Shawn

I got pretty fat, so not me. :(

I want to someday read Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov in classic Russian. One can dream.

Koszka Tweja jest fajna.

Ja nie poneymaju, szto Ty gaworzysz. Ja Polak. Mi?y kot, :_)

It's a cat!

The real burden or failure of the critic of the current socio-economic policy and system is to provide a better alternative than that what we currentl...

Well, utilitarianism, to the best of my knowledge, was the first ethical theory to appeal to an analytic method, such as a calculus of utility, to det...

What I meant to say is that the ethical judgements and moral sentiments about circumstances or states of affairs originate from a sense of emotivism a...

That's certainly interesting, although I think we might have to derive the calculus when dealing with the coming advent of artificial intelligence. In...

Well, I view utilitarianism as the only ethical theory that appeals to a scientific method to derive ethical judgements and moral decisions. Possibly,...

Well, the most straightforward rebuttal is the fact that we are still not yet at such a point where wants are satisfied in whole and complete if that ...

Therefore emotivism and intuitionalism with the theory of good being culturally dependent and relative, meaning in some sense postmodernism?

Yeah; but, aren't other theories like Rawl's justice as fairness superior because instead of making a single ownership type government like a techno-u...

Big spender I just became a subscriber on Sunday and I bought Max Tegmark's newest book, Life 3.0... Yay.

Dreams are indirect proof of idealism. That's what's fascinating about them.

Cringes uncontrollably.

Yeah, that's true. But, he's pretty much never going to return to his old way of making money, so he better get creative whilst living the high life. ...

That guy has a serious sociopathic attitude towards society, for which he will hopefully pay for with time in jail or be financially ruined. Trump at ...

So, no meds for the delusions? How do you do that? I'm too scared of dropping my mood stabilizer to even consider what you did, although I did not tak...

Kudos, I'm in a similar boat. I was institutionalized by the military for mixed depression and anxiety; but, later came to terms with the diagnosis of...

I think, going on disability for mental issues is in large part an issue arising from a sense of ineptitude or incompetence. Mainly depression I would...

Then, just off the cuff, do priests or monks 'work'? As I think there's some gap in understanding between us about what constitutes a 'working man or ...

Ok, that makes sense. I was afraid you might go all right-wing on me and say that it would be better to kill myself as to not be a drag on others arou...

So, being eligible for being on disability makes me weak or that staying on disability and preferring to do nothing would make me weak?

Great, now I'm a client. How much do I owe you two? >:O

What's the motivation in making this statement? I've always resented that social Darwinian attitude professed by the right, in the U.S.

Thanks for the advice. I'm already on food stamps, and I believe I've applied for housing in my area. I also have Medicare or Medicaid (whatever cover...

Perhaps we've reached an impasse; but, isn't the practice of doing philosophy a form of therapy?

I'm surprised you hold such prejudice against philosophy. Coming from someone who admires Wittgenstein's therapeutic philosophy. Speaking for myself, ...

Then perhaps fields such a psychiatry and psychology need some serious rewriting in terms of viewing the depressed as dysfunctional misfits due to mal...

While I agree that philosophy does require some sense of sensitive mind and introspective mind, it certainly isn't a sine qua non to practice philosop...

I fail to see how qualitative value statements like 'better' or 'worse' contribute to understanding the POV of a depressed individual. I would say tha...

What makes you say that? I can speak from personal experience and assert that a lot of philosophy manifests from a feeling of existential angst or des...

We won't live to see the devastating effects of climate change, combined with the runaway effect that could be entailed by methane release. In most li...

What is known is that it will be a factor that accelerates climate change. I haven't read the study; but, there's also methane hydrates being released...

*sighs of relief*

I don't know where you got that idea. I meant to say that I'm in no place to offer other people work if I can't d any myself.

One can fantasize, while on disability.

It's just that my quantitative understanding of 'work' has changed dramatically. It's really hard to return to a minimum wage job after seeing the gro...

Just for that matter, I work for a guy who makes 200k USD a month selling SARM's and etizolam online. So, my view of work has dramatically changed sin...

I was afraid you would say that. I can't say that that is true. Time will decide.

It may; but, I haven't lived continuously in Poland for almost a decade. I don't know how that might affect my ability to establish residency in other...

Yeah, but I'm afraid the truth is I don't want to work. *gasps*

Can a preeminently apply for benefits if I have such a status? I mean, I'm pretty sure official documents from the US of A would suffice or is this pl...

Well, I have dual-citizenship with Poland, which is part of the EU and thus what would remain is to apply for residency in another EU nation to become...

I had a strange dream where Hanover sent me a birthday present of 3k. Can you believe it, Hanover sending me a royal present of 3 quid? Who comes up w...

Logical positivism is the birth child of Spinoza's substance monism and Leibnitz' monads.

Jesus. Y'all need Jesus in yer lives.

Congratulations. Have a great time.

If you assume that wavefunction is real and that it occupies an infinite manifold Hilbert space, then in some sense QM becomes or at least seems to be...