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  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    The idea that people's standing depends on their goodness has been common across a lot of cultures throughout history.Count Timothy von Icarus

    "Good" is always subject to the culture's table of values though. So you didn't really say much about an objective good.
  • Pathetic Arguments for Objective Morality...
    I misunderstood. You wrote "To dismantle this pathetic fallacy, I've devised a thought experiment." You meant a pathetic fallacy, not the pathetic fallacy.T Clark

    Fair enough, I'll change that for clarity.

    That being said, I would characterize calling an argument pathetic as what you call "cheap rhetorical tactic." Pot criticizing kettle, philosophically speaking.T Clark

    Eh, okay, just your opinion, and not a very reasonable one, just like a fallacy is bad (pathetic) reasoning.

    My basic point is that an appeal to emotion in this particular case is appropriate. It's not a fallacy at allT Clark

    That I have to explain to you, and Philosophim what a damn fallacy is and you both have been here for how long again? (8 and 5 years and you both don't know what a fallacy is) It's evidence to suggest your unwillingness to learn.

    An appeal to emotion fallacy is used to persuade someone you're right by appealing to emotion rather than the use of logical discussion. We can see the dilemma that occurs through logical discussion and the appeal to emotion fallacy attempts to bypass the logical dialogue all together.
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    The etymology of Arya is "the rich and powerful" ...
    The Mitanni kingdom, with its Indo-Aryan aristocracy, adopted Hurrian language and culture, and they were known for their chariot warfare, which was also used (the culture of Arya) by the Babylonian Empire...

    Who held the Jews captive, and were damned by God—Genesis 15:13-15

    Thus...

    Human history would be too fatuous for anything were it not for the cleverness imported into it by the weak—take at once the most important instance. All the world's efforts against the "aristocrats," the "mighty," the "masters," the "holders of power," are negligible by comparison with what has been accomplished against those classes by the Jews—the Jews, that priestly nation which eventually realised that the one method of effecting satisfaction on its enemies and tyrants was by means of a radical transvaluation of values, which was at the same time an act of the cleverest revenge. Yet the method was only appropriate to a nation of priests, to a nation of the most jealously nursed priestly revengefulness. It was the Jews who, in opposition to the aristocratic equation (good = aristocratic = beautiful = happy = loved by the gods), dared with a terrifying logic to suggest the contrary equation, and indeed to maintain with the teeth of the most profound hatred (the hatred of weakness) this contrary equation, namely, "the wretched are alone the good; the poor, the weak, the lowly, are alone the good; the suffering, the needy, the sick, the loathsome, are the only ones who are pious, the only ones who are blessed, for them alone is salvation—but you, on the other hand, you aristocrats, you men of power, you are to all eternity the evil, the horrible, the covetous, the insatiate, the godless; eternally also shall you be the unblessed, the cursed, the damned!" — Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals § 7, First Essay



    Who cares it's a completely moot tanget and red herring from the fact of Genesis 15:13-15 That God damns anyone with power over the Jew, this shows their logic in hating those more powerful than them... this places the emphasis on the weaker type.

    You take Nietzsche's meaning to be "all Jews are weak slaves," or something like that due to some reason, of which there are many you're doing so for.
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    Obviously doesn't know a damn thing about repressed instincts which cause for the greatest spasmodic explosions of compulsion in which one cannot control themselves.

    Cruelty when practiced in moderation tempers its most destructive elements...

    This has been part of psychology for the last 200 years at least... how you're blind to it just shows you're not very educated on the human condition.

    That's always the problem with dogmatists... too obstinate to see beyond what was issued to them.

    Yahweh is the Supreme Cruelty... hence why those who dont follow the equation of Jesus will remain under God's angry judgements, John 3:17... Most of Nietzsche's main points in philosophy and psychology is more or less a copy to the equation of Jesus' Glad Tidings.
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    God damns anyone with power over the Jew...
    Genesis Chapter 15 line 13-15
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    I suspect Nietzsche is taking certain biblical ideas, ignoring evidence to the contrary, and then overstating these ideas and then attributing them to a shadowy priestly class behind the text and then taking liberties in describing the social context of those shadowy priests, as if they were writing against a noble and proud aristocracy.BitconnectCarlos

    Everything Nietzsche details in his genealogy essay 1 can be found in the Old Testament. In Genesis alone at that.

    That God confuses the languages of Good and Evil, and that the powerful who enslave shall be the damned etc etc, the cunning of these slaves, like Abram fucking over Pharoah because he was a coward to admit his marriage etc etc...
  • Pathetic Arguments for Objective Morality...
    Whereas talking with you in this post is objectively pointless. Have a good day and bring a better attitude next time.Philosophim

    You didn't even know what a fallacy was until I explained it to you just now...

    Do you realize the irony of what you did here? Isn't this statement an appeal to emotion, popularity, and begging the question?Philosophim

    Nope, at least not in a fallacious way. For it to be an appeal to emotion fallacy, it would have to manipulate emotions to persuade you're right. Where as the thought experiment present the dilemma between two moral rules. I'm not making an appeal to persuade of correctness. Im showing the moral dilemma which shows my correctness: the damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario, not persuading with a fallacious appeal.DifferentiatingEgg

    And I addressed your other points in the OP, your fallacy isn't effective, it's just trash. It's annoying that you think it's a good argument. Seriously you need to brush up on basic logic. The reason it's not effective is yes, at times, killing a child could be considered good. And you use it in conjunction with your argument on an objective morality in an attempt to persaude me away from my subjectivity on morality. Thus a fallacious appeal for an objective morality vs subjective morality.
  • Pathetic Arguments for Objective Morality...
    because talking with you is relatively pointless. It's like talking at a brickwall. Your other talking points are as I said, pointless.
  • Pathetic Arguments for Objective Morality...
    You confuse the question "So if I desire to murder a child is that good?" as proof of an objective morality.Philosophim

    Except that's what you were arguing for so, no, no I was not confused about anything.
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    Quite true - especially considering that Chomsky was born in 1928 - 30 years after these events.EricH

    Not an obvious goof, Chomsky became active in Zionism under the same Supranational intentions pre-Nakba. And only afterwards turned away from Zionism. The obvious goof is you trying to challenge me with only a quick Wikipedia scan...

    I was connected to a considerable part of the Zionist movement which was opposed to a Jewish state. It’s not too well known, but until 1942 there was no official commitment of Zionist organizations to a Jewish state. And even that was in the middle of World War II. It was a decision made in the Hotel Biltmore in New York, where there was the first official call for a Jewish state. Before that in the whole Zionist movement, establishing a Jewish state was maybe implicit or in people’s minds or something, but it wasn’t an official call.

    The group that I was interested in was bi-nationalist. And that was not so small. A substantial part of the Kibbutz movement, for example, Hashomer Hatzair, was at least officially anti-state, calling for bi-nationalism. And the groups I was connected with were hoping for a socialist Palestine based on Arab-Jewish, working-class cooperation in a bi-national community: no state, no Jewish state, just Palestine.
    Chomsky

    There were over 200 delegates at the First Zionist Conference and the program waw adopted unanamously.EricH

    Nope...

    The Basel Program was drafted by a committee elected on Sunday 29 August 1897[1] comprising Max Nordau (heading the committee),[2] Nathan Birnbaum, Alexander Mintz, Siegmund Rosenberg, Saul Rafael Landau,[3][2][4] together with Hermann Schapira and Max Bodenheimer who were added to the committee on the basis of them having both drafted previous similar programs (including the "Kölner Thesen").[1]

    The seven-man committee prepared the Program over three drafting meetings.

    You should probably read your sources.

    Spectators are spectating.

    In 1942, an "Extraordinary Zionist Conference" was held and announced a fundamental departure from traditional Zionist policy[21] with its demand "that Palestine be established as a Jewish Commonwealth."[22] It became the official Zionist stand on the ultimate aim of the movement. — Your source.

    So we see in 1942 is when they announced a departure from the traditional Zionist policy. To create a commonwealth for the Jews. Rather than an inclusive supranational state.

    The big problem here is I'm considering the philosophers who delve into Zionism vs you considering non-philosophers. For example, Trump is a Zionist. Who doesn't really know a damn thong about Zionism other than "Jewish Homeland in Israel." Which is what most Zionists are... doesn't mean they know shit about Zionism. I know more about the history of Zionism than most Jew.

    Basic talking points vs the philosophy behind it.

    It's like saying you know all of Kant because you know the talking points: "Thing inside itself", "Categoical Imperatives," "Deontology" and "Apriori Faculty!" ... Here, I'll throw your claim of reality right back at you...
    I don't know where you get this notion, but it has no relationship with reality.EricH
    "Get real bruh."
  • Pathetic Arguments for Objective Morality...
    Do you realize the irony of what you did here? Isn't this statement an appeal to emotion, popularity, and begging the question?Philosophim

    Nope, at least not in a fallacious way. For it to be an appeal to emotion fallacy, it would have to manipulate emotions to persuade you're right. Where as the thought experiment present the dilemma between two moral rules. I'm not making an appeal to persuade of correctness. Im showing the moral dilemma which shows my correctness: the damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario, not persuading with a fallacious appeal.

    Apply above to the rest.

    No, a five word sentence you invented for some imaginary objective moralist, which has no evidence for being objective, is collapsing because you designed it to.Philosophim

    No, in fact you're one of the people who tried using this bogus appeal towards me in your stupid is-ought fallacy post. "Good is" thus "Good ought to be." Tautology and Is-Ought at that... that you forgot and said I made it up... well, just goes to show how piss poor your memory is. Are you imaginary?

    So if I desire to murder a child is that good?Philosophim

    Just as "Count" Timothy tried to, either earlier today, or yesterday, and there have been more times between that with other people...

    And Im tired of seeing that bs being posted as if it's some end all be all to objective morality. Cause it aint.
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    Greeks had Virtue which was free from moralic acid. Ares was a champion of war and cruelty, and he was cherished all the same as the rest of the Gods (many of which were cruel, jealous, and unjust). They all had their place. The greek were a deterministic society, time is a circle... all things hitherto and heretofore have happened and will happen over and over again, so there is no wrong choice in the gateway of this moment...

    You should probably try to brush up rather than just sound like a whiner...
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    The inuit, and Hindi aren't rigid dogmatic systems of morality that detail good and evil, and niether is Buddhism (which came after Judaism)...

    Just throwing names of old societies doesn't do shit in terms of discussing morality which dictates good and evil.

    That's what we call a swing and a miss. If you said something that is actually contrary to what I said, then you'd have a point. But you've failed in that.
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    Don't make me wrong either. Especially in light of the fact that your theory contradicts blatant evidence, such as that previously offered.javra

    Nothing you've said contradicts me.
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    What can that even mean? Let me guess, it means that in Greek antiquity, if they'd so want, they'd stomp on their own babies heads for the fun of it without any moral compulsion. Thereby being "premoral".javra

    Bruh doesn't know the Greek antiquity were famous for leaving babies on the hillside...
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    Because Buddhist, Hindus and all others, the Inuit included, don't experience any of these ... not being themselves of a Judeo-Christian morality.

    Yea. No. I disagree.
    javra

    That's fine if you don't agree, doesn't make you right. It's common knowledge that Greek antiquity were premoral. As were many other. It's why Zarathustra created the concept of Light and Darkness. Because he noticed people internalize war differently.
  • Pathetic Arguments for Objective Morality...
    The moral wrong here is that someone set up the contraption.
    — Banno

    That’s where I would have gone with the experiment.
    Fire Ologist

    You and Banno are just not thinking creatively enough. The contraption could have been set up for a completely different purpose. Say it allows one side to inherit the other. It just so happens that two people place something unknown to the other in each side. Someone places their child in hopes of them inheriting a boon or favor of some kind. Where as someone places a rabid pet, hoping the pet inherits a cure. The self destruct a fail-safe when things get out of hand.

    Moral principals.
    And objective “good.”
    Sound like things a thought experiment won’t be able to dispel, especially one that relies on some notion of good in order for it to make any sense.
    Fire Ologist

    Don't even know wtf you're trying to say here other than "it can't work because notion of "good" ... which has already been addressed in other posts. The "doing good" is assumed by the objective moralists stance that reducing pain and suffering is good. Thus THEY come to the crossroads of "damned if I do, damned if I don't," because one way they kill, breaking theor morality, the other way they neglect reduction of pain and suffering... pretty simple.
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    Because it's only the psychopath that does not experience this, right?javra

    No, moralizing, the bad conscience, ressentiment, and responsibility are trade marks of the Judeo-Christian morality:

    Aristotle draws an example of acting from the sphere of private life, in the relationship between the benefactor and his recipient. With that candid absence of moralizing that is the mark of Greek, though not of Roman, antiquity, he states first as a matter of fact that the benefactor always loves those he has helped more than he is loved by them. — Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

    Even the Titans do not yet know the incredible Semitic
    and Christian inventions, bad conscience, fault and responsibility.
    — Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy

    The tale of Prometheus is an original possession of the entire Aryan family of races, and documentary evidence of their capacity for the profoundly tragic; indeed, it is not improbable that this myth has the same characteristic significance for the Aryan race that the myth of the fall of man has for the Semitic, and that there is a relationship between the two myths like that of brother and sister. The presupposition of the Promethean myth is the transcendent value which a naïve humanity attach to fire as the true palladium of every ascending culture: that man, however, should dispose at will of this fire, and should not receive it only as a gift from heaven, as the igniting lightning or the warming solar flame, appeared to the contemplative primordial men as crime and robbery of the divine nature. And thus the first philosophical problem at once causes a painful, irreconcilable antagonism between man and God, and puts as it were a mass of rock at the gate of every culture. The best and highest that men can acquire they obtain by a crime, and must now in their turn take upon themselves its consequences, namely the whole flood of sufferings and sorrows with which the offended celestials must visit the nobly aspiring race of man: a bitter reflection, which, by the dignity it confers on crime, contrasts strangely with the Semitic myth of the fall of man, in which curiosity, beguilement, seducibility, wantonness,—in short, a whole series of pre-eminently feminine passions,—were regarded as the origin of evil. What distinguishes the Aryan representation is the sublime view of active sin as the properly Promethean virtue, which suggests at the same time the ethical basis of pessimistic tragedy as the justification of human evil—of human guilt as well as of the suffering incurred thereby. The misery in the essence of things—which[Pg 79] the contemplative Aryan is not disposed to explain away—the antagonism in the heart of the world, manifests itself to him as a medley of different worlds, for instance, a Divine and a human world, each of which is in the right individually, but as a separate existence alongside of another has to suffer for its individuation. — Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    “The weak” are those who have a conscious and who via its quiet affirmations experience shame and guilt for wrongdoings.

    “The strong”, in turn, must then be those devoid of a conscious and who thereby experience no shame or guilt for any wrongdoing whatsoever (maybe not even recognizing that the concept of wrongdoing can apply to them).
    javra

    Nope it actually reads that the weak internalize negatively and gain a bad conscience, which the strong internalize positively and don't have a bad conscience.
    It's been a while since my reading of him, granted, but this is not the Nietzsche I know of, limited as my knowledge of him is, who I’m guessing would have for example likely kicked Hitler in the groin where he to have been around – as painfully as possible, if not worse – and who can be quoted as admiring the Jewish community at large.javra

    Duh... A letter Nietzsche wrote to his sister:

    You have committed one of the greatest stupidities — for yourself and for me! Your association with an anti-Semitic chief expresses a foreignness to my whole way of life which fills me again and again with ire or melancholy… It is a matter of honor with me to be absolutely clean and unequivocal in relation to Anti-Semitism, namely, opposed to it, as I am in my writings.

    — Nietzsche, Letter to His Sister, Christmas, 1887

    The fact that the Jews, if they wanted (or if they were forced, as the anti-Semites seem to want), could already be dominant, or indeed could literally have control over present-day Europehttps://newramblerreview.com/book-reviews/philosophy/nietzsche-s-hatred-of-jew-hatred
    ...
    The Jews, however, are beyond all doubt the strongest, toughest, and purest race at present living in Europe, they know how to succeed even under the worst conditions (in fact better than under favorable ones), by means of virtues of some sort, which one would like nowadays to label as vicesFriedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

    Hence... (whoops editing cause I forgot to post the hence)
    This is the pathology that Nietzsche details to the Jew, before assigning to them a mission to revamp European communities. Which is what Zionism aimed to accomplish pre 1948.DifferentiatingEgg

    Would you like more to show you how much of a friend he was to the marilginalized Jew? A point which I've been arguing Nietzsche is a fan of Jews this whole time?

    Noone needs this Holub to detail Nietzsche's appreciation of Jews if they're a discerning reader of Nietzsche. It's common knowledge that Jews appreciate and appropriate Nietzsche's philosophy and psychology precisely for this reason: because he found the Jew to be an incredibly potent people capable of the greatest of feats of power.
  • On the substance dualism
    I wonder how often you say this in the mirror... :chin:
  • Pathetic Arguments for Objective Morality...
    The language makes it clear that Egg is looking for a fight rather that a discussion. I'm not that interested, but I'll outline an approach that might help others.Banno

    Boring. If you can prove it wrong, do so. The only one looking for a fight is you, hence why you came here to do just that, silly. Notice I made this post dedicated to exposing the bunk argument "It's always wrong to kill." And to list out other bunk arguments for objective morality... if you have arguments for objective morality, post em.

    The apparent suggestion is that there is no good or evil becasue one can set up a situation in which there is no good outcome. That's not an argument which supports that conclusion.Banno

    "no good outcome" begs the question.
    Kicking puppies for fun is about the character of the one doing the kicking. As is setting up intractable thought experiments. Anyone can kick a pup, and perhaps find it pleasing; cruelty is part of being human. Another part of being human is growing; of realising that one is part of a community, of developing the ability to consider the long-term consequences of one's actions, of moving from self-interest to nuanced considerations of fairness, reciprocity, and social responsibility.Banno

    Already overcame this accusation in earlier replies. *Yawn*

    PM me if you want further discusion. I don't think this thread worth further response.Banno

    Russell fanboi showing his ressentiment. But of course you're just "joking" as Russell was right? :lol:
  • Pathetic Arguments for Objective Morality...
    Moral judgments, like preferring to prevent suffering, can be deeply felt and socially reinforced without appealing to objective moral truths.Tom Storm

    :fire:

    The relativist can still say that pushing the button is "good" within their framework of values, even if those values are not grounded in an absolute, external moral reality. Or something like that.Tom Storm

    Absolutely, I mean ffs, I'm not looking to kill anyone or advocate the killing of others. I'm looking to kill a bad argument that's often used as a trump card here...
  • Pathetic Arguments for Objective Morality...
    I'm not here to discuss the merits of whether or not it is ever acceptable to kill babies.T Clark
    Neither am I, Im here to trash the fallacy of using that as a defense towards objective morality that many seem to love employing here.

    Here's what Wikipedia says about the pathetic fallacy.T Clark

    Not sure why it even matters to my argument as I didn't even use/discuss it, but thanks for that?

    For instance, appealing to pity when asking for help.T Clark

    Sure sure there are times when the fallacy fallacy occurs with every fallacy, no?

    As I see it, it is a fundamental human value that we protect the vulnerable members of our community, especially our children and more especially babies.T Clark

    I don't necessarily disagree, though if the vulnerable don't eventually work towards making themselves less vulnerable with aid, then let them be vulnerable, it's obvious they wish it. And many hate reaching out for assistance, cause then they lose a certain autonomy.

    Any objective moralistFire Ologist

    ...is obviously forgetting objective morality doesn't exist.

    My question is, for all moral relativists, why do you bother?Fire Ologist

    As I clarified for Clark, the post is about overcoming a stupid argument that objective moralists love throwing out on TPF. Not about what people do and don't do with their babies... that's just some strawman of this thought experiment.

    If there is no moral objectivity whatsoever, how can you say pushing the button to prevent the baby from suffering is “actually doing some good”?Fire Ologist

    Because those are the presuppositions of the objective moralists who claim there is no reason to ever end an infant's life. The dilemma arises for the objective moralist such that "Killing is objectively evil" w/ "reduction of pain and suffering is objectively good." Thus when presented with the only option to kill in order to reduce pain and suffering... there is a disconnect.

    Basically objective moralists throw in the noun "baby" for dramatic effect on "killing is always evil."

    It's a rhetorical device used to appeal to several fallacies, but we can remove "baby" all together to really get at what they're implying.
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim


    This attempt to make sense of all senseless and useless suffering can (as we already have seen) occur in two ways. Either guilt is attributed to “someone else,” or one looks for the blame in oneself.

    It is one of the deepest and most certain principles of national psychology that the Jewish people are the first—and perhaps the only—nation that has only sought solely within themselves the blame for world events.

    Jewish doctrine has, since ancient times, responded to the question “Why are we not loved?” with “Because we are guilty.” Many great Jewish thinkers have perceived the central core of Jewish teaching in this formula “Because we are guilty” and in the experience of Jewish communal attribution of guilt and communal responsibility.

    It's important for the reader to realize that, as in the viddui, the key to the pathology of our national consciousness lies in this acknowledgment of guilt, emphasized in the mighty Judeo-Christian ethic.

    There is only one emergency exit—to make sense of this suffering and make it bearable the Jew must believe that his fate has within it a particular purpose: “God disciplines those he loves.” Within this concept of suffering as punishment lies the beginning of understanding the concept of Jewish “self-hate.”

    It is different among happy, victorious peoples. They have no reason for self-flagellating, self-tormenting analysis that endangers a healthy attitude toward life and naturalself-esteem. They answer “Why does misfortune happen to us?” with a forceful accusation against those who, in their opinion, caused the misfortune.

    The Jewish situation is thereby doubly endangered. First, because the Jew repliesto the question “Why are we not loved?” with “Because we are guilty.” Second, because other nations answer the question “Why are the Jews not loved?” with “He says so himself—he is guilty."
    — Theodore Lessing, Jewish Self-Hate.

    It is this internalization that causes within the weak, feelings of ressentiment, and bad conscience and being responsible for said shame and guilt. This is the pathology of Judaism—its own backbiting virtue.

    But make no mistake, it is this very notion that makes Jews leaders in many fields, as they hold themselves accountable. Because the number one aspect of a strong leader is accountability.

    The weak, however, outnumber the strong more than 1000 to 1.

    This is the pathology that Nietzsche details to the Jew, before assigning to them a mission to revamp European communities. Which is what Zionism aimed to accomplish pre 1948.
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    I get it from Zionist philosophers, not a 7 man swiss committee making propositions on land, you'll notice none of the names I mentioned are even on that committee.

    Heck people on that committee like Brinbaum even became anti-Zionists...

    Bodenheimer joined the revisionist party of Zionism founded by Jabotinsky—

    Jabotinsky's writings state, "we do not want to eject even one Arab from either the left or the right bank of the Jordan River. We want them to prosper both economically and culturally. We envision the regime of Jewish Palestine [Eretz Israel ha-Ivri, or the 'Jewish Land of Israel'] as follows: most of the population will be Jewish, but equal rights for all Arab citizens will not only be guaranteed, they will also be fulfilled."
  • On the substance dualism
    Hrm, what is substance then?
  • On the substance dualism
    The mind is a substanceMoK

    So then the mind is physical?
  • What is faith
    It's always funny when a religious person tries to mask "Good and Evil" as "Good and Bad." Sorry, but under the "Good and Bad" system of Virtu, children were regularly killed off to prevent spending limited resources on what was considered a "bad" baby.

    The "bad" tend come up with the cheapest tactics in arguments, including "killing a baby is Evil." Well, not always.

    Suppose you come upon a screen that shows you a particular contraption... that contraption houses a rabid carnivorous beast on one side, an infant on another... between them is a impenetrable barrier. However, you see a count down begins as you become the observer of this contraption. 120 seconds is on the clock. 119 now... There is only 1 button, and that button blows up the entire contraption, baby and rabid beast.

    Waiting out the countdown releases the barrier between beast and baby to which the beast would eviscerate the baby alive, a very painful and traumatic way of dying although it would be fast, the baby would experience unimaginable pain and suffering...

    Or you can blow up the contraption, saving the baby from unimaginable pain and suffering. Killing it in an instant.

    What do you do?
  • On the substance dualism
    Got anything for me on ontological realism?
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    I mean, sure, but I'm not the most well versed in Bible study, but when a bunch of Jewish scholars find repose within Nietzsche's Genealogy, to overcome the source of bad conscience that was driving them to a schizophrenic existence, I'm going to assume there is accuracy there since Jews are always like "you're not a Jew so you wouldn't know..." Okay, well, these intellectual elite Jews would know then, and they advocate and appropriate Nietzsche Genealogy and Psychology and used it in the relaunching of Zionism in the 1890s (which was vastly different than the late 1940s Zionism).

    Okay, so they want to appeal to authority. Let's see what the authority says... Oh, whats this? They approve and appropriate from his works? Now, does that mean all Jews agree? No. But he certainly was a massive influence on early Zionist/Zionism and Jewish psychoanalysts.

    Early Zionism was to renounce any sort of biologism and nationalism, to build bridges between every nation of man and bring them together. Berdichevski, Brunner, Popper-Lynkeus, Lessing, Herzl, Buber, Chomsky, Zeitlin... the list goes on. Then all that was thrown to the wayside after the Nakba in 1948. Nationalism and self determinism for Jews became it's beck and call.

    Could I be wrong for believing all these pre 1940s Zionist? Sure. But then they too would be wrong about their own history and culture and probably shouldn't be considered as intellectual elites.
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    It’s a genealogy my man, and the Bible outside the Gospels has little to do with Jesus. Besides the last time you quoted the Gospels against me, you kinda punched yourself in the face. As ithe quote stated, those who follow God's laws will be known as the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, whereas those who don't follow God's laws will be known as least in the kingdom of heaven... keyword IN the Kingdom of Heaven... cause Jesus represents God's undying grace and loves everyone, including towards those who would shove a spear through him.

    The fuck do you think undying grace means?
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    sure 1-2 centuries before the OT was expressed as a table of categorical values.
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    Before the OT was written that we can be sure of. Since those are the values within the OT. Who gives a fuck about a specific date of when the transvaluation occurred. The fact is that it did occur, and it occurred over an era of time.

    When was the exact day you were conceived by your father and mother fucking? If you don’t know then obviously it didn't happen is basically what you're saying... not a very well thought out question or critique.

    I'm sure you can say it happened roughly 9 months beforehand... but that's not the exact time stamp... and who really gives a fuck about when your timestamp of conception actually was?
  • On the substance dualism
    the Cartesian 'thinking thing' is still very much written into the way we think about mind-body relations, often without us being aware of itWayfarer

    I mean, Nietzsche dispels that quite well enough with BGE 17. Furtherstill in Ecce Homo when detailing how he wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra. "When" is to say, akin to one meditating and not identifying wtf they're hearing, but rather just hears it without consciousness without analysis... it becomes a sort of white noise, a sort of music and melody. That is when your inner thoughts really come to you, without thinking... one merely becomes the mouth piece of internal unconscious forces.
  • On the substance dualism
    What is mental substance?

    The object cannot directly perceive its content, the informationMoK

    It doesn't—stiumulus happens at the extroceptors (external senesory organs). And moves internally...through physical substances. Perceptions ARE physical realities. There are irreducibly many mental ways of organizing physical perceptions though, which give perceptions a mentalistic air about them.

    You always have something solid to say, even when I'm like wtf... no... a moment of ruminating and I'm like, wait wtf... yes... you ever teach before? If you don't mind, @ me in the shout box with some book recommendations?
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    You're not here to learn a damn thing so shoo. Tis the last I speak with you (here).DifferentiatingEgg

    Applies now that my cascade of thoughts is more or less done...
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    But Nietzsche levels lots of scorn at Plato, Aristotle, and Kant.Count Timothy von Icarus

    You mean Plato, Socrates and Kant. Aristotle used a double orbit to show two opposites are connected. Just as Heraclitus... N doesn't bash Aristotle, except rarely, more rare than he mocks Spinoza...who he claimed a sort of kinship with...

    Which is one of Nietzsche's fundamentals (the plant that grows out of two opposites which are fundamentally of the same cause).
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    I find cruel irony in that though. First, that he who disparaged the crowd became the "philosopher of the masses," and second that he became the philosopher of the masses in this eraCount Timothy von Icarus

    You should probably read Thus Spoke Zarathustra more closely then... that was exactly his intention. Not to preach to but to draw from the masses.

    A light hath dawned upon me: I need companions—living ones; not dead companions and corpses, which I carry with me where I will.

    But I need living companions, who will follow me because they want to follow themselves—and to the place where I will.

    A light hath dawned upon me. Not to the people is Zarathustra to speak, but to companions! Zarathustra shall not be the herd’s herdsman and hound!

    To allure many from the herd—for that purpose have I come. The people and the herd must be angry with me: a robber shall Zarathustra be called by the herdsmen.
    — Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Prologue
  • If there is a god then he surely isnt all merciful and all loving like islam and Christianity claim
    When I think: I have cascading series of thoughts, they don't all come out at once... unless you want me to just submit multiple posts in a row. I can do that, if you prefer.

    First you whine about historical scholarship and his psychoanalysis... well there are an abundance of those in such professions who appreciate Nietzsche's works. You trying to say his notions are shit when there are many Jewish scholars, which is only a subset of all those who detail his Genealogy as accurate shows your agenda...

    You're not here to learn a damn thing so shoo. Tis the last I speak with you (here).

DifferentiatingEgg

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