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I know that Straw dog and its army couldn't care less about my opinion, but I feel I have to stand up for my beliefs. At first I thought that Straw dog used a very humorous way in order to bring up very serious issues. (in fact I laughed really hard with some of its posts) Now I have to say that I ...

You don't know he advocated that no one have friends because they would not understand you. That explains the muppets then. A world of scare resources in which good will permeates only the surface layer of life. Can you be a Schopenhauerian Marxist? Beneath this is predation . Socrates was put to d...

Straw Dog, As you are fully aware I'm not deleting your muppets for being sock-puppets but because you are using them as a mob to browbeat others. Members can have as many avatars as they like but if they use them the way you do then I'll be deleting their posts as well. You have broken the agreeme...

His fundamental relation to everyone is, therefore, friendly; he feels himself intimately akin to all beings, takes an immediate interest in their weal and woe, and confidently assumes the same sympathy with them. The results of this are his deep inward peace and the confident, calm, and contented ...

You are living in a dream world. You don't know anything about Schopenhauer. You don't know he pushed an old woman down the stairs for talking outside his room , for which he was sued and had to pay out until the old bag died. You don't know he advocated that no one have friends because they would n...

...No one of any intellectual standing will be able to understand why Rick Lewis has allowed this nonsense to go on. His idea of a democratic forum is free speech and yet he routinely deletes words and posts that he finds offensive or superfluous. In society there have to be rules . There is no suc...

Believe me when I tell you I am for real. Maybe my writing is pious but my life certainly is not. I have gained knowledge not in the ivory towers of academia but by getting up early in the morning, before going to work studying the great ancient philosophers. What you have done is read some bullshi...

Silence me, silence philosophy, which is my love, for philosophy is always telling me what is always true. When I began I did not intend to try to master all the various relationships or proportions that are represented in philosophy I just thought it would make me wiser. Gradually I accustomed mys...

WARNING TO PHILOSOPHY STUDENTS


Please note that Barbara Brooks is on pathological ego trip in which she believes she is a philosopher.
It is all just a string of nonsensical words.
Don't waste your time trying to fathom the shit.
get out of the thread and read Schopenhauer .

[quote="Barbara Brooks"]Philosophy has no general votary, and has the appearance of being an esoteric ownership, because in the first instance philosophy is only the essential principle or ideal. In possession of few individuals, philosophy thus turns into something odd. if this is the cas...

True, sometimes you have to struggle to understand nmy writing. I am well aware that it requires rigorous thinking provoke thinking. In my defense I claim I am a true lover of knowledge always striving after, will not rest in mere appearance only, but I will go on the ardent path and not be deraile...

So what you are saying is that contrary opinion is always a crude form of bullying ? By bullying ,I mean, harassment that has no substance behind it. By substance I mean no legitimate cause. For example , a freedom fighter is not a bully because he believes that he is participating in a just cause. ...

Having so many evils, will not the most miserable of men be still more miserable in a public station? Master of others when he is not master of himself; like a sick man who is compelled to be an athlete; the meanest of slaves and the most abject of flatterers; wanting all things, and never able to ...