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Dewey once said that we only think when confronted with problems.

Can you back this claim up?

Only this one.

Yeah, it's all there, ehh. Free will? *Becomes violently existential*

Nah, your ahead of the game. I doubt I'd have the godlike courage or ability to look inwards. Maybe it crystalized or blinked.

https://i.imgur.com/Y6oLZhc.jpg

I highly doubt that.

Are you sure about that? Because the union was never perfected to start with. So, something must have had to ontologically happen to the All-Seeing-Ey...

Yep, Project Insight reveals this.

Please entertain them for me. Thanks.

Well, I'm not familiar with the philosopher. Is it Camus? I only read his la peste.

Spinoza helps ground things if you need reorientation.

The determinism is 99%...(9) And there is no "center" of the universe, so what happens anywhere in it happens in other dimensions. I don't quite under...

Then, can you tell me what is all this jazz about the relationship between suicide and philosophy?

Isn't that the very insanity that drove some madman to burn down the Alexandria library? Try to treat as an analogy?

How bad was it?

Then, again I prod you to answer just how much of suicide is environmental or plain mental illness?

Then you are an honorable person. I've seen the work that you did on your webpage, and ask you very humbly what makes you tick?

I think you need to read it again...

Thanks, as corny as this sounds, I needed to hear that. And it shouldn't be; but, do you think these things can be taught? (Now I sound like @"Banno")

Fuck that shit. That's like saying everyone ultimately has the capacity of suicide, which may be true; but, the act itself is not totally independent ...

I could be wrong for all I know. Then how does causation work here, with directionalities??

Yeah, and that's why I can't read Chomsky anymore. His analysis is also short-sighted (or not) about US domestic affairs. It's all too gloomy in my mi...

There are so many responses I'm anticipating; but, the burning question is why can't our own kids fix the problems we created.

No, not in some selfish or egotistical sense. Just how it works, so I can spot people who exploit it. I'm paranoid that way...

Easy does it, dude. I just smoked a cig, do what makes you OK, as long as law-abiding.

Is that real?

Seems like Stoicism really is a fad nowadays. I'll take Stoic apatheia or equanimity over ecstatic bliss, drugs, or other ego-tripping ideals.

Yes, as he may as well speak for himself.

How do you do that?

I see abstract thought combined with rudamentary logic as the highest expression of creativity. Don't ask me why, as you need to figure that out.

Wrong on two counts. Emotion comes first. Every profession works for...society

More than anything, from my psychoanalysis of Schopenhauer (and Nietzsche too), is that they wanted empathy to dominate human affairs. And it does. We...

Try and have some fun if boredom is really that excruciating.

Wow, that's quite a mouthful. My attention span will have to be worked on to focus on the gist of your philosophy.

How much of Confucianism is in your philosophy? Or major influences?

Homeostasis is an option, as long as there is a desire to maintain it?

The Eye of Providence can see through anything and everything.

It is fucking scary. (denial) Look, take it easy, I think you are pushing yourself too hard (projecting). But, the sun is still shining, we're advocat...

Haha, my own addiction feeds on itself, as you can see... Is this just a simple matter of death anxiety?

Yes, the next thought in my mind is an addiction, by association. Why is stimulation so addicting?

Well, Red Skull and Captain America took the same drugs, so maybe they were having raves together or something?

Holy shit is this a funny thread! A pissing contest over a no true Strawman.

:lol:

That's one answer, what's the other?

Ok, no more hints after this one. When a union is perfected it becomes complete...

Wallowsome.

I don't necessarily disagree here but wonder what makes you say that that is not the case? More like the inverse. Pertaining to any conscious entity I...

Dreams are just an example here if it's really that hard to comprehend. Hmmm, it seems to me that to emulate the ancestor universe would be pointless,...