Visual sensation always and already has nothing to do with the self. It's when sensation gets immediately translated/assimilated to perception (to sim...
The strange thing I have found myself saying, here again, I totally agree. I'm just saying, as it appears from this last post is at least vaguely in l...
No. It has no authority. It was brought up as an historical document to illustrate the human intuition regarding the conflict between Mind(knowing) an...
For me, and I am likely in the minority, the historical facts are not necessary to appreciate/even if one wishes, to adhere to the message. If Jeffers...
First, I understand your position, and there are approaches to religion where I would agree with you. Outside of what each of us thinks of as "essence...
I imagine not just the Abrahamic, but Western philosophy too, had always entertained an intuition about this--that what happens in Human Consciousness...
To try simply, borrowing (not necessarily endorsing) an Abrahamic metaphor, so called "God" cares only about the living(ness) of "his" "creation" i.e....
No reason for me to disagree. Why not religions are tribal because kinship is tribal, and kinship is a driving force or fundamental element in religio...
First, I assume you are labeling the hypothesis as a duality real land phony water for convenience. You are following well enough to know that such a ...
No, but likely because I do not belong to any community of such believers. I suppose, if you told me you understood and agreed with my (let's be clear...
Well, words are never successful at precisely capturing truth. "adulation" not sure, observation (insofar as observation can even be relied upon) of t...
I wouldn't say corrupt with any connotation that word delivers; nor would I say inherently. I'd say (without enough attention paid to wording) we are ...
note that we cannot escape sex as a fetish while being human; just as we cannot escape the ego. I am suggesting, only that we recognize them and carry...
I did not notice that simile. But, at the risk of further alienating you, I agree with Constance. There is mating. Presumably, a seconds long process....
It appears you linger at the "institutional" notion of religion. I (presumably...or presumptiously) / this is discussing the vaguely* singular "essenc...
Sure. Or a mechanism humanity developed--is still developing--to address a real problem. In my databank, it appears that religion addresses the proble...
Not necessarily, if you don't mind the weigh-in. It appears that way in religion's manifestation as institutions, I agree. Even so called atheistic/ag...
Yes. I'm good with that. I only refer to trace relationship as a courtesy, the final convenient fiction, imagined as "taking place" just as human exis...
Yes, I agree. We superimpose morality, "long after" the fact. I think we have so immersed ourselves in our constructions, obviously we can no longer s...
For me, if you're asking "is our identity what it is to be human," as if being human is an absolute in the universe, in and of itself, definitely, no....
Yes. The REAL ground is living bodies feel real pain. At that real level however, no one thinks of sticking a hand in boiling water because at that le...
Yes, and as you say, not necessarily so. While I believe that ultimately, even the so called essence of so called religion is a construction and proje...
meaningful connection with a community if not only available in and through institutions, but also there is no reason why meaningful connections are d...
This and your subsequent reply, are opening doors to new ways of thinking of this. Or, to be more precise, you are addressing the same issues having f...
Exactly. Entirely agree. You think I go too far in abstracting from the contextual because I abstract from the abstracter in the end; I think you do n...
I completely understand the challenge. I even accept that the point may be inescapably moot because we cannot get the tart onto the plate. However, th...
I agree completely, and with your chiropractor analogy. Respectfully, agreeing with both* points quoted here does not nullify my points above, if that...
I cannot speak for tge OP. That may be what the OP is ultimately saying, but by further defining philosophy in an insightful way. I just personally th...
or to put the secondary function more concisely, the appearances we see and projedt to the world (incl our selves) are constructed by all relevant str...
Understood. Ultimately, "I" will never feel the promised satisfaction. But I know that's not what you meant. Even in the more conventional way, no. Yo...
"appears". In fairness, acknowledging the role Mick Jagger would have played on your perception during the moment you felt that way; if you step back,...
Try this way of wording it. Inspired when I read something in Rorty (note, like always, not saying in any way a regurgitating of nor any orthodox repr...
I agree but by disecting this. 1. Yes language does make "experience" possible. Because "experience" is a construction and projection of language. Bei...
My current thinking The mind is always constructing and projecting "fiction" which triggers real feelings in the body, in turn prompting behavior (bro...
With the caveat, that the pursuer be genuine in their pursuit (not as a Law, but if it is to function according to purpose). Hence "what is good for y...
Have you traced the "manifestations" "back" far enough? Maybe the "essence" is that personal attachment to deeds and their fruits will ultimately caus...
Not only everything you suggested, but why not select bits and pieces in one's pursuit of truth. I say this because, Truth is ultimately what fits--wh...
I apologize because it is no different than what I have been presenting to you for your consideration through out. I've been following your discussion...
Untiringly, the answer I have found, the body, a real organic being, not unlike many other animals, is beyond oneself. But not beyond, where we are lo...
Ok, sorry. I can see how I was being passively aggressive. I recognize you may have legitimate views. That part I repeat very sincerely. I don't purpo...
Ok, forgive me with respect to you. You may have very technical reasons for your view. Reasons I would need to consume your time understanding, given ...
It's like Soto and Rinzai. Two schools both already having gotten caught up in the finger pointing. One, like yours, I presume, says the method is the...
given the challenges I face expressing my "thoughts" in technical terms, permit this depiction. The ultimate purpose (reduction) of the mechanisms of ...
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