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I agree. I also think it's good to hypothesize and say 'maybe it's like this' and then see how well the hypothesis stands up to scrutiny. But I someti...
May 19, 2016 at 00:03
What about porn conventions, are they allowed? How'd the deception affect the relationship?
May 18, 2016 at 23:51
His crime doesn't sound all that horrendous to me. Now, if he had been married when he pulled this stunt, well that'd be another matter.
May 18, 2016 at 23:40
What kinds of porn are allowed in your republic? Are porn stars in your republic allowed to be married? Ever been cheated on?
May 18, 2016 at 23:32
Yeah, tbh, I totally understand - and have understood - this model. And it admittedly had an elegance-in-its-inelegance - i think of it as a tgw versi...
May 17, 2016 at 02:30
Ok, thanks, that's what I was looking for - the wherefore of your vehemence. I agree that intimacy and loyalty are important and ought be cultivated.I...
May 16, 2016 at 23:59
What position? Darth put forth the argument that allowing transgendered individuals to use bathrooms historically designated for those who were born a...
May 16, 2016 at 20:50
"collective projection" is not the same thing as harmonious totality. I'm with you on emergence vs top-down. In any case projection, as you describe i...
May 16, 2016 at 18:03
Darth said he was against LGBT parades in places where people were LGBT-friendly, implicitly suggesting that the purpose of LGBT parades is to fight e...
May 16, 2016 at 16:40
What I'm trying to understand is how you reconcile the non-omnipotence of the subject(ed) with the inescapable subject-object (subject - objecting-of-...
May 16, 2016 at 16:30
If your jam is shaming sluts, I guess that's how it is. Hope you get some good shaming in this week. But why would I - or anyone - care at all whether...
May 16, 2016 at 15:37
Movies aren't necessary. Nor are proms. Nor are the Olympics. Nor are fishing trips. etc. I'm not sure what relevance 'necessity' has at all. So many ...
May 16, 2016 at 06:09
The Henry book sounds interesting. I'll see if I can track a copy down. Impenetrable is ok. As to the squirrel. Well, maybe it doesn't project an acor...
May 16, 2016 at 05:44
As to the main point: men have ample opportunity to be alone with women in all sorts of places. Bathrooms are super public and anyone could walk in at...
May 16, 2016 at 04:35
I'm no social justice warrior - and I know this isn't the main focus of your post - but I don't get the logic of not being for gay pride events in gay...
May 16, 2016 at 04:27
On my phone so I can't mount a full response. Will later. The key to the transitional objects is imo that subjectivies are always already harbored and...
May 16, 2016 at 03:45
Even if there's nothing 'there,' there is absolutely a process of 'there-ing' and 'object-ing.' (& you got Husserl and intentionality even with ideas ...
May 16, 2016 at 03:01
Yeah, have you ever tried to read Dennett's Consciousness Explained? It's like there's some switch turned off in his mind and he is constitutionally u...
May 15, 2016 at 22:03
Isn't this a line from Jimmy Carter's inauguration speech? plz don't plagiarize.
May 15, 2016 at 21:52
That latter answer doesn't seem very good to me. Q What's the origin of that island? A: That island doesn't come from anywhere because you aren't seei...
May 15, 2016 at 21:45
This is still confusing to me. Classical psychological projection makes already-existing others bearers of the feelings we can't deal with harboring o...
May 15, 2016 at 06:01
Your use of 'projection' is confusing to me. I know, from older posts, you're wary of light metaphors; and I know, from this thread, that you're wary ...
May 15, 2016 at 03:52
In the original, Heidegger never mentions being! Most of his books are just intricate grumblings about faulty traffic lights and the price of rice in ...
May 13, 2016 at 19:51
Maybe MP's 'we' is a self-aggrandizing reaction to narcissistic injury, but, tbh, I think it's reallly hard to say unless you know: (1)What's going on...
May 13, 2016 at 18:18
A coworker of mine recently posted a link to an 'upworthy article' ( Upworthy is basically Buzzfeed meets chicken soup for the soul, if you don't know...
May 13, 2016 at 04:38
Recall a moment, if you're able, when you danced with total abandon. You'd have to realllly stretch to find the 'presentation' in this kinda experienc...
May 13, 2016 at 02:50
I think it follows that a distribution of potential sources (not necessarily objects) of gratification can precede and so partially account for the pa...
May 13, 2016 at 02:47
( This real quick, before the rest: Could you provide an example of previously unrelated objects coming into relation? I think the contrast would help...
May 11, 2016 at 02:49
It's always possible that there might be a monster - real or imagined - who wants to eat, among other things, urns containing grandmother-ashes.Are yo...
May 10, 2016 at 17:13
It would certainly come as a surprise to the guy in the apartment that there cannot be an acorn in one part of the yard without the possibility of the...
May 10, 2016 at 05:37
I think this is the right tack. I guess we just approach this same idea differently?
May 10, 2016 at 01:01
Let's tweak the example. Imagine a courtyard bisected by a large stone wall. In one half grows an oak. In the other there's a fountain. On the north s...
May 10, 2016 at 00:02
I always get a little concerned when people talk about the world's 'dreamlike quality" For 'dreamlike' to be in any way meaningful, it must be possibl...
May 09, 2016 at 05:15
Why -and under what conditions - do pain and strife force a world to grow, to "take shape"? Is it because the pain or pleasure becomes too intense? Bu...
May 07, 2016 at 03:47
Why -and under what conditions - do pain and strife force a world to grow? Is it because the pain or pleasure becomes too intense? But intensity, appa...
May 07, 2016 at 03:46
No I agree. It's hungry and has no choice. As you say, it has to follow 'clues' about where the food is. There is no such thing as a 'clue' if there's...
May 06, 2016 at 06:42
The world came after. So the hungry being was hungry and projected a world in which the satisfaction of its hunger lies in zone x and not zone y. Let'...
May 06, 2016 at 06:31
Yes, newly able to represent time as linear. I agree that the being was hungry before that moment. Do you agree that these beings are dependent for th...
May 06, 2016 at 06:24
I think it's all relevant tbh. That's what makes it so hard. I have trouble limiting myself. It's probably my biggest problem. If there're six movies ...
May 06, 2016 at 06:15
That's an explosive answer! There are so many angles from which to respond. I'll see if I can muster a response tonight. If not, I'll be back tomorrow
May 06, 2016 at 06:01
Also I can't help but note the irony in your initial insistence that ordinary language should suffer 'violence' and neologisms for the sake of philoso...
May 06, 2016 at 05:05
Agreed that they're not "now." As you said it gets tricky with tenses and you've gotta futz with terminology. "Contained in the now" is a gesture towa...
May 06, 2016 at 04:36
ok, let's assume determinism for now. At a certain moment, time blooms into an intricate linear flower, its end and its beginning contained already in...
May 06, 2016 at 03:43
Throw me to the circles!
May 05, 2016 at 04:09
Think I'm done for the night. Posts are getting more intricate and i'm (1) posting on my phone from a bar and (2) drinking. Down to take it from here ...
May 05, 2016 at 03:33
I'm gonna be a total dick right now bc I don't care. If you have any questions related to this thread, please start another thread and post them there...
May 05, 2016 at 03:24
When I say it won't rain tomorrow and it rains tomorrow, was I really already wrong at the moment I said it wouldn't rain? That's not clear to me. I c...
May 05, 2016 at 03:14
Ok drop Schop for now. Do you side with the determinist or the non-determinist?
May 05, 2016 at 02:53
It's xxx x b.c. there may or not be an artifact x that comes about in 1966. It could go either way. How can a statement in xxxx bc about x's date of c...
May 05, 2016 at 02:42
I don't think it's orthogonal. If you don't take the deterministic position, then, tenses aside, the question of when it became true that the artifact...
May 05, 2016 at 02:36