Après moi, le déluge. — Louis XV

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Jokes aside, whoever is the 47^th POTUS, s/he has to be able to balance loca (US)l & global (world) concerns.

Maybe we can do something with this musicalization of philosophy or, conversely, the philosophization of music. Wouldn't that be awesome?! The point to education has always been to make learning fun, oui mes amies?

Way to go! You got this!

Now...

Go forth and multiply! — Genesis 1:28

those greenbacks! Your odds of becoming a millionaire/billionaire have just gone up mon ami!

It's rainin' but for better or worse, not pouring. I'm listening to

1. The pitter patter of rain drops on the ground, on roofs, on the tarmac & the pavement.

2. The booms of distant thunder

It was the highlight of my day! God is most merciful Hallelujah!

Most interesting. — Ms. Marple

Here's what I would do if I were in your position - unable to decide "what to do" with a large sum of legally-acquired dough: Just deposit it in a bank that offers a good interest; while your moolah multiplies in a safe place, you can mull over how to spend it in a sensible/good way, oui?

HAHAHHAHA. — schopenhauer1

After @schopenhauer1 replied to my post with that $\uparrow$, I hadta do some soul-searching!

Quite a post there OP. Kudos/hats off to you. Not sure if I catch your drift but if I have to say anything about what I feel you've put up for discussion, it's this: silentium est aureum.

There, I said wrote it! :snicker:

A vibrant community of people who rarely agree with each other but who all love philosophy, this is the place for philosophical discussions about knowledge ... — Google

That says it all, oui?

Unfortunately or not, what the ellipsis ( ... ) means is rather uncharacteristically left to the imagination.

Nice!

I believe the OP is looking to uncover/analyze a particular mindset that's, in a sense, susceptible to what in the current epistemic climate can be described as bizarre beliefs. Quasi-psychosis, borderline schizophrenia i.e. nearly but not quite mad as a March hatter!

The so-called Bates method has been debunked as per the Wiki link provided. Nevertheless, from what (little) I know, I can see, very fuzzily, a possible mechanism how refractive errors can be corrected via unconventional methods like what Bates recommends.

A word of warning though:

Moreover, certain aspects of the Bates method can put its followers at risk: They may damage their eyes through overexposure to sunlight, not wear their corrective lenses while driving, or neglect conventional eye care, possibly allowing serious conditions to develop. — Wikipedia

The OP is probably trying to mathematize the great Anaximander's apeiron, in Matrix terms The Source. Bonam fortunam!

Let's, as any person with even a modicum of intelligence would say, the first port of call is to set your own house in order/medici, cura te ipsum.

So, getting down to the brass tacks, a question: Is philosophy good/bad for the climate?

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I will have to write it in less pretty formatting (dearest apologies in advance). — Bob Ross

Alas, for reasons good or bad I have no clue, you've compromised on what Robert M. Pirsig calls quality! No matter, I understand!

Can we go into necessary details of the brain-in-a-vat gedanken experiment/Descartes' deus deceptor/the simulation hypothesis? The Devil is in the details they say. At some point it should be possible to find out whether idealism/materialism obtains, si?

Can we control the thoughts that our minds spontaneously produce? When we write, the words just come to us, don't they? Can we control whether or not particular words occur to us before they've occur to us? — Janus

All I can muster with what I know is superb questions.

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truth bearer — Tate

Agent Smith notes that down for future reference! Has a religious subtext to it which I find fascinating (re messengers of God).

The thing I'll most remember about MAYAEL is that I would never have heard of him had he not been banned. — Hanover

That, in a nutshell, is what motivates (some) mass-shooters! Sad!

When dreaming, we can become conscious that we are dreaming (lucid dreams), but we can't/don't control the objects/people in our dreams. They seem to have a life/mind of their own, oui? Does that strengthen/weaken Descartes' argument? I dunno, you be the judge!

It is mind-blowing if you're into that stuff, but I'd say it's not at all surprising. — Metaphysician Undercover

What's :scream: to one is just :yawn: to another, eh? I quite like that! The most likely reason is that, sensu amplo, some of us are from another frigging planet/time! Been there, done that! :meh:

It seems important to distinguish difficult from boring, oui mes amies?

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As is obvious, @Pie wants to know why (the jesting) Pilate didn't wait for an answer to the question "Quid est veritas?" he had posed to Jesus? He was on the right track, Pilate was!

Res, non verba!

Are we in sophist territory? It's baffling, all this.

Arigato gozaimus!

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

No wonder Democritus was known as the laughing philosopher. Poor Heraclitus, the weeping philosopher; he didn't get the joke(s), did he now?

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[...]Without laughter there would be no Tao. — Laozi

Question: Have you ever had to lie to (your) kids?

We must try, we absolutely must! That, in my humble opinion, is our ultimate purpose.

The grand old Correspondence Theory (of truth)... — Pie

:snicker: Oops!

CT — Pie

What that? :chin:

Stay with the light side of the force, Ya auld Jedi! — universeness

I hope I'll be able to remember that under fire! Muchas gracias!

I would suggest that genuine empathy is emotionally challenging for many people, especially if deeply felt but pity is a different harsher offering that entails only a very minor burden on my emotions. — universeness

Agent Smith makes a mental note of that! Feels important!

You are Mad and Fool!! :wink: — dimosthenis9

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I can't afford pity, mon ami! Didn't you know?, it's a luxury item! :sad:

Going by the polls, I've subscribed to the wrong channel! :snicker:

So meeeee!

That wasn't LIVING! That was just.... "Not Dying"! There's a difference. — Eep (The Croods)

Algos (suffering) makes life a just-not-dying affair. That, in short, is the crux of the problem of suffering.

Indeed, I committed a classic fallacy which needs its own name; the closest one in my humble opinion is the strawman fallacy. I tend to, not dileberately, simplify but then I overdo it and end up oversimplifying. Reality is just a cartoon for me! I (probably) should be happy but I ain't. Sic vita est. Carry on!

monkeys, dogs, all the way down to insects. — Sam26

We should administer psychoactive drugs (LSD, shrooms, ayahuasca, etc.) to animals too as part of a comprehensive research on mind & consciousness. Odd that no one's tried this before! Imagine what we could learn, eh? (Some) animals may just require the slightest of nudges in a manner of speaking to, well, elicit an awakening. They're capable of amazing mental feats even without any assistance; Youtube and TikTok will attest to that, oui monsieur/mademoiselle?

Math one of the 100 worst ideas of the twentieth century. — jgill

Imagine that! Perhaps human history can be retold in terms of how many and how big our failures were/are rather than as it's usually told to us, a sequence of successes. I wish I had the time and resources to do that; no worries, some are already on the job (re History's Biggest Mistakes, a book by....).

Don't know how that relates to be honest. — Jerry

Try harder! Either you're lazy or I'm a fool! :snicker:

exceptional about human consciousness. — Jerry

Divine fallacy. If you havta make a mistake, do it in god mode! :up:

cool — javi2541997

Verisimilitude! Sometimes, not all the time, our feelings get the better of us! It's just part of nam-lu-úlu If I don't make mistakes, how will you learn. Aah, but I digress!

A thousand apologies. — Ranjeet

Shamanism manifests in our contemporary world — Bret Bernhoft

In terms of ends, si; in terms of means, nope! The question is, who's got it right?

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I'm disorganized! Years of self-abuse! I'm sorry that you have to put up with my shit! :smile: