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Song lyrics Eagles: "they call it paradise I don't know why Call some place paradise Kiss it goodbye" Or cash in on it yourself, of course. Bob Dylan "There's seven people dead On a South Dakota farm There's seven people dead On a South Dakota farm Somewheres in the distance There's s...

Moral subjectivism is, in my view, no less embodied existentially in dasein. If you're going to talk more 💩, we're not going to get anywhere. :lol: What you do here basically is to assume that moral subjectivism must be wrong... Nope. I'm agreeing to accept, for argument's sake, the premise offered...

Here's the point: what can Moral Subjectivism, even if we took it to be entirely true, teach anybody? Unless, of course, this is the point: what can Moral Objectivism teach anybody? Well, let's start with any number of objectivists here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritual...

Shona Laing
Soviet Snow
https://youtu.be/901-aseuixM?si=1H3TvkstfXGnhmh2

PiL
The Body
https://youtu.be/I4PiL73ergs?si=i2jAd-h3218PjIiH

Suicide
Che
https://youtu.be/VFa9wSgG5p8?si=p6WjVdUYFy7cphEQ

Fight Club Narrator: After fighting, everything else in your life got the volume turned down. Next up: our fights here? Narrator: Everywhere we went, we were sizing things up. I felt sorry for guys packed into gyms, trying to look like how Calvin Klein or Tommy Hilfiger said they should. Is that wh...

Fight Club Narrator: Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight? They’re single-serving friends. Nex...

Here's the point: what can Moral Subjectivism, even if we took it to be entirely true, teach anybody? Unless, of course, this is the point: what can Moral Objectivism teach anybody? Well, let's start with any number of objectivists here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritual...

Death “She had always found villains more exciting than heroes. They had ambition, passion. They made the stories happen. Villains didn't fear death. No, they wrapped themselves in death like suits of armor! As she inhaled the school's graveyard smell, Agatha felt her blood rush. For like all villa...

What does this movie actually have to do with anything? Hell, if that was relevant almost none of them would get made. It does say something about the culture, though. But if, “the cure is worse than the disease” was ever relevant, it’s relevant here. People it seems – men in particular – must stop ...

Nicolas Chamfort If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first. Get back to us on that. A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in ...

Mulholland Drive Betty Elms: [opens door] Yes? May I help you? Louise Bonner: Someone is in trouble. Who are you? What are you doing in Ruth's apartment? Betty Elms: She's letting me stay here. I'm her niece. My name's Betty. Louise Bonner: No, it's not. That's not what she said. Someone is in trou...

The Illusion of Illusionism Raymond Tallis sees through a physicalist confusion. Physicalist philosophers often try to tame the conscious mind by reducing it to the locus of functional connections between incoming sensory stimuli and outgoing bodily behaviour. Consciousness then becomes a tapestry o...

How do I refute nihilism? from the Quora site. Cole Bisaccia Nihilism, in my experience, is a rationalization of an individuals lack of connection to the world. Rationalization: "the act, process, or result of rationalizing: a way of describing, interpreting, or explaining something (such as ba...