I’ve been conducting a discussion over on another blog (which, incidentally, has predictably ended up with the other party crying foul, claiming that he is “not trying to attain a reasoning state” and “as a student of human psychology” insisting on reading sinister motives into getting comments on one entry he made to a public blog […]

In a recent post, What’s the point of it all? we made the statement “When you’re dead, you’re dead, and nothing of the individual survives. Individuality is a temporal and temporary phenomenon”, which provoked the following comment: you are not able to prove it either This comment deserves a post of its own for a […]

Stoicism was a Greek school of philosophy which flourish from around the beginning of the third century B.C.E. until the sixth century C.E. It was highly influential, and became “the foremost popular philosophy among the educated elite in the Greco-Roman Empire.” [Amos & Lang] It is of interest because many of its tenets bear a […]

Chade wrote: I have no way of knowing what’s happening right now. My senses can only pass a limited representation of what has just happened onto mybrain. That’s what I mean by not being fully aligned. The best I can do is try and interpret it while, to borrow Erwin’s phrase, ignoring the crap spinning […]