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Yeah, it's apparent that he reads all these articles on free will and compatibilism, not because he's interested in what the author has to say or how the author thinks, but because he's looking for another reason to just say the exact same boring things he always says. Iambiguous, you don't need to...

The Illusion of Illusionism Raymond Tallis sees through a physicalist confusion. Which brings us back to our starting point and the problem illusionism was supposed to solve: the challenge of seeing how phenomenal consciousness arises in a material world as seen through a physicalist lens. It seems...

Rufus Duits asks when we can justify driving our carbon contributors. https://philosophynow.org/issues/162/Is_Driving_Fossil-Fuelled_Cars_Immoral I wonder if he asked about his use of computers/internet, which he used when asking the question: Direct Environmental Impacts Energy Consumption : 1) El...

I only posted a reply to IWP in the hope that he would stop wasting his time trying to get something out of you which you are unable to give him. Oh, ok. I appreciate the heads up, and I agree, perhaps with a quibble around unable/unwilling, since I'm not sure which it is. And yes, it's a non-issue...

I no longer suffer. There's my evidence. You do understand (?) that this might well be evidence for you of something, but your words on a screen about it are not evidence for others. And then you didn't respond to his point about your repeatedly calling yourself the greatest philosopher of all time...

You're the one here telling everyone that your understanding is the only right one, people who aren't anti realists are stupid or immature or whatever. And I'm here saying, there are many interpretations of quantum mechanics, not just one. Which he didn't respond to. Your key point, but he did not ...

This place, and others like it, is a canvas for posting of opinions. There is no way to determine which opinions are correct and which are incorrect. There is no possibility or need for correction. All opinions are equally valid. Iambiguous simply embodies it more clearly and consistently than some...

How do I refute nihilism? from the Quora site. Panda I was nihilistic for a while, however, what I found that helped me was Buddhism. Nihilism states basically that “Life is suffering and there’s nothing we can do about it”. Buddhism, which -to me-, is the flip side of the same coin of Nihilism…bec...

Up to a point, yes it has. There are many spambot postings every week that never see the light of day on the forum because of the setting system. We look at them , realise they are spam, and kick the spambot off he forum. I think without the vetting system this forum would be completely unmanageabl...

It's more a complaint about this place. Well, to some extent I think this place is openly often personal and not moderated away from that. There are forums that are less like that. More substance. So, if the profile doesn't work for someone, they do have options. Posting "something of substanc...

Someone opened a window and fresh air is blowing into this musty room. Just more talking about each other ... complaining, psychoanalyzing, insulting. Well, to be fussy. You just did that. You could have posted something of substance. It was just so lovely to see someone notice what was so extensiv...

Since when hasn't that been true in all history that the wealthy and famous can get away with acts that individuals not so endowed would never be exculpated from. The last few decades in the US have seen a countertrend. To some degree there has been, over the longer haul, an evening out. It never g...

Just out of interest, where would they rate on the truly moronic scale compared to, say, proposing to restore - in some unspecified manner and to some unspecified extent - a faith system the core tenets of which one rejects, and then complaining when people ask for clarification? It seems to me to ...

You inspire me to add more, Alexis. [Wizard gets an erection, and Alexis runs from the room] The curtain slowly falls. Yes, I wonder if they are ever going to deal with their own split: Wizard being, at root, a Neo-Nietschzian (read acolyte of Satyr) and AJ being a Catholic mystic (or wanting to be...

It seems to me, the Occident is the way 'forward', into the 'future', a true 'progressivism'. But most of the old, is focused on the Old World. Protestants and Evangelicals, are strongly Zionist Israeli-loyalists. They are looking toward the Past. Zionist Jews and Judaism in general, are looking to...