praxis

I’m an art lover and don’t recall ever being invited to an exhibit/lunch.

What is the first effect? And you’re welcome, even though my intent wasn’t as honorable as a white knight’s.

Rooting out the God-bearer was interesting.

The Crusades (11th–13th Centuries) Context: The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated by the Latin Church in medieval Europe, primarily t...

May have or has?

Maybe he thinks you’re irrationally biased against zygotes for some reason.

You think it's irrational to say that a zygote does not have the same value as a person?

Stretch it all you like. Though why not just be real. Art isn't beyond morality any more than baking or dropping a nuclear bomb. Even if you framed th...

If I remember right the sign post points to “the good” instead the bad or the lazy because that’s the road which is most inline with our nature (socia...

I’m not following at all. It seems to me that art beyond morality would be morally inert. It might happen to be completely inline with moral norms or ...

I can mentally separate art for art's sake and utilitarian-based art but to say that art lies beyond morality raises it to a Godly height. How is art ...

You're not following. I agree with you that it's absurd, or "weird" as I previously said, and to me just as weird as saying that a zygote is "a human....

Believe it or not I’m not quite that stupid. Definitely close but not that dumb. I briefly reviewed the process before posting. The essence of it is t...

If you mean art-in-itself or 'art for art's sake' and art weaponized, yes I've made that separation. I'd like to move on to the weaponization of relig...

So it is with a new born baby, yet we give a baby at least enough standing to outweigh the mother’s choice of life or death at that point of developme...

I didn’t mean to say anything about cloning a zygote. Imagine if you did and it turned out to be a sociopath. You’d have two sociopaths to deal with i...

Sloppy language, sorry. I’ll reiterate. Over a thousand dogs have been cloned. They typically use skin cells from the pooches to make clones of them. ...

Uh, no. I'm pointing out that you believe a skin cell is not a human and that a skin cell can be cloned to produce a human being. Both skin and zygote...

A skin cell can't clone itself if that's what you mean. By the same token, a zygote can't develop itself either.

I agree with you in a Dopamine Nation sort of way.

That's not the part that caught my attention. I enjoy working out and have been doing it religiously my whole life. Sound a lot like self-torture to m...

I don't think that self-torture is a beneficial way to practice stoicism. The basic goal, if I remember right, is to realize that we have little if an...

Yes and yes.

A skin cell can be cloned and I think you'd need to be a biologist to distinguish a skin cell from a zygote, so it's amusing that you say a skin cell ...

I asked Chatgpt to list a few famous songs from history that promote war. –––––––– Several songs throughout history have promoted war, either explicit...

Having just reviewed them, I’m not crazy about 1-4 but the rest are okay.

Of course human eggs and human sperm are human. They don’t contain zebra DNA, they have human DNA. They are alive and they are human. Why do you resis...

Yes. You might think white would be the color of choice, being associated with purity, but to express purity would be impenitent.

That is curious. A few moments of google research suggests that the choice of color is based on the inclination to express austerity and the rejection...

The right to choose isn’t a moral issue? I don’t think the obvious needs to be stated.

Ironically, you're comparing slaves (and centuries of suffering) to tiny bits of flesh that lack consciousness.

Moral guidance on paper is merely a fictional story designed to align the wills of those charmed by it.

Norma McCorvey was a working-class woman and did not have significant financial resources.

I learned that a gathering of ravens is called an 'unkindness', due to the 19th century misconception that they're bad parents. Turns out they're grea...

No, no, and no (in that I haven’t acted in order to better the world). Still missing the point.

What is the sound of one hand jerking?

What is a life?

Sure, but I still don’t see war.

Frankly I’m amazed at how lacking our leaders are in both moral character and ‘unrestrained vitality’. I like to think that if one emerged glistening ...

To me it seems like an arbitrary starting point. Like sperm and egg magically become a living being the instant they meet. Not a fraction of a second ...

So far it seems that the only thing you have to be grateful for is the direction to fear. I for one would not be grateful for that. Perhaps you’ve rec...

The plastic fork seems to have also survived the fridge internment, or maybe that's your preferred construction for kitchen utensils.

Oh, what direction has a higher power given you? God is pretty much whatever someone needs to dream up, I think. We see beauty in ugliness through aes...

Is this an anfractuous way to say that God is ugly?

Again this is more true after birth than before, so birth should be identified as the starting point, if the starting point is based on individuality.

If the criteria for identifying a starting point is individuality (you say “an individual human being”) then the more correct point would be birth bec...

I don't know, kinda weird and dark, lol. https://i.postimg.cc/zDbcGvxy/temp-Image-Kcs96-A.avif Loved that book, btw.

I added "cozy modern" to the prompt. https://i.postimg.cc/LsShvZZb/temp-Image7-UAVKJ.avif I wouldn't mind working there. With any luck the interior is...

Both are evil. https://i.postimg.cc/V64TLFHM/IMG-0648.jpg

Using the same prompt, the AI that I use also produced too many floors to the building. I then revised the prompt to use the number “3” instead of the...