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The term Liberalism gets slapped onto different things. Classical Liberalism or Libertarianism is the central philosophy of the fight for independence. It is a position characterised by what we call negative liberty rights. This are usually taken to be natural rights rather than just legal (the...

I'm sure that I'm being pedantic but just to be clear, Lovecraft actively encouraged others to employ his mythos. In this case it worked in his favour - the more authors used it, the more attention that would come his way as its originator.

There does seem to be a big pooling together of distinct problems. So far as I have ever been able to tell, all property is convention, be it physical or intellectual. I just can't come up with a good objective argument for any of it. Does that mean that we shouldn't have those conventions? The...

Yes, it's hard to believe but this guy actually makes the original VFX look like an intellectual sophisticate.

Worthing - UK

Well, I work in the NHS, so my point is that the self inflicted damage from smoking costs the Health Service a whole lot of money to treat. I'm certainly not of the school that says they should not receive treatment - but the extra tax they pay on smoking might help to some small degree towards...

Yes, it might be interesting to watch the subscriber numbers. The new guy certainly has the venom for the name (his rant against atheists as parasites is really batty but also rather venomous) but we'll have to see if he has the same appeal to the theists as the original. I did laugh at the...

I remember reading a comment by J L Austin, where he questions if anyone really has a clear idea of free will at all. I think he had a point - before asking if we can have free will, we need to be able to say just what it is. Austin did make one suggestion, that instead of free will, we might...

Well, I agree that there is often confusion over just what we mean by morality - it is common to use the words moral and ethical interchangeably but I think that it is worth drawing a distinction between the two. So, Ethics is that part of philosophy that tries to answer the ethical question...

I got a little annoyed at all of the claims that only theists can possibly be moral. It seems to me that, if we assume the moral realism they are so keen on, then God cannot exist. So, they can have their moral realism and become atheists, or they can keep their God and accept the moral...

I really don't think that it is worth trying to pin down a definition of art. Its falls to the same problems as game and so what someone means by art is best understood from the context in which they use the word rather than from a forced phrase. I am happy to call modern art, just that, art. It...

Motive

I would link (its at www.aeclectic.net) but the Chat forum can only be accessed by subscibers. I do have a good reason to subscribe - it allowed me to post to their advertising forum for my own site - I managed to get some real interest from some of them (which is sort of odd really). Its also...

I love this - it is the best song of his that I've heard so far. Oddly, I first found it from a link in a tarot forum - I'm not sure what I found funnier, the song or reading the rants against it there.

I agree with many already posted, so I'll just add a couple more that come to mind... Tears of The Black Tiger - a Tai film that crosses technicolour musical, western, and gangster with a strange 50's look. Amazing! Paprika - another Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue has already been mentioned) Repo...

OK - this is a very rough start for me as I learn about making films. The worst part however, is my narration, that may improve over time. I've no doubt that I shall remake this one at a later date. In the mean time, do watch it in HD so that you can see the illustrations properly. I'm never...

I'll bite. I love this.

Curse you for posting this. My tea got cold.

My feeling towards guns ranges from indifference for a tool (ie will it shoot the bird? and will the bird taste good?) to discomfort toward something designed to kill people. My brother in law has some guns and really likes the collection as a hobby. That seems fine to me. On the other hand, if...

I did post a video response to HTWW voicing an area of concern that seems to be being overlooked. However, I'm a new voice there and still figuring out how to make a film, so I'll give you the gist here. HTWW seems to have little regard for moral consistency. He has stated very clearly that he...