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No, he was banned. But, as far as actual death, I suspect that's far from the truth. I hope he is happier somewhere else to even back at academia writ...

R.I.P StreetlightX

Only speak well of the dead.

Hey old fart! I always thought you were younger!

There is no qualifier for existential questions.

One has aspirations.

She's a pig that @"T Clark" shared. She had a hard life. I hope he can update with a new picture of Charlotte soon.

I'm here just to show some pig pictures. That's all I care about nowadays. My avatar is of a pig called Charlotte.

Sometimes a pig can make you feel a certain way...

Yes, a pig visits a psychologist. I can't finish it, can someone help me out here?

I set myself up for failure too often to be happy.

Hanover, don't die!

Yes, well put. Wouldn't it be even easier to postulate that because Schopenhauer derived his pessimism from the central concept of impermanence and de...

Do you agree that Santa Claus exists as a concept?

There's not much hope to entertain when your pessimistic about things. That's just my experience with pessimism.

I'm trying to delineate between typical depressive pessimism and philosophical pessimism. My own take on the matter is that philosophical pessimism ca...

Yes, well, why would anyone want to be a pessimist?

I guess this way of framing the issue is the following: How does one adopt the matureness of philosophical pessimism without falling for the emotional...

Yes, where are we to demarcate between philosophical pessimism, which isn't a reflexive attitude, or disposition and the generic pessimism of resignat...

It thus, seems to be an attitude that arises based upon past experiences, no? Some people believe that pessimism is a more realistic view of life, and...

I have an interesting question to raise. Namely, do you think philosophical pessimism is an attitude or disposition towards the world? How does it ari...

So, according to what your saying, pessimism is a reflexive response to adversity?

Please update us with her recent picture. It's easy to make a pig depressed, so I hope she isn't struggling with it.

@"praxis" can you draw an allegorical picture of a pig looking at a cross? I have some other interesting artistic ideas of a pig sitting on a Freudian...

Why would that be anything untenable if that is what we mean when we say "Santa Claus exists". Furthermore, Santa routinely escapes his description re...

@"T Clark" please update us on Charlotte. She seems to be a little sleepy in the picture but I'm sure she's doing just fine.

I agree, it seems like a travesty over what's happening to pigs around the world. But, Charlotte is a nice reminder of the sadness and brute suffering...

I do believe you are right about the incongruence between social and emotional contexts; but, I think the issue isn't overdetermined by those factors.

I believe that every behavior can be interpreted as ethical but we aren't bound to be ethical at all times. Unless, they're in the military or somethi...

Actually, pragmatism and utilitarianism are very consequentialist, so I don't see how else to asses the moral worth of an action rather than after the...

She's humble. That's all I can discern from her in the picture.

But, nothing better could have been created, so why would he suffer from low self-esteem?

In other words the immediacy of ethics in every day is what is burdensome on making these decisions and freely talking about it? I think, I would tend...

It rare for me to do this but I hope in faith that @"Hanover" would like to address this. What I would say from my side would be something like, we wo...

I don't think the field of ethics is, to say, exploited; but it certainly can be as in the case of virtue signaling in consumer behavior. All these ad...

I'm sorry for asking you so many times. But, why must God be atheist?

Shh, don't talk about GRU.

Otherwise the previous comment was with regard to designating who you are as a unit in our social sphere that is the Internet or socio-economic realit...

I think efficiency in decision making is called utility or intelligence. It's hard to classify someone as intelligent nowadays without metrics swarmin...

@"180 Proof" kinda explained it. But, yes, we're all taxed on what's the most efficient outcome and seem to believe that rational self interest is pos...

Yes. I believe your right about this. In my opinion, what matters most are volitions such as a desire to do good. It goes without saying that conseque...

Anyway people seem to enjoy talking about animals (apparently with me being some kind of pig fan with all my pictures). If it bothers you, I'll tread ...

I've never heard of such a rule. Did you just make that up?

Pig love: https://media.tenor.com/LzDYC8FOeyQAAAAM/friday-its.gif

Strange reason to starve a pig. Spare the pig and just pet it.

I believe that this doesn't follow. I mean, homo sapiens has done well even without conceptual frameworks allowing a person to make decisions based of...

I'd just like to point out that if the brain can have dreams that are often mistaken as reality, then it doesn't seem farfetched that the brain is a v...

Yeah yeah yeah, food and all that. Satisfy yourself by adopting a pig, it's really fun to be with a pig.

Happy pig: https://media.tenor.com/3Jl2oFM2eCsAAAAM/pig-pigs.gif

Hell pig? A pig is a humble animal.