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Some good points. I don't think the things you mention are necessarily contingent on rebirth though. Why does becoming a mendicant have to have anythi...

I don't see how you could garner that interpretation from what you quoted. I of course know it is a religion. What I am asking is whether the none rel...

Why? There are physical feats that you can clearly see that Buddhists can do far above the normal human and nothing to do with the previous mumbo jumb...

I see, what about the Ryan person mentioned above? Besides past poster's personal issues it has been a fruitful discussion and likewise should it not ...

The suit comment was low-level but I feel the observation your discourse style is like Jordan Peterson is a valid one. When pressed you always go back...

You run the forum now or you 'told' on me to teacher? I have enough high level posts I think to balance out a couple of off hand remarks. Or you meant...

He wears a suit in his profile pic, so that must mean he knows what he is talking about. :smile: I get the impression of a chap who is an alumnus of t...

I believe this is where you exited the thread of mine on communism/anarchism when I implied that western medicine is mostly in place to pacify the wor...

Ah I didn't know you were familiar with them too, more than a pop understanding. Yes I tried to dig deeper into it and the metaphysical became a stumb...

I noticed that is his standard 'ace in the hole' lol. Used it a lot when debating with the formidable @Boethius.

That is all this is about I think for the subject matter set out in the OP. No cause for searching for immanent reasons, it is just that humans see ot...

The specialness could be seen, from the alien outside observer viewpoint again, as possessing consciousness and reflective perception. We are the only...

You seem to be going on the assumption that society acts in perfectly rational ways and so why aren't they making the perfectly rational designation t...

Indeed, it is like buying stock with potential. They know that, as a human, it has value. However I would not say that is why there is the urge to pro...

Here you are glossing over/ignoring the many times I stated it is not MY view. I guess you just skimmed a couple of the recent posts.

I think we are on the same page, for once, if we agree that both the value of sex and babies are an anthropomorphism. Both the view that sex is good/b...

You seem to be conflating what is objectively useful from what society deems as valuable. You can say the same about a beautiful woman. They are not v...

Well, to play devil"s advocate and precisely what I meant in the OP, that is exactly what the Right are saying the Left do, in the form of 'wokeness' ...

I am not sure this has to be about tolerating extreme views? Also the term tolerance seems to be a sticking point which lends itself to the interpreta...

Lol any time I have read that phrase it has been in some Right wing conspiracy article. Similar to 'cultural marxism' and 'Great Replacement' and talk...

Exactly what I was getting at in my OP. The Right try and claim the Left are just as/more intolerant which I don't think is true from an unbiased poin...

That seems a good roundup of Right and Left. I think I want to get more to the nub of my question. Could it be said of an outsider Alien race looking ...

First time I am learning referring to someone as they is improper. Nowadays it is improper to assume gender and be told off of 'misgendering'. Doesn't...

This is the one and I don't see anything creepy or disgusting about stating such.

One 'them' made 2 comments in the derogatory - that my post is creepy and then followed up that it is disgusting. Rather than some noble interpretatio...

You are not familiar with them being used to refer to a person in the singular? Also let's not forget the 'new' none binary gender!

That seems a very charitable appraisal of them calling my post creepy. Seems you are assigning your own interpretation. It seems the much more likely ...

Again this bandwagoning is what I see far too much on other forums. As soon as one negative post comes, others seem to get their courage and pile on.

Why turning to base trolling and name calling I would expect on other forums? T Clark you are the one also made the 'low effort' "get help" response i...

Ok I see the term tolerance is problematic but kind of part of the question, but the following replies have cleared up the conflation. The original ac...

Speaking of which, it is an aside but, why is Sky News super right-wing and even conspiracy pandering, yet in the UK it is pretty even. Well I can ans...

Indeed. Most things are of a like kind to produce more of the same. Not sure how to articulate, but living a certain kind of way produces more of the ...

Kind of. I would still much prefer my old life back, but it is like my hand has been forced to seek out something else and Buddism has a lot of explan...

Deep dive you mean a life downswing? I usually see that term these days used just to mean heavily researching a topic.

Interesting and good evidence of our sociability being a core aspect of our nature..

I think that is very different. They get to a size where they are too big to fail and think that everything they do is right and people will keep comi...

No but I did philosophy as my degree and Existentialism was my favourite, with Political Philosophy second, I would say, for very different reasons. I...

This was me after many years thinking I was finally finding my stride and then I got hit with chronic illness and it just tumbled the whole house of c...

I haven't looked through the replies yet, so don't know what's been discussed already or if I am retreading old ground, but I saw the title in passing...

Sure it is but it is my life experience which has drawn me to this thinking. I feel that the eras I have passed through have gotten worse with each de...

I'm glad the discussion has continued on despite the timid early posters with their wrote and trite 'get help'. This is a very important area of study...

In the last few years I feel like the only guarantee is life will get worse and worse so what is the point? "Just because" is usually the reply or som...

It doesn't have to be terminal illness. Chronic illness is torture for many. Complex illness is largely ignored by the medical institution.

The time it took to load that link is case in point lol. Discourse takes like 20+ seconds for me to load a page. Phpbb very quick. It is like the late...

Right on. Time for a 'hard fork'? :yum: would probably be a community of 2.

Well, respectfully, it is because I could pick a host of things I dislike about current forums - the bloating and infinite scroll, the overly 'busy' d...

Lol, then we have nothing more to discuss on this matter.

I see. Thanks for explaining. I had never looked into it tbh. I know a lot of forums use discourse these days and simply have not had an interest sinc...

Can I ask why you have gone the subscription and premium forum software route rather than free and open source? Being honest the choices I read above ...

Lol, I thought I would check @boethius's new posts and came upon this thread. I got a lot more out of your anarchism/communism discussions which seeme...