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The VAST majority of professional ethicists use the terms "ethics" and "morality" interchangeably. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality#Morality_and_ethics

Yikes. That's rough. Don't forget that you're an organism. You have biological needs. Respect them. Yep. Grief is complicated. Really, really complicated. What you're going through now will change into something else, but, for now, it is what it is and you need what you need. I hope you can get...

1) I have found that being compassionate with others produces better and longer-lasting results than being combative. 2) People suffer stress, it is part of the human condition; it is common for people to respond to stress poorly (addiction is a common response to stress). 3) Almost no one...

Practice? Practice.

That's quite a claim. I'm not presently in the right frame of mind to think through to conclusion, but, I'm inclined to argue that it's not exhaustive. I'm curious if you're willing to extend beyond what you've listed to other kinds of experiences. For example, the kinds of glories that might...

Ditto. I couldn't have cut classes. My Dad would have beaten me, severely. But, I understand this isn't true for others. Ditto Been there. Perhaps. Perhaps not. Life has a way of providing unexpected turns. From a certain point of view, yes. From another point of every, things are changing all...

I have posted a link to a specific book on this forum, perhaps 30 or 40 times. I will do it again. http://www.amazon.com/Mother-Nature-Maternal-Instincts-Species/dp/0345408934 I'm not going to summarize, I'm not going to argue or defend. (I've posted it too many times in too many places to...

1. Don't be in a hurry to figure it all out. 2. Be devoted to figuring it all out anyway. 3. Do whatever has to be done to get a great counselor.

I teach at a university. I give tests, I don't take them. And my students who don't study, usually fail.

Most people in academics are crushed under the weight of regulation, administration, and all levels of bullshit that are intolerable beyond reckoning. For instance: http://chronicle.com/article/Adjuncts-Build-Strength-in/135520/ Roughly 65% of university courses in the US are taught by either...

From a certain point of view, "believers" with "Property of Rome" stamped on them, or "subjects" with "Property of the King" stamped on them, were granted (perhaps by proxy of their owners) similar sorts of "hands-off" rights. This idea, all by itself, is fascinating and worthy of...

Things get dramatically more complicated when you've been in a relationship with the same person for a few decades. I can tell when my wife's animus or shadow is looking for a fight with me. (By which, I mean, I know that it's not "her" that's being pissy, or whatever, with me.) And, she's...

Why the rush? Yoga might be useful. Check her about page: http://www.seanecorn.com/ Dave

I'm going to pretend you're serious and just give a few replies for your consideration. A Kantian might say that we cannot use those machine-created humans or those created intelligent, conscious beings if they can be ends in themselves. And, quite likely, they would be ends in themselves...

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So? Realize your dream man! You have a forum!

Not everyone understands in the same way. You might understand via clarity, succinctness and brevity, for instance, but someone else might understand via metaphor and convolution. I'm bringing this up, in part, because my wife (an XNFP) comes to understanding very differently than I do, and...

Trying to find a simpler proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. That's my madness place. (One of them, there are others, most of them are related to math.)

However, not everyone is trying to do with language what you're trying to do with language. I love the ambiguities in expressions, I'm happy there are multiple meanings in things. 1) Nothing is better than steak! 2) Hamburger is better than nothing. 3) Therefore, hamburger is better than steak...

I work 80 hours a week. Is that weird?

Finish with econ/psych, and then get an MBA. Then you can run some business somewhere, tell other people what to do, and waste time on your 3-hour-long lunch break. Also, you'll make more money than everyone else at the business so you'll be able to pursue the things you really want to pursue...

Make sure the horse is in front of the cart and not the other way around or you won't get anywhere.

I have friends and relatives in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and New York. I understand how bad things are there. But, yes, Americans do enjoy hype. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

Everyone needs to have access to life outside of employment. But, also, within employment, having access to more variation makes you a better candidate.

Americans enjoy hype.

1) The reputation of the school matters, but, doesn't matter as much as your own skill. (See #3) 2) Transferring can be a good idea, but, see #3. 3) The more education you have, the more options you'll have. If you go beyond the BS, then the school you choose matters. Get into the very best...

This semester, I work from 8am to 10pm four days in a row. Each day, when I get home, I have dinner, check my email, maybe look around online, and then go to bed. During the day, when I get tired, I have some coffee because I have to keep working.

Space-time cannot be divided infinitely. That's the solution. There is no paradox.

However, it is better to grieve than not to. What will be best, over the long run, is to grieve well, rather than grieve poorly. Alas, there is no algorithm for this, and it varies by person, by circumstance, and probably by other subjective conditions as well. For most, this is probably...

Yes. Try harder, maybe you'll see a purpose. Just did.

I don't know that it's that the results are skewed. I think, rather, that this is just the way things are. We're all raised in goofy ways, we all are amalgams of types, etc. But, before I go on... Welcome. I've gone down the dark tunnel of depression (and helped a lot of others through their...

I have the same response.

While I enjoy the pi = C/d relationship, I find many others even more enjoyable. And, fortunately for a discussion like this, many of those other relationships are geometry independent. My own understanding of pi is more along the lines of this... pi = 2 * [1 + (1/3) + ((1*2)/(3*5)) +...

By living for several decades.

I'll take a guaranteed risk of a very mild problem against a small risk of a very huge problem.

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ http://www.ipcc.ch/ http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-causes http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/

That you've heard something, of course, doesn't make it true. Yep. Some people are really good at that sort of thing. I'm not one of them. I think Bill is an ENFP; if so, that might explain some of that.

The thought occurred to me too.

This fall I'm teaching 5 university classes, serving as a union organizer, working as I always do in the RPG publishing field, doing consultation work, and serving as a camp director. The camp director job, outside of summer, requires almost no socializing (unless email counts, and there are...

Logic is like grammar, it is a rule set for a language. It is the backbone of philosophy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy#Areas_of_inquiry

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Some people have great success with a light box. For others, exercise is helpful (especially in the morning).

I don't know what you mean by the terms, so I don't know how to respond. It's not unlike someone asking me "Do you believe in God?" My best response is usually something like "I have no idea, because I don't know what you mean by your use of the word 'God'." Can you provide clear and...

Whenever I need routines I adopt them. I presently need several so I've adopted them. Whenever (or wherever in my life) I don't need them, I don't have them.

The people I know who are successful in the field of graphic arts, illustration, etc., are very hard-working, very talented, and have a vast network of contacts and friends. They are constantly producing images, whether under contract or no. They work ceaselessly. The people I know who are...

We evolved to sleep and be active at the times we have because it kept us alive.

Most INFJs I know (and I know perhaps a half dozen fairly well) have the uncanny ability to know what others are feeling before those people themselves do. I think this is probably a common trait to INFJs. Is it something you have?

From at least one point of view, the Big Bang was logically prior, physically prior, and perhaps even causally prior to electrons and protons (and, more deeply, fermions and bosons). Heck, from a certain point of view, the Big Bang is prior to laws of nature. But, those themselves are points of...

You were gone?

This is a handy little summary of Dark Energy and Dark Matter (or, appropriately, it is a nice little summary of what we're pretty sure they aren't). http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy/ What the mathematicians have dreamed up (and I applaud them for it, we...