Shawn

I really need a benzo now. Economic turmoil, depression and anxiety gonna be the new norm, suicide rates sky high. Mother of God.

I really need a benzo right about now.

Nope. It's unprecedented by the look of the unemployment rate in the US hovering around 13 percent! But, in economic terms we are experiencing the mos...

Fine.

One could say he had foreknowledge on the issue...? Really doesn't make sense that Italy got decimated and Pakistan, Russia, and India just entirely d...

How did India avoid this debacle entirely? I have my paranoid suspicions; but, it doesn't really make sense that all developed nations got this diseas...

13 percent unemployment rate, people. That's pretty effin scary.

If you want my personal opinion, philosophy has experienced a fundamental shift as of lately. It seems to me that women have populated the field much ...

I think, despite the law of large numbers, one can say that there is something about the differences between feminist ethics, and morally obligated th...

Yes, well. I did provide a small study to this matter. So, my concern wasn't with making a nation look bad or their policies towards the educational e...

Can you answer the question as to why my thread about that topic got deleted?

Wow, that sounded really bad. Sorry. Let me reiterate. I started a thread asking why young students from Israel go to holocaust camps as an educationa...

Fuckit, I'm going back to my old drug habit.

I'm having some pretty heavy dreams. I think I'm losing it.

@"Noble Dust" please tell me how to protect my soul from being harvested, is that what the Shoggoth are, harvesters?

There is something to it.

50 year treaty nobody violates, 5th largest continent, one remote station, never mentioned on the news and batshit secretive... What's going on in the...

Yes. But, in regards to what exactly?

People tend to act or expect as if it is...

@"unenlightened", please help us out here... Say more...

A comparison of what to what? To the first question. I do not know. To the second, completeness or unity in understanding I suppose.

:point: @"Hanover", will you take the gauntlet?

Now that I think about it, the term doesn't make much sense. I think, the term "reintegration" or "integration" is more apt here to say. Why not? This...

The pig is eating.

What makes you say that?

Read my last post.

Not really. Every game is inherently deterministic. Reality seems to have an element of non-determinism in it.

You can't exclude metaphysics from phenomenology, or can you...? How?

And, the converse too! Hence, what do you mean by this, as I feel it's an important point. Isn't this a tad bit sado-masochistic? I don't see the poin...

It seems that Popper was staunchly against logical positivism without the anti-metaphysical attitude against it. I want to understand why metaphysics ...

Please elaborate.

But, given that the game is deterministic, that's a plausible outcome for chess, if white doesn't have a natural advantage over black, yes?

Conflating the two is the issue, no? How can this be true? Are you saying the are social instinct overrides the desire to survive. Yes, this seems to ...

Something about it feels very Kantian in my view. I don't know how else to put it.

Unfortunately, yes. It is a sad state of the world to point out the sadness of most inhabitants, be it a burning fawn in the forest, to a starving chi...

Well, a good starting point is asking as an addict, why does one think they need it? Some insight needed I suppose?

In terms of living a more stable and fulfilling life I treat the difference between wants and needs as almost imperative. Is this Kantian in nature? I...

And, that seems to be a big issue in my view. To take two diametrically opposing things and then mix up their importance is an issue because, well... ...

But, one can always realize that they have their needs met by asking such questions as, 'What more do I want?' Yes?

Confusion of wants with needs along with shifting ones priority from an unmet need to a want. Shit happens all the time I suppose. Wishful thinking et...

I think the correct response is to treat the issue with moderation. Meaning that one will always want things, but as to remain realistic as to never e...

Think about it this way... If my desire for more is confused with a need, then isn't that some form of trapping oneself in a manner of speech? Or even...

Are you saying that we strive for more because it is what we want? Isn't that depressingly circular?

But, the question itself contains the answer! Isn't that awesome? If one asks, why do I want more, then doesn't that indicate that one has all their n...

How does one counter the need for more wants, when all one's needs have been fulfilled and satisfied?

It's a stipulative term to say that someone wants something, is it not? I am somewhat confused about the need for more, when it is apparent that it's ...

I think, what you're really saying is that preferences dictate the attainment of needs. Is that correct? If so, then I don't believe that we are all c...

Yes, wanting, what makes people want more?

And, philosophy!

Yeah, they are a shelter; but, needs have to get done first, no?