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The extent of her rightness is certainly questionable. The purpose, I suspect, is to put on a better show. Moderates are so boring. But I was quoting ...

As far as I’m aware there’s been only one major change in laws surrounding lynching, since emancipation I guess, which was the designation of hate cri...

I’m going on a hunger strike until you apologize for saying that.

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I had the same position as Gandhi. O:)

I know, that video was hilarious at the end where she sees the results. Check out the micro-expression. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4461/3799249845...

Do you realize how aweful this sounds. If it wasn’t a significant change in morality then the crime couldn’t have been a significant moral transgressi...

Progressivism is concerned with social reform, in accordance with the Enlightenment idea of progress, and not specifically with morals or technology. ...

If I might drag you out of the cave for a brief glimpse I’ll point out that God is pretty high status.

I don’t think we need an algorithm to confirm our intuitions about Trump tweets.

Of course my feeling about the issue it irrelevant to the truth of whether or not there’s an essential and immutable human nature. All actual evidence...

Generally speaking, to progress may be an effort to surpass a base nature, so it could be construed as being against human nature, I suppose. But to c...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJYa9NQSyhE This morning I happened across this video. The girl is basically claiming that the progressive left is fai...

Curious. In Buddhism such transcendent experiences are generally regarded as awakenings from delusion. Yes indeed, though I'm not sure what you mean b...

Plus suggestions of some sort, yes. I've been experimenting with some self-hypnosis in my morning meditation.

Irrefutable proof that they had great drugs in the 60's.

What sort of meditation and hypnosis techniques do you do?

Au contraire, one can have a stroke of insight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTrJqmKoveU

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It's depressing because I'm not opposing it, and because others like yourself openly embrace it.

This is the most depressing thing I've read on this forum.

Bad grammar can have serious consequences. For instance: Let’s eat, grandma! vs Let’s eat grandma!

Well, @"Sir2u" provided the subject matter, which I'm curious about, btw.

Three blind philosophers stumble upon an elephant. The philosophers consist of a materialist, an idealist, and a pragmatist. The materialist feels aro...

The moderation on this site is: About right (for moderators) About right (for members) About right (for banned members)

If only it were that easy.

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To date, 16% say too strict and 16% say not strict enough. If these numbers cancel each other out that means moderation is 100% just about right.

For the Rhythm 0 piece, I think it has more to do with the ease in which we can regulate our empathy or make a shift in our perception from person to ...

Actually some participants acted to protect her from the worst of it, I understand.

https://image.slidesharecdn.com/moraldev-111023180920-phpapp01/95/social-and-moral-development-17-728.jpg Milgram and Rythem 0 may show that people va...

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Briefly, my philosophizing isn't any better than my limericks.

Ah, must have been blinded by a guilty conscience.

Technically, I didn't break the rules. I was merely commenting on Nihilistic Locomotives contribution. Nils Loc is from Spain, and judging from his na...

Amish. Perhaps small relatively independent communities like this could develop with a modern mindset, using technology to help maintain an ethic of s...

There once was a nihilist from Spain Who loved to travel by train He told us one day Going out of his way That a man named T Clark was a pain

Clearly a 50% drop in global consumption would devastate economies. Maybe you’ve misapprehened what this person was saying? I suppose it could workout...

It’s funny. Your sense of humor: .01

Sorry. I tried with the Napoleon joke.

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/torture-the-rack-granger.jpg There’s a story that Napoleon, a man who Nietzsche claimed was an Ü...

There once was a forum for the philosophical Where members would troll things fantastical It happened one day In a gruesome display That Sir2u was mar...

I'd say that man's essence is identical to his concept of humanity, and a concept that is formed via culture and experience. Guess I'll have to vote '...

It’s Latin for wisdom. That’s not funny? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tTFCKbzTrj0

Dawkensho

http://new.livingelectro.com/files/images/s/118878/ensho.jpg What do you call an ensho painted by a sentimental latin woman? A sappy ensha

A populist pits the people against the elite and a democrat pits the people against Trump. I guess there's no difference.

I got a bit carried away. :-# He was reported as saying how "It's Really Caught On." Indeed. He's the Divider-In-Chief.

If a nihilist thinks a thought, is it meaningful?

Oh God, I crack myself up.