TheMadFool

Descriptive power, it seems, requires only that a language have words that capture very general aspects of life. For example, with the words, "that", ...

The words were for the words. The video was for the video.

Like what? Yes, it affirms that all is physical, a statement of absolute certainty. It has no room for doubt but that's exactly what's introduced with...

Recividism refutes your belief that criminals can be deterred or rehabilitated. Mind you, not in an absolute sense because in some, but problematicall...

Food for thought: 1. Suicide, if it's illegal, it was, carries/carried a penalty less severe than murder. Why? It isn't murder, close to it but not qu...

Oh! Thank god you read my post. My point is that the only thing anyone can be certain of is that they have minds (the thinker); everything else, the m...

Not even rabbit droppings for me! :lol:

Indeed! This is the essence of the problem for physicalism - matter & energy, that includes brains, could be an illusion.

:lol: Don't be to sure of that tim wood!

Mullah Omar has a point though, no? People are willing to spend so much on statues but only paltry amounts on actual people (men, women, and children)...

That explains a lot. The Judeo-Christian respect for life gets in the way of suicide becoming an acceptable exit strategy but, if you ask me, respect ...

If the buddha lived in our time, what I said would appear in a psychiatrist's diagnosis of Siddhartha Gautama's "condition".

I don't like the fact that we're being studied like we study animals. There's something alien about it. Sends a chill down my spine.

Your view of the real-ideal pair is in line with how things are done. The ideal guides the real i.e. first one must conceive of an ideal (object, even...

Changelings - Gazelle Twin I'll sit here a while I'm waiting lonely like a shadow in the night sky. You sit here a while And wait beside me 'till the ...

Yes, I wonder why that is. However, I've heard of buddhist kings like Ashoka dispatching missionaries to Sri Lanka. See Buddhist Missionaries

One word, Recidivism

I have nothing more to say.

It's the opposite actually, India hasn't recovered from Hinduism and Islam. Buddhism & Jainism are impractical some say, too many impossible demands. ...

No problemo!

Is it? I'm not sure.

You misunderstand me. The point is all suffering is meaningless - it's possible to imagine a world without it. Were it (suffering) meaningful i.e. it ...

Yes, possibly but something tells me I'm right - Gus Lamarch is trying to marry Platonism with art. Preferred Gender Pronoun

Take the example of life, biology; it can't really be explained or, more accurately, is only incompletely explained, by chemistry - there's something ...

My best guess is @"Gus Lamarch" wants to say that art has something to do with the Platonic world of forms - faer focus on ideals seems to suggest so....

The two of us are in two minds about the same issue. Is wisdom morally neutral? Not, according to a philosopher who defined wisdom as that which is bo...

The reason why people have a dim view of suicide, I surmise, is because if someone else killed you, that would be murder; that in taking one's own lif...

Where's an anti-reductionist when we need one, right? I have trouble viewing matters best described as supra-biological (altruism, love, courage, god,...

I'm with you on suffering (in the present) for happiness (in the future). Notice however that the best-case-scenario is happiness (in the present) for...

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I chose that handle myself - it suits me, as if we were made for each other. :grin: It's my firm conviction that I have enemies with both the motive a...

Abortion should be/will be a non-issue. Why? We have effective contraception (pills, condoms, etc.) and once these become both widely available and us...

What on earth is BINK?

Right! It's, as some say, the last choice. In other words, th suicider is all out of options.

Correctamundo! There's this general attitude towards suicide that it's immoral but then the same people who hold this belief are sympathetic towards t...

I humbly beg to differ. Deterrence and rehabilitation require the ability to change, change one's way of thinking or resist one's urges and to oppose ...

If an expert sniper/marksman blows your head off with a clean shot to the apricot, I don't think there'll be time enough to realize that you're dying.

My simple argument: 1. (Some kinds of) suffering are unbearable 2. We don't want unbearable things (duh!) Ergo, 3. We should do something to reduce/el...

Good day, I've run out of things to say.

That's one way of looking at it but observe the residue, what's survived of Buddhism after two and half thousand years of practice cum modding - the t...

If you want to come at the issue that way, you'll have to admit/concede/accept that the Buddha was clinically depressed and obsessed as it were with s...

For better or for worse, I might be one of those people who know what to think think but still doesn't. I don't know why that is. I'm, however, please...

For one thing, the objective of both Christianity and Buddhism, as I pointed out in a previous post, is to ameliorate/abolish suffering. It's telling,...

What a fantastic deal, right?

I wish it were that good a deal - a swift and painless demise - but something tells me, dying isn't a very pleasant experience if you know what I mean...

If minimizing metaphysical content in a religion is wise (less foolish @"180 Proof") then yes, buddhism stands out as one of the best religions out th...

:fire: These are tough times!

I'm asking you whether love is a sham, a scam, a con, just an empty emotion which is meant only to sugar-coat the actual, the real, goings-on, the two...