MrLiminal

If Trump is using these protests/riots as an excuse to crack down and extend his authority, it seems like the No Kings protests might just give him mo...

Oh the two party system is absolutely a big part of it, and it's especially weird right now, because I suspect we are in the midst of another party re...

If the deportations are racially motivated, why is that not already happening?

My understanding is that the South African immigrants were brought here legally, whether or not you agree with the government's reasoning for doing so...

I'm going to be honest. As someone who is very anti-illegal immigration for the purposes of robust social programs, job security in the face of automa...

Tbh, that is a question I think philosophy has still never answered in a satisfying way.

I would argue violence often has an implicit message, it's just usually a destructive or restrictive one. Violence is often a physical "No." And again...

I would argue in the case of martial arts, the "art" usually comes in the mastery of form, technique, understanding and body/mind alignment. Iirc, "Ku...

I don't think art and science are comparable in that way, tbh. Science concerns itself with proven and repeatable things in a way that art does not. M...

What I mean is that even things that seems still are still moving on a sub-atomic level. Degenerating into baser elements, electrons moving in the bod...

That's my stance, more or less.

But that goes back to my original point, that it depends on how you define objective vs subjective. I think the answer changes depending on what scale...

Butting in here, but isn't you responding to FO proving their point to a degree? They post, you respond. Obviously as adults we are responsible to how...

I think we may be talking past each other, tbh. I'm not necessarily saying that popularity = objective quality. I'm saying that if there was an object...

I mostly agree, which is why I lean towards more free speech than not. I just think that, in an environment with totally unrestricted free speech, the...

I'm not sure I agree, if I understand you correctly. I would think it would be the opposite: that there could be no arguing with objective truths beca...

In a perfect world, yes. But I think the realities of life mean that the majority will always try to impose its will on the minority, and that bad act...

I'm not sure I understand your point. My argument is that if artist A and B have conflicting opinions about what makes art good (say, maximalist vs mi...

Personally I believe free will is actually very limited, and that most of the choices we make are done by subconscious algorithmic thought processes t...

Voted "other." I think free speech is a double edge sword no matter how you cut it. Full free speech will end up with the majority shouting down the m...

Interesting you bring that up, as I'm working on a poetry book right now that's sort of the opposite. I think poetry, by its nature, lends itself to t...

I think it depends on what you mean by "objective." Within certain cultures or even human culture at large, I think there are some "objective" art sta...

I think in pictures instead of words, and am a very anxious person. However, I wonder if that's because of neurodivergence more than anything. Persona...

Yes, all moral systems are doomed to subversion, ideological coups or general degeneration. Most systems are resistant to change by their nature, but ...

Yes, I think violence can be an art. Case in point: martial arts. Although I think there is some semantic shenanigans here. While violence caused by n...

My response would be to look at how that went over during Covid-19, tbh. If you lie for a "good reason" and then get caught, people will still call yo...

Q: What is faith? A: Baby, don't hurt me. In all seriousness though, I think this is a difficult thing to pin down. I think faith can mean different t...

I think there are several examples of ways of thinking we have managed to convince most people out of historically. Human sacrifice and slavery were o...

I think the gender/sex split makes sense to differentiate performative roles vs biological ones. However, I also think that gender roles in general te...

I would argue that perhaps you have this backwards. I think of time as a unit of measurement for change. If nothing changes, there is no way to tell t...

>So, what do you mean by 'understand'? I think you mean 'perceive a clearly discernable causal sequence.' The principles that drive internal combustio...

Ah, Kant and Jung were what originally got me into philosophy, iirc. It's been forever since I read them though. >designed my curriculum around those ...

I'm also interested in how some of the older Western schools of thought approached some of the ideas found in Tao and Buddhism, but seem to have diffe...

I'm less familiar with the Hindu sources but I have dabbled in some Buddhist thought as well, though not to any great degree. Can you elaborate on wha...

I don't know that "mutually beneficial" is the same as selfless, as it is by definition, beneficial to both parties.

To put it another way: Science we don't understand is "magic." Science we do understand is not magic, it is science. Therefore, explainable magic is s...

For a specific verse, here is one from Wayne Dyer's translation: “It is through selfless action I will experience my own fulfillment." As much as I lo...

It's neither my place to allow or disallow, I'm just unsure what you're hoping to accomplish when you come into a discussion of Taoism and open with y...

Thank you, I think this helps put it into words better. My argument is that religion, science and art are all frameworks for explaining reality that u...

Thank you for your input, but we are specifically discussing Taoist thought in here. If you don't agree with it to begin with, I'm not sure our discus...

Thank you for the resources! I will have to check those out later. I think the biggest thing that appeals to me is, as my name implies, the liminality...

>I understand what you're saying, but think about it as rationally as you possibly can: they're not literally talking about the same thing/process. Ye...

>I think overall you'd benefit from reading more of the history of culture and the history of ideas. There are discernable themes that emerge from suc...

I guess my ultimate frustration is that sometimes it seems like science and religion are essentially talking about the same thing/process, but then ge...

That's a good way to think about it actually. I guess what I'm suggesting is that magic is real, it's just all "hard magic," and is thus explainable. ...

I'll admit this may be my own bias here. As my name suggests, I have a tendency towards thinking about liminality. I have just often wondered if the p...

>If the Supreme Court is a single unit composed of nine justices, then the Supreme Court is a single fleshy object that has nine tongues and eighteen ...

I suppose my larger point is that all of these questions are rooted in the fact that we experience life as a singular experience, and I am questioning...

No you're good. Let me try explaining it another way. You are one person. You experience life from one perspective. Your family is made up of several ...

Yeah, like I said, it started off as kind of a joke, so I'm not sure it really makes much sense to anyone but me. To quote the Beatles though, "I am h...