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It is not oblivion if no one is there. If the human body, like all other bodies in nature, decomposes and disintegrates into the soil, then no body is...

We don't "know," we settle (or, knowledge is settlement); and, they don't unite at a "highest" level, they unite at the functional level (or highest i...

If you understand that "what is irony" is a construction, as is everything which flows out of it, constructions of meaning; and that, the real "you" l...

I meant both sincerely. Thanks for the interesting take. Sorry if I was frustratingly unclear. But for me, all good. How could I really know? So obvio...

Thank you/Sorry.

To cut to the chase, I/we can't help it. It's autonomous. If you take the position that Irony (for example) has a definition, why not stop at the dict...

We do not focus on the truth we already know. "Irony" like most things surfacing through minds as culture or history, is not a definite singular thing...

Ironically, we might just end up confounding things.

Ironically, both are something only a human could say... or, does that negate the irony?

sorry to hear that. Thank you

But, by fact do you mean Truth? Because I think that's up to interpretation. And, if fact and Truth are not the same, what is the difference? Does Tru...

You are correct, and I have caused confusion. The "I" is imaginary; in waking and in dreams. What I meant to say is that the real being is the living ...

It can be called History; each so called individual, a locus in History. At the risk of sounding New Age (though it is not), it is like Indra’s Net. I...

It's tragically stupid of us to accept the current state of democracy. We don't allow our Bankers to grow rich by cooking the books and stealing our m...

Why do so called liberal democracies exist? To protect freedom. Already, we have a system of restrictions (laws) in place to maximize freedom. Already...

Not to be argumentative. I understand your points. Fair enough. What was your (or, for that matter, 'the') first experience of 'apple'? I do not deny ...

If I said dreams are autonomously moving signifiers called out of a storage in memory, with no central agent, you would consider the arguments against...

Your post was interesting. Indirectly related is how in Quentin Tarantino movies, he makes us see always a hierarchy of evil: there's the bad guy(s), ...

When we're awake our imagination (dreams) function in such a way as to be fit to surface (in the world). When we sleep, the autonomous constructions a...

Doesn't the messenger also construct the message? The messenger is the message.

I dare say, even philosophy operates (under the veil of/using the mechanisms of reason) in that way. Never mind the word 'prophecy' and its so-called ...

I agree with the gist of what you are saying. I'm not referring to what we may or may not call time as physicists. I mean for uniquely humans. I think...

I think that is a possible end result. But they're designed to smash the reservoir of constructions so that, finally freed from the chatter of thought...

In a way, everything experienced through mind is a self fulfilling prophecy. Even those not easily noticed, because of volume or rate, most actions an...

I see and admire your perspective. But consider whether the particulars, processes and conflicts are not things only observed by humans whose minds ar...

I would rather say, Natural monism. It is only because uniquely humans have minds which construct and project code which in turn affects the body (fee...

I took a glance: interesting. Thanks.

Ok, yah. In that context, I see.

Yes they are different. My point is we, especially empiricism, designate the info perceived from sight as "superior" to the info received from feeling...

Interesting, thank you.

Too complex to detail here, but... even empiricism is neglecting something. Feeling, is no less an organic sensation than seeing, touching, smelling, ...

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:up: no dualism to collapse. The Mind part is fleeting No thing. Not dualism though it sounds like one. Not monism either, though ultimately it is. Yo...

Fair enough if that's faith is revealed truth in the bible (and i know you agree you dont havd to believd it), but can't faith be explored beyond thos...

I know what you mean, and I agree, faith which claims to have such revelation into some otherworldly superior reality is not supportable. But maybe, i...

I agree...ultimately It's like Morality. It doesn’t matter what you think in your head. It's what your body does, your arms and hands, your legs, feet...

If Cat Stevens--Mr. Peace Train--can be so radicalized, then yes, maybe Tom Storm's reasoning is not just functional but necessary.

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That's a good point. If that was the spirit of the OP's consideration; I get it. Perhaps I was wrong to read it as latent bullying in response to (pat...

It's not the same as punching me. No argument there. But I would speculate that the burning of the Quran was not done in the spirit of educating, but ...

The question is, are there good reasons to justify the burning; not is the stabbing righteous (which, it is not); nor are jihadists acceptable (which,...

How is it not obvious that both actions are violent and neither can be condoned? Sure, the knife attack is more recognizable as violence, and a more o...

Nice to cross paths again. It's an interesting topic with a variety of insights.

I agree with you that they are different, except that you are ignoring the possibility of a hybrid, or a qualified "nature-ism." To assume for illustr...

If I might chime in. My general agreement with the picture of Plato's allegory referring to prehistoric humans isn't to say he meant "cavemen." It's t...

or, before they were historical humans.

I, too, see it that way.

Paradoxically, I agree. To say we're ultimately nature is an idealization. And I fully agree that the human condition is far from that. But I still be...

sorry, response above.

Right. A monkey is free from the burden of trust and convictions. We are enslaved by these fantasies. Sure. I'm not proposing we go back. We can't. An...