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I hope it's at least clear to you, based on two other poster's replies now, that you should probably be re-thinking the rather reductive and sexist wa...
February 04, 2026 at 19:31
You're not actually engaging with that which is being said to you. In any case, no one said religion was evil. So this is incoherent. With the greates...
February 04, 2026 at 19:22
I would just agree, but I think you went wrong prior to this statement: I agree. But the way I'm seeing things, the former is how things actually are,...
February 04, 2026 at 19:19
Well, no. What you call 'corruption' are logical inferences from texts. It's worth noting "religion" is not a monolith. Early Christian teachings were...
February 04, 2026 at 18:35
That's fair. I don't think this is going to be quite the joyride you do, but fair. LOL no, that's not the concern though. Making worse is surely not i...
February 04, 2026 at 01:31
I am sorry if it was unclear - even on re-reading I can't see ambiguity. The "it" is the image the said light provides you with. It isn't the object, ...
February 04, 2026 at 01:20
I think you may, for whatever reason, be disposed to misread these questions. I presume you're a theist? The question asked was why is it this experie...
February 04, 2026 at 00:05
Good point @"NOS4A2" add that clarification to my recent reply. It is extremely succinct, thank you Michael.
February 03, 2026 at 19:22
So, first off, I used to be a huge Tolle fan. I had both Power of Now and A New Earth and read both several times. First: He is a terrible writer. I d...
February 03, 2026 at 19:21
Haha, fair enough. What are you suggesting with this thread? It seems like its a bit of a conspiracy, which I have no problem with - but let's say its...
February 03, 2026 at 19:13
Its not just that though is it? There are concerns about an immediate influx of 500,000 legitimate names on voter rolls (Municipal - the ones that mat...
February 03, 2026 at 19:11
While I (think) fully understand why you're asking, no, not in this context unless you're arguing that you cannot use your perceptual experience to al...
February 03, 2026 at 19:07
I can't argue without asking: What do you mean by 'best'? It seems to be the least reliable, the least amenable to interrogation, the least presentabl...
February 03, 2026 at 18:47
I would simply disagree. There's a quote about tradition, that I don't quite 'believe' but it seems to apply to many things you're taking issue with: ...
February 03, 2026 at 18:42
Photons which react to/arrange themselves in light of (heheh) the objects they bounce off until they hit our eyes, as I understand. But I don't know. ...
February 03, 2026 at 03:53
I think i'm answering both here: The light itself is not sense data - the electrical impulses your eyes send to your brain is. This explains why light...
February 03, 2026 at 03:23
That you see being held to the fire on you views, being told unequivocally where you are going wrong(on hte empirical points - your opinions are your ...
February 03, 2026 at 03:10
That's exactly what it implies: that the Light is a data medium between the object and your eyes. That would be data derived from your sensual apparat...
February 03, 2026 at 00:39
Haven't read the thread, but this doesn't seem interesting or controversial. There's two answers: The institutional degree; or An image purposefully m...
February 03, 2026 at 00:33
I think this is probably an unfinished analysis. The desire for paternal connection (and protection, let's not forget) appears inherent in any culture...
February 03, 2026 at 00:31
LOL wondered how the Notifications were working. Right. I've been considering exactly this is recent days - I think there's a profound difference betw...
February 03, 2026 at 00:26
Hahaha, definitely agree there - but that is why the Golden Rule has never seemed practically coherent to me. It induces one to violate other's wishes...
February 02, 2026 at 21:52
It is not anything remotely close to that. It is exactly what it says: The suggestion that if God is not real, an appeal to experience is meaningless....
February 02, 2026 at 21:50
Yeah, but that's literally fascist talk. It also rests on you assuming everything you've said is right. That is clearly not the safest way to go intel...
February 02, 2026 at 19:27
What? Maybe someone else is positing that. I think its patently clear that there is no way to assess error beyond error as a mathematical/statistical ...
February 02, 2026 at 18:53
Yes, intuition, but in this case coupled with obvious falsities. You cannot be directly aware of a God which does not exist, and therein lies the prob...
February 02, 2026 at 18:51
Not exactly that the rule is culturally located, but its expression seems culturally bound at least. A good, solid Catholic queer, for instance, would...
February 02, 2026 at 18:46
I'll take my rent now. Which is exactly, and you've not even begun to start thinking about addressing this what i said it was: You saying there are wo...
February 02, 2026 at 04:03
The problem with this approach is that it relies on those elements being caught in the phrase. Any which are not, escape us. So it's either a Bibllcal...
February 02, 2026 at 04:01
It wasn't new and I gave you two, thought-out, direct substantive replies largely populated by ideas gleaned from, and checked over by women. You did ...
February 02, 2026 at 01:02
I understand what you mean. 1 - yep, I agree there 2 - I don't think that's accurate. They offer descriptions. and based on the 1 and 2 3 - we think w...
February 02, 2026 at 01:01
I think you may have a very hard time learning things.
February 02, 2026 at 00:56
Wait, what? So yeah, rejecting that because its absurd (in the technical sense). Which is why IR is so attractive to those not bent to fall away into ...
February 02, 2026 at 00:55
I grew up in the UK. Capri-Sun is a survival item for me LOL. Huh. We have all of those as different things. Strips and tenders differ in that a tende...
February 02, 2026 at 00:50
Ye Jo Halka Halka Saroor Hai - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Ei Raat Tomar Amar - Hemant Kumar (i think. Playback singer so might be wrong).
February 02, 2026 at 00:48
Because it doesn't need or want to. However, the DRist must have a way to do this. IRists reject it. The noumena is as it is - not as we see it. And t...
February 02, 2026 at 00:46
Are you sure? We have strips, nuggets, tenders nibbles and couple others as distinct things.
February 02, 2026 at 00:41
This is... quite telling. You do not want to engage with the communities you're disparaging, and yet you want to attack (that's what this is) someone ...
February 02, 2026 at 00:34
This misses the OPs point. That is amorphous and unworkable as between value systems. Even within value systems, tolerance levels will have different ...
February 02, 2026 at 00:10
This post is brought you to by my life-long understanding of my own mother, my long-term partners including my wife (and a mother), my three closest m...
February 01, 2026 at 22:23
Because you continually made something of it which was erroneous, and asked me, continually, to explain myself. This isn't something I picked up on as...
February 01, 2026 at 22:15
You've got a hell of a lot of work todo beyond what you're saying here. That's your inuition - and I get that. It is most people's intuition. That's p...
February 01, 2026 at 22:12
Oysters and Sunlight Banno... Compare them if you must. I shall refrain. That's not quite what's being suggested here. All i was doing was putitng pai...
February 01, 2026 at 22:07
I simply challenge the OP to come back in five years and acknowledge that nothing predicted here happened.
February 01, 2026 at 19:32
The problem with this is that I've seen several first-hand videos (i.e the person is in the situation themselves while filming, not following up some ...
February 01, 2026 at 19:31
While I think Questioner is making two classic mistakes (conflating correlation with causation and appeal to authority) I also think what you're sayin...
February 01, 2026 at 19:15
Nothing here solves the problem. "Do unto others" is unworkable. Not everyone agrees with other's take on that. T Clark is being far, far too simplist...
February 01, 2026 at 18:45
This was my initial thought. But, funnily enough, I also went straight to psychedelic experience to note that this is perhaps simple illusion. That sa...
January 30, 2026 at 01:09
Some great thoughts here. On the delineation between many kinds of "beautiful" I can see several that are quite disparate: A beautiful legal argument ...
January 30, 2026 at 01:06
See. Impulse control of a toddler.
January 30, 2026 at 01:00