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Some of the were bullied. But some likely weren't. Not that you said otherwise. It's very complex, many factors involved, not least the kind of econom...
October 17, 2021 at 03:44
1) I don't know, I should look at some studies. Off the top of my head, my speculation would be that not all these people were necessarily ignored or ...
October 17, 2021 at 02:55
Mostly agree with what you say. This quoted part though can be tricky. We also know of many "loners" (or whatever word we want to use) which end up sh...
October 17, 2021 at 02:24
A balance is likely best for most people. You see all kinds of destructive behavior in both groups, though I think you have to admit that we were born...
October 17, 2021 at 01:40
:100: :clap:
October 17, 2021 at 01:29
Interesting. Do you have an article you could share on the topic?
October 16, 2021 at 21:17
And that's fine. I can speak about Heidegger, I was quite into him several years ago. As far as I can see, he uses an interesting type of language to ...
October 16, 2021 at 20:11
Yep. 100,000%
October 16, 2021 at 19:38
You know much, much, much more about Husserl than me. I ask for a clear exposition of ideas, that can be done. It's another thing if you get technical...
October 16, 2021 at 19:35
Where I am currently? No. Not that I'm aware. Political parties here barely have differentiating platforms. I don't know if some belongs to left or ri...
October 16, 2021 at 19:21
It's messy. And it also isn't easy to make as strong a case for leaving for the left as there is for the right. There were leftists who wanted to leav...
October 16, 2021 at 19:11
Probably. A large part of it feels to me like a "fuck you" to the establishment, which is understandable. But many factors involved in that.
October 16, 2021 at 18:28
Yeah. I'm not going to pretend that the EU become an example of direct democracy overnight or anything like that. But I think the totality of its citi...
October 16, 2021 at 17:08
Well, that would be a step in the right direction. As far as I can recall, you can only do this for the EU parliament, which has no power though. I'd ...
October 16, 2021 at 14:15
We agree that reducing suffering in relation to babies being born through slight genetic manipulations. And you've said that that's not social Darwini...
October 16, 2021 at 04:46
That's the wave length of red. That's not the answer you get if you ask any person to point to you to something red. If you ask a scientist, then they...
October 16, 2021 at 03:29
Well. I tried.
October 16, 2021 at 03:22
Oh they will. When there's no food to eat or when they have to move to another country - if they even can.
October 16, 2021 at 03:21
Red happens to be quantifiable to that wavelength. But a quantity is not a quality. I have a hard time understanding how people could really believe t...
October 16, 2021 at 03:16
Well this is (in my case now) abstract theorizing, but I think we should at least make the following distinction: 1) Those people for whom it might no...
October 16, 2021 at 03:05
Well if by attempting to create a healthier baby leads to this kind of thinking, which I haven't seen yet, then there's an argument to be made that ge...
October 16, 2021 at 02:01
Very little is known about "mental illnesses", not that they don't exist. We likely all have some kind of them to some degree or other. We clearly kno...
October 16, 2021 at 01:17
I mean, in a sense we are already heading in the direction, if only slightly. We already have medications and I believe we are beginning to get geneti...
October 16, 2021 at 00:40
That's fine in that you don't find what Russell says interesting or deep. I was only speaking about prose style. On the other hand, to your credit, yo...
October 15, 2021 at 22:43
You don't think there's a qualitative difference in writing quality between Husserl and Russell? I'm not speaking about depth of ideas, that's person ...
October 15, 2021 at 22:25
Yes. If you do your best to explain and the person does not understand, then the onus tends to be on the person who doesn't get it. I agree with you. ...
October 15, 2021 at 20:59
:lol: I mean, it's four words, not entire sentences. No worries man, it happens to all of us, particularly if we're emotional on a topic, which happen...
October 15, 2021 at 18:53
No I mean, read the four words prior to where you quoted. I agree with you. It's a shame they aren't better organized and coherent. They are important...
October 15, 2021 at 18:48
That is emphatically not what I said.
October 15, 2021 at 18:42
It's true that the world was unprepared. Most of it. Not Taiwan or South Korea. But as soon as Biden came to office, the US did way better than the EU...
October 15, 2021 at 18:13
It depends on how deep you want to go with this. If you want a good intro to his talking about innate ideas and the like, I'd recommend you see Michel...
October 15, 2021 at 16:57
That's my specialty actually. If you want specific recommendations on different topics, I'll be glad to give you some recommendations.
October 15, 2021 at 16:29
Yes, it has all these separate governing bodies and all these fancy sounding internal organizations. How much influence does the average European have...
October 15, 2021 at 15:41
It's person dependent. Some people have an innate capacity to understand certain ideas better than others, perhaps the topic at hand resonates with a ...
October 15, 2021 at 05:24
Yeah. It should be amended significantly every X amount of time. They had no idea about what we would be dealing with back in the day. Nor the moral p...
October 15, 2021 at 00:22
Maybe. The constitution should be updated though. It's not as if it were God's word or something. But, point taken.
October 15, 2021 at 00:13
:lol: Oh man, getting a wake up call for that message might turn me into murder mode for several minutes. But yeah, I'd agree.
October 15, 2021 at 00:09
Yeah. Fox. I think there should be a law that says that opinion or preference can't be given as fact.
October 15, 2021 at 00:04
Ahh, I see. There's plenty of good arguments for such a view, Schopenhauer comes to mind. Spinoza too and Parmenides. Also the Upanishads, etc. etc. I...
October 15, 2021 at 00:03
Yeah. It's ironic. Not that NATO is much better. I mean yes, the US is somewhat democratic, more than the EU now, I'd argue, but it doesn't matter, I ...
October 14, 2021 at 23:44
You believe in an afterlife of sorts?
October 14, 2021 at 23:40
Not for no lack of trying. He wanted to provoke a war with Iran by assassinating Soleimani. Iran did not take the bait, despite having ships near ther...
October 14, 2021 at 23:13
Yes. Varoufakis and Mody document this quite well. I agree, they should unite in a kind of "United States of Europe", but the current system they have...
October 14, 2021 at 22:59
Yes, that's what they do talk. In that same article you provide it says: "Currently, there is no such army, and defence is a matter for the member sta...
October 14, 2021 at 22:45
Well, let's wait to cross that bridge. Having said that, there's little reason to suspect the EU will do much of anything. What could they do? Sanctio...
October 14, 2021 at 22:00
Many thanks for sharing that, someone here will identify with what you're saying. I have my share of disorders too, though not as bad. It's nice to he...
October 14, 2021 at 21:18
Very true. Interesting. I've always found Schopenhauer's philosophy to be therapeutic. Even being depressed I felt in good company, and when still fee...
October 14, 2021 at 18:11
It can be, if they are grasped by the arguments and problems. But it can be very dangerous too, if such a person is feeling depressed, then bumping in...
October 14, 2021 at 17:36
Because it is. Just one note, there are no final proofs in nature. We can't prove almost anything. We constantly revise what we know and we can't do m...
October 14, 2021 at 03:57
It all seems to boil down to minimizing annoyances and grievances that will definitely arise whether more on the lonely camp or the social camp.
October 14, 2021 at 03:40