Shawn

In regards to my previous post, I just read yesterday about a transgender teenager being stabbed to the death by a teenage male in the groin area who ...

But, what if you were transgender or gay? Would that detract from what you are saying as a 'real man'? It all seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy, n...

Yes, that seems to be a problem. Do you see some correlation between some pent-up issue related to masculinity and acts of violence? Criminals do it a...

Hence the need to express one's own masculinity. But, philosophers are above these silly interactions based on a unknown unknown or unknown known for ...

It might take an evolutionary biologist approval for making me agree with the above. I don't think everyone is driven by primitive instincts or levels...

Yeah, and the FBI requires a little high IQ than the general pop (at least a Masters or PhD along with 2 foreign languages under your belt).

Ehh, that test was 2-3 minutes worth of time. I highly doubt they were comprehensive enough to elucidate our true levels of neuroticism.

They score pretty high on EQ, though. (Emotional intelligence)

I wonder if it's ego driven (justifying certain beliefs even if playing devil's advocate) or in the more pure and noble case rather the pursuit of wis...

This pure comedy. I do recall some funny pictures of you on bodies of professional bodybuilders. Philosophy gives me sanity, take that away from me, a...

Maybe I need to check my hormone levels then? :D

Yeah, but there are some things that symbolize being 'masculine'. Being a bodybuilder with high testosterone levels, or owning a large car, yacht, gun...

I may have used the wrong word. What would you count them as? Social-constructs? Is there really a difference between expressing a belief masked as a ...

This is interesting. Worth a read, really. Straight from what the police think about gun control: https://www.policeone.com/Gun-Legislation-Law-Enforc...

Those that would, would only do so on ideological grounds. So, we can leave them out of the discussion. 8-)

I like the phrase because it extends meaning out of the context where it is derived from. It's a statement made when the meaning derived from some obj...

Well, in an inter-subjective world where meanings are derived from one's position or context within society, expressing and justifying beliefs is a ne...

I just like it. That's a bedrock belief of mine. The rest are rationalizations.

What do you mean by that? I wonder? Same here. I don't give two shits about what other people think, so hence my first question to you... Could you be...

It can't be helped. The man is what Jesus was to religion in philosophy.

Cringes some more. Can we have nice pictures of the view from your window, unless you're like me and live in your mom's basement?

Cringes. :s

Speak for yourself!

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one ought to remain silent.

What about you?

I studied economics and dropped out. Too many needy people in this world. I might go back though, as I also have a mouth that needs feeding.

Yeah, maybe he was wrong about human nature.

The cessation of suffering is still as true today as it was when Buddha was still alive. Why haven't we learned anything is, well, sad.

You can now read minds or souls of people. Pass the pipe.

How do you measure that? With a ruler?

What does this even mean?

And here some my inner Wittgenstein: The world is the totality of facts not 'I, me, and my and your propositional attitudes; but, rather our propositi...

The highly appealing aspect of these 'truisms' is that they're observer independent. Meaning, that they have some universal aspect to where they deriv...

You, me, but, how about us and 'we'?

I don't know.

The egocentrism is high in this one.

One thing that has perplexed my mind is the relationship between logic and mathematics. I've read a decent amount on the topic and consider myself a P...

It's a p-attitude. If there's factual evidence then it's a proposition motivated by a p-attitude.

Is Moviepass any good? Considering getting it just for the next Blade Runner.

I'm kinda a flatfoot, so I'll not post pics of my feet.

https://bdn-data.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2012/06/Alan_Turing_photo.jpg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umc9ezAyJv0 Yeah, it's no doubt Alan Turin...

The guy was a little off the norm; but, it's hard to find something that would be off-putting about the man.

Edison? Pfft, what about Nicola Tesla? The man was supremely brilliant.

I always thought the guy in that scene looks like Alan Turing. Was that possibly intentional?

One way to ace a test.

Asperger's.

Blade Runner 2049 coming out soon. Kinda excited.

Can cats be herded?

I was just as surprised with that measure too. Boggles the mind.

Your score for openness was high, at 95%. Your score for conscientiousness was low, at 45%. Your score for Extraversion was low, at 40%. Your score fo...