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Why thank you fractalwalrus :D

I could also add that the one who was clocked as trans and insulted, left her country of origin (Russia) because she felt unsafe there, given the general anti-lgbt atmsophere. So saying she is simply doing it all for attention is callous, and ignorant. In fact I met her once and she is a...

Just because you can't think of the reasons and don't understand these people and their lived experiences doesn't mean that what they're doing is morally wrong or that they're just attention seekers. I have a trans friend. I can see it demands significant bravery to go about your life when you...

This is simply not true.

A trans person inhabits the role by "passing" socially as the desired gender, the "success" of the transition and the relief or fulfillment they feel internally comes when people spontaneously gender them as preferred.

They shift according to culture and norms, but essentially it's just being perceived as such. Like I can tell a person to become a chair for one of those dominatrix things power play games and use them as a chair, in a sense they really do become a chair and assume the function of a chair. Like...

I could add that of course I'm not unaware of the fact that all this is counter intuitive and odd when you first consider it. It touches upon fundamental categories that one has assimilated from the earliest of ages. When you're five years old you've divided everyone around you into boys and...

I'm not going to try and covince anyone but the way I see it is this : A chair is also a chair at least in part because it was designed and built by someone or repurposed by someone to fulfill the function of a chair. The object is built and used with a specific intent in mind. This is the case...

I know that I know nothing And so do you So that makes two :)

I don't think you're dumb !!

Good to hear ! I think we can consider it solved. It was an Add-on buried somewhere by Ragnar. Intpforum staff extends its sincerest apologies for the inconvenience. You can all go back to rambling at each other in peace now. Wishing you all an excellent day.

@Black Rose go and see godzillaaaaa

I mostly agree but he is also the atomic bomb ak ! Me toooooooo best film of 2023 hands down (although I haven't seen anatomy of a fall yet and everyone keeps telling me it's brilliant)

Has anyone here seen it ? I dragged my family for my birthday, they had to accept my movie choice and they were all really pissed off I chose a Godzilla movie but they all ended up loving it. I'm going again soon. It just got an Oscar nomination for visual effects too, a first for a Godzilla...

philosophy is just dusty dweebs talking to each other in a room about modal logic, either you're a dusty dweeb and you're welcome to join in the conversation or you're off to the mosque to pray or you can do both it doesn't really matter

Yes we also have distributed brains so they say :p I really like thinking about squids and what their subjective experience must be like, I often read about them. I would really like to see one too, I never have. I don't understand, in what way would philosophy be affected ? I feel fine about...

Squid brains and likely their minds are definitely distributed in their body a way that ours are not. When people talk about separation of mind and body they're usually talking about an intuition that it seems as if the mental and physical are different (Dualism). Like Descartes started...

Zenraiden your avatar is weird explain it

It was great to be honest. I think it's the only Russian movie I've seen come to think of it. I would like to see more. I'll note these ones down.

Well that's kind of the main question actually, is it separate? if not, why does it seem to us that it might be? This kind of thing. Phenomenology is related, it is the attempt to describe the structure of subjective experience Merleau Ponty's phenomenology focuses quite specifically on the...

Well thank you professor Froyd, perhaps you will stay a little longer then, even if we are more of the Jongian tradition thematically

Hello Solitaire , I missed this but if you come back pm me and I will look into it

Oh I see. Well I imagine there would have been a bit more focus on French language philosophers I suppose. My university was really nice and in fact we did the whole history of Western philosophy starting in antiquity up until the modern day, and you could take courses in all sorts of subjects...

The question is phrased kind of authoritarian no? But of course you are being a bit provocative as you like to be. Speaking for myself, I don't feel like there is any ideal role in particular that should be assigned to me. I would like to be able to do things that interest me + contribute to...

K Wow I really liked it but it's a long movie to watch that many times ! I liked the crux in the room a lot, it was very intense and the idea that realising your deepest desire might be unbearable is a good one. I suppose username Dr froyd checks out. The person I was watching it with kind...

It sounds unexciting but mostly I would say I've learned to better distinguish concepts and clarify things. Formalizing arguments as well. I've read a lot of philosophers and I like many but (for me) it's uninspiring philosophical discussions that leads based on the merit of X or Y authors...

HUZZA !!!! What other dusting off does the dark castle need ?

Puffy is on the ball. Yes I got it! I teach it now at a higher level, though not full time. I'm considering making it more regular as I really enjoy it. What are you up to ?

And to see so many ANCIENT members still active on it. I'll be popping in every now and again to chat + do some light light moderation. I think a good minimal rule is basically to not be hyper aggressive and insult everyone. I don't want this place to look like /pol. I think the regulars here...

Given the way he was insulting everyone, I didn't think it would be too controversial :D

I'm pretty sure I've fixed it, let me know if it does it again !

The bug where it asks you to look at a thread. I don't guarantee that I'll succeed, but I'm going to look into it.

Member banned for going apeshit + not respecting the forum guidelines/rules + the general rules of civility + not substantiating his inflammatory edgelord stances with sufficiently interesting or well argued sources.

Locking this thread for promoting anti-semitic conspiracy theories, and for being pretty horrible about muslims and black people. @cultsmasher I missed your intro thread but if you bring up this topic again, in this manner (with a tone that unnecessarily hostile), I'll ban you. @Cognisant I'm...

The problem of induction is not exactly about causality itself, it's more about our logic. It's an epistemological problem. When we reason about the world we use deductive arguments, inductive arguments and abductive arguments. With deductive arguments the truth of the conclusion necessarily...

It's not complicated just ask questions tbh

Been away for a few months, nice to see this is still going. Cheers Ragnar

Yet here you are

You would have to have a pretty major amount of stock for facebook to give a damn what you think no ? What fraction of a percentage is yours ? :D

Buongiorno :)

I have read and understood what you are saying, but it isn't clear. It boils down to "women need to be careful as well, like when divers go swimming where there are sharks ", but we still don't know how they should be careful, what is it practically, that they should be instructed to do/not do...

Fucking yes :D

Your 'Self' Archetype 74% match The Innocent Child Naive but a breath of new life and fresh ideas. Your inner self archetype is that which closest matches your true personality. Your inner self is primarily influenced by the Innocent Child archetype...

Well, you could probably guess what I was going to say: I disagree with shifting the onus onto the girls, both morally and practically. Scenario : gather all teenage girls into a separate room during sex ed and tell them "look, if you wear a skirt, and maybe flirt a bit too much, or make the...

not so many problems soon anyway : https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-combating-race-sex-stereotyping/

I think that perhaps the most interesting point that has been made by feminists most recently is not the "all men are rapists/sexual assaulter" meme, which is the usual internet flame war thing of caricaturing the opposing side and not addressing the strongest arguments in play. I think you're...

small mod moment : please @Cognisant and @onesteptwostep do not escalate too much past calling each other dumbasses in terms of personal insults, no matter how much you may think it is fact :D

I'm surprised you think that's my motive. I'm certainly not scared of offending anyone here. It's more about the fact that I feel my points are mostly being ignored and the premise of the conversation was a bit silly (atheism requires less thought.) Because certainly thinking about the origins...

K fine atheists are intellectual baby rocks, wtver. nope, this isn't for me I think really I actually have zero problems with people having personal faith/belief in some deity type thing because of an intense personal experience or as a preferred explanation for how things are. Suggesting...

@Cognisant Go away your participation in this thread is too predictable , let me have my moment as 4 horsemen millitant atheist on the forum for once