Safety? Comfort? Lack of negative stigmatizing judgement? Sounds awful. — Wosret
It doesn't look like there's going to be much discussion of intersubjective consciousness. :( — unenlightened
I meant to say that it is of utmost importance to be in agreement with those around you about what you aren't, and are not entitled to. — Wosret
Why does this topic have to be about 'me'? — Posty McPostface
... is exactly on topic.I should also mention that places like this forum and the old PF, have given me a sense of stability. Listening to what a fictional Marcus Aurelius would say in my mind also helped. Philosophy itself is a dialectical art that began with the dialogues of Plato and Socrates, and if you take a harder reading, then all philosophy is a sort of dialectical art according to Hegel. — Posty McPostface
Hey, dude, I'm only shooting the messenger, because he seems to have bought the message wholesale. It's not clear, it's not confirmed, it's not been properly investigated. It is interesting, and particularly so because it seems to come out of, or play into, a rather interesting philosophy, which is what I would rather be looking at than defending a practice I don't have any experience of from summary dismissal.There isn't much I can say to any of that. The claims are apparently both unconfirmable, and denied out of closed-mindedness... — Wosret
Need others in order to send you sanity, and socializing feedback. Isn't that the very suggestion of open dialogue? That sanity arises out of intersubjectivity, and erodes in isolation? — Wosret
Why have you become senseless critical? — Wosret
That ultimately doesn't matter to the logic of your suggestion without the entailment that low self-esteem is causal. — Wosret
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