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Language is the house of Being, so he don't belong in the house?

You took a poll? So he was their champion (cultural warrior). A culture warrior isn’t defined by being insulting.

Private company brands a trans on cans and the anti-woke freak. Department of labor brands white dudes on social media and it's :up:

I think Vervaeke forgot to address the pitfalls of groupthink and the fact that groups can reinforce comfort, avoid hard questions, and be quite defen...

You might ask yourself why his supporters saw him in that position.

I didn't want Kirk to be a culture warrior. I wish he were not a culture warrior. I wish there were no culture warriors on either side of the war, sim...

Religion can obviously be helpful (and right in its helpfulness)—too helpful in many many instances. Helpful in regard to meaning? From what I gather,...

If he believes that one is right I assume he would be a devout member of that religion.

What I mean to say is that Vervaeke seems to think that religions are—to put it plainly—wrong. Like Nietzsche, he seems to think that religions are fu...

Fifty hour lecture series. Is there anything he doesn't cover? :grin: At a glance, the funny thing that comes to mind is that pretty much only religio...

This is the lounge and this thread is as dead as the subject of the topic. Kirk publicly stated—to cheering audiences no less—that people he doesn’t e...

Oh good, you do understand what I’m talking about. I can’t help it if you’re unable to see Kirk as a culture warrior. Pretty much everyone else on the...

Kirk, and other culture warriors, profit from catering to such people. Oh right, Kirk and his followers think trans should exist. What reality are you...

Only the dirty pan remains I’m afraid—residue of olive oil, balsamic, white vinegar, salt & pepper, and some Momofuku chilli crunch. https://i.postimg...

I reverse seared brussels sprouts last night, speaking of food stuff. Start with the cut half down in oil with pan covered. Don’t need to add any wate...

It comes from the French word zeste, which originally meant the peel of a citrus fruit.

The Magus by John Fowles is a remarkable book; beautify written and great storytelling. Kept having to revise my ideas about what it's about :grin: bu...

Frankly I prefer Ai Nietzsche to real Nietzsche.

I would defend your right to point out trite aphorism to mild discomfort.

But I do see. I see the situation clearly. The twisted notion that anything is an abomination springs from moral absolutism or the sheepish belief in ...

I think some scholars speculate that he was deliberately ambiguous to avoid being taken as an authority.

I informed you about how, for example, Kirk publicly claimed that trans people are an “abomination.” And you wonder why some people disliked him and t...

He indisputably preached creativity, self-overcoming, and the affirmation of life.

I was thinking something like joining the foreign legion but I suppose it doesn’t need to be that dramatic. Funny you mention dance, I bought a bank o...

Sorry for the insubstantial response. I thought better of it and came back to try adding some substance. My reading of N is basically that virtue ethi...

Well, in my opinion, I honor Kirk by seeing the real person. People like Amadeus want to erase the real Kirk and replace him with a cartoonish cardboa...

The last four digits of my phone number are 1111. Hope that never changes because I have a terrible memory.

It’s my informed opinion, yes. It’s not my opinion that he was an abomination or other superstitiously hated thing.

Speaking of books, I was reading The Magus yesterday and the Latin phrase “from aqua into unda” was mentioned. It resonates because I've been thinking...

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It’s basically laziness on my part for relying on AI to occasionally straighten out my jumbled thoughts and I’ll abide by whatever decree is imposed u...

The Count was quick to point this out and I agree. I think human reality is largely shaped by human needs or purposes—and human values. We don’t share...

@"Jamal" @"Baden" Regarding the new policy, sometimes when I’ve written something that comes out clunky I run it through an AI for “clarity and flow” ...

Interestingly, geocentrism most definitely expressed anthropocentric values and Galileo paid the price for extracting those values from astronomy. In ...

And many of them argue against objective values.

This is clearly a bad analogy. Scientific truths are a different category of knowledge than moral truths or values.

We will absolutely misunderstand — even about ourselves — so how can there be objectivity?

They'll both think it good until they learn that it's not. No, I'm sure monkeys dislike being eaten. Monkey consumption is still good or bad relative ...

Apparently the death of woke is a bit premature. ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Relative to the perspective of the individual. The tiger enjoys a satisfying monkey hunt and meal—which is good. It is false for anything that may com...

Good for the tiger, bad for the monkey—demonstrates that good and bad are relative, doesn’t it?

I’m about half way. Love the writing, and the mystery.

Once, it was thought that the reptilian brain had no future—same with the mammalian.

AI can be used as a tutor for learning and improvement—for things like—oh, I don’t know—chess. :razz:

I think the point is that you can’t let your guard down anywhere, and you never could. I read Nexus last year, btw. What I recall seems like a mild fo...

I am not going to outline all the possible dangers of people educating themselves by undertaking a search in whatever search engine they use or YouTub...

As an elderly person who regularly engages in demanding physical activity I’ve recently discovered the importance of hydration. It seems to mitigate m...

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