Jake

I'm not going in to detail on 20 years of thinking on such subjects (I'm a retired forum software developer) because I've been given no incentive to d...

Start a thread on any subject, and watch it immediately begin to fill with twaddle. Again, this forum is pretty good compared to many other forums. I ...

It would only fuck things up with those of us who can't stand the thought that somebody might know something that we don't and that they are being app...

This is a common complaint (I've had this very discussion approximately 3,000 times :smile: ) which is easily solved. That is, easily solved, if we wa...

Thanks for a very thoughtful reply. I will offer some debate, just in the hopes of keeping an interesting exchange going. I don't care if I "win" beca...

Steve Jobs is a role model of sorts. The key to his success at making Apple the richest company in the world was that he was never happy with anything...

I'm not mad at anybody Wallows. And I've already said a number of times that I'm agreeable that the subject should be dropped and we return to the sle...

Says the person who just yesterday offered us a way to do one version of what I'm describing, editing. It was a great contribution (thanks!), which I'...

I'm wrong, I'm wrong, I'm wrong, I'm wrong, I'm wrong, I'm wrong, I'm wrong, I'm wrong, I'm wrong, I'm wrong, I'm wrong, I'm wrong, I'm wrong, I'm wro...

OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG!!!! Nuclear weapons are really bad!!! Here, look, I'll prove it! https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--VmwAsnNV--/c_...

Ok, so just as an example, threads in an edited section might not dissolve in to random cleverness Facebook style quips. Some people might prefer the ...

And now I will be the one doing the rejection. :smile: Anyway, moving along... I know some of the highly inexpert word choices I make can make this fe...

And should such a situation be created (most likely by force) it would immediately begin to sub-divide in to competing factions, because... 1) we are ...

Bingo, we have a winner!

In my endlessly repeated opinion, human conflict is inevitable because it's source is that which we're all made of, thought.

I just, well, um, duh, discovered the follow feature. Useful! I felt an obligation to say so, so I did.

Yes, and that's an important useful insight. What I mean is that suffering is to a significant degree a mechanical issue which when true makes the sub...

What we listen to is typically the noise going round and round in our brains. That is, the symbolic world. And that's where the God debate is looking ...

More of the same old tough mod guy automated rejection. If I'm going to make my own "elite" content I don't need this site, I can do that on a blog. I...

Yes, agree with both points. Let's examine the logic of this process. First, what's really being asked is not whether the idea of god exists, for it o...

He said, while immediately discarding the latest constructive suggestion to enhance the quality of the forum, and making no effort to improve it in to...

They may seem holy to themselves, which doesn't automatically being holy. Well, it's true that a great many people would be able to memorize religious...

Sadly, life can be very unfair. As you've seen, I'm a pretty self centered honking blowhard prone to pointless conflict, and concerned primarily with ...

I hear your argument, but would counter argue that mysticism and even dogma based religion is not open to all. Just as with STEM some folks are born w...

If I'm going to live a very short time, as we all are, and then I'm inevitably without question going to melt back in to unity with how much of a nece...

No sooner do I whine about the quality of religion threads than you guys create a great religion thread. I'm on to you now though, a bunch of trickste...

Excellent point, thank you. I do agree that religion has been a powerful platform for bringing such perspectives to many billions of people. My post d...

The short answer is that religion is really more about emotion than analytic thought, thus if one wishes to explore religion in a meaningful way consi...

History is one dimension that could be enhanced, agreed. Wayfarer seems to know a good deal about this, as do some other members, Bitter Crank comes t...

There are various understandings of mysticism of course. As you are using the word here you seem to be assuming mysticism is another method of develop...

Bouncers are needed on every forum, and we can thank the mods for performing this essential function, for free. Sincerely, without this work the forum...

Good news, we have achieved discussion which is beyond the God debate! Success at last!!! :smile:

Check out the new ignore feature which has been added to the forum. Very helpful in raising the signal to noise ratio.

Generally speaking, philosophy forums are rarely qualified to comment on religion, imho. As example, the overwhelming majority of religion threads typ...

Interesting!

Agreed. But I think JK himself would have said the point was not to listen to him, but to conduct one's own investigation. The way I see it, he was ju...

There is a cure for this problem which I am pioneering. Regularly act like a junior high school jerk. I find I have a natural talent for this techniqu...

I was significantly influenced by Krishnamurti in my youth. I credit him with first introducing me to the insight that thought is inherently divisive ...

Oh dear, too late for that, but anyway, life goes on. Aha! I meet someone who understands what I am trying share, probably better than I do. :smile: I...

If you're not a twenty something, that's even sadder. See? My impatience wearing thin. Food fight coming. Is that what you seek? How about this, I wou...

If you don't expect that you, or anyone, will learn as they proceed through life then your claim that age is irrelevant is reasonable. If you do expec...

I'm not taking offense, I'm just very bored by such poses because they are so VERY common on philosophy forums. And I have the personal weakness of of...

In other words, you have no expectation of learning anything as you proceed through life, which perhaps raises the question of why you would bother to...

That's not how meditation actually works, though it's surely understandable that you might think that. Lots of people meditate and then present some e...

My take would be that of course knowledge is limited, because the medium it is made of is, like everything in all of observable nature, limited. Thoug...

Or, to put it another way, problems appear when we try to translate an experience in to an explanation. A better approach may be to skip the explanati...

I'm 67 and have been considering such topics for at least 50 years. If you are of a quite different age that may explain why we aren't connecting. If ...

And this assertion sounds like little more than atheist dogma chanting. Sorry, have no personal beef with you, just reporting what I hear. First, I'm ...

Agreed, very understandable and very human. I'm attempting to develop more compassion for this need and a more realistic acceptance of it. I managed t...

Or more precisely, you personally don't know of any realm where not using logic is useful, and you're trying to inflate your personal limitations in t...