My thoughts exactly, Jack Cummins! What role does our egotism have in nature with special emphasis on balance as pertains to the way nature pulls it o...
I suppose it all boils down to the kinda relationship we want with nature. Do we want to be nature's humble subjects like we were before the industria...
Isn't that like saying, no one ever arrested me for being good? You don't accuse sages just as you don't arrest good people! You may have a point thou...
Warriors Of Peace! :chin: It's come to that, eh? Dr. Sun Tzu, professor of polemology from the Red Planet claims that Earthlings were at one time so v...
:lol: Can you be like, "we'll just have to put up with TheMadFool's shitty videos!" Puhleeez!! The Chinese Whisper Problem The Buddha (bad pronounciat...
Early Buddhist Texts (Wikipedia) So, are we to infer that the Buddhism predates the written word and it was transmitted orally until India invented a ...
I wonder how Cotard delusion patients make sense of the contradiction inherent in their condition. Last I checked the logic of the aforementioned delu...
We're in your debt! It's not easy to know what to look for but to know where to look, like you do, is taking the notion of search to a whole new level...
:monkey: :heart: :halo: :point: :broken: :lol: Men are straight lines and angles. Women are arcs and curvature. I suppose a lot of male and female att...
I have no issues with that. However, your OP is about justifying incest using homosexuality by claiming the two are equivalent and if one is permissib...
Excellent question. I'm beginning to doubt the alleged link between intelligence and self-awareness. I say this because intriguing & equally if not mo...
Noted for future reference! :up: :ok: Now I know how fragile even the most robust of threads are. Derailment is just one shallow-minded poster away. A...
As I tried to convey in my first post, as one advances from beginner to expert in any discipline, including philosophy, one realizes there's a differe...
Done! Youtube videos are more expressive than I can ever hope to be. Hence, my fondness for videos from said website and others. Your post wasn't snid...
A novice's best shot! If it makes sense at some level then I chalk it up to beginner's luck! The OP? Thank :point: @"Wayfarer" Great question! As I sa...
Thanks a million Wayfarer for starting what to me is a thread that provides a deep insight into what wisdom is. To put it simply, in line with the boo...
Violence Asymmetry 1. It is rare indeed to find a party willing to be the first to assault. Take note of the fact that I didn't say no one and instead...
You have a point. I'm particularly interested in counterfactuals - thinking of possibilities (what can be) instead of factuals (what is). Thus, the mi...
More updates The Unthinking-Suffering Equivalence 1. If in pain, not thinking (too painful to think) 2. If not thinking, in pain (people dislike being...
I have a feeling you're on the right track. I see a vicious cycle forming even as I write this. Extreme suffering is another path to achieving the Mu ...
Update Dying can be experienced and thus conceived. Sorry for failing to notice this earlier - I'm not the sharpesr knife in the drawer I'm afraid. :b...
Sounds reasonable and also extremely intriguing. @"Wayfarer" Zen koans (oh! I hope I don't sound like a broken record) are supposed to force us into t...
A marvellous idea. Don't take the sentence stating a rule as a single semantic unit and leave it at that. Also include the concepts/ideas that will ob...
The arms race, a good benchmark of the violence index (how violent and war-ready we are), is precisely what our good but long dead Roman, Publius Flav...
These deeds (kill), these objects (corpse), these events (dying) are, to my knowledge, merely surrogates of nonexistence/death. They aren't the real M...
My bad! I wasn't clear enough but, in my defense, you're being a tad silly too. Imagining the future , what lies over the horizon, what's in the next ...
A salient point I must admit. For my money, language was not designed as much for cogitation than it was for communication. Thus there are some experi...
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