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by iambiguous
Fri May 17, 2024 10:32 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: What music are you listening to?
Replies: 2055
Views: 158871

Re: What music are you listening to?

XRay Spex
Oh Bondage! Up Yours!
https://youtu.be/FYMObdOqcRg?si=tYJM3UuoBl90O9w6
by iambiguous
Fri May 17, 2024 10:31 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: What music are you listening to?
Replies: 2055
Views: 158871

Re: What music are you listening to?

by iambiguous
Fri May 17, 2024 9:44 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Quote of the day
Replies: 2743
Views: 236238

Re: Quote of the day

A very strange relationship. Probably not meant to be taken...literally? It makes sense only when acknowledging these are, after all, human beings. And what is strange to some may be anything but to others. Still, this is strange: Agreeing to marry before they know each other’s name. But don’t bothe...
by iambiguous
Fri May 17, 2024 9:14 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Quote of the day
Replies: 2743
Views: 236238

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Is she a cruel sadistic pig and crazy? Does that make it different? This is a movie “inspired by actual events”. That can mean practically anything. But in this world it isn’t hard to imagine it all unfolding—even more horrifically than this. Just tune in to the ID channel from time to time. Especia...
by iambiguous
Fri May 17, 2024 8:44 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Quote of the day
Replies: 2743
Views: 236238

Re: Quote of the day

Muriel Barbery from The Elegance of the Hedgehog In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it ...
by iambiguous
Fri May 17, 2024 8:13 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Quote of the day
Replies: 2743
Views: 236238

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Three historical contexts. The rich and the poor, the rich and an emerging middle class and the rich and a burgeoning middle class. That can make all the difference in the world regarding the narratives we use. Even “over there”. But some will ever resist anything other than Us and Them. Seeing how ...
by iambiguous
Fri May 17, 2024 7:57 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Quote of the day
Replies: 2743
Views: 236238

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Epistemology “Of course, 1+1 makes 2 and blue to yellow gives green. But if we forget for a while the abstract knowledge or the laws of nature, and focus on the “knowledge” of particular situations, events, persons etc., then we can observe that it is almost never: “I know”; it is practically alway...
by iambiguous
Fri May 17, 2024 7:47 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Quote of the day
Replies: 2743
Views: 236238

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What did she know and when did she know it? And what happens when we can’t ask the dead fetus to confirm it? Forget the morality. Here we have to determine if what she did is legal. And what if what she believes happened is contradicted by what can be established as in fact having happened? Or what ...
by iambiguous
Fri May 17, 2024 7:35 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: has philosophy lost its way?
Replies: 129
Views: 21463

Re: has philosophy lost its way?

Four Reasons Why Philosophy Is As Relevant As Ever Joanna Hughes What is philosophy? Philosophy is the study of existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind and language. In other words, it’s the academic exploration of life’s big questions. And there are those who wouldn't have it any other way but a...
by iambiguous
Thu May 16, 2024 11:45 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: compatibilism
Replies: 4192
Views: 892731

Re: compatibilism

The Illusion of Illusionism Raymond Tallis sees through a physicalist confusion. Enter the illusionists. The most lucid and committed among them is Keith Frankish, who embraces ‘strong illusionism’. According to Frankish, “phenomenal consciousness, as usually conceived, is illusory”. More to the poi...
by iambiguous
Thu May 16, 2024 11:44 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: The Illusion of Illusionism
Replies: 21
Views: 486

Re: The Illusion of Illusionism

The Illusion of Illusionism Raymond Tallis sees through a physicalist confusion. Enter the illusionists. The most lucid and committed among them is Keith Frankish, who embraces ‘strong illusionism’. According to Frankish, “phenomenal consciousness, as usually conceived, is illusory”. More to the poi...