As personal choice I have no complaint. I'm objecting only to any effort to turn a personal choice in to a universal maxim. — Jake
Every single one of the millions of species which have existed on Earth for millions of years have been of limited ability. — Jake
Yup, I agree. Except, there is no realm where not using logic is useful. — NKBJ
Sorry, but your assertions seem to amount to little more than faith. — NKBJ
You keep waving at some unknown unknowable realm that can't be seen or heard or reasoned that I'm just supposed to believe in. — NKBJ
For me, the funny part is that you're so quick and happy to accept my worldview as "just an opinion" but you're so insistent on having some grand, sage-like insight into the world, while at the same time contending it to be incomprehensible. — NKBJ
Yes, it's religious dogma if I have to do some voodoo carp like meditation to ascertain some illogical, mystical truths/untruths/halftruths/beyond truths. — NKBJ
Your age-difference justification is just... Reaching? — NKBJ
Ok, so let me ask you this young man. Do you plan learning anything as you proceed through life? Or is it your expectation that your level of insight and understanding will always remain the same?
Do you perhaps see how effortlessly I am slamming your snotty comments back down your throat? That's not because I'm smarter than you, which is probably not true. It's only because I've been playing this game since before you were born, maybe since before your parents were born.
Perhaps we can talk again some time when you've had a chance to calm down and let go of some of this teenager atheist ideologue snottiness. Sadly, becoming 67 does not automatically liberate one from impatience with noisy children. :smile: — Jake
I actually don't think it's my supposed "snottiness" that's getting to you. — NKBJ
I think you just have nothing to counter and you're irritated that you can't make a good, strong case for your mysticism — NKBJ
Your inability to use logic is showing here. — NKBJ
I'm irritated at myself (not at you) for yet again getting sucked in to trying to talk reason with atheist Jehovah's Witnesses who are probably just barely old enough to vote. You know, I'm looking my old self who should surely know better by now in the mirror and asking, "Dude, why don't I get a life you moron???" Sorry to report, aging doesn't solve everything. — Jake
If you don't expect that you, or anyone, will learn as they proceed through life then your claim that age is irrelevant is reasonable.
If you do expect to learn as you proceed through life, then your claim that age is irrelevant is nonsense. — Jake
I just think it's too funny that you think you can deduce my age from the fact that I simply do not agree with you. I mean, that's just the epitome of religious dogma right there. — NKBJ
Additionally, age is immaterial, because either an argument is good or bad in and of itself. — NKBJ
I realize Nietzsche is your personal pet philosopher. — NKBJ
In defending Nietzsche here, what I really want to do is defend a direction that both cognitive science and philosophy of mind seem to be going in, consisting of the abandonment of representationalist models of mental functioning and the embrace of enactive approaches.there's not much you could say to convince me that he's much good at all. — NKBJ
efficacy of theories of autism, schizophrenia, development of empathy and affectivity — Joshs
Antonio Damasio incorporate his ideas into their work. But perhaps there's not much I could say to convince you that Damsio's award winning research is much good at all. — Joshs
If I have to read a whole host of secondary literature to understand Nietzsche, that's just proof that he's no good at all. (It's also epistemologically suspect, in that if you need to read Heidegger to understand Nietzche, — NKBJ
When I find myself having to make use of secondary literature in order to understand a philosopher's work, sometimes it can mean that writer's ideas are 'no good', but it usually means(for instance in the case of Spinoza, Leibnitz and Kant), that their approach is highly complex and subtle, and their writing style idosyncratic. — Joshs
What makes it a "rabbit hole", please explain that term for me. — whollyrolling
Nietzsche is one of the most influential voices in human history. — whollyrolling
Anyway, let me stop trying to convince anyone to read things. — whollyrolling
100% of existence is saturated with contradiction. — whollyrolling
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