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Fine, but you might as well tell a person they need to see the doctor over a common cold, you know?

Why the fuck are people telling @"Andrew4Handle" that he needs to see a therapist?

Well, I'm no sex psychologist; but, in simple terms, there's a great deal of guilt associated with sexual activity and especially masturbation from th...

In a nutshell, fall in love without the unconscious desire to have sex. I'm nearing 30, and have never had sex. Eventually, you grow out of the super ...

It's a matter of taste actually. If you prefer your marshmellow now, then now is a good time to have it. Human capital, on the other hand, takes time ...

Communism?

Personally, I think it was a term popularized by the religious fanatics. Smith just went along with it.

Swany, I can't go back. It fundamentally altered me.

Talking about Adam Smith, it's quite funny that China turned out to be the very type of economy he was criticizing. A mercantilist superpower, though ...

Wallows quietly.

Degenerate.

It must be tiring to constantly point out the no true Scotsman fallacy towards China. Fascism just doesn't sound right in my mind, at least not yet.

No, it's a term baptized by Adam Smith, although he never would have imagined that it would be the grand signifier of his neo-classical economic theor...

Well, under the guise of rationality, why go out of one's sphere of interest? Let the economy take care of the rest of the boats, or not...

But but the invisible hand does wonderous things for us. Why shalt one bite it?

But but my liberal arts degree told me that ethics is good and the tragedy of the commons is bad. What went wrong here?

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Business is up, time to make dough. :cool:

She moved away, somewhere I am unable to get to. But, I'm slowly churning through everything, and need some rest.

Because the love I experienced/felt/hallucinated/dreamed of was so real that it makes me want to either die (something she told me that would allow us...

This topic has been bittersweet to me. At once I agree with ol Schopenhauer and at the same time want to disagree. Banno's comment is elucidating, in ...

Back on Earth.

Philosophy of Logics by Susan Haack With Naming and Necessity and Reference and Existence on the way...

That can't be true, can it?

OK, *goes and wallows*.

Can we disable pictures in PM? I'm honestly afraid of getting a PM with some snuff/gore/etc. The internet, you know...

Well, I've been adding @"Baden" to the conversations in PM of a particular user who has been PM'ing me. Point is, that it can't really be abused since...

How so? What's the trait or constant wrt. to the beauty that allows us to appreciate art over many generations. See what I'm trying to do is discern h...

Very wallowsome.

I loled.

Sure, I can. But, I don't want to sit next to him on my flight to Hawaii.

Maybe you didn't get the reference... Are you from the US? Southern states perhaps?

Are you on crack?

Then why lynch journalists or at least tacitly approve of such an action/state of affairs?

I don't know. Should we tolerate the intolerant?

Political gain, eh? How about being a concerned citizen? Shit is wild.

So, then how do you ground the concept of beauty? What's the axiology here? To say something is priceless, means what?

There's a performative contradiction here. If our aesthetic sense of appreciation of art has been steady for some 1000+ years, then how do you explain...

So, the swastica is really beautiful to most blokes still nowadays?

I think I'm focusing on that question at least with the OP. Though I'm always ready to talk about the persistence of aesthetic abstractions that is ma...

That's beautiful. Thank you.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Zucc thought himself as Xenu from Scientology.

I see no way around it. Rawls' veil of ignorance (ideal standard of ethical decision making in my opinion) requires one to imagine their welfare other...

You still need that money you asked from me in PM, herr doktor?

I feel sorry for the mods.

So, I was under the impression that pride (for males at least) manifests in rather peculiar ways. Ahem... Anyway, I don't think you're really being si...

So, what kind of utterances or behavior do you surmise as being worthy of a person who experiences pride?

And how does that related to "pride" as a human construct?

In what manner are they objective?

Yeah, so once again I can almost hear you say that there's no objective quality to the concept of pride. Is that right?