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One could view time as a product of extension, or physical change. A physical change which is going to happen anyway and does happen, but an unfortuna...

I find that this issue is confusing to people due to the conflation of thought and mind. Thought is a computation carried out by the brain, whereas mi...

Yes, I would agree with that, although what I am agreeing with is a bit vague and my own position is not fully formed as yet. My first thought is that...

That may be so(and I have little to disagree with), but the intension might have been to tell him the meaning at that point, we can't say that it wasn...

Yes and from my perspective there are numerous freedoms available to the being and that the evolution of the soul is a revealing in stages of these fr...

I apologise for not grasping your position through your use of the word belief. Now I understand, I think. So following the analogy of the stone, we a...

Nice, I can see that circle and the sign wave rising up into a third dimension, in each dimension the diamond is expressed, but in greater and greater...

My point here is not about if we are robots, but about the philosophical idea of Post modernism(I admit that I am not well read in PM, so this is just...

This is incorrect, it might be told to us. It might have been told to someone in the past who wrote it down.

Yes I know that there is precious little input into subjectification which could be claimed to be unique, or farsighted. This doesn't mean that it doe...

I was just listening to the news quiz (BBC radio4) and Trump was described as a St Bernard dog shaved and put in a suit. Chuckle chuckle.

In your reply to me, I know it is a subject who expresses, or acts out freedom. But this same subject has been generated, shaped moulded by social and...

I have read the quotes of John's comments in your last post to him. It seems to me that it is the use of the word belief which is problematic. In one ...

For me personally, well I was planning to move to the south of France in a few years. That could become more complicated, or even a nonstarter now. Ot...

Woooooowhat! Sweet Jesus!

As I said to ????????????? any kind of universal transcendent ground, or basis of our existence need not relegate freedom as absurd or ridiculous. Yes...

Well for people our age, although I keep hearing something about playlists. I haven't tried one yet. But yes 6music is more established and recognised...

Wicked! I've been listen to Sleaford mods recently, can't put it down! Just a thought, have you tried BBC 6music online? that's where it's all happeni...

Thanks, both interesting articles. I'll have look.

I think about these things in imaginary visual form in the minds eye. I find it works better for me to articulate concepts in this way. When it comes ...

Do you mean(in other words) that one allows the possibility of ones self acting freely. By making this space it frees the self that it can feel and ac...

It's too early to say what the economic repercussions are. There are strong arguments on both sides in the media about the fluctuations in the £. Anyw...

You don't need to remind me about the suffering and injustice in the world, I am acutely aware of it at the moment. Anyway, I will fall in line with W...

Not the true world, simply the world we find ourselves in. Do we really understand it? I know some folk might think they do. Anyway my point was that ...

You do realise presumably that this question cannot be answered from our limited knowledge and understanding of the world we find ourselves in? Whatev...

This presumes that this universal human nature is a rigid framework of some sort. It need not be, only the phenomenological stage or ground upon which...

I can't speak for John, but as I see it what he is referring to is something along the lines of this. To have a conscious conception of the freedom on...

Yes the intellect has to fashion a suitable conceptual form. I find this monad sort of disappears when I visualise it. But I still know it's there so ...

I know how you feel, but really we owe it to our descendents who are not here to respond, to at least try to preserve the ecosystem, ourselves and mak...

@TheWillowOfDarkness. Yes, I know this and I understand your perspective. I agreed with you in my first reply to you. Here I was picking up on the ide...

I am interested in the take from the christian tradition, it might help me to access the ideas better. I will look up Michael Henry. Can you recommend...

I am very interested in the Pomo being discussed in the other thread, but lack the vocabulary within the tradition. It mirrors closely my own studies ...

Yes that might well be the case, but they are using terminology which apes what we are familiar with in a study of the self. It's like they are coming...

Yes I see what you mean, but I dont recognise it, in my own understanding of transcendence. For me transcendence is a process of accessing an interdim...

Have you tried meditation? I have found it most beneficial in developing the finer mental faculties for the contemplation of such ideas regarding the ...

So how is this not transcendence?

Thankyou, I will repeat the quote of Master Dogen for it's crystal clear insight, which is apt for this juncture. It is one of my favourite proverbs. ...

Yes agreed, I was addressing you rather than StreetlightX because there doesn't appear to be any point in addressing him personally. Claims that imply...

I agree, but it seems to me that the basis or ground of our existence(the universe) here and now is beyond us at this time, due to our limitations(con...

That's ok, it is like a different language I expect. In a knutshell I was saying that thinking about it doesn't give us an answer, the thoughts just c...

Perhaps there are parallels which can be drawn between mysticism and PM, to square the circle so to speak. StreetlightX You see this is a mistaken que...

I suppose what I'm saying is that in such areas of philosophy, philosophers are trying to figure out things about our being and nature and coming up w...

Again, you're only arguing against the religious caricature of the transcendent, as it was used to exploit people. To address it as it was originally ...

In mysticism the contemplation of the transcendent is not a gaping at the unreachable. This is a perversion of religion, actually it is a contemplatio...

So I'm thinking it is something in our being and a unity. More specifically something to do with our conscious experience. Sounds like the Hindu "atma...

For me "the world" is a realm which consists of where we find ourselves on the ocassion of our birth, including the interactive involvement in that wo...

In my model my body is a result of many monads cooperating with my single monad to act out my being. Also I am cooperating with other single monads to...

It all sounds good to me, but does he say what a monad is? All we can see is a myriad of colours and shapes and ideas, we can't actually see a monad, ...

Yes I am aware of these misgivings, I did point out that I am aware of the problems brought about by religions. I don't really want to get into a disc...

'The burden of self-hood' This is interesting, so beings which had self awareness, an awareness of their own actions and that there is an alternative ...