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How do you tell the difference between discussing the topic of the thread out of enjoyment, and being "overly attached"? What if he or anyone were attached, what the fuck is it to you? Show anywhere where anyone has treated Kastrup's opinion as "law". And if the topic is worthy of serious...

In my understanding of it, what distinguishes "mental" from "physical" is this: The former ("mental") names phenomena that appear to be "immaterial". Like thoughts and feelings. The latter ("physical") names phenomena that have length and texture and mass, like boxes and trees and on and on...

The world is mental even under physicalist metaphysics. "The world" is the simulation our brains make from whatever it is that's "out there" stimulating our senses. Your eyes aren't window panes that you look out of at "things" beyond them. And, again, I am STILL not talking about idealism...

I don't know if Christianity is the primary reason. And Christian nationalism is quasi-religious, as these people replaced their religion with politics but cling, nominally, to the religious beliefs. I do think Christianity is a big influence in making people stupider than they'd be otherwise...

The atheist will typically argue that it's not what most theists mean by God. They're not defining gods for the theists, they're reacting to the most commonplace claims (which is that gods are supernatural beings that "literally" exist). It's the word "exist" that especially needs defining. In...

IMO the hatred is because that's how the fascist mythology works. There was a golden age when the special people (the whites!) were great. They're superior to all other sorts of people. But then they lose power over others and equality starts happening, and to this kind of mind equality is a...

Musk IS the deep state. The whole billionaire class is. MAGA's primary accomplishment is giving them so much power, via their tool, Trump, that they no longer hide in the shadows. The culture war stuff is distraction. This isn't about racism or controlling women so much as it's about who gets...

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Here's what Elon Musk has revealed:

Taxing the rich a little bit wouldn't be half enough. "Fair share" taxing won't prevent billionaires trying to take over the country (and eventually the world). If anyone doesn't see that's what Musk is attempting to do, you've been successfully distracted by the culture war stuff. They're...

I don't know. I post it in hopes the dems in those districts will learn of it and take part in the special elections.

Then the doofuses who believe it, when the robber barons say "we corporations being unregulated by the government so we can fuck everything and everyone to get even richer means you little people will get richer too!", are most or probably all of the rest.

There are 3 seats in the House that could potentially flip in special elections from R to D so that the D's are a majority there. The vacant seats: Matt Gaetz, Florida's 1st congressional district Michael Waltz, Florida's 6th congressional district Elise Stefanik... if she resigns to be...

It's a joke. "Sen. Bradford Blackmon, D-Canton, the bill's sponsor, said the bill is more of a political jab at Republican policy points to ban some forms of contraception than it is a serious effort to curtail what adults do behind closed doors, or opened doors, for that matter." Oops...

The oligarchs wanted to own the government more totally and now, because trumpers are so easy to lie to, they're succeeding. We, the working class, had a chance of being heard about how much we dislike the billionaires taking so much from us, but that chance died when trump-voters voted for a...

This is the worst impulse of religions in a nutshell. It's a wish to impose an image onto reality, saying in effect "The world should be radically other than it is". A smarter (more earthy, more realistic) spirituality would involve self-overcoming instead of an alternative reality. The project...

Spinoza's metaphysics was a dual aspect monism. "Extended matter" = the material property of whatever the underlying reality is. And "realm of thought" = the mental property, of whatever the underlying reality is. The underlying reality is what unifies them into a monism. Spinoza was trying to...

Which is the difference that God-belief makes. He's a distraction from life. Too many believers think it's a fallen, corrupt, demon-haunted earth, and God will destroy or transfigure it soon. Life here is lesser than life in a more perfect "realm" somewhere else. So why care much about the work...

The #3 definition for "god" is about what's "god-like" to some people. Saying "Eric Clapton is God" doesn't mean Eric Clapton is literally a god. It was a figurative use of "god" to express amazement at his talent -- they were exaggeratively saying he's like a god at guitar playing. Can...