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Showing the newest forum posts in all categories as well as posts from your groups.
Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 14, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Thibaud70
Something strange happened in gender theory in recent years. Long ago, when conservatives and bigots dominated society, gender was virtually unknown. There was only _sex_, and it was biological: chromosomes, hormones, body parts like testicles and ...
3 comments
Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 12, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by rainmanjr
LINKTaoism, Passivity and Naturalism | Tao | Alan Watts - YouTube
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 12, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by BrentMBA2004
Sunday past, I'm sitting at a memorial bench I donated to this park near our home, on behalf of my deceased fiancee. This lady was hiking by and started asking me questions and started sharing with me about dealing with grief. Very cool lady, but a ...
13 comments
Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 11, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Castlepaloma
Satan Klaus, the Ether Bunny, the Rotten Tooth Fairy, and the Man on the Moon, the Covid , Transgender are women and Banks back by something rather than nothing. Are all real!!!.......🤣 Luckily the fully immerse make-believe that is at least ...
3 comments
Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 11, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Thibaud70
What does the injunction, "Be yourself!" mean? Does every person have a core, a personal substance within him or her that can and should be recognized and realized? Is "self-actualization" possible and desirable? Or is there no such core, is the ...
6 comments
Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 10, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by SpikeTalon
Some good advice there.
1 comment
Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 8, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by laidback1
I'm realizing part of the psychological war to divide & conquer , the enemy will use hate filled offensive language and want us to give it back , because the enemy is controling all oppositional angles of political persuasion. This tactic has to be ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 8, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by skado
ON COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (Thanks to racocn8 for initiating this important discussion: ) There are few things that humans like less than having to modify our worldview. It can be terrifying. And understandably so, because it ...
8 comments
Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 7, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Thibaud70
(This is an addendum to another post about liberalism): It is misleading and wrong to treat liberalism and libertarianism as fundamentally different (as do many people in the USA, where socialists call themselves "liberals", whereas libertarians ...
9 comments
Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 7, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Thibaud70
One of the central tenets of liberalism, first proposed by John Stuart Mill, is the so-called harm principle : it says that people should be free to act however they wish unless their actions cause harm to somebody else. A different version is that ...
11 comments
Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 6, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by FrostyJim
I stand with the Tennessee Three...
4 comments
Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 6, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by racocn8
Do atheists experience cognitive dissonance in their life as it unfolds? Or do agnostics? If so, what is it. Would religionists ever admit to experiencing cognitive dissonance?
8 comments
Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 5, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Castlepaloma
Is "Woke" and LGBT outrage culture dying,like the Hippies? I perfer the hippies for peace, love, sex , natural environment and natural food and medicine. And our houses, bills and debts were paid,, and inheritance were most likely, unlike today....
7 comments
Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 5, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Thibaud70
Ultimately, any allocation or distribution (of goods or money or other resources) is always done by political decision. Nothing about this is "natural". Society cannot take something away from someone (in the form of taxes, for example) that it did ...
7 comments
Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 3, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Ryo1
Reasonable thinking for a bear. 😆
1 comment
Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 3, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by jackjr
So glad I found this site. The age old question how much freedom do we have over our actions? Compatibilism
2 comments
Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 2, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Thibaud70
Viewed through the scientific lens, human beings do not exist as persons, but only as bodies. It takes communities or societies to turn a body into a person. The error of liberals is to assume that personhood and personal freedom is something ...
6 comments
Philosophy & Meaning
Apr 1, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Thibaud70
The biased reasoning is always the same: my conception of the Good influences my definition of the True. But what if the Truth is not the Good? We would have to suppress the field of research. It is an old idea to believe that the Good is also ...
6 comments

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