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Moderately. I began reading Schopenhauer and becoming interested in Utilitarianism before I developed any symptoms. Stoicism also was studied intensiv...

Yes, and it was a while ago when diagnosed. I spend time here to keep my sanity in check. Other than that it's a condition one has to accept and live ...

So, what I mean to say is that the epistemological quantifier of mental illnesses is derived from the results one obtains from the drug treatment for ...

Tell me about it. Medication helps though!

In regards to the topic, I think everyone would agree that having a bipolar or schizophrenic or depressed, on medication for those conditions rather t...

Would anyone care to elucidate how the placebo effect can mimic the efficacy of drugs tested in clinical trials? If you read the research papers, ther...

Speaks a lot about the party he's from, and well the population too, unfortunately.

As someone with a CBT background, you should immediately recognize that you're professing a very binary or black and white type of thinking here, wher...

This is why we can't have nice things. Says the psychiatrist to the psychologist and vice versa. One always has to address the placebo effect in this ...

Well, the goose seems to be cooked. Wonder how it gets served by the FBI or other intelligence agencies. Man, I really hope Trump gets served hard. Wh...

So, you're on the side that thinks Trump and Russia are related somehow? What I find surprising is that these ties didn't come out during a vetting pr...

Yeah; but, let us not be naive and assume the money came with no strings attached, from the Russian oligarchy.

The real question is how this guy got elected. I mean, did women cover their ears the whole election cycle and simply forget all the shit this guy spe...

Well, people aren't machines that can be hacked into, although they're prone to subversion tactics such as defaming mud-slinging, etc. (?)

The Russians would have realized early on that tampering with actual votes will lead to little effect. I think their goal of subversion of the masses ...

Well, there is an ounce of regret always present when I think about my current situation. Hard not to feel some regret if you are at least motivated i...

If it makes anyone feel better, I'm trying to go on disability, a process that could take up to a year. Either that or go back to college and accrue m...

Comey went on the Trump chopping block. Good, bad? Thoughts?

There is no mathematical substitute for philosophy. Kripke, 1976, Logic

Yeah, so that's the tinge of solipsism in the Tractatus. It's no big deal if one acknowledges that the world represents logical space, with every pers...

Is it me or does this paragraph of the Investigations sound very Buddhist or Eastern? I put the italicized portion of emphasis.

:D

The political pendulum is swinging violently in the US. Let's see what happens in November.

Sam, what are your thoughts about Wittgenstein's mention of "logical space" in the Tractatus? What does it mean?

I'd like to thank Hanover for being the minority here and still making everyone else feel like the minority.

There are different methods of extracting the weapons grade plutonium from the breeder fuel. I think the most modern method is to use lasers as in som...

Plutonium is made in breeder reactors. Its a man made element last I recall. What's needed before that step is enriched uranium as far as I know. But ...

Not really, because there's nobody to assure destruction with. Possibly, if China and Russia ganged up together and came up with the bright idea of at...

MAD no longer applies nowadays, not to the degree it did in the past with the balance of power between us and the Soviets. We have superiority in almo...

Well, you know, they have the GDP of some banana republic. There's only so much you can do with that much money to go around. Iran has only made so mu...

The problem is that post atomic era, war has become obsolete, which North Korea is finding it hard to accept. How far are they willing to go is the el...

Its been a rather obvious fact of game theory that the more irrational you appear the more rational you actually are in game theory in achieving strat...

Well, my only worry is that when do the NK's really want to strike us? I mean, they're been dreaming about it for a while now already.

That's understandable. I never assumed the US was even capable of defending both Japan and let alone South Korea against someone like China and Russia...

We have some really bright minds on our side. Here's what I think. The US never considered NK a threat, in the past, present, or future. We will alway...

I'll let you figure that out. X-)

Indeed, more people for positions would drive down wages. There's that enlightened self-interest in action again.

Interesting. So what made the Republicans so warm hearted over such a thing and the Democrats acting like Republicans would today?

Sorry to go back on old posts Sam. I think this is a very important point raised here. I like to think of this situation as akin to how a computer ope...

Is this picture of reality, whether true or not, umm, well depressing as it is since I've always held egalitarianism in the highest of esteem. In fact...

It seems I was right in general. Wikipedia helps. But, thank you for the juicy details.

Wasnt that Civil Rights Act only filibustered by some few segregationist Democrats? Furthermore it seems to me that it was Kennedy and Johnson who act...

Well, prima facie we do live in an egalitarian society. It's only that we don't talk about that which is so clear to Hanover. Well, then what is said ...

Why would they think they are superior? Black supremacists? Never heard of any. Maybe the Black Panthers or Malcolm X to some degree? However, Martin ...

It doesn't seem that clear to me. We still have a disproportionate amount of blacks in prison over minor offenses. The list goes on in terms of repres...

But, we live in an egalitarian society. Clearly, it is morally wrong to discriminate against people of various ethnic origins from those of the indige...

No, I'm asking for honesty. I also haven't gotten an answer to my previous question as to why such a sorry state of affairs arises in any homogenous o...

Well, it's not obvious until it is said. Just that not everyone is willing to say it in public. It's taboo after all.

Well then I will pick the US. Now tell me which group is the privileged one?

So, I have a question. What do people become supremacists? I mean, I don't really know of that many black supremacists or Asian supremacists or Indian...