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I can buy that, but my explanation is probably quite different to yours.
October 29, 2020 at 13:39
Agreed. In our world extension is the flip side of experience (this does not mean it is in any way fundamental).
October 29, 2020 at 13:36
The north is being used as a Petri dish. The surge a month ago was fuelled by schools and universities going back, so now the increases will be reduci...
October 29, 2020 at 08:28
The real estate bubble in the UK is due to a systemic failure of government, Although it was the privelidged classes who benefited from it, I don't th...
October 29, 2020 at 08:04
Lockdowns are spreading across Europe as the virus surges today. Infection in Czechoslovakia is very high at the moment, with similar levels to Wiscon...
October 28, 2020 at 22:11
Perhaps the point, the whole point of this world is to be a vehicle for experience.
October 27, 2020 at 06:56
That sort of complacency will let the commies in. Or in other words, it's ok to chop your own head off in a world without commies, but not in one wher...
October 27, 2020 at 06:42
Surely the goal is, by hook, or by crook, to live a rounded, benevolent, congenial life, enhanced with at least a little service to thy fellow man. Fo...
October 26, 2020 at 18:36
Quite, I was, perhaps clumsily, saying that of those who seek Nirvana, only those who are ready will realise it. Also that some folk can't be doing wi...
October 26, 2020 at 18:28
Nice thread. My first thoughts are that this is about practice informed by contemplation. That it is a good starting point for this practice. That the...
October 26, 2020 at 07:00
Dominic Cummings is Davros, the leader of the Darleks.
October 25, 2020 at 11:28
I hear you, but I'm not so confident that they engage in any joined up thinking. One would think that the Tory's would want to keep their older voters...
October 25, 2020 at 10:08
You don't seem to have much understanding of humanity. After all we are primates with a complex social and economic structure with a long history of w...
October 25, 2020 at 07:54
The virus seemed to be spreading unimpeded across parts of the UK for a while until about a week ago. With a few cities and counties having up to 1,00...
October 24, 2020 at 20:31
Thanks for the link, I am a fellow traveler looking for an answer to these questions. I would like to add something for you to consider. Firstly, it i...
October 22, 2020 at 12:42
I can't shake that feeling that you are talking in a Peter Sellers, Nazzi accent, it would so suit your manner of reasoning.
October 22, 2020 at 07:11
But the explanation you give, via science, is not how you came to be here, it is merely the mechanism by which you body came to be constituted. We rea...
October 22, 2020 at 07:07
I'll elaborate, the answer to the question ought to be contingent on the answer to these two questions; How did we come to be here? And For what purpo...
October 21, 2020 at 09:37
We are entirely in the dark on the issue.
October 21, 2020 at 07:10
Quite, and how will you know? Yes and when it comes to the esoteric, science, academic knowledge etc is also in the dark. Quite, not an easy thing to ...
October 21, 2020 at 06:44
I like what you say about testing the logic through introspection, I do that too. What I was thinking of was a kind of contemplation in which you are ...
October 19, 2020 at 07:13
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Agreed.
October 16, 2020 at 19:49
In: Brexit  — view comment
Both Christmas's are going to fall over the precipice. It's a slow motion car crash. I'll get out my Tom Waites albums, (Clue, The Piano has been drin...
October 16, 2020 at 19:36
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A Downing st spokesman has said this evening, that the talks are over.
October 16, 2020 at 17:51
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Quite, I do think he wanted a deal, but only on unreasonable terms. He always wanted to have his cake and eat it. So it's just as likely that he has b...
October 16, 2020 at 17:50
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Johnson has said now that we are heading for an "Australia deal", code for no deal. It might be a handfisted attempt at brinkmanship, but sounds more ...
October 16, 2020 at 16:26
There are a number of approaches, a good start is to develop an affinity with animals, through a pet for example. Animals are free of a thinking mind,...
October 16, 2020 at 06:21
Well, a person (a being) is not just a mind, they are also a body and a consciousness within that body. So each being knows their body, their life and...
October 15, 2020 at 20:54
And that ended well for him.
October 15, 2020 at 20:39
I agree and I have tried that too, but not with much success. Western philosophy is derived from the classical tradition, it seems with logic and anal...
October 15, 2020 at 06:16
Yes, although these days only when a politician makes me mad.
October 15, 2020 at 06:09
The only alternative to philosophy is myth, when it comes to the mind.
October 14, 2020 at 20:18
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October 14, 2020 at 17:43
I would add the caveat that these truths are restricted to what we are able to consider from our limited perspective as animals with a recently emerge...
October 14, 2020 at 17:11
Interestingly there is a technology which has been lost, or at least the skills to practice it. The ability to work stone as the stone masons did when...
October 14, 2020 at 07:22
Yes, although there is a demographic pattern. The population's that were hit first time round had people often travelling abroad and bringing it back,...
October 13, 2020 at 08:51
You could find the middle way.
October 13, 2020 at 08:30
Its feeling more serious this time. Many nurses and doctors are still exhausted from the first wave. They were already over worked before Covid, often...
October 12, 2020 at 17:27
A hot topic, I suppose. Also social media is starting to ban more. The pandemic is coming back with a vengeance in the UK, a number of towns and citie...
October 12, 2020 at 12:50
Yes, although it has gone a stage further, the housing market is like a ladder as you sell your small house, you buy a larger one because you have the...
October 11, 2020 at 13:20
Yes, add this to mass consumerism creating wage slaves, then we're there. The asset inflation is a big deal in the UK at the moment, as I pointed out ...
October 11, 2020 at 08:58
Perhaps a pernicious creeping fascism would work. The problem I see is with consent, it will have to be done in a way that the people think they are f...
October 11, 2020 at 07:43
So its divide and secretly rule perhaps. I just didn't see how the recent (previous) administrations where driving it (consciously at least). Rather I...
October 11, 2020 at 07:25
Looks like he was fooling around and when it took off, got into some data mining. QAnon is big here in the UK now, the've even been protesting in Traf...
October 11, 2020 at 06:45
Ok, not normality, perhaps, a return from insanity to more of the usual. Anyway, will they slink back under their stone? Or is the genie out of the bo...
October 11, 2020 at 06:41
But if Biden wins and turns it around, restores normality, what will the proud boys do? Just slink back under their stone?
October 11, 2020 at 06:21
Agreed. For someone to reach the point of being in power in a large country they will have a strength of character which will enable them to dismiss w...
October 10, 2020 at 15:08
I wouldn't use the words "secretly confident", rather, secretly worried. I say this because the scientists who became embroiled in the media circus ar...
October 10, 2020 at 06:46
The demise you refer to is of a whole different order of magnitude to what Frank is talking about. The planet will be entirely extinguished. This is u...
October 10, 2020 at 06:34
I doubt this, there is a phenomenon amongst climate scientists, in which they shy away from saying anything conclusive, or alarmist, because they risk...
October 09, 2020 at 16:41