On the Nature of Things | Forum

It's not clear to me that one should take advice on women from a guy who spent his solitary life with poodles for companions, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Arthur_Schopenhauer_by_Wilhelm_Busch.jpeg no more than, say, the stereotypical contemporary basement gamer. Philosophy; no...

. . . and many men could live better if they understood the true nature of women. . have to admit, there is some truth to that not necessarily negative man and woman are different spicy Nature, evolution, made it so BTW, Ibrahim & Pervert, would like some elaboration of "Schopenhauer on wo...

Ibrahim wrote:Ah, trolling then.

No I am not trolling. Correct understanding of female nature is necessary, and Schopenhauer has it.

Ibrahim wrote:You should read Schopenhauer on women. See what else he has to say before selecting him as your pet philosopher.

That's going to be my next post actually. His ideas on women are excellent and true, and many men could live better if they understood the true nature of women.

Temples and churches, pagodas and mosques, in all countries and ages, in their splendour and spaciousness, testify to man's need for metaphysics, a need strong and ineradicable, which follows close on the physical. The man of a satirical frame of mind could of course add that this need for metaphys...

I am not an expert in any of this, so forgive me if I sound like an ignoramus, but if we have no idea what caused past ice ages and warming trends when there weren't people around, how can we know that the slight uptick in global warming for the past century is man-made (and hasn't it changed to a c...