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There is a critique of identity politics along these lines that is leftist, rathee than xenophobic.

One stray thought, or a parallel lens on the matter: You could consider power, in some sense, as the ability not to have to justify ones actions to th...

It isn't gonna happen - that glorious moment where the final fertile person agrees to forego procreation. It's not a realistic cause - its a fantasy. ...

Yeah, I'd agree with that. "fdrake" did a good job of digging into how broad a concept 'good' is. But the structure of the op suggests that this indef...

You lost me. Isn't that what I shifted to in the rest of my post (the unquoted part)?

If someone says 'this feels good' we know what they mean. It would seem weird to ask them what they mean - they've already said it. If someone says 't...

That's it! They want everyone to be part of the book club. I do too. Because if everyone's part of the book club, everyone's huddled within, attacking...

My critique - but it's too shoddy to be dignified by that title - is a 'critique' of any philosophical operation that tries to find some way of charac...

I think you're right - and that anyone would agree that both were composed of legos. Both the bridge and the man are decomposable, in the sense you me...

One answer: As it always is with the british empire, and its epigones - they want the 'world' to remain a resource, accessible from home.

I don't think its melting-pot. Or colonialism. Exactly, anyway. "let the world become a melting pot" - sure, but the reading group on conrad still ass...

My trouble is I don't want to accept who I am. On balance, I don't like it. Getting the girl can be damning in itself though.

Here's the philosophical 'gotcha'. But I think it's legitimate. The challenge then is to decompose the face-value difference itself. Trees and bananas...

That's all confused, but its confusing.

@"StreetlightX" I think the facade thing you describe is very close to what I feel. It's almost like that romance trope, where someone enlists another...

also love the bakery theme

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Guys - I missed all of these posts, because I didn't realize this subforum doesn't show up on the main page. Just seeing them now.

I'm still very on board. But it's striking to me how strange Dante's thought is. I guess it's easy to assume that High Canonical works are going to be...

I think @"ssu" is on the right track. A lot of this has to do with power. A couple things that come to mind. (Focusing only on one aspect here. I thin...

I don't disagree. I guess I'm thinking in terms of valuation. I think independent types tend to think in terms that valorize the worldview which accom...

I don't know if you're lonely. I'm saying I liked her when I was. If you're not lonely, mine is a case to pass over quickly, noting how its particular...

@"AppLeo" I liked Ayn Rand back in the day. As I got older, it became clear to me that what I found appealing in her was her valorization of a life of...

One, tentative, answer would be something like: we're formed young. Our threat-detecting faculty forms slowly, mostly during childhood. In the languag...

I struggle with vindictiveness too. You mentioned an explanation of this behavior relating to 'eliminating demonstrated threats.' That makes sense to ...

Sorry Wallows, I think I took things off course.

I'm willing to talk in PM if you want.

I agree. But the only way to tell is to take a look at what's being said. I'm not attacking a wittgensteinian approach that disntinguishes between wel...

As with most philosophical problematics, its the conceptual nitty-gritty of fleshing out how these things work that presents the problems. It's unlike...

@"StreetlightX" All that said, I feel like I mostly agree with you, content-wise. It's the name, or label that throws me.I just don't like the 'materi...

(I) If idealism is taken to refer to any metaphysics reliant on either overmining or undermining - if eliminative materialism, physicalism etc can be ...

Doesn't materialism, by definition, exclude that which isn't material? But even if you stretch it, so it doesn't mean that, and means something like '...

I really really wanted it to be a good spiritual poem, ala Dark Night of the Soul, but it's seeming more and more like a hugely imaginative poem by a ...

Dante's Comedy I'm not sure what I think yet. I'm at canto iv. He seems to have a lot of good insight about spiritual progress. but then he'll suddenl...

I agree with all of this! And I don't necessarily want to press the point. But I just don't see how any of that is 'materialist.' Not that that's bad,...

But with the analogy of senses, appendages etc - all these things combine together in order to allow some being to navigate a larger world within whic...

The 'illusion' is only parsed as an illusion from a monistic, material perspective. "Dualism", here, is a response to materialism, a rejection of that...

I've always had a softspot for those who, chasing a beautiful lady, trip on a banana peel, and fall facefirst into a pie. Those who, after falling, ar...

Society also seems to be indifferent to expressive animals who take an anvil to the head. And poor folk falling victim to descending safes.

(a month late.) I meant that real life will keep funneling you challenges, challenges you have no choice but to address, and that exceed any rational,...

There's the 'one', which includes everything. And then there's an illusion which makes it seem as if there's a duality. Is the illusion part of the on...

Is the illusion part of the one?

I've read WWR, but its been a long time, 5 years maybe?

Not on most days.

I've never quite understood Schopenhauer on the One either though! Individual consciousnesses are unified (to some extent, I'd question that too) but ...

All this cover evokes for me is 'default template.' Looks like the type of thing you get when you're trying to make a quick buck off of works in the p...

That makes sense. It's the leap from universal 'dependence ' (and I agree with you there) to all-encompassing oneness that throws me. I can't quite ge...

I don't know all that much about neutral monism, I'll admit. But, from what I do know - and based on the quotes you've provided - it certainly strikes...

I note you're either unable or unwilling to answer the question and so there is no way to progress the conversation.

I'm not trolling Are you saying that, in you usage, 'being everything' and 'everything' can be substituted for one another? I assume that's what the e...