Thank you. But for your reference to be effective in demonstrating what appears to be your position on this, you'd have to accept that all of the prim...
To answer briefly, 1. 'nature" in whichever way we define/understand it through mind, is included as one of the fictions. I cannot know that Nature is...
Solipsism--only one psyche exists (in Reality) What about the position that psyche--including its constructions--doesn't exist at all in Reality? Nihi...
Bear with me then, I might need to think it through. But it seems, that while I recognize the contradiction of submitting Mind cannot know Reality, bu...
Let's be fair to Mahayana Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta. The former, no god. Tge latter, no more religious a god than Hegel, or arguably, Heidegger. Ha...
A quick addendum, and I'll leave it. One of the ways we arrive at truths, as you know, is by convention. This is a powerful structure for triggering t...
Short reply: Unless I misunderstand, (in which case, sorry) a pathological insistence that Darwin cannot be applied to Mind is only evidence of folly,...
Ha! Fascinating. Thank you. Cannot draw conclusions from a glance, but I'll read further. I wasn't aware of that hypothesis. Maybe unwittingly I am (l...
Short reply: Constructed (like everything else displacing Nature with Consciousness) out of images stored in memories, developing over maybe hundreds ...
Agreed. I like your example regarding circle. I wish I was proficient enough in math to dig deeper for artifacts of math's artifice. But I chuckle at ...
Or is it that they (these mystical schools) have profound philosophical roots, only to have been reconstructed as religious, by the so called religiou...
"Look at the fish swimming about,” said Chuang Tzu, “They are really enjoying themselves.” “You are not a fish,” replied the friend, “So you can't tru...
The way we generally view, and thus speak, choose, act, re Israel and Gaza, is not open, and authentic, but autonomously driven by our collective Lang...
I agree. I noted in a You Tube "documentary" recently that there is a tribe in the Amazon that counts by 2s. Was that embedded? I think math, like Lan...
:up: I realize you don't speak for Israel, but if that's the price to pay to save the children, while I personally might be willing to pay it, is that...
As for Sartre, since @"Gnomon" references him, yes, Consciousness is supported by a Being which is not itself. But contra Sartre, that Being is the Or...
I'll chime in further, later on, but for now, referencing your statement above, yes: not only is there almost "no reason" to do anything, but there ma...
Having looked more closely at Heidegger, I get why you say, But I think he shirks metaphysics, rather than overcoming it. He pretends to be doing a Cl...
Yes, accept that, I don't think Sartre's authenticity was Real in the ultimate sense. I think he knew he was providing instructions, not on how to "at...
A ton more can be said, but for now, just one more thing. It's not like we have any way out. Although Nature did not construct Mind, and it is Fiction...
Not directly addressing the preceding discussion, but I feel it noteworthy to highlight that Human Mind, as differentiated from organic consciousness ...
If Mahayana, and particularly Zen, falls under "esoteric," then, I think, simply put, the whole idea is to "transcend" philosophical thinking. What is...
"If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that...
Yes. Worrisome and likely true. Again, not saying I support Hamas. Nor am I saying I oppose Israel's right to defend. I was too careless in the commen...
Ok. I don't wish to argue that all of the middle east shares our western values. But you have provided info on Saudi Arabia. A state by the way, both ...
Ok, great. You're not advocating for genocide. Which countries in the middle east force women to wear burqas, force them to be escorted by men and are...
Ok. Not the point I was trying to make. I'll accept responsibility for my failure in communication. But yours is well understood. No need for peaceful...
The way to transcend our mundane and fictional selves, the troubled self, the self of Consciousness, is to be the Real and organic self, the aware-ing...
And with only the possible exception of timeless "moments" in Zazen, I feat, there is no way of returning from exile. Our Real Being is far too displa...
I recognize your point and agree with it. My point was certainly not a contradiction. To be clear, violence is never the advisable approach, nor justi...
Language controls the world. Words are not just potent signifiers; they construct our emotions and beliefs. Like code, it programs us. And it requires...
I worry about us for not proudly remembering philosophy is art, and for clinging steadfastly to the theories of the great philosophers as if they pres...
While my specific inquiries have not been addressed in any way which closes the book for me. I recognize that it is me, who is most likely failing in ...
I don't see how Heidegger’s ontology, if we are talking about Being and Time, overcomes metaphysics. To me, it expands it, and, with the help of hinds...
sorry last thing, didn't even H in B and T, purport to embark upon ontology but really end up providing a philosophical reflection upon the Human as S...
Ok, I think I understand, including how what seems like my recklessness is frustrating. I did not intend that. I respect what you're saying, and am tr...
I took the liberty of adding pure to ontology. Why? Because I view H as engaging in metaphysics, notwithstanding his (extremely impressive, far superi...
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