#Conception

People who exalt niceness above everything are usually the fakest and meanest. Niceness has no integrity! It's often false appeasement, suppression of truth. Kindness and thoughtfulness are real tangible things
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“Instead of calling hallucination a false external perception, we must call external perception a true [or ‘controlled’] hallucination.” (Hippolyte Taine 1870.) Taine was a philosophically naive theorist of the 'inner
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After Brexit & Trump won, a narrative was constructed on the centre-left that the prob with our politics was due to a decline of trust in experts of various kinds.
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As a protestant I had no conception of Christ's descent into Hades. I was never taught any proper understanding of the change in what happens after death before and after
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It doesn’t matter to AL that the abortion ban is unconstitutional because the plan has always been to challenge the constitution. They want to take this fight right up to
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I stand by this https://twitter.com/tryingattimes/status/1310327722082742272?s=20GC people (usually) believe that "sex" appears at the moment of conception, is strictly binary, and is immutable. But what is it? How do you measure
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An old thread, but more relevant than ever:Whenever abortion comes up, I have a question I've been asking for 12 years now of the "Life begins at Conception" crowd. In
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I wrote this in April: "Anyone who reads my tweets probably thinks of me as full of rage at this moment, but the main feeling I have when I wake
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At roughly midnight tonight, the Tennessee legislature passed a 6 week abortion ban. Look, 6 weeks from conception is just a straight-up ban. Your hCG test isn't even reliable at
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to whoever that is confused with the conception of nonbinary lesbian
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I find that there is something very inspiring about the pluralist liberal vision.Each individual has their own conception of the good; their own preferences, projects, and plans; their own interests
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"The platforms have offered no positive conception of what political speech should be or do there."As always, read Casey. But it's worth noting: defining the *purpose* of free speech &
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It's sad how many RTs you get by saying the world is ending instead of admitting the scary truth that it's not and there's work to do in it. Public
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trying to decide if i really wanna make a thought spill thread Right Now about my thoughts on the nature of the american dream im listenign to brennan's lore dump
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why is this still happening, where is the Nigel Warburton fanclub springing from I think he's promoted a very specific image and way of doing public philosophy, and that's all
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so... going from the line of spiritualism — which at its core is a connection with everything else — and that deities are societal constructs serving as the beating heart
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