Do you think there is a man who isn't concerned about his masculinity? — unenlightened
If I was tied to five other people it would really matter that we agreed on which direction to walk (I might get injured if we don't all agree), but none of us would consider the chosen direction to be objectively 'right', we might as easily have tossed a coin for it. — Isaac
However, the question "What is your reason for living?" is misleading, insofar as living is the default, and as such, there's no specific personal reason for it. — baker
This isn't merely about competing desires. It's about being sure that one is doing the right thing, the ethical, moral thing. — baker
The same as people being against Minaret songs but ok with church bells. — Christoffer
An interesting bit of debate going on here. I think that the idea of 'cleansing' of prejudice is a bit problematic as a metaphor. It reminds me too much of the whole racist of the idea of ethnic cleansing. It also conjures up images of antibacterial gel and disinfectant, as if being applied to our thoughts and feelings. — Jack Cummins
I would suggest that what is important is that prejudices, preferences and dislikes are brought out into the open for discussion. Perhaps this is what is really needed for the raising of consciousness. — Jack Cummins
Here's a thing to keep in mind: it's the laws of particular countries that are wrong, not the clothing they command.
Sometimes this gets mixed up. — Banno
We are the only ones able to consciously absorb information from the Universe and transform and/or shape it in any way we want. — Gus Lamarch
What I say is that the individual capacity of the human being to consciously experience existence makes the "existential" center of the Universe, "Humanity" - the individual - the Ego - -. — Gus Lamarch
"You're not even trying" — Gus Lamarch
As in "It cannot experience itself".
You're not even trying. — Gus Lamarch
"I" am the center of the Universe. — Gus Lamarch
That is why we can conclude no two objects can occupy the same space at the same time. — Don Wade
The idea that we can be cleansed of our biases, prejudices, dispositions, preference, et cetera is a non-starter. Frankly, I don't want anyone fumigating my mind for any reason. — Bitter Crank
The statement I believe I can make is: the seeds of the apple are occupying some of the same space as the apple itself. — Don Wade
What I do want to convey is the glaring inconsistency in allowing Christian nuns to wear their choice of clothes [clothes that bear an uncanny resemblance to the Moslem chador] and then taking umbrage at the Moslem chador. — TheMadFool
If something exists, but it cannot be experienced, and there is something in this existing "something" that is capable of perceiving himself and perceiving the former, this "object" is undoubtedly the center of the first. — Gus Lamarch
The protective effects of herd immunity just doesn't happen "magically" because we added more healthy immune people into the mix. There is a reason that we get this "protective effect". — Roger Gregoire
If what you say were true, then the protective effects of herd immunity would be impossible. — Roger Gregoire
No they don't because the desire itself is not logical. — Darkneos
where you live, it's not an investment, actually — ssu
Yet if you put that house or flat for rent, then the debt is understandable: one can easily get an rent that pays for the interest and loan amortization still leaving a profit and you don't need to speculate where the housing prices go. — ssu
But solving this problem doesn’t lend itself to an action-hero scenario. In fact there is no way to predict or control what follows, making it difficult to evaluate the ‘success’ of our actions, let alone get any form of thanks for it. — Possibility
Desiring to do something (and knowing one enjoys it) is not a sufficient reason to do it, nor to want to do it. — baker
Competing desires weigh in on whether the ultimate decision taken is logical -- eating ice cream when you are obese is illogical if you wish to lose weight -- but those aside, logic dictates that that which you will to be done is that which you act to realise. — Kenosha Kid
Well, interest rates are the lowest ever, like in thousands of years low. And creating mortrages is the most normal thing any bank will do. — ssu
Oh yeah, avoiding paying all that mortgage interest is super dumb — Pfhorrest
The Universe exists;
"I" exist in the Universe;
"I" am the center of the Universe. — Gus Lamarch
What's helping you win arguments and prevail? — baker
In other words, you can be as masculine as you want as long as your version of masculinity conforms to someone elses version if masculinity. — Harry Hindu
Should we also consider extreme feminism as a problem? — Harry Hindu
But then, you would probably be too sick to go out in public environments in the first place. — Roger Gregoire
But masking healthy people who would normally remove more of the virus than they contribute — Roger Gregoire
Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False. — Wayfarer
The physical sciences can describe organisms like ourselves as parts of the objective spatio-temporal order
The point of Non-Truth # 1 was to dispel the belief that people infect other people. — Roger Gregoire
For example, we hear the propaganda slogan "Wear your mask to protect others" (or to protect your neighbors grandma, etc). The point is that grandma (and others) only get infected because they went into contaminated areas, and not necessarily because you and I did or did not wear a mask. — Roger Gregoire
Bad faith and ill will are evolutionarily advantageous. — baker
There was a time when I wanted to become a Catholic nun, and I can say from personal experience that the standards of dress were never an issue for me — baker
Becoming and being a nun is just not for every woman, nor is every woman required to be one. — baker
How many Muslim women have you interviewed about this? — baker
From what you've said, I surmise that you're assuming that the baseline from which all women all over the world all over history start (or from which they should start) is the same: that they all want to live by a certain Western secular standard; and that if they can't live by that standard, they feel oppressed and only follow social norms out of fear. — baker
It's a false dichotomy to begin with. — baker
Recourse to the law in "civilized" countries?
Where do you live???! — baker
Heaven knows you feel a fierce moral indignation and your armor is shining on your white horse. — baker
Agreed. But check your concern and how you interpret it.
There is a tendency to focus on the ‘victim’ as the passive object of our concern, rather than as a free-thinking agent who has been limited under conditions of culturally perceived potentiality. Men want to rescue the victim from certain ‘forces’, without examining the conditions that attribute potentiality to these ‘forces’ rather than the agent. — Possibility
Incorrect. Liking something is not a wish to KEEP doing it, only that doing it elicits a certain feeling in you. It's like saying I enjoy dancing. However I do not dance. MY enjoyment of a task is not a reason to do it. — Darkneos
Also, I have to admit that sometimes even when I read this site I get quite worked up by some posts I read. To some extent, emotion and anger do have a motivating effect in enabling us to fight for certain causes. — Jack Cummins