..and John. Those have a distinctive style. Makes me want to paint.

I really like your paintings Cavacava

The only odd question is why I'm the only one that has to justify myself (worth thinking about why that is). — The Great Whatever

I think you suffer your views to be challenged. You answer questions. You are capable of communication in a way that others find hard.

I think Hume's idea that if you keep asking 'Well, what's good about that?' you eventually end up with pleasure = good and pain = evil is a very interesting and robust position. Despite it being very philosophically strong, for some reason many people don't like it or they don't think it true, so I guess people argue against it.

I don't think I agree with it either, by the way, but I am nevertheless very sympathetic to TGWs Humean position.

1.) God does not exist, and therefore life is absurd.

2.) Life is absurd without god, therefore god exists. — darthbarracuda

Rejigging these a bit:

Argument 1:
1. If there is no God, then life is absurd
2. There is no God
Therefore, life is absurd (MP)

Argument 2:
1. If there is no God, then life is absurd
2. Life is not absurd
Therefore, there is God (MTT)

Both arguments are valid (unless I've got myself in a muddle). Are these what you had in mind darthbarracuda?

I think there is also the fact that this is a brand new forum and members are excited and want to populate it with posts to 'get it going'. Once it's got going things might become a bit more focused on philosophy. Two things I think will help in this regard:
1) Saving drafts (I often didn't post on PF because I couldn't post fast enough and couldn't be bothered to open a text file and start a post in that. Even when I did draft a post in a text file I often never got around to posting it as it sat gathering dust on my desktop).
2) Having a regular paper of the month to read. Great idea.

I wish I had more time to get stuck into the philosophy here.

This is supposed to be Socrates. I guess the artist is emphasising his famed ugliness.

I like Hypatia as well.

Not yet. Incredibly it's still going. There was a 2015 race at least.

Looks nice to me. :) Aaah, we have saved drafts. That's good.