeling that causes (predominantly) men the need to express or display their masculinity in such a manner an...