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Poor guy. Thank you.

That looks perfect. Very much appreciated!

sorry to impose, friend. But do you have a link to sources for Schopenhauer primary? I have no reason to expect you would. But it's very frustrating j...

Oh. Ok. Makes way more sense. Damn. :smile:

This is very interesting. I'm not certain about the "psychology" of Schopenhauer. perhaps because it is more difficult to relate to an individual from...

Yes, I understand that that is challenge. Interesting, though. I trust your interpretation of the reasoning. Yet, I have found "theories" in Western P...

sorry, I was stretching the hypothetical.

I could rest there. But I'm compelled to add, and what is the source/nature/structure of that chatter? If a god created us did it have this chatter in...

The first part I need to think of how I'm understanding/expressing this. The part about how humans can override, yes, as I've said, I recognize the pr...

I'm starting with your last statement. Yes, we definitely diverge here. Here I mostly agree with you. I wont reiteratethe qualifier yet. Before humans...

Yes. Im not self deprecating, just being honest, maybe I lack the skill in logic. I don't see how that accurate statement precludes that our evolution...

Oh. Are you suggesting that because we are radically instrumental in nature, and also are self-reflective, Will is. I.e. will is self being instrument...

Was that Schopenhauer or yourself extrapolating? Either way, for those like me, sometimes reckless with details, this statement is exactly the Bodhisa...

last remark. I did not comment on Zapffe because I know even less than I do on Schopenhauer. But that I am definitely going to read into. Thanks again...

I'm surprised, but i can see that, even being a novice re Schopenhauer, and only marginally more familiar with Kant. However, my experience has been t...

Hey. You might see (if you don't already) where we diverge--even with respect to Schopenhauer. Or, perhaps, that we do not diverge. I am not (despite ...

And I understand the objection to that. While I might try to rebut by tightening my way of expressing that, instead, let's say it is correct and one w...

Originally (unwittingly) derived therefrom. The difference (which is essential) being that it is exactly not in mindfulness (at least not in mindfulne...

And its not that we cannot extricate our aware-ing true nature/being from the chattering boredom. It's that as Schopenhauer (of this forum) showed me,...

(carrying on from our discussion on suffering) I think Schopenhauer traveled very close toward truth, but like everyone, could not extricate the path ...

And, yes, I can't deny that. I'm providing poor to no clarity on how it isn't anyone putting there spin on it. And same goes for the "world". But I so...

So informative. You know this stuff. Had to thank you

Luminous with beauty.

Please feel free to bow out without notice, as this goes beyond the scope of discourse on Schopenhauer that I should reasonably expect from one who is...

Thank you. Feel free to respond/move on at your pace/discretion.

Thank you. All very interesting. The scholarship has advanced from where I last left it. It does seem far more likely that Paul "created" his Christol...

Ok, right, and by original group, you may have meant gnostic, but that's my suggestion regarding Essenes, not a direct relationship to the "author(s)"...

Excellent, makes me even more confident in the Gospel of Thomas (regardless, I am an admirer) historically. As opposed to it being some post synoptics...

Fascinating. I have not kept up with New Testament scholarship for years. I can recall the pharasaic influence, plus some hint regarding the Essenes. ...

Sorry if I indicated that. I agree Romans is the source for a more complete recital of Paul's thinking, re Christ. Galatians, I raised as an epistle w...

I understand that, and, think he may be right. Interesting. Yah, makes sense. Explains the inability not to follow the chatter, even by trying to empl...

Yes, because we also approach mind/body in the wrong direction, as if real being somehow inhabits the mind.

I'd even stick to the first half without the second. If open-minded means "willing" (already not that) to explore beyond the farthest reaches of conve...

Beautiful. Leave it to an AI to gloss over/question whether we, its makers, aren't that something real, on any level. I think that is the bridge we ca...

prefacing my thoughts with the caveat of being unlearned in the technological aspect, and especially the deeper sciences involved in shaping AI (and, ...

I guess it's inevitable. One day, perhaps in distant future generations, we'll add to our current amnesia about the nature and structure of our experi...

Agreed. Time will tell is almost always a reliable proposition.

I understand that reasoning, am willing to concede that you are more likely correct should this be decided conventionally. And yet..

I meant more generally. My exposure, as I said, were from those Histories (like Bertrand Russell, et. al) and Anthologies. My sense comes from those, ...

He has aged well/was farsighted. I'm inspired to read further. Honestly, my only brush with Schopenhauer has been in those large philosophy readers. Y...

There's "good news" at the end. If you indulge me to dissect "life" for humans into two parts: organic life, life proper; and the human experience, li...

A kind of meta-psychotherapy? A sharpening not of the narrative(s) of the mind for improved functionality of the individual narrative in history (whic...

I am on board with that part. Then--unless I misunderstanding-- 1. Whence history/culture/language? 2. What/what process/who situate(s)/(d) us "there"...

I agree with that, because of the qualifier, "such that there resides an implicit unity," which of course is the function of the Subject. That is, to ...

I'm with you there. Almost shocking how much I see it that way too. Funny how it takes me a few "call-and-responses" to start to understand another's ...

Do you mean further reduced organically, what are the cellular or bio electrical impulses? Deeper? The molecular? Atomic? I know you mean metaphysical...

Preface that I'm not confident (as in my own weakness) beyond generally that I understand your concern about the logic and precisely how it applies. S...

Nice. Thank you.

I agree (I got carried away with the drama of the Eden myth). Not bad, I agree. But I do see it as knowledge itself. Not as in the pivotal moment, but...

That's what I'm saying. (Although it may not be what you're really saying). These signifiers, the vast majority of them, Freud on stilts, operate subt...