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by yakaboo
Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:00 pm
Forum: Aesthetics
Topic: Art is...
Replies: 26
Views: 12512

Re: Art is...

I've always found art to be vacuous, and certainly nothing I've read here makes me change my mind. You watch or read an interview with an artist and the ego and pretentiousness shine through. Artists / creative types - make something useful, like a house, furniture, clothes (as long as it isn't 'fas...
by yakaboo
Sat Apr 09, 2011 10:59 pm
Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
Topic: Hawking contra Philosophy
Replies: 10
Views: 5957

Re: Hawking contra Philosophy

Atheism and logic / rationality don't mix. And it doesn't matter how many different names for God that humans have invented. Either there's an intelligence behind existence or there isn't, and humans don't know, can't know, and don't really understand the question. So atheism is a faith, just as muc...