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gaffo wrote: ↑Sun May 06, 2018 5:02 am whats with the slam against Solipsism?

solipsism is self evident no?

Baloney

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/solipsism

N ext week I'll start reading the classic Man's Search for Meaning" by Victor E. Frankl . I invite others to read the book and discuss it here. This is the edition that I bought and will read. https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/080701429X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8...

Here is the short version of the "I have a dream speech"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDWWy4CMhE

The author suggests that the speech was provoked by a mystical experience.
http://www.transformingcenter.org/2011/ ... h-of-soul/

. ................................................. http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/140/cache/05-martin-king-010909_14089_600x450.jpg . As I was listening to his last speech in Memphis on Democracy Now this morning, Bill, I wondered: Was King a mystic? What do you thi...

Shai Tubali considers the roots and implications of Arendt’s active philosophy. https://philosophynow.org/issues/125/Hannah_Arendt_and_the_Human_Duty_to_Think This is an excellent article. Arendt's writings are neglected. Justice John Paul Stevens, in advocating the repeal of the Second amendment t...

tbieter wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:02 pm What book changed you?

Apparently, no one's actions have been changed by a book.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 11:08 pm The only female 'philosophers' I can think of are Ayn Rand and Simone Weil, and they are both dreadful.

How do you justify calling a particular philosopher "dreadful"? What standard have you used?

I was so impressed by this short interview with psychology professor Jordan Peterson that I ordered his book form Amazon. It will arrive tomorrow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMrFgVVMqto https://www.amazon.com/12-Rules-Life-Antidote-Chaos/dp/0345816021/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519740423&s...

silence is golden. a period for self reflection and thus wisdom. and sadly the enemy of modern culture, where empty noise rules. noise for its own sake ;-/. I occasionally turn all noise off and just enjoy silence in my apartment, but not as effectively as the enjoyment that I and my dog experience...

I fucking hate this stupid meaningless existence. All we do is grow, go to school, graduate, and get a job. Well for what? Just to stay warm and stuffed in your house? That is not the way life should be. Life sucks soo much, why is fantasy better? Such as skyrim and many more is 1k times better the...

If the professor is smug about his knowledge of smugness, as he may be, that doesn't affect me. I'm not interested in such a fact. Last night I was watching an episode of the Seinfeld show. After a dispute with a former boyfriend, Elaine got into a cab driven by a Pakistani man. She said: "he ...

The nonpartisan liberals at the Tax Policy Center concede that 80 percent of Americans will see a tax cut in 2018, and that the average cut will be $2,140—which might be something to scoff at in D.C., but I imagine a bunch of voters surprised by these savings will be less cynical. Only 4.8 percent ...

Pathetic paranoid yank fucks. Don't worry about Korea. Most of the world's population would like to blow y'all up too. If we went back in time, I'm sure that you would be among those who opposed Churchill, while chanting "Don't worry about Hitler". You are amazingly unserious and biased a...