So...no participation trophies?

He's likely talking about "God"...meh....

"In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality."
- Jacques Maritain

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Eh...you can know....becoming less and less of a fan of his. Some of these writers create existential problems where resolution is possible.

...and they shouldn't be playing the victim card when it's they who are acting belligerent....

He said this before 1970....

Total annihilation of the faith based opportunistic religious man's dream.... almost 2300 years ago....

Good morning! Remember...Emil says you still have the freedom to kill yourself!....but, remember, preserve life....and don't listen to me....😁🤷‍♂️☠️

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#philosophy #quotes #CivilSimian #UniversalHumanism

Plato's philosopher kings....

Liberalism, neoliberalism, libertarianism...Democrats and Republicans switched values at one point...people don't even agree what liberalism is in your average thread. It's associated with treating each individual as an end in themselves and universal human rights, supporting the quote below.

This is how I feel about universality. It's a final description of what is. It will be realized eventually....even if resisted, avoided or obstructed....

If you talk a lot about being humble, you are likely not humble. If you talk a lot about high IQ.....*cough*....

Anybody can destroy. Building, ordering, preserving is what is difficult.

He was in France in the 40's when he said this.
 

Not just because you don't like something. If it's just and you don't like it, it's not oppression....

I'm not changing anything for somebody that isn't an ACTUAL good person....who is arguing from correspondence truth and a context of observable reality at a minimum.....

More rational? Doing the work to be less irrational....at a speed that's comfortable over a long period of time....that's the recipe....

....and she's not talking about "truth" telling people who say rude things and then try to pass it off as being "honest"...

Identity particularity is constructed and should never subvert ACTUAL life. But, we share common physical ancestors, so, groups CAN be based on physical evolutionary determinism. Universality, understanding all humans have a common physical ancestor...Universal Humanism...an identity group based on pre-choice determinism that supports basic ethics and justice.

I think it's better to think of "God's decrees" here as just subjectively compiled directives, and nature as just deterministic evolutionary processes....

Techno trash feudal lords....

You have to check this guys picture....yeah, that's the guy that said this....

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We'll finally get the world we want, post scarcity....

Yeah, it's pretty interesting the way...after conception...life goes through a turbo boost development stage that covers the evolution of the life form up to that point in life's history...it's sort of launched from the other side into existence like a 🚀