Without some proven ultimate authority to reference, I'm not sure we can call anything objectively universally right or wrong. However, we can define ...
What are the boundaries of these ethics? Many advised Sam to return the ring he obtained unintentionally. Presumably that advice would have been the s...
PS: How do I change my screen name to "His Flatulence Sri Baba Bozo, Founder Of Bozoism, The Next Great World Religion"? I changed my mind and decided...
Ok, but to be a quibble monster, the cessation of thought happens naturally all the time. It happens when our brain is very interested in something be...
To continue.... It's appalling if one first assumes that what human beings want and need is the objective truth. I would agree the objective truth is ...
I'm not religious myself, but just for the exercise I'll argue the other side of the coin. The bottom line point of philosophy would seem to be to ser...
Thanks for your interesting reply to my comments 0-9. My argument is that human suffering arises from the nature of thought, from the way in which it ...
What if good and evil don't actually exist in the sense of being two different things, polar opposites? What if it's just a matter of perspective, of ...
Another idea for reducing distracting emotional argumentation... Eliminate all screen names, any and all reference to the poster. A collection of idea...
Yes, I'm not a Nazi. If you agree to the proposal, I'll pass the word on down the chain of command to my stooges to make sure they don't haul you off ...
On the subject of Eastern philosophy and guru-ism etc... Eckhardt Tolle is an excellent writer who communicates clearly on the kind of subjects being ...
On the subject of Nazis.... I won't do so here, but a case can be made for Nazism. Should the mods be willing to conduct such an experiment I'll start...
Listen up you brainless bumbling bovines, and learn how rudeness can be a form of kindness. Many or most forums can be described as mutual validation ...
Speaking of simple mechanical solutions, there's this, which I should have mentioned first. Physical exercise. The mind and body are not two things as...
Ok, I hear you now. Well, we could start with something easier than not labeling ourselves. We could for instance people watch at the mall and practic...
In fact, one gets rid of depression entirely on a regular basis. Like this... We're driving to work thinking about the day ahead, depressed about a jo...
Ok, I agree that I may not be clear on what you mean by the term disidentification. Clarify if you wish. Let's examine your question in fragments... "...
Ok, but what does the arrogant and rude manner have to do with analytical logic? Isn't it a completely separate agenda? And, I believe All Sight is ma...
WTF?? You agree? You agree??? ATTENTION MODERATOR!! Clear violation of the rules!!!! :smile: Well, my experience has been that people who learn things...
Ok, but this is a philosophy forum, not a Catholic forum. And so when somebody types ugly words we might be focused on better understanding our own ex...
As I've already clearly stated, I'm discussing the topic of ugly speech, and NOT you personally. I'm discussing this topic for the reasons already sta...
What I hear you saying is, "I don't wish to control myself, I wish to control everybody else." Ok, go for it, good luck with that, please post again o...
You're looking at this through a moral lens. And thus you ask, "what is ok?" Like I keep saying, I'm not looking at this through a moral lens. I'm loo...
We all experience this to some degree or another, even Baba Jake. :smile: If we don't wish to be emotionally swayed (sometimes we do) then what is to ...
Emotional agenda. Intellectual agenda. They are mutually exclusive. Being rude, blunt, arrogant, aggressive (been there, done that, many times) typica...
Ok then, let's talk Christianity. Jesus said, "Love your neighbor as yourself", right? This is commonly thought of as a favor one is doing one's neigh...
I'm referring to adults, people who have taken responsibility for the emotional state of their own minds. I agree this should not be expected of child...
Yes, this is a very common position on philosophy forums. It's good that somebody is making that argument, but it's more interesting when they leave t...
Yes, it's all in our head. We CHOOSE how to experience anything anybody says in our direction. That's good news, because it means we need not be victi...
What's interesting about this phenomena is that it illustrates how faith is a human issue, not a religious issue. We tend to feel more comfortable as ...
Ok, sorry, my bad. Will try again.... Replacing thought with activity could be one way to look at it. My favorite example is surfing. As we're racing ...
1) Urgency - made of thought. 2) Impending doom - made of thought. 3) Anxiety - made of thought. 3) Struggles - made of thought. 4) Hard - made of tho...
I have no idea if this will help, but here's what I've got to put on the table. Forget about analyzing the problem. That just generates more thought, ...
I was on a Catholic forum once and asked this question in another form. I asked, if my father stole a neighbor's car and then gave the car to me in hi...
It doesn't do much for the people at a distance, but it does a lot for the person loving. It helps that person find peace within their own mind, makin...
Ok, fair enough. But love does not necessarily involve an attempt to manage what other people are doing or saying. So for example, if I deliberately i...
Um, how do you know I'm not?? Upon what basis are you asking this question? I'm not sure you understand my post, perhaps I wasn't clear enough. There ...
I'm not blaming you for anything, and your question is surely a very normal one. I'm attempting to reply with what I hope is a "unnormal" challenge, f...
Yes, they are, agreed. But that doesn't prove that reason is relevant to the God question, that it is a qualified methodology for this set of question...
Let's flip the question around. Is it appropriate to be a fantasy victim? Is it appropriate to not take responsibility for one's own emotional experie...
Here's an example from science to illustrate. As you may know (I didn't until recently) time runs at different rates at different locations. This isn'...
Again, please prove that reason is relevant to the subject of gods. Until that's done, isn't the question of whether any opinion on the subject of God...
Some paedophile priests raped a lot of children. The word "priests" should be included to make clear that this is happening in the Catholic Church to ...
Once the bishops knew that a priest was a child rapist, and did not immediately report that priest to the police, those bishops became party to the cr...
Yes, that's it. Until we prove that human reason is universally applicable, logic dancing is essentially meaningless (except as entertainment as agree...
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