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"For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls"

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Cruciform cathedrals make up a large cross-section of church architeture.

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@proginosko @Bryant728 @RTSRFandP @UPuritano Now you are begging the question— that’s what’s in dispute.

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@proginosko @Bryant728 @RTSRFandP @UPuritano Hard to do— every argument seems to be incomplete. Hence why reviewers can always ask something more out a paper before acceptance. Perhaps one thing syllogisms do is present to dialoguers which premises need to haggled over and detailed.

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@proginosko @Bryant728 @RTSRFandP @UPuritano This is only true if you think the world does not evidence the qualities associated with being an effect. Indeed one might think a mutable and uneternal cosmos necessarily requires it be an effect.

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@proginosko @Bryant728 @RTSRFandP @UPuritano If someone denies that an effect has a cause, in doing so they have not avoiding begging the question, but have indulged in a denial of basic logic.

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Beach pattern, bottom of picture is toward water

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“Stare decisis” but with the history of philosophy, and since Plato issued his opinions first, we must all be Platonists.

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Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers and no others.

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@virginicus @Leesandersmyth Well, Health is the cause of health— but don't think there is a form for disease.

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@LearnGreek1981 The world needs more book readers not clock watchers

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Everything would have gone much better if Amazon had just stuck to selling books.

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@unummagnumtotum You can say it. Barnes and Noble.

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@matthewmaccaull I think you mean the "have the grammar you do?"

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“Philosophy of X” class ideas:

of friendship: You have to make a friend and write about this
of literature: you have to write a short story
of politics: you have to write a constitution

Others?

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@Brotinus Body shots are rare?

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@Godward16 Well, this would just be brutal for most.

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@bruceahuntjr Yes, monasteries are social institutions, that's why I specified without a monastery. So it seems belief in immortality does not extinguish social need for community.

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It's not lonely at the top. It's lonely everywhere. In fact, all of social life, which is central to the understanding of mankind, could be explained as the incessant drive to eliminate loneliness through family and friends and work.

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@bruceahuntjr What would the evidence for your position be? Would you become a monk without a monastery if you were granted immortality?

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@bruceahuntjr This is untrue, for if we were granted immortality on the spot, we would still seek social society. Immortals are not hermits. Life is primary to death as the soul is to the body.

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@PhilosophiBooks I think wit is in full display in ancient philosophy, sometimes in philosophy itself, but often through indirect ways such as are recorded by gossipy bits of D. Laertius or Plutarch. Few contemporary philosophers have wit.

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These are unacknowledged and therefore unappreciated traits in a philosopher: good sense of humor, attentive listener, and a good friend. Many "philosophers" lack 2 of the 3.