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I relate to this. I have my dreams, etc. But I find that I largely have to react to life. I try to lean on wise abstract words. I reason that death it...

I think you're right. But I often get the sense that describes most of us. And even if we identify with logic and critical thinking, this might involv...

Does someone know well enough what a fact is if they can use it in everyday life? To me the difference between riding a bicycle and talking about a bi...

This is a great issue. I'm studying physics. I'm at that point where I have to choose between engineering and pure science, and I'm leaning toward eng...

I don't see how we could know one another. But my views do strike me as pretty generic, so someone has surely run through these permutations before. W...

I can relate to this thought especially. I had a go with Wittgenstein once and that led me to see how messy and tortured meaning is in the claws of ph...

I've had this kind of thought myself. It occurred to me at some point that my mind was bigger than anything it could contemplate. All the things I wan...

That rings true. Out of curiosity, does he ever say it as well as you just did? (This reminds me of James' pragmatism, by the way. The past collides w...

Good point. For me the word 'shrewd' comes to mind. I feel shrewd for not being seduced by this or that formulation of formulaic wisdom. But I do some...

This 'interruption of identity' approach sounds pretty convincing to me. If we ignore physical injuries and just look at emotional/intellectual trauma...

I can't speak for ff0, but I think 'secret sources' is a pretty good phrase for what religious people imply that they have access to. It's not just th...

I can relate to this. I'm a science student. But studying science doesn't answer the big questions. It doesn't do what the religion I once tried to fo...

I think you've nailed it. If I had to pick one issue as an indicator of others, I'd go with afterlife. If the mind needs the brain and the brain dies,...

Fascinating. It does occur to me that we exist largely as possibility. We are haunted, haunted, haunted by the things we could do, should have done, n...

I've had this thought, too, in my own words. But I've never been able to get my friends or even my girlfriend to understand what the hell I'm talking ...

I think you've put your finger on the problem here. We build our sandcastles between the tides. We can understand goals that pay off in 5 years or eve...

Ain't that the truth! Is it not a criticism of metaphysics? Something like an argument for the impossibility of ye old metaphysical dream? And yet one...

I like this. He finds himself in hot water. He (really I) didn't ask for this adventure. No system seems to do this hot water justice. The systems see...