Agent Smith

You should know schopenhauer1.

There is a certain sense in which one is made a slave by being born. True that some have a blast but still...

I thought I had mystical experiences, but I checked them against the real McCoy and it turns out mine don't make the cut: :snicker:

Possible; I just feel we don't/can't do leaps; graduated progress is the usual deal.

I think I have Geschwind's syndrome, hypergraphia being one of the symptoms. The mods didn't like my graphorrhea. Do you think I could sue them for di...

There are people who claim they're men/women trapped in a woman's/man's body. I can't rule out anything at all.

English as she is spoke.

I'm not sure if this is relevant but do modern penitentiaries have ethics programs for prisoners? They should, riiiiiiggghhht?

As I see it, our conception of cosmic consciousness (oooh!) is limited to only scaling up what is possible with human consciousness; leaps in consciou...

Maybe it's just that the super rich aren't well-informed! Also, I hear gettin' rich is tough on your soul - you lose something along the way...to unto...

I stand corrected then!

Précisément! A time and place for everything, oui?

:up: I was probably referring to his "God does not play dice" comment.

Indonesia because it's the world's largest Muslim nation. It hasn't issued fatwas (yet) but if memory serves some Indonesians did go on record that th...

Different strokes for different folks! It isn't exactly eastern to be coy.Silentium est aurum is in Latin; I guess the saying resonated at quite a dee...

I'm stumped Michael. It appears that the time has come for more nuanced acceptance of facts.

Oh! Rather curious that! Oh well, too bad. Have you come across of ishin-denshin or in Western terms tacit understanding aka implicature?

In my book, "possibly being wrong" is fallibilism which precludes omniscience sensu strictissimo.

What worries me is this: An attack on a freethinker such as Salman Rushdie is a) possible and b) that too in the US of A. Had this happened in Iran or...

As far as I can tell that's a contradiction: know and wrong are mutually exclusive, oui?

Just kiddin'. I was a good boy, teachers' pet?, in school Jack.

:grin: I came close to being expelled once! :sweat: See you around Jack.

Thanks for askin' Jack. I'm back, my 1 week suspension from the forum having ended. How are you buddy?

To my reckoning, if logic is artificial in that it's our mind imposing itself on the world, the world should be incomprehensible to us and yet... The ...

The Einstein Standard

A is round and green. Not-A is neither round nor green That which is round xor green is Aish. Humble apologies for buttin' in.

And some of them are...

Jim Al-Khalili's 9 enigmas of physics. Just finished chapter 1 and it sets the stage for paradoxes by discussing some of the most famous ones from Gre...

I'm way in over me head mon ami! Sorry.

Haven't you answered your own query?

Through an intermediary, yes; by itself, nyet!

What does it mean to understand?

:up: You're on the right track mon ami!

Lucky you! :up:

I have 3 categories when it comes to media 1) What I should watch. 2) What I want to watch. 3) What I end up watching. :snicker:

True, fear has a way of turning reality on its head and that's putting it mildly. In addition though, there's dissatisfaction aka dukkha and it manife...

Meditation, as is generally prescribed in Eastern religious-philosophical traditions, is basically stillness of mind mostly but also of the body. I de...

Nice! It's quite sad that he seems to have neglected the full breadth and depth of (ancient) Indian philosophy, of Indian origin though he was.

:smile:

Back somewhere around 2004, breathing air in New Delhi was equivalent to smoking a packet of coffin nails a day. So yeah....smoking, breathing city ai...

:snicker: Jokes aside, whoever is the 47th POTUS, s/he has to be able to balance loca (US)l & global (world) concerns.

Maybe we can do something with this musicalization of philosophy or, conversely, the philosophization of music. Wouldn't that be awesome?! The point t...

Way to go! You got this! Now... those greenbacks! Your odds of becoming a millionaire/billionaire have just gone up mon ami!

It's rainin' but for better or worse, not pouring. I'm listening to 1. The pitter patter of rain drops on the ground, on roofs, on the tarmac & the pa...

Here's what I would do if I were in your position - unable to decide "what to do" with a large sum of legally-acquired dough: Just deposit it in a ban...

After @"schopenhauer1" replied to my post with that \uparrow, I hadta do some soul-searching!

Quite a post there OP. Kudos/hats off to you. Not sure if I catch your drift but if I have to say anything about what I feel you've put up for discuss...

That says it all, oui? Unfortunately or not, what the ellipsis ( ... ) means is rather uncharacteristically left to the imagination. Nice!

I believe the OP is looking to uncover/analyze a particular mindset that's, in a sense, susceptible to what in the current epistemic climate can be de...