Personally, I'd say it's quite simple. To me my black belt means that I set myself a challenge and I saw it through to the end. It means that...
It depends on your temporal ontology. If you hold the future to already exist then yes, you are already dead now. Of course then the question...
Stillness, aren't you falling into the trap of presupposing that the term 'self' lends itself to a static definition? All the word 'self' is is a...
I think we should argue about it... :rolleyes:
Hard work never hurt anyone... but personally I'm not gonna wait around for that to be proved wrong...
lol, ya got me!
Depends on the motive behind your choice. "Your sword's fury is no justice... "
Devoken, you need to speak to someone about these anger issues, though a well made argument - I could almost agree with you! :D Santa is...
xenmaster, I'm gonna go right ahead and say this just about as simply as I can right now... SHUT UP. No really, just stop talking. If...
"Every cloud has a silver lining - but lightning kills hundreds every year looking for it... " "You can do anything you set your mind to when...
"Winston, if you were my husband I'd put arsenic in your tea!" "Madam, if you were my wife I'd drink it... "...
Well before I start, Socrastein, your post did make several good points that I agree with. but there are a few things I'm still taking issue with:...
I could be totally off the scent here but I always thought "Jiu-Jitsu" itself was kinda like "Karate" in that it was just an umbrella term. But in...
lol, don't interrupt the man, Socrastein, he's agreeing with me! :D
We'll bring him down together, Devoken! :D
Don't we share something like 50% of our DNA with bananas? Damn, I hope that's true...
Okay, I see what you're saying now but and yeah, now you do sound a lot more Aristotelian. Still, I think we have different ideas of altruism....
Aha, I see Socrastein already addressed this point. Well, Soc. I have to ask, are you a Utilitarian as well? I only ask 'cos this talk of...
How very Hobbesian of you all :D Nah, I'd agree but I would still allow for the possibility of altruism. For example, a soldier who throws...
Descartes didn't use the Cogito to establish anything about the existence of the "I", includingt its continued existence. Furthermore, in order...
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