Reasonable questions but is it apathy and cynicism from supporters? Or do you think many of them accept the Trump narrative as true believers in a war against a corrupt 'business as usual' political process? If this phenomenon operates similarly to a cult, then it's a highly complex situation. — Tom Storm

You are marvellous. Keep on going on! — Amity

I'm curious what people's writing process is. Mine may be unusual.

[ ... ]

How do you write? — hypericin

Can you firstly define what you mean by “rationality” ... — Bob Ross

... and, secondly, explain how and why you ground ethics in it? — Bob Ross

Are you saying that the moral facts obliges us to posit hypothetical imperatives?

If so, then what are those facts?

And how are they facts (as opposed to hypothetical imperatives themselves)?

If God is anything like the ones depicted in the Judeo-Christo-Islamic doctrines, and if your proposition is correct, free will becomes impossible, as does moral growth.

Personally, I'm picturing a parent of small children who teaches them correct behaviour by watching through a one-way mirror as they kill one another. — Vera Mont

Some people say Trump sucked Giulani's cock — Benkei

It seems like, and correct me if I am wrong, you ground rationality purely in ethics and not epistemology (and I do the opposite). — Bob Ross

Moral facts are useless.

He hears the silence howling
Catches angels as they fall
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls
Oh, he picks up Gideons bible
Open at page one ...

I think that, in light of this, “rationality”, in the sense of “acting in a manner that agrees with reality”, can be objectively grounded insofar as the hypothetical imperative (of reducing suffering (i.e. species defects)) is a presupposition of ethics (ecology, medicine) and thusly not within it; and so “rationality”, which in the sense defined (above) is deeply rooted in ethical (ecological, medicinal) principles, is grounded in the objective ethical (ecological, medicinal) norms.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing. — William Faulkner

Only the questions are eternal. — Elie Wiesel

I am 100% certain that I am conscious but it is not possible for me to know with 100% certainty that my body, other humans, non-human organisms, the Earth and the rest of the Universe actually exist. — Truth Seeker

What do you think about the evidential value of these conjectural examples? — ucarr

1) Intelligence is motion organized; — ucarr

2) Motion organized within sentients is adaptation;

3) Adaptation is sentient control of environment;

4) Sentient controlled environment selects for mutations that improve adaptation to environment

It really doesn't matter if we call it 'philosophy' or 'fundamental ontology' [or] 'big picture synthesizing talk.' — plaque flag

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

2. Miami, Federal indictment
8Jun23 :up:
re: 37 counts "Mishandling Documents, Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice, Violating Espionage Act, Making False Statements to Federal Authorities, Witness Tampering" etc

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/08/donald-trump-charged-retention-classified-documents

9Jun23 Federal indictment unsealed ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/09/trump-indictment-unsealed-pdf-text-criminal-charges

2.1 Miami, Federal Superceding Indictment (1)
27Jul23 :up:
+3 felony charges (+1 Espionage (32), +2 Obstruction), etc
+ new exhibit – "Iran war plan" documents (audio, July 2021)

3. Washington, DC, Federal indictment
1Aug23 :up:
re: 4 counts
• Conspiracy to Defraud the U.S.;
• Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding;
• Obstruction of and attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding;
• Conspiracy to Deprive Voting Rights

1Aug23 Federal Indictment unsealed ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/01/trump-indictment-full-text-2020-election-jan-6 — 180 Proof

I would ask simple questions:
1. Why does one human wish to be more powerful and have more wealth than any other? — universeness

Are such drives/motivations, 100% connected to our 'survival of the fittest, jungle rules, beginnings?'

If so, then what does the notion of 'civilisation,' really mean to humans?

2. Do you think 8 billion humans, fully co-operating, could achieve more than 8 billion humans competing under the control of an elite global few?

3. Can the human species find common cause, when we consider the scale of the universe and the resources available within it?

4. Consider unfettered capitalism in permanent action, forever unchallenged, what would you predict,
would be the main result of such a permanent global system, for our species?

I've never read any of Schopenhauer's works, but [ ... ] — Gnomon

Btw, DJT will be stricken from some key state ballots due to provisions in US 14th Amendment, Sec. 3 because of the findings of J6 Committee and subsequent state & federal indictments, so the fat old orange fascist fuck won't be able to run again in '24 (though he'll still be a player / spoiler of some sort.) — 180 Proof

And on and on and hosanna. That is to say apparently gaslighting seems to be the answer. — schopenhauer1

The only deity consistent with a world (it purportedly created and sustains) ravaged by natural afflictions (e.g. living creatures inexorably devour living creatures; congenital birth defects; etc), man-made catastrophes and self-inflicted interpersonal miseries is either a Sadist or a fiction – neither of which are worthy of worship. — 180 Proof

rationality itself is god — plaque flag

In this conversation, I want to examine whether or not positing evolution in place of a creator amounts, in the end, to the same thing as ... — ucarr

... positing a creator in place of evolution.

So there's an existential decision to live in a beautifully impersonal way, which I understand as maximally social. — plaque flag

I want to be us and not just me.

I want to strive heroically against my own petty finitude, toward the relative infinity of Feuerbach's species-essence.