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@"Olivier5" To let you know Mystic seems to have been banned as well.

Yes.

I quite agree on the deceptions of the human and his/her mind and heart.

Mr Jones seems to be a voice of reason :-)

Therefore, in order to understand the disease of conformity, to an inward and societal sickness, the inquirer has to understand this tendency/nature t...

The question one has to look at, if they are interested, is not the question of "functioning" in society, but the question of individual conformity to...

No quibbling....certainly not with someone i feel is a rising morning star :-) ( i am sincere). One can adapt to living conditions, to reality, but wh...

Adjustment is conformity. The desire and the motivation to adjust is part of that conformity.

Yes we "are" time, that's why OP said we are the past. The "person" is the past.

Well, i don't see a reason why we should substitute the word past to something else like soul and personality, when that word accurately represents wh...

I don't think OP is saying that one shouldn't question but his/her point, as far as i understand, is the approach of such questioning. I think OP is q...

@"Tom Storm" I just want to say something real quick and end. When you give rebuttals (though you call it "alternatives") , it affects the person's cr...

My comments were based on what was said. I don't care what any person is committed to or believes in. Hope this clarifies. Though thanks for explainin...

Well, one can backtrack all they want after proposing what seems like a rebuttal. " Maybe what I should have said is that philosophical questions are ...

Then arrogance is stupidity (un-intelligent), isn't it? Rather silly and worthless, considering it has no legs to stand on. It isn't backed by anythin...

You know @"Mystic" ....... Your response reminds me again of common sense...

Ha

:-) where is @"Foghorn" ?

On the contrary, the word soul has abstract meanings, which mean different things to different people. However most of us know what the past means. It...

:-)

Which may be non-sense.

Rather, common sense is rooted in intelligence, than philosophical or academic biases. But it may require common sense to see this.

But to quickly clear something, in order to understand the mutation of psychological time one has to understand first what psychological time is. It's...

I see the word "common sense " has started to come up more in the threads, one wonders why. :-) +1 with the caveat that in some cases it is less of la...

I will again refer to OP's previous threads on his take on the "past". But briefly, aren't we a living past? What we are now is what we were before. M...

It's one movement. The past meeting the present and becoming the future. But it always is and always will be the past, unless there is a mutation in p...

Here is something i had wrote on certitude: Somewhere along the way, if one is ever blessed with certitude, that blessing is understood as being incom...

That is a complex question. Many threads in one. One cannot comment on any "truth" without having first cleared up what we are talking about. Second, ...

+1

Conflict 101 eh..

I could be wrong but it seems discouraging some while encouraging others seems to be the name of the game..

Interesting.....

One had said elsewhere, it's the inner reflecting as the outer. Whether it's Gaza or any other conflict zones in the world. Whether it's in one's life...

Good points. Let's look at couple of things. Both acceptance and "giving up" are usually done from the lens of authority (whether external or internal...

I was going to post this on the Gaza thread (which i hadn't even read until today), you and @"Foghorn" might consider exploring the many expressions o...

Ha @ re-branding

You don't say :-) "half" is pretty generous, more like all

@"Foghorn" On a side note since you have mentioned bacteria you might take a look, and contemplate, if you wish, on how unicellulars evolved by a sing...

@"Foghorn" The inquirer can ask the questions to themselves, or in a dialogue, is what i meant. I wasn't asking you to answer them. Good thread.

A nice approach. This is how one proceeds in a dialogue. Thanks for providing an example for the neurotic and the clueless.

Well, what is intelligence and what is un-intelligence? Are we intelligent? Are we living intelligently? What is the measure of intelligence? Is intel...

Right. I added "of anything". for emphasis. Do you know why? I don't think you would know why. You know why you wouldn't know it? Because you haven't ...

You are quite right sir, i am not a "follower".of anything. Be well.

I was going to respond to your previous post when the above showed up, so will stop after answering your question. It matters, because then one isn't ...

I am assuming in light of the responses on your thread, especially the ones that have been deleted, is the cause for you being leery about my phrasing...

The sensible faculties are through which awareness operates, but the faculties do not create awareness, right? The faculty of vision does not create a...

Can you explain what you mean by "faculties of awareness"?

One has to look into the issue of freedom carefully. To look at the nature of freedom. Is freedom given? Before one can inquire into the nature of fre...

We have made society what it is. It's a reflection of us. The crisis 'outside' is mirroring the crisis 'inside'. One can start with self-accountabilit...

I see you have done an addendum and added the following after my post: I have no idea what you are asking so will bow out.