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Registration Date: May 28, 2009

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Topics Submitted: 5 topics

Total Posts: 735 (2 per day)

Replies Received: 14

Shouts: 23

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Most recent topics:

• How does one peceive God?
  
• Theory of Change
  
• Rationalism and the problem of "inertia."
  

Most recent posts:

• "Pointlessness" is just one end of a scale determined by emotions. Emotions can't be pointless or meaningful in themselves, emotions are t...
• No it does not as either way your actions are the product of something that is not you or determined by you, either way your intentions are ruled ...
• How was the intention chosen freely? Are not my intentions determined by my bodies reaction to the environment, a thoughtless reaction? In ...
• Yes, it is as Schopenhauer said: "Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills." Or, as Nietzsche said, to have free will is to ...
• Yes, I anticipated this answer as I too think it is the only way to reconcile Utilitarianism with reality. However, the immediate problem with th...

Most recent shouts:

• Crackers [Mar 6, 2010 - 10:37 AM]: Yes, but the people who are sleeping are themselves rather peaceful. When we say "rest in peace" we don't apply that to the surroundings of the person we apply it to the dead person themselves.
• Crackers [Mar 6, 2010 - 10:07 AM]: "Rest In Peace". Doesn't resting imply peacefulness? Wouldn't the imperative "Rest" mean exactly the same thing?
• Crackers [Feb 19, 2010 - 3:48 PM]: They enjoy for us, we also expect them to suffer for us.
• Crackers [Feb 19, 2010 - 3:43 PM]: I mean that people are becoming more vicarious, that is, they take part in more vicarious experience. I am pointing towards a sociological observation: that we have celebrities "live our lives for us" (watching hours of television and reading magazines about often mundane details of celebrities lives), that people (especially the more impressionable) assume the character of celebrities rather than cultivate a unique one of their own and that I suspect that when we make spectacles of the vices of celebrities we do so in order to make us more comfortable about our own. And yes I am glad that the previous shout sounded like a preacher, I intended to give it such a character (for my own amusement).
• Crackers [Feb 19, 2010 - 3:26 PM]: Not sure what you mean, Banno.