Sometimes I eat fish, thinking it doesn't suffer, and to an extent, chicken. Kinda feel also sorry for cows. But, lately I was such a ****ing hypocrit...
Yes, well I see the animal, a pig, as treated really badly. It bothers me how people enjoy its presence but are willing to eat it. This ignorance of t...
Yes, it's possible to do so; but, would it not be easier to map the logical operators for the possible states in computability they could exist in - i...
The first effect is the attitude of dropping one's concern over controlling things out of one's control. If it hasn't been pointed out, that requires ...
Aren't you alluding instead to "desire"? I mean, it's written on the wall that everyone desires, right? Aristotle with his virtue ethics actually desc...
Hello, nice to see a computer scientist on the forum. Would you care to comment on some of my thoughts about computing in this thread? https://thephil...
Regarding which, I think that the affect stoic teaching has on one's behavior is accurately, even in ancient times, one of a dispassionate stance, whi...
Thanks for backing me up here; but, my intent was to point at the secondary effect, or a real 'affect' stoicism engenders; that of one becoming calm a...
Interesting. I haven't done a detailed study of Frege, the father of logicism, but with what you said in mind he makes a lot more sense. If the purpos...
A while ago, I don't recall if this was on the old PF, and I have a knack for facts; but, your sister or one of your family members works or worked at...
Yes, this can be said about the stoic practice of negative visualization. I have practiced it quite a lot, which had led me to apathy. The stoic conce...
Well, I've asked this many times before; but, the hippies got some of this right, yet veered off into hedonism, as a virtue. It then sabotaged anythin...
Yes, well, I guess if one sifts the chaff for the hay, then the cynics had something to say, as would the people you linked. The rest just want drugs ...
As others have said, it seems a little too tortuous to do that. A drill sergeant couldn't motivate me to work out. I agree with the whole online ident...
Well, most stoics believed in the practice of stoic logic, much of which has been lost to history. To the first, I believe that practicing indifferenc...
Well if you're interested in my take on pop-psychology, I think that stoicism has appealed to many as a refuge where they can regenerate or escape fro...
It's important to note that the first investors of bitcoin were the people who mined the easy to mine bitcoin. All you could expect from them and ever...
It seems important to add this HBO documentary about scientology, and there are plenty of others like it. I'm sure you will enjoy it. I mean, hey, its...
Sorry for dumping this in this fabulous thread; but, from a secret tape I heard Tom Cruises' deepest regret was not being picked for the role in Ameri...
No, let's go even further and imagine, as Hollywood does, that in the possible future where women want his DNA in themselves they just might reach out...
Do you know, and there is a secret about scientologists... Tom Cruise wants to live out there in space with Xenu, their god-figure. He even sequenced ...
I'd like to add to this the proverbial British saying that my home is my castle. I don't think there could be many places one could call home. It seem...
It seems like psychologists, instead of philosophers, are the go-to for the majority of whatever you want to call it, people. I once heard a priest ta...
Yes, a pig video is in order. This video characterizes the mama pig needing food herself. The kunekun piglets desire milk; but, the mama pig needs to ...
I take it as analytic philosophers recognizing that the mind-body problem is not one which philosophy should grapple with anymore, and is best left to...
I don't think the practice of philosophy nowadays is some sort of handmaiden or blacksmith for the sciences and fields it has created, as philosophy h...
Yes, well... The Christian and philosophical concept of 'purity' seems to be at play in this topic, as you say. I also think that from the philosophic...
I've always been a proponent of homeschooling, which is something popular in the US. There are different theories of how schooling should work. I'll l...
Then quite possibly I assumed that those with the highest degree of innocence, or the understanding thereof, would lead to some better understanding o...
So, what I can infer from the posts by other members and yourself is that conservatives went too far? From what I understand its not the conservatives...
Yes, well it was a book written, with the intent to put philosophy in the right category of thought, as I understand it. From what I gather the name a...
I'm quite interested in your take on what psychodynamics is about. It seem like a field with a higher difficulty rating than Jung or Freud with simple...
I'm really not interested in continuing this. If you were offended by my comment about the halting problem, then I'm sorry about how you felt about it...
No, you telling me at this point to simply 'shut up' won't happen, sorry. Yeah, so its a discussion forum, so if you don't like the thread, then there...
Then, I suppose there's no point in continuing this thread as is; but, if anyone wants to address Wittgenstein's disregard of Godels Incompleteness Th...
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