Agent Smith

I'm particularly fascinated by how dogs became a mascot for Cynicism. Dogs are, as per Cynics (dogs) 1. Indifferent to customs, norms, laws (shit & pe...

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Hemispatial Neglect. Diogenes Paradox: If you neglect one side of your body, you have (contralateral) brain damage! If you neglect both sides of your ...

Olber's Paradox

I thought an astronaut was like a doctor or engineer - requiring many thousands of hours of training before they ever step foot in a real spaceship. T...

Correctamundo! A piece of advice a monk gave me: Fake it till ya make it!

Diogenes But only if you were serious.

Well, it looks as though the matter is complicated 1. He has good judgment 2. Don't be so judgmental! This just crossed my mind. Maybe our poor perfor...

We are, 1. By degree, rational animals (h. sapiens) 2. By type, suiciders (h. suicidus)

Wild cards! Spanner in the works! Hello, hello, 911, I'd like to report a suspicious looking person near my house.

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We're all a little mad is what I wanted to get across to you. Perhaps a better way of putting it would be we're all insane in our own way. Each one of...

Cool!

More awareness? Zen folk might wanna have a word with you (mushin no shin aka mind without mind). Try that on for size! The choices, Jack, are 1. Madn...

@"Wayfarer" Is everything broken? :cry: Toys...Broken Toys

Yeah, a gap in the causal chain!

True, what you say. I still don't know how to tell these (mass hysteria/folie à plusieurs & objectivity) apart. If I'm mad then it's not ok; if everyo...

This is a perspective/style I've seen before and methinks it's one of those stages (think multi-stage rockets) in our philosophical lives that we atta...

Oop! :blush:

:lol: Sound advice!

Great post! Danke. The Mind-Body Gap According to our bodies, we're ~35k years old (Cro-Magnons) According to our minds, we're way older than that! Sp...

We're on the same page Jack.

I see. My post was meant as a general comment on the OP's main point (patience). I thought it might be of some use to you in your quest; sometimes clu...

The Holy Trinity (science) 1. Mathematics 2. Rationality 3. Experiment

Think of the economy as an airplane. There's the autopilot and a manual override. Then there are self-driving cars. We need to breathe life into the e...

Time always does! :up:

Transcendentalia 1. Verum (Truth/Satyam) 2. Bonum (Good/Shivam) 3. Pulchrum (Beauty/Sundaram) We're all, men & women, in search of the ideal mate: a l...

Choking...chemically! :fear:

I need to get out more.

Oh! Now I get it! :up:

Seek and ye shall find! :joke:

Ok but I don't wanna go into too much detail. I easily miss the wood for the trees. Thanks though.

I beg to differ; there are some like me who don't, well, get it in a manner of speaking. The word "obvious" doesn't make sense to me at all. Daniel De...

You mean your Peter Hillary Tingle!

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Great! I was hoping for a psychology for dummies kinda respectable tome :smile: . I guess I'll have to do it the hard way then.

This, mon ami, is to me a Zen koan that's been vexing me for a long time. I haven't the slightest clue how to process it. Danke for the rude awakening...

Pleasure and pain :: Carrot (Reward) and Stick (Punishment) Tools of manipulation? :chin: Who in his right mind would endorse hedonism? Either you're ...

I know right? Talk is cheap though! Translating words into deeds, that's the hard part. Too bad, just when I was beginning to feel better! Oh well, si...

Much appreciated! Psychology, one of my favorite subjects. Unfortunately, it seems I haven't put in the right effort (8- fold path). Woe is me! Can yo...

So, they're true. Sorry if I'm a bit slow, nothing's obvious to me at all. Indeed! So, we could say nothing is more pleasurable (better) than pleasure...

Good call! Merci beaucoup. Anything else?

:ok: Good to know and muchas gracias.

Eureka! Nothing is better than pleasure! Sayonara Epicurus. See you when you get there! Sunyata! Nirvana!

Something's not quite right, ja? The world, as it is, is dukkha (unsatisfactory), oui? Yet, the attitude which I recommend is one that's common knowle...

I was hoping you'd have the answer 180 Proof. There's got to be a way, oui? Does your contradiction-meter give a reading? Mine does not, but that mayb...

:ok: Danke gracious human!

Arigato for the info. It only confirms my suspicion that there's a lot I don't know. Have you heard of reverse mathematics? No, unfortunately, I don't...

I'm afraid no! Apologies. Good day!

Gods? No pain, no happiness! :chin: