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Comment on Politicians and emotional vampires by prem

prem — Fri, 31 May 2013 10:14:29 +0000

Great Article, Inspiring

Comment on The middle east is perhaps not about to go all to hell by martin

martin — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:07:59 +0000

Good. But I notice that my initial thinking about all this was completely wrong, which is quite an interesting lesson.

Comment on A nuclear magic bullet for greenhouse by Massagetekniker

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Comment on Santorum’s war on porn by martin

martin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:23:38 +0000

Romney is more immediately dangerous because he’s more electable. Santorum, though, is a crazy crazy man who believes he has a mandate from his crazy constituency to implement a Christian Caliphate. Sigh.

Comment on Santorum’s war on porn by grainnemcmahon

grainnemcmahon — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:47:52 +0000

Santorum terrifies me, but he’s no longer in the running so I think we need worry no further. Mind you, Romney terrifies me too.

Comment on How to be an evil genius and rule the world by Evil writings | Brooza

Evil writings | Brooza — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:28:00 +0000

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Comment on About by Rich Wielgosz

Rich Wielgosz — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:15:03 +0000

Martin! lost your email!

This is Rich from bloodyveg. We just produced a new show!

Comment on The ethics of selfishness by martin

martin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:27:30 +0000

Basing moral choices on selfishness is what ethical egoism means. Corporations are structured so as to be selfish, it’s in their makeup, and it has some consequences that we should recognise and deal with. Just expecting some sort of invisible hand to make it right isn’t going to work.

Comment on The ethics of selfishness by William Jameson

William Jameson — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:47:54 +0000

So considering this article, ethics of selfishness may be called an Ethical Egoism?

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Comment on The ethics of altruism by Benscoter

Benscoter — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:22:12 +0000

I love it, you’re perfectly right !

Comment on The connection between health, fat, and exercise by Fanny Waist Pack

Fanny Waist Pack — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:54:40 +0000

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Comment on A letter from Peachy by Elvie Battino

Elvie Battino — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:41:59 +0000

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Comment on A Cosmologigram by martin

martin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:53:27 +0000

I think I should have rephrased that last paragraph. (I agree with you in terms of language [love is a construction, an idea] but not in terms of experience. Our experience of love is as the transcendence of “I”, as the all-her-now-me’s together). In other words that last paragraph is intended to convey the idea of love as those beautiful and similar moments.

And, thanks, btw

Comment on A Cosmologigram by Bios

Bios — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:35:09 +0000

My idea of ‘me’ is ‘only’ what I have remembered. Yes, I can agree with that : ‘me’ is my own construction, my experience. At first I then wrote ” I can’t make the leap to your last contention – “that’s what love is” -” but I reread it and yes, perhaps you are right – love IS my own construction, and so is hate, and boredom etc… Have I missed some subtlety or is your statement something obvious put into philosophical language ? (There’s a word for this but I can’t track it down in my Thesaurus.) … with love…B

Comment on A Cosmologigram by martin

martin — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:53:21 +0000

I've been asked to put all this in simpler form. So, well, maybe this is not just simpler but better - here goes:

The only reality is here, and now, and me. All else is supposition and theory that we construct to make sense of the here-now-me. That's useful, it's how we make sense of the world, but it's not the world itself just a model.

Ok, so all these here-now-me's, they're all different. Or rather, there's only one of them in my subjectivity but I remember others, assume the existence of others in the future, and I'm told of others from other points of view. In fact I can see and empathize with the here-now-me's around me. They seem similar, from the outside. So why call one chain of here-now-me memories "I" and all the others not-I?

From which I'd like to argue that the idea of identity doesn't make much sense in real reality, it's only useful in the constructed model we build. All those here-now-me instants have a lot in common. That's what experience is, that's what love is, those all so beautiful and similar moments.

Comment on About by martin

martin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:09:23 +0000

Martin

Comment on About by Cava

Cava — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:19:19 +0000

What is your name?

Comment on John Howard and refugee policy by Tam Nguyen

Tam Nguyen — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 03:59:11 +0000

I am writing the essay for University and refer to this article “John Howard and refugee policy” posted in law, society on April 18, 2006.

Please let me know the name of the author for referencing purpose.

Many thanks,

Tam

Comment on The psychology of tribes by Social Networks and Zombie Hordes: Zombie Psychology Pt. 2 | The Psychology of Wellbeing

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:51:27 +0000

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