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Oh, I see. A teacher must earn faer keep too. Is there no possibility of doing koan practice one one's own - go solo with koans so to speak? Why don't...
December 22, 2020 at 09:00
Why? What's stopping you? In for the penny, in for a pound. Right?
December 22, 2020 at 07:06
Which person who's ever gone to high school can forget reading about the great Greek mathematician Archimedes running stark-naked and dripping wet thr...
December 22, 2020 at 05:41
A couple of things: 1. I have this suspicion that when the Buddha compared the dhamma to a raft to be gotten rid of after Buddhahood he didn't mean it...
December 21, 2020 at 14:45
That's what Richard Dawkins believes. Did you read his book, The Devil's Chaplain? In it he suggests a simple test for complexity - if the number of w...
December 21, 2020 at 12:58
If everything were red, its opposite wouldn't be something not-red but would be nothing. An intriguing implication of this would be the possibility th...
December 21, 2020 at 09:33
You're welcome. This is most unfortunate. I tried searching for the PDF on Yang Yi (974 - 1020) sometimes written Yang I but no luck. I'm afraid you'l...
December 21, 2020 at 07:30
Well, we're supposed to be the brand-new species, just 2 - 3 million years old and there's a reason I suppose why the primitive parts of our brains ar...
December 20, 2020 at 15:47
I like Claude Shannon's take on information and it gibes with what @"unenlightened" once edified me on. The intriguing coincidence of having invited a...
December 20, 2020 at 15:08
With respect due to the great David Hume, what he said can only be the result of his reason putting 2 and 2 together regarding its relationship with t...
December 20, 2020 at 14:47
My favorite philosophers are 1. Pyrrho 2. Zeno of Elea 3. Epimenedes 4. Nagarjuna 5. Descartes 6. Hume 7. Graham Priest
December 20, 2020 at 14:34
I like where you're taking this but, to offer a slightly different perspective, I suggest you look at it from a dynamic as opposed to a static point o...
December 20, 2020 at 13:41
As far as I can tell, there seems to be a slight confusion regarding language implicit in the question. If I'm anywhere near the ballpark, the assumpt...
December 20, 2020 at 13:23
To have a belief is to treat a statement as true. In other words, for a belief to exist, there must be a statement. No statement, no belief.
December 20, 2020 at 12:14
https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/40b.5-Transmission-outside-the-scriptures.pdf
December 20, 2020 at 11:45
I did comment on this take on the dhamma and how it parallels Judgement Day or The End Of Days - in both cases we arrive at our destination, no? But y...
December 20, 2020 at 11:07
By the way, what do you know about this Yang Yi (born 947 AD - died 1020 AD) character, reportedly a Song Court official who, according to an article ...
December 20, 2020 at 10:16
:scream: You don't see any similarities then?
December 20, 2020 at 10:06
What about the Abrahamic triad's notion of The End Of Days otherwise known as Judgment Day? There seems to be this sense of finality, closure, and com...
December 20, 2020 at 09:10
Thanks for the :up: You're very generous with your compliments :smile: I like your interpretation of the dhamma as a raft, to be used to cross the oce...
December 20, 2020 at 01:17
Why can't opposites interact?
December 19, 2020 at 14:59
Well, in my humble opinion, the question has its roots in the perceived difficulty in coming to terms with material-immaterial interaction but that's ...
December 19, 2020 at 13:47
@"Wayfarer" I have this conception of the world of ideas being like houses in a quaint village. A person, if either as an honored guest or a passing b...
December 19, 2020 at 10:28
Like my father keeps reminding me, practice what you preach and were I there in their company when all this transpired I would've loved to point a fin...
December 18, 2020 at 18:48
G = God exists E = Evidence P(A/B) = Probability of A given B P(A) = Probability of A P(G/E) = /P(E) according to Bayes' theorem.
December 18, 2020 at 18:32
My first encounter with dualism was precisely with this question: how does an immaterial mind interact with the material? Frankly speaking, the questi...
December 18, 2020 at 16:58
Now that you mention imagination, the creator of paraconsistent logic - Nicolai A. Vasiliyev - was supposed to have called his logic "imaginary". The ...
December 18, 2020 at 16:42
You're right in saying that God and the Devil are opposites - yin and yang in a manner of speaking. However, the will to unify is a divine directive a...
December 18, 2020 at 11:34
The Devil, as they say, is in the details. Thus, it seems, god must be in the rought outline/general overview and that's when contradictions crawl out...
December 18, 2020 at 00:19
This, I believe, is incorrect. When we have an unproved or shaky assumption, the antithesis of the thesis using that assumption issues forth. Look at ...
December 17, 2020 at 21:09
Really? All this while I've been thinking of myself as incapable of figurative discourse. G'day!
December 17, 2020 at 08:23
Never heard of David Lynch though his name has a familiar ring to it. Anyway, I have a theory regarding this business about reality being an illusion....
December 17, 2020 at 08:21
Headshot! Sniper! I'm now sprawled on the ground with a gaping hole in my skull, bits and pieces of brain matter everywhere, a halo of blood circles m...
December 17, 2020 at 08:00
Perhaps the creative aspect of realistic art is in the method and not in the result. Too, there's the matter of not everybody being able to draw and p...
December 17, 2020 at 07:15
Suppose the maximum potential energy of dominoes is 10 joules and when standing upright lengthwise they're in metastable state of 6 joules. If the kin...
December 17, 2020 at 06:45
That's the mistake we make. It all depends on how you interpret the meaning of not-x where x = anything (individuals to categories). In fact, it looks...
December 16, 2020 at 06:47
I'm confused at this point. There's the notion of out-of-our-control proclivities/tendencies/preferences that has everything to do with free will, spe...
December 16, 2020 at 00:00
Suppose the univeraal set U = A u B Well, suppose A = {x, y} and B = {v, w} Suppose N = Nothing. So, { } = {N} {x} is a subset of A and x is an elemen...
December 15, 2020 at 23:43
That's not just ironic, it's a contradiction. Let's be pragmatic here, shall we? The human condition either already is or is on the verge of becoming ...
December 15, 2020 at 23:22
As far as I can tell, nothing is, as is generally understood, not a thing. Suppose, now that there's a world with only two objects viz. X and Y and th...
December 15, 2020 at 17:26
Thank you for engaging. I've been shut down for maintenance. Check back later!
December 15, 2020 at 09:20
This statement has the seeds of a paradox. I can't quite put my finger on it though. The topic is beauty. You not only have something truthful to say ...
December 15, 2020 at 09:17
So, what's infinity + 1? How does your answer, which must be infinity, square with the answer to 2 + 1? Infinity DOES NOT COMPUTE! What's 1 ÷ infinity...
December 15, 2020 at 07:16
I think I have it figured out. Emotivism leads to relativism, relativism leads to nihilism, nihilism leads to pragmatism, pragmatism leads to egoism, ...
December 15, 2020 at 06:25
delete :lol:
December 15, 2020 at 06:12
What about pi and e? I've made the distinction computable irrationals and noncomputable irrationals thinking that the former could be reduced to an al...
December 15, 2020 at 05:50
What do you mean? Any point on the well-known number line exist in the same metaphysical sense as another point. There's e and there's pi and there's ...
December 14, 2020 at 13:40
I took a look at the wikipedia page on the domino effect. The entire phenomenon is based on what they call meta-stable states and my hunch is, as the ...
December 14, 2020 at 04:12
It gets harder to topple the next domino if the dominos increase in size until one doesn't fall over and the causal chain breaks. A chain reaction wil...
December 14, 2020 at 02:58
A couple of things regarding the wisdom-ignorance duo in relation to god 1. Socratic Paradox 2. God Of The Gaps It's a pet theory of mine and maybe co...
December 13, 2020 at 22:38