Excellent post, well done sir. I agree there are deep largely unseen currents in the human soul that manifest themselves on the surface in a manner th...
Great thread Wayfarer, thanks for that. I don't feel qualified to comment on this study in particular, but remain convinced that whatever the true nat...
If you wish to explore it, what makes the sex business and the massage business so different in your mind (if I understand you correctly) in terms of ...
Ok, no problem. I guess to me prostitution is a business transaction, and is thus subject to all the pros and cons of any business transaction. You kn...
The answer is yes, this thread is racism. This post is racism too. Any reply anybody may offer to this comment will also be racism. Your dog is racism...
I'm sure we'll all agree that slavery is not about love, but that doesn't automatically equal all money for sex transactions being disordered. That's ...
The source of suffering is thought. Everything else discussed above in the thread are symptoms of the underlying mechanism. Thought operates by dividi...
The writings of all these guys arises from the same source, the human mind, thought. Thought isn't a blank sheet of paper, it's a part of nature and t...
That is, all philosophies arise from the same source. Thus, it seems good philosophy to investigate the influence of that source given that this influ...
Thank you! :smile: Seriously, I seek the bottom line, not complexity for the sake of complexity, the passion of so many philosophers. Fact: All philos...
I request the opposite feature, the ignore a particular member feature offered in pretty much every forum software. Such a feature can help reduce the...
Yes, most people aren't philosophical by nature, most aren't drawn to the big picture view but are content to be distracted by details. Intelligence c...
It leaves us doing more philosophy. The "existence" of "things" is dependent upon boundaries between one thing and another. We identify a wave as a "t...
Do things and forms actually exist in the real world beyond our minds? THINGS: The concept of "thing" assumes and requires a division between one thin...
We've been creating simulations in our minds since the dawn of man. Thought operates by breaking reality up in to conceptual objects, and our creativi...
Yes, that's it! What exactly is "you"? My argument is that we can draw the boundary between "me" and "not me" in any number of places, which suggests ...
Yes, water exists, agreed. But if we define a wave as being water, the wave doesn't die. If we define a wave as being energy, the wave is eternal. So ...
I would respectfully counter that division is how thought works. Thought breaks a single unified reality in to conceptual parts. We are then able to r...
A pattern no weight, no mass, which we typically define as a state of non-existence. A phenomena with no weight or mass would seem to be incapable of ...
Never a problem. If it should interest you, I'd be interested in reading how you might summarize what you hear me saying, in your own words. What is i...
I would agree that reason can likely take us only so far in managing our fear of death. That said, here's a try... You're sitting on the beach watchin...
It may be helpful to look at boredom through a mechanical lens. The mind might be thought of as an information processing device with adjustable filte...
Unless those others are intelligent and well learned enough to understand that philosophy at the professional level is just a business, and at the ama...
There are two levels on which we might apply reason here. One would be to apply a logical analysis to the points presented. Another would be to stand ...
I spent months on a group blog by academic philosophers. The presentations are more polished there, but otherwise there's little difference between th...
This is not so important, but it's interesting to know that time runs as different speeds depending on the observer's relation to a large mass body su...
Philosophy is a fun parlor game for typoholic nerds. Life is short, and fun is good, so that's a value of sorts. Taking philosophy seriously seems a m...
Yes, in your imagination, you've refuted those points. I do appreciate you at least engaging the topic, and doing so in a more articulate manner than ...
Wait, not so fast. Gobbledygook becomes logical once you realize how limited the medium really is, because to do otherwise is to transform the nexus o...
So that we don't go endlessly round and round making the same points I'll leave you with this. Maybe it will help, probably not, your call of course. ...
TT, try this... Do you believe that children should have legal access to military grade weapons such as machine guns, rocket launchers, surface to air...
It's not just weapons, but any power of sufficient scale to crash civilization. And yes, it matters. The more powers of such scale which are in play, ...
Hi TT, Thanks for engaging this topic. For my part, I'll make a good faith attempt to be less impatient. What I'm asking readers to focus on is that t...
To expand on this a bit... If we destroy ourselves (or more likely modern civilization) it will be because we experience reality as being divided betw...
It's agreed that technology will solve many human problems. As example, after analyzing the way most human idiots drive on the road I travel regularly...
It seems to me that a truly thoughtful investigation would largely discard the simplistic, tired and outdated either/or atheist vs. theist paradigm in...
Yes, that's it. Ideally we would be able to use science to re-engineer the insanity out of human beings. But, um, it would be we the insane who would ...
To add another layer to your idea, what is the relationship between philosophy and reason? Do the human problems which religions have long attempted t...
Yes, philosophy forums provide a great example of this. Almost all religion threads seem to focus on ideological beliefs, as if that was all there is ...
Although I have no opinion on God and the Devil I've always found it fascinating how prophetic the first story in Bible has been, Adam and Eve and the...
Ok, I hear you, no complaints. But then, dividing everything up in to different domains of discourse is another example of what I'm pointing to. Just ...
Yes, I apologize. I have no personal beef with you, I really don't. But please understand, I've been discussing this for over a decade on many differe...
Just another poser.... I did spend years considering that, until I discovered that no one, no matter how well educated, has been able to defeat the ge...
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