Yes, there would have been a few deeper thinkers who had thought about this, but the world they were living in was steeped in the belief, to such an e...
The amount of investment going into arms production in Europe will fuel an economic boost. Also if more energy is required in the short term, it will ...
During Trump’s phone all with the president of Columbia, held in the Oval Office with three journalists present (including the New York Times). Trump ...
Quite, it is necessary to see the intellectually conditioned self for what it is in order to free oneself from it’s conditioning. I would suggest thou...
It’s in the iconography and teachings, although reference to this sort of thing has been toned down for the Western market. Presumably because Western...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c620q30w0q0o This is the size of the problem. Perhaps if AI can bang a few heads together in the rooms where energ...
The only way to solve the problem is to stop burning fossil fuels pronto and sequester large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere asap. I don’t see A...
I hesitate to make statements about Buddhism as I didn’t study it deeply. I would say though that the implication of a transcendent reality underlying...
We don’t know and may never know. Within the religious traditions, though, it is taught that people were given the knowledge through revelation and by...
Apologies for a bad choice of word. I didn’t mean taboo in that sense. I’ve only ever used it in the sense of a quiet, or unspoken, consensus not to g...
I was commenting on my observation that no one, that I’ve noticed, includes it in any discussions. I’ve toed the line a bit, because posters just igno...
Forgive me, I’m new to all this phenomenology malarkey. I thought the idea was that everything is always here and now and it is our experiences which ...
Yes I can see this, although I would suggest that transcendence can be brought into the mix. But I have noticed a taboo on this forum around transcend...
I had a look at this and realised that what he was trying to do is what is well versed in mysticism. But the difference being and where I see it as pr...
Yes, I was thinking of that as I was writing, my comment was more of an aside to Janus. I struggle to limit the subject to these binary terms, ie, the...
Then we can presumably view the subject as transcendent to the extent that it extends to having a presence in the material world, to emotions, or feel...
Yes, although what Wayfarer and myself are doing here is taking a step back from the analytic dualistic thought processes and treating the subject as ...
Yes that’s interesting, my first thought is that almost everything (that could be here and now), isn’t. While the only thing(s) we can be sure of is. ...
That was precisely my point, we are not aware of it, but our soul is, or perhaps our spirit. It might just be our outer, more physical, self conscious...
Yes the author is right, we don’t know what any of those things are. We know very little about the building blocks of our world. The reason I say elec...
When I saw the thread title, my first thought was as in communion in Christianity. The presence of spirit. Then I saw that it was really about time. S...
I have a lot of sympathy with your stance and there is an interpretation of my stance which fits with yours. But it comes from an entirely different r...
Quite, the experience needs to be stripped bare to the bones. And compared with itself unstripped. And with the social group (or biosphere), not just ...
I’m not so sure about this, yes with the sensory apparatus we have, I would agree with this. But it doesn’t mean we can’t bear witness to it, or be ho...
Yes, I know, the conditioning is so deep, it goes to every fibre of our being. But we must remember, that that being and the nature we are being condi...
Right at the beginning of my interest in philosophical thinking, back in the mists of time. The first thing I learned to do was to think outside the b...
I’m going to say something controversial, another conclusion to the one in bold is that they didn’t co-arise, but that consciousness was introduced, t...
I can understand both positions here and as before it appears that you both agree, but are looking at the same thing from different starting positions...
It’s a good point, but as I was trying to say it’s addressing something else, which isn’t happening. The censure which is going on in the U.K. is in r...
Thank you for your reply it helped me with context, as I often find myself getting into discussions between philosophers about other philosophers and ...
Well the way I envision this is that I consider the idea that separation is illusory. In which case there is no requirement for anything to be transmi...
What I’m referring to here is a the rise of Reform, to the point where they are regularly polling above 20% in the polls, in the lead above the other ...
Well if we can agree that the freedom of speech issue in Britain is being whipped up by the populists and the Tory’s who are aping the populists, alon...
Yes, it must be obsession. We mustn’t forget how depraved Trump is, he is literally Putin’s poodle, eager to roll over and have his tummy tickled. I c...
The premise being pushed here in this thread is a misunderstanding of the situation. Namely that freedom of speech in the U.K. is under attack. It isn...
You’ve nailed part of the problem in the U.K. here. The bellicose right of politics who brought us Brexit, Boris Johnson and Liss Truss with the help ...
It’s interesting that most people saying the U.K. has a problem with free speech are not in the U.K. Not only that, but the examples they cite are onl...
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