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08-05-2016
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Ligotti's stories seem useless after TCATHR
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Re: Ligotti's stories seem useless after TCATHR
While some fiction has philosophical or other themes that say something significant about the real world, the aim of fiction is usually more about aesthetics and entertainment. Some philosophies are...
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Personal
07-19-2016
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Pessimists - What Keeps You Going?
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Re: Pessimists - What Keeps You Going?
Apples 'n oranges.[/quote]
Moral nihilism/subjectivism is too stupid.
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07-19-2016
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Re: Pessimists - What Keeps You Going?
Consciously acting, goal-seeking, reflecting, and everything else that happens in consciousness is some combination of feeling and thought. Thought would be evaluatively irrelevant without connection...
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07-18-2016
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Re: Pessimists - What Keeps You Going?
Not the best example. To be clear, I'm not anti-autopsy.
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07-17-2016
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Pessimists - What Keeps You Going?
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Re: Pessimists - What Keeps You Going?
I wasn't saying you were wrong to use the phrase, "informed action". I was pointing out that the phrase doesn't imply actions have personhood.
It's not necessarily wrong to be uncertain about...
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07-16-2016
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Re: Pessimists - What Keeps You Going?
If I responded to that with, "You claimed actions have personhood by saying they can be informed", that response would make as much sense as your claim that I was saying knowledge has personhood....
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07-15-2016
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Re: Pessimists - What Keeps You Going?
Apparently i have been inveigled into this discussion by someone who believes that knowledge has personhood.[/quote]
That doesn't follow from what I said. Are you denying that there's a...
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07-15-2016
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Re: Pessimists - What Keeps You Going?
It would be unnecessary suffering. You would be demonstrating that the knowledge hadn't informed your choice of actions rationally.
Knowledge of how it feels to suffer, for example.
If...
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07-14-2016
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Re: Pessimists - What Keeps You Going?
I gave the example comparing suffering to enjoyment for the purpose of supporting a view of what ethics should be based on.
There are questions about which it is difficult or impossible to be...
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07-13-2016
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Re: Pessimists - What Keeps You Going?
"Given an understanding of the potential conscious realities" does explain what makes one choice rational. Reasons to act are dependent on knowledge of qualities of conscious experience. A philosophy...
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07-13-2016
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Re: Pessimists - What Keeps You Going?
Well, perhaps. And certainly in the case of the example you describe, James;[/quote]
I'm not James.
Given an understanding of the potential conscious realities of the options in the example...
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07-13-2016
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I would also be frightened if any of the religious icons returned "throwing crazy magic around", because the magic would be crazy. I would welcome something that arrived to direct the events in the...
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07-13-2016
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Re: Pessimists - What Keeps You Going?
Lovecraft and people who argue for the cosmic insignificance of life generally point to its physical smallness in comparison to the vastness of the non-sentient universe. I agree with the view that...
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07-11-2016
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Re: Pessimists - What Keeps You Going?
I can't tell for sure whether you're saying you think a particular world-view is probably true, but you're not certain about it, or if you're saying there is no absolute truth about it. "Pessimism"...
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Philosophy
07-01-2016
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If the Conspiracy Failed
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That is an assumption, since the size of the universe doesn't tell you how probable the development of life from non-life is. As far as is known, evolution on Earth only began once, so it is not...
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Philosophy
06-29-2016
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If the Conspiracy Failed
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It's known that we aren't the only species with cognitive faculties and the capacity to suffer, in the same way that it's known that all the other humans besides oneself have cognitive faculties and...
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Arthur Schopenhauer
06-07-2016
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School of Life Schopenhauer animation
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"Behaving immorally" suggests a bad intention. A behavior can be bad even without bad intention. Non-human animals can behave badly, but without the reasoning capacity to recognize it as bad, they...
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General Discussion
06-01-2016
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Ligotti and Characters Devoid of Free Will
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"Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
I think that Schopenhauer quote shows why the fatalism that John Gardner suggests follows from determinism...
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05-10-2016
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We're Doomed. Now What?
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Re: We're Doomed. Now What?
I don't see why hatred of life would necessarily be nihilistic. I don't think it makes sense that positive prescriptions regarding the existence of life ("life should be perpetuated") would be in...
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05-09-2016
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We're Doomed. Now What?
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Re: We're Doomed. Now What?
An odd remark. Are you aware you are on a Thomas Ligotti website?
I am not calling for an total suppression of the pro-life cultural narrative. I would simply not like it to dominate everything...
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05-09-2016
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We're Doomed. Now What?
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Re: We're Doomed. Now What?
"They were never supposed to" by what standard? Since you're arguing against philosophical standards, I assume it's not by a philosophical value standard. If it's a standard of what in nature...
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General Discussion
02-11-2016
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Parents and antinatalism
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If by "superhuman", you mean, "not determined by desire", then it's superhuman, but I think that word suggests something different. Why would it require a superhuman state? Some humans are motivated...
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02-11-2016
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Parents and antinatalism
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That is about imagined motives of antinatalists, rather than about the philosophy, but regardless, I can state something similar, but in favor of antinatalists, and without the "romantics" part: "The...
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02-11-2016
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Parents and antinatalism
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Re: Parents and antinatalism
The distinction should be recognized between life or the universe having a purpose, and there being objective value that results from the existence of sentient beings. I have the knowledge that I...
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General Discussion
01-27-2016
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Are socialism and antinatalism ideologically connected?
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Gray House
Re: Are socialism and antinatalism ideologically connected?
The world as a whole is not intelligent. Something that is intelligent can acknowledge and act according to reasons, based on what it knows about reality, including what it knows about qualitatively...
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