His politics piss me off, but when it comes to magic and the occult, Thomas is interesting.
Written by kFoyauextlH
To me, the weirdest of all religions past and present seems to be the Christian religion and the developmental turns it took. The next weirdest may be Jain religion. Christianity can make fine sense but most don’t make any fine sense of it in the usual or popular tag lines and associations with it. When […]
Written by kFoyauextlH
Please feel free to use this thread to state the most radical thinking and thoughts you can muster. Even better if these are radical thoughts you particularly hold and can defend your meaning and reasoning for. Though if you mention ideas which you find radical but don’t subscribe to personally that is fine as well […]
Written by atreestump
What are your views on rights? Are they innate, or are they constructed? Do you think rights are a good thing to have in society, or do you believe they cuase problems?
Written by Socrates
In Deconstruction, the metaphysics of presence is consideration (challenging) of the usually unchallenged assumption that is the privileged (and so present) idea by various means such as attending to the dependence of the idea on its opposite, on the trace, to use Derrida’s term, of that which is not present or attended to. There is […]
Written by atreestump
Another upload for a future reading, please comment if you tackle it in the mean time.
Written by atreestump
I have uploaded this for an official discussion in due time, but if anyone wishes to tackle it, please feel free to leave comments here.
Written by atreestump
Before I read any Derrida, I stumbled upon this thinker. John L. Austin was a British Analytic Philosopher of Language. Along with Wittgenstein, he proported Ordinary Language Philosophy – Ordinary language philosophy is a philosophical methodology that sees traditional philosophical problems as rooted in misunderstandings philosophers develop by distorting or forgetting what words actually mean […]
Written by Burk
“True” and “truth” are words that are not so easy to define (even though we use them all the time and may even think they’re simple). In an attempt to gain some clarity about them, I want to try to restrict them to what is clearly the case, and where they turn out to be […]
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Around the Medieval Period, the depiction of Christ on the cross would show him with a titled head, usually down towards the right side. It is interesting because it is conveying the very moment of death. Sometimes the tilt is subtle with a gaping mouth, which gives the impression that he taking a final breath. […]