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- Fri Sep 04, 2015 1:40 pm
- Forum: Philosophical Counselling
- Topic: Why is there so much hostility on this site?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 114434
Re: Why is there so much hostility on this site?
There seems to be a surplus of anger and overwhelming hostility. Rudeness I often wonder what’s in it for them: the rude ones who like to hurt and offend others who never did them any harm? Sometimes I think they must be downtrodden in their own lives and try to compensate, hoping to feel bigger by...
- Sat Aug 29, 2015 1:24 pm
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: The meaning of life.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2896
Re: The meaning of life.
Dalek, Dubious, thank you for the "welcome back", but I am not really here -- only a very good friend of mine who is also on this forum tells me, from time to time, about some of the debates going on in some of the threads and this time I could not resist making a comment. This time of the...
- Sat Aug 29, 2015 6:40 am
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: The meaning of life.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2896
Re: The meaning of life.
Yes, I know , it is bloody Obvious, Leo! However: The simplest things The simplest things are, by far, the hardest to see: we’d rather drown in complications; when we could just simply, happily, be, we choose to suffer in self-created abominations. We invent ideologies, wars, financial meltdowns whe...
- Fri Aug 28, 2015 10:25 pm
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: The meaning of life.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2896
The meaning of life.
I usually wake up around five and spend another hour in bed before getting up. I use this hour to plan my day (I am retired). This morning I started thinking about winter coming soon and the firewood still out in the yard, seasoning, but it needs to come inside the wood shed because I don’t fancy di...
- Wed May 27, 2015 6:23 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: Do we have the right to tax people in order to help the poor?
- Replies: 209
- Views: 46948
Re: Do we have the right to tax people in order to help the poor?
So who should be punished - the perpetrators, their kin, those of their race? Nobody needs to be punished. Punishing has been the bane of civilization. Punishing the poor for being poor, and then punishing them more for resenting it, and then punishing them more for resisting the punishments, and s...
- Wed May 27, 2015 6:02 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Atheism or God? - our perception of reality.
- Replies: 169
- Views: 38658
Re: Atheism or God? - our perception of reality.
And their apologists -- don't forget the foot soldiers of the holy crusade.Skip wrote: I reserve my outrage for Billy Graham and their various holimesses, the popes, chief rabbis and ayatollahs.
- Wed May 27, 2015 5:37 pm
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' -- a fairy tale
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6053
Re: Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' -- a fairy tale
Sooner or later, someone literate will reply to this thread.
Till then, the howling chorus is welcome to howl.
Till then, the howling chorus is welcome to howl.
- Wed May 27, 2015 5:35 pm
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: On human stupidity -- are you aware...?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1823
Re: On human stupidity -- are you aware...?
Human stupidity is NEVER aware. Unable to function on a sane, rational, logical level, they take refuge in obscenity, wild rejection, hysterical attack on anything that they feel threatening. So pathetic, that only a competent criminal psychiatrist, neuro-surgeon or a simple straightjacket can contr...
- Wed May 27, 2015 5:27 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Why are some people filled with mindless hatred?
- Replies: 125
- Views: 30443
Re: Why are some people filled with mindless hatred?
Why are some people filled with mindless hatred?
Maybe because they are mindless and they like it that way!
Not having to strain the neurons must be very relaxing.
Maybe because they are mindless and they like it that way!
Not having to strain the neurons must be very relaxing.
- Wed May 27, 2015 5:23 pm
- Forum: Aesthetics
- Topic: Poetry here.
- Replies: 1185
- Views: 374129
Re: Poetry here.
Vision Adjusting the zoom of my imagination I can observe anything I like: any time, anywhere, there’s no limit, not even the sky. I can watch galaxies collide, black holes sucking in light, colourful nebula spinning on its axis, limitless space: sterile beauty, peaceful, reverent, like an abandone...
- Wed May 27, 2015 2:37 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Why did God create so many idiots?
- Replies: 130
- Views: 27816
Re: Why did God create so many idiots?
We all have seen them. They are all over. In government, in military, in business, in the citizenry at large and even on forums. So why did 'god' create so many idiots? Damn if I know. I ask myself this question every single day. Never any answer, only more and more idiots! :cry: Especially on the ...
- Wed May 27, 2015 3:25 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Is jobs = wage slavery?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 11372
Re: Is jobs = wage slavery?
And vice versa? I have read pretty well everything Ayn Rand wrote -- including her "Objectivist Newsletters" and all the books she recommended in them. I have read Leonard Peikoff's Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand and The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America . I am pai...
- Wed May 27, 2015 3:23 am
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' -- a fairy tale
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6053
Re: Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' -- a fairy tale
Thank you, gary.garygary wrote:Ned,
As always, I appreciate your candor and commitment and feel that you do not deserve the expletives above.
Nobody deserves expletives. Using expletives is an admission of intellectual bankruptcy.
- Wed May 27, 2015 3:04 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Is jobs = wage slavery?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 11372
Re: Is jobs = wage slavery?
...and you read them all, and you are familiar with their writings, to the point where you feel justified in calling them 'wackos'?garygary wrote: counterpoint to your list of liberal wackos.
Somehow I doubt it.
- Wed May 27, 2015 2:45 am
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' -- a fairy tale
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6053
Re: Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' -- a fairy tale
Ayn Rand was born and raised in Russia in a wealthy family -- the wealth came to a sudden end with the Russian revolution. She had her university education there and managed to immigrate to the US in her early twenties. Her cultural background is Russian literature: tragic, sad, violent, often borde...