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The Case Against Meta Discussion
Meta discussion is talking about the discussion or its participants, instead of the content of the discussion ( Read more... ) -
Some Enlightenment Poems
Found the following in George Bickham's Penmanship Made Easy, a copperplate handwriting book from 1733. (Learning to write, you were to copy out poems and morals as practise.)
In praise of our awesome technology, the printed word:
On the General Advantages of Reading & Writing ( Read more... ) -
The Case Against Genes Controlling Us
From a discussion about whether there's a 'natural' tendency to be monogamous or polyamorous ( Read more... ) -
Post Requests
Does your life not make sense? Are you puzzled by the universe and its workings? Are you frustrated with pretentious philosophers who prefer dictating through their sphincter to just giving straightforward answers?
If you answered YES to any of these questions, post a request, and I shall have my team of researchers to shuffle through the garbage ( Read more... ) -
Value-laden body language
What's wrong with this picture? http://meago.deviantart.com/art/I-luv-waffles-151839417 Philosophically, I mean ( Read more... ) -
Fearing Loss of Relationship is a Misconception
A relationship is not a thing. It's a shorthand for 'the set of interactions you have with a person'. But people often treat it like a thing. They do things 'for the relationship'. One could interpret this as doing some stuff in order to make other stuff better/longer/whatever, but I don't think that's how people think about it. They don't think ( Read more... ) -
Ideas With Reach: Learning
The great thing about ideas with reach is that you don't need to learn that many to be set upon the right path ( Read more... ) -
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Premise 1: Discussing stuff, understanding what another person is saying, and agreeing is hard at the best of times.
Premise 2: It's even harder if it's an area where people are typically irrational about (lack of rational ways of handling information means it's harder to pass on and receive that information).
Premise 3: Romance is an area that ( Read more... ) -
Let The Right One In
Why Let The Right One In was a bad movie (despite being Swedish which gives it Lulie points):- None of the characters were moral. And they were all really boringly immoral. They weren't even cool. They were just like, amoral or didn't care or didn't think about what they were doing. The one character who tried to do good -- the father who tried to ( Read more... )
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L's Q&A: Preemptive Attacks
Q: If we attack people preemptively, what if other people start attacking us preemptively?
A: The West is not a threat. It doesn't make sense to say people will attack us 'preemprively', because we were not going to attack. (Same argument applies for any moral person/group/country/whatever.)