A simple change of venue would have been an appropriate fix. How would you go about finding an impartial court and jury? — NOS4A2

First of all, the chance of Trump spending even a day in prison is zero. — Relativist

Dogmatism can creep in anywhere. — Mikie

I see little difference between religion and philosophy— both ask very universal, difficult, extra-ordinary questions about existence. — Mikie

1. NYC felony indictment
31Mar23 :up:
"34 counts of Business Documents Fraud Crealing and/or Covering-up Felonies", etc

https://apnews.com/article/trump-indictment-full-document-640043319549?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=RelatedStories&utm_campaign=position_02 — 180 Proof

By the way, Israel does not represent Jews globally. It doesn't even represent all Jews within its borders. Many are adamantly opposed to Israel's malpractices. — Tzeentch

Jewish nation-state — schopenhauer1

Purpose ... Perhaps? — Outlander

Death is only an issue if one first cares about dying. — Constance

I think it started as pure philosophy, then wandered into superstition and lost its way in organized religion. — Vera Mont

Religion, to me, is about, and rises out of, [ ... ] questions arise that cannot be answered leading to suffering. Many religions thus aim to reconcile this difference by denying it. Thus, ”all is one”, ”experience of self is an illusion” etc. — Jussi Tennilä

Fear of death is downstream from the realisation of this distinction between ”I” and ”other”.

Folks might like to read 'The Dispossessed', by Ursula K LeGuin, for a plausible imagining of a cooperative anarchy. — unenlightened

The background of the question is a kind of genealogy of ownership. — frank

hope is more of a religious thing.
— Fire Ologist

Wrong way around. Hope is a human thing and therefore religion. — Vera Mont

The warning was "If ye eat from the Tree, ye will surely die", as opposed to "instantly die". — Outlander

[T]he corresponding UN Security Council resolutions make exactly this argument - that Israel was making any peace deal impossible by creating facts on the ground that are basically irreversible. That was exactly the goal of the settlement policy. — Tzeentch

And that's why Netanyahu supported so eagerly Hamas, those Palestinians that are against a negotiated two state solution. — ssu

We start off with freedom. [ ... ] What do you want with knowing? — ENOAH

religion deals explicitly with metaphysics — Astrophel

Isn't everything a magical quest for immortality ...? — Outlander

The essence of religion is seek truth; and it holds true in its authentic practice. — ENOAH

TN is the natural and common state of most [hep]cats. — tim wood

There is mental floss and there is philosophy. Mental floss can be part of philosophy, but in the way that doing math exercises helps strengthen your math abilities.. You aren't really a mathematician unless you use some of those skills for constructing proofs, etc. — schopenhauer1

Questioning takes priority over answers. — Fooloso4

a matter of inquiry not solving problems with definitive answers — Fooloso4

... these hypotheses do not put an end to questioning. They lead to and guide further questioning. — Fooloso4

I can make no sense of "Transcendent Naturalism." Does anyone here have the ambition to try make some sense of the term in a sentence or two, or three? — tim wood

If you are planning to visit Madrid one day, I am your trustworthy Local Guide user! — javi2541997

If there is something left for philosophy to do, I haven't been able to figure out what that is, and god knows I've tried. — Srap Tasmaner

What does 'rodeo clowning bulls' mean? — bert1

[Wittgenstein] is not talking about language, as Rorty and Wayfarer’s Kenneth Taylor take it, he is looking at how we talk, in certain examples (calling out, rule following, pointing, continuing a series, seeing, understanding, and, even, “meaning”/language, but only as another example), because it is a window, a method, in order to see how different things do what they do differently (our criteria for judging can be seen in the ways we talk).

His goal is not to tell us the way the world works, e.g., by way of rules, or that this is how rules work. Initially he is trying to figure out why he got stuck on one solution (in the Tract[atus]), when the world works in so many different ways. What he learns first is that our desire for certainty narrows our vision (dictates the form of answer), and so, yes, it is a book about self-knowledge. It aims to show us how our interests affect our thinking. — Antony Nickles