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US Election 2024 (All general discussion)
:fire: :death:The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. — FDR, as Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany, 1933
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Should I get with my teacher?:smirk: Well ...
... a student's pov:
https://youtu.be/7grUgixqH8I?si=7SxW3vFpDEV2X9Rg
or a teacher's pov:
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Cosmology & evolution: theism vs deism vs accidentalism@Gnomon – An interesting summary of Stephen Meyer's polemical thesis; however, dress-up "Intelligent Design" any way – with any jargon – you wish, it is always both fallacious (re: argument from ignorance (i.e. god-of-the-gaps)) and scientistic pseudo-science (re: non-explanatory (i.e. "god did it" ), ergo experimentally untestable (i.e. does not make any unique predictions). Thus, he has not made a compelling case, or sound argument, against contemporary cosmological or evolutionary theories and/or in favor of (a) more testably explanatory model(s).
Fwiw by contrast, here is the link to a short summery of particle physicist and philosopher Victor J. Stenger's God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist (2007) ...
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The Cogito
No. Yes. Re: the last sentence of my post that you left out of the quote:Do you think anything can be inferred from the cogito, whatsoever? Or is it entirely different from the philosophical subject, or are they one and the same and yet meaningless tautology? — Moliere
In other words, the latter [pathology] cannot be said and the former [tautology] need not be said: neither expresses a distinction that makes a[n ontological] difference. — 180 Proof -
Things that aren't "Real" aren't Meaningfully Different than Things that are Real.
Circular reasoning & compositional fallacy.If we live in a simulation, it would also be the real world, because the simulation exists in the real world. — Hyper
So how do you designate the distinction between a copy / counterfeit and the original? or distinguish a fictional account from a nonfictional account?The term "fake" is misleading because everything exists in a sense.
Anyway, consider "Meinong's Jungle" ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meinong%27s_jungle
:lol:Try living in a picture of a house for a week, and get back to us.
— unenlightened
Yo mamma was so fat, her picture weighed 10 pounds. — T Clark -
The CogitoCaveat: dubito, dubitans accidit. :smirk:
Yes, "the subject" is what an object does and, as Spinoza suggests, a complementary way of attributing-describing an object's predicates. In other words, "for itself" is only a kind – phase transition – of "in itself" (pace Sartre).Descartes’ mistake: the subject isn’t as much a different substance than the object, as it is differently conditioned than an object.
(2020)
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US Election 2024 (All general discussion)Maybe that explains why non-MAGA cultists voted for The Clown but does not explain why about 7 million Democratic voters who had voted for Biden in 2020 did not vote for Harris (or The Clown) this year.
Maybe. :smirk:Or... maybe I'm full of shit and we are all fucked. — Fooloso4 -
US Election 2024 (All general discussion)Yes, assuming this post-election autopsy is correct:
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US Election 2024 (All general discussion)18Nov24
I'm not mad at MAGAs, a majority of white women and "low information" citizens for again voting for The Clown. Instead, I'm pissed at the ten-plus million of Dems who didn't bother to vote for the second time in 8 years (2 out of the last 3 general elections) most likely because the Dem candidate for president was female.
Lesson: (If I'm not profoundly mistaken) many working class, non-college educated men & women would rather not vote than vote for an "Alpha Woman" to be POTUS.
So will the DNC learn this lesson? :mask:
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A Secular Look At Religion
There isn't any significant anthropological evidence of "religion" before ca. 50-80,000 years ago (i.e. before the Upper Paleolithic era)¹ in a period – the Lower Paleolithic era – when "evolutionary" pressures might have still been at work on (modern)² H. sapiens, so your notion of "beneficial", Brendan, does not make sense in this context. Evolution has nothing to do with it insofar as "religion" has only been operative – manifest – via cultural development for about the last 2% of the entire existence of the Homo genus (2.8 million years).I meant "beneficial" in the evolutionary sense — Brendan Golledge
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_religion [1]
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A Secular Look At Religion
:roll: At best, sir, this premise does not make any sense (re: "common" therefore "beneficial"? like e.g. poor hygiene, bigotry, sex/child abuse, theft/fraud, bullshit/lies, ignorance, superstitions, scapegoating, conspiracy theories, war, poverty, etc) "Religion" is a cultural phenomenon, imo, symptomatic of human commons afflicted by both material scarcity & biological morbidity; my guess is 'post-scarcity¹, immorbid² persons' will not be in any recognizable (Bronze/Iron Age) sense "religious" (i.e. magical thinkers).Anything that's common must be good at existing in one way or another, or else it would not exist. So, since religion is common amongst humans, it must serve some beneficial purpose, ... — Brendan Golledge
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity [1]
https://healthylongevitychallenge.org/the-quest-for-immorbidity-what-if-you-could-live-a-long-life-disease-free/ [2] -
US Election 2024 (All general discussion):up:
e.g. Dune.Monarchy is a very robust form of government, even more so when linked to a state religion. We'll pretty much all go back to monarchies as climate change sets in. Democracy is just a tool. It's not a good in itself. — frank -
A Secular Look At Religion
Yes, magical thinking in performative forms of woo-of-the-gaps superstitions, immortality fantasies, folk/fairy tales, etc – no doubt the childhood of our species. :sparkle:religion's intrinsic, cultural, or existential significance — Wayfarer -
US Election 2024 (All general discussion)
:up:Biological men should not be in women's sports. — RogueAI -
With philosophy, poetry and politics on my mind...Re: The Myth of Siayphus by A. Camus; also, section 2.5 (esp. re: Camus) of the SEP article "Hope" ...
Same reason anyone wears "lipstick".Why 'lipstick'? With its female connotation?
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With philosophy, poetry and politics on my mind...:chin: Denying "the nightmare" – e.g. prayers in foxholes – 'nostalgia' (philosophical suicide) to evade the absurd (re: disorder, uncertainty, catastrophe, transience, loss, death). Sorry, more Camus ...
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I know the advancement of AI is good, but it's ruined myself and out look on things"AI" cannot harm our species – retard our development, sabotage our potential – more than we have harmed (and continue to harm) ourselves in so many ways. Imo, "AI" offers a possibility, however improbable, of slowing down (or even once and for all breaking) civilization-scale "boom-n-bust" cycles: not "utopia" but posthumanity (i.e. agency sans scarcity-conditions (via automated metacognition ("AGI")). It seems to me that we're now living through either the Anthropocene-ending chrysalis ... or a gradual extinction-event (e.g. global burning, autocratic / theocratic populisms, WMD proliferation, etc). Unless we're too late, building "AI" is the Copernican Revolution – "the last human invention". :fire:
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Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)
:monkey:And into the china shop, walks the bull. — Wayfarer -
Earth's evolution contains ethical principles:up: :up:
Here's a topic-adjecent discussion ...
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/904662 -
Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)
As always, comrade, I keep on laughing to keep from crying. I'm not a left-wingnut accelerationist but ... we're so fucked. :cry: :sweat:Don't know whether to laugh or cry. But probably the latter. — Wayfarer -
US Election 2024 (All general discussion)21Jan25: MAGA¹ America officially becomes an oligarchic (corporatist) kakistocracy.²
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/945323 [1]
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With philosophy, poetry and politics on my mind...
Consider again the sections featuring Aristotle, Spinoza & Camus in the SEP article on Hope –I don't have a full understanding of this and what it means for you. This conception of 'courage sans hope'. — Amity
e.g. "Sisyphus" endlessly rolling his philosopher's stone; casualties making love in the trenches and raising children in foxholes; the homeless singing the blues to momentarily chase away blue devils...
"You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on."
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
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US Election 2024 (All general discussion)2024: Sometimes the sheeple vote for wolves instead of sheepdogs.
e.g. 53% of White women again chose a "Your Body, My Choice" misogynist by playing the "White Power" (MAGA) race card.
addendum to:
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/945715
@Amity @Mikie @Benkei @Maw @Wayfarer @Fooloso4 @Vera Mont @Baden -
With philosophy, poetry and politics on my mind...
Thanks. :up:
Fwiw, my conception of courage sans hope is primarily indebted to Aristotle, Spinoza & Camus (as well as e.g. Laozi, Epicurus, Epictetus, P. Zapffe, F. Kafka, S. Beckett, C. Rosset, A. Murray ... who aren't mentioned in the article) and grounded in lived experience.
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With philosophy, poetry and politics on my mind...:up: :up:
From 2023 ...
Yeah, in 2024 that "1 way to lose" will be the same as 2016: HRC. The Dems don't learn new tricks often ... though maybe VP Harris :yikes: (if Biden drops out of the race and the Dems don't nominate e.g. Gov Newsom, Gov Whitmer, et al) – HRC redux. — 180 Proof -
With philosophy, poetry and politics on my mind...There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge even wisdom. Like art. — Toni Morrison
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US Election 2024 (All general discussion)
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Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)
No doubt he does because the majority of "poorly educated" (+ reality tv, WWE & social media-brain addled) US voters love "Trump". :eyes: :mask:I LOVE THE POORLY EDUCATED. — President-elect Trump, 6Nov24
180 Proof
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