praxis

I don’t know what you mean by state intervention or a large scale reset. We were last talking about a mixed economy, as I recall.

No, this is wrong, for the very obvious reason that the relationship between cause and effect is meaningless without value and purpose. One thing does...

It doesn’t eliminate the threat. It helps to stabilize, as I mentioned, and cushion downturns.

The Great Depression ring a bell?

History indicates that it tends to be efficient but not necessarily fit. The inherent instability can be stabilized with a mixed economy.

I seriously don’t know if I can believe that at this point. What is the inconsistency? I asked you before what the error was and you failed to point i...

I knew that you knew what I meant with the Sisyphus reference. You even readily acknowledged your feigned ignorance. Then you fault me for ignoring th...

To be a successful biological organism all you need to do is stay alive. All the other things you mention are optional to your declared purpose.

By pointing out the error in the claim, of course. I haven’t claimed to be avoiding your questions. I didn’t assume that you cared. I simply pointed o...

Those accretions run deeper than you may realize.

The issue is heavily politicized, so not for a long time. We Americans are like... https://modernfarmer.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Funny-Sheep-Fac...

I didn’t finish reading the post but wanted to mention that plastic surgeons have little influence on cultural concepts of beauty, much less grade sch...

I don’t think anyone will care if I declare life or the universe absurd. Anyway, if that were known it wouldn’t be a philosophical matter. Why do some...

The reaction against religious belief in the form of secularism is centered in concern with irrationality, is my point.

Frankly, I don’t see much of a difference between an organized religion and any other sort of ideology or shared fiction. Religion is particularly pow...

Great point. :up: If you can find an error in any of my “claims” then please point them out, @"Harry Hindu".

Is there a point to your feigned ignorance?

Well, legend has it that Sisyphus successfully rolled a rock up a hill. :party: As opposed to what? It's also a matter of experiencing the feeling of ...

You've seriously never heard of absurdism? Whichever one defines, "successful" or what entails "success," I assume.

Yes, certainly, but without the narrative it sounds rather bleak. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOA46LNXUAAy6u-.jpg

It was stupid of me to claim that the vast majority of religious authorities have been proven to be frauds. That hasn't been proven and I doubt the ma...

Your ideas are not absurd, you're merely now facing the absurd as, hopefully, we all do eventually. Whatever lead to your disillusionment, your only c...

I generally agree with what you share.

Modern culture is more individualistic, but we nevertheless share all sorts of fictions and ideologies, as well as willingly follow worthy leaders.

Granted that God has not been proven to be dead. A meaningless God, however, is for all intents and purposes, dead.

This is false. In fact, I know that you’ve “observed” me sing the praises of Meido Zentetsu Roshi, if no other thing deemed religious. How can you be ...

Observe, @"Janus", if you're not with them then you're against (hate) them. :roll:

I don't know, it doesn't seem particularly dualistic to think that meaning exists in minds and not in shoeboxes. The same shoebox can have a wide vari...

As I see it there are two related but distinct aspects to this, which is basically spiritual (individual) and religious (group), and the thing that fe...

Meaninglessness shadows anyone who can think for themselves.

I just took the implicit association test for race (between black & white). I like to think of myself as completely non-racist but the test showed a '...

Actually there are theories of intelligence that are exactly like that, and would apply to moral thought and behavior of others. See: https://en.m.wik...

The state provides many services in exchange for our loyalty or participation, such as law enforcement, emergency services, etc.

Oh, but you did. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Bazzetta/publication/280777010/figure/fig9/AS:648209072398338@1531556494704/Cognitive-Mora...

There are theories of moral developmental reasoning. I think kohlberg's is considered a little out of date.

I never addressed the OP, I just realized. Strikethrough and bolding are my suggestions. Moral issues are often politicized to promote a particular pa...

Creativesoul and Merk have put a good deal of effort into attempting to develop a universal criterion for what counts as a moral thing.

I guess comments from the peanut gallery are worth peanuts.

Okay let's drop the metaphor. Can you identify the most egregious error so far? Or if that's too difficult for you, many just pick one of the worst.

Force of habit, I guess.

A pile of scrap metal posses no traffic safety issue or emissions issue, so you wouldn't need to start. If for some reason there were an issue you wou...

So how would you word it?

If memory serves, page 16 is about the time when creativesoul’s fan club went on sabbatical. Coincidence or moral transgression?

:rofl:

I'm just trying to figure out why you're having trouble with the meaning of 'internalize'. Maybe try to think of it as forming a habit. You can have t...

You're a Solipsist?

Internalize: make (attitudes or behavior) part of one's nature by learning or unconscious assimilation.

Right. Anyway, I'm sure you have some sense of what internalize means, right? Do we really need to go over that?

So my morality is internal to you?

Practice. Or perhaps a whip?