I've reviewed my arguments and I think I will stick to my personal opinion rather than attempt to include perspectives I don't fully understand. Perso...
My original query is, I'm investigating, not assuming that it already is. I'm trying to understand it from as comprehensive a perspective as I can. Wh...
Do the animals know what rape is or an alternative to rape? Humans decide that rape is wrong, therefore, humans determine alternative actions. Animals...
Factory farming is human activity. Humans (including their activities) are a part of nature. Do we lack the compassion or the capacity? Should we and ...
Yeah, it's the POV of someone ignorant. My point exactly. Does this mean you don't acquaint with information from others because you can think for you...
I'm not saying scientific efforts are not admirable. But, contrary to your belief, Krishna's yoga teachings about enlightenment are not antagonistic t...
What Krishna taught, the teachings of yoga, had nothing to do with religion. They were based on principles of the activities of our lives and apply to...
This is not taught in the Bhagavad Gita. Actually, it states quite the contrary. Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 5; 2 (Sannyasi refers to the way of life which...
This is often a weird discussion. Personally, I don't feed on carcasses but I drink milk and very rarely eat eggs. I don't know what that makes me but...
Sometimes I want to share this sentiment but, when I look at how symmetrical nature is or has been even long before humans came into being, I'm not so...
Since joining this forum, my ineptitude to understanding mathematics has been overwhelmingly clear. Before, I would have said that 'mathematics is the...
Yeah. And what would it mean for logic or analytical thinking if it began with the advent of modern science? Because last I checked science was initia...
Not quite so. Enlightenment, from the Bhagavad Gita, refers to a state of unity, harmony and freedom as a conscious being within an absolute reality. ...
I don't know what non-conscious means but if its results can emerge into conscious awareness, then I suppose it implies a sort of consciousness possib...
All actions have rewards or consequences. An action designed to benefit the collective whole also awards benefits to oneself as part of that collectiv...
When Krishna expounds on yoga in the Bhagavad Gita, the teachings are based on the principles of absolute unity. Yoga means absolute unity in spiritua...
I still have a problem with what people think freedom means when they refer to free-will. If it's given by another (even if it's God) and can be taken...
I think for most people the turn of this millennium was supposed to mark the end of the old world order in more than one way. And even those who didn'...
Are these people giving you gifts trying to control your life or express their affection? If they cared about giving something you appreciated the mos...
Have children under, say 9 or 10 yrs, formed a proper ToM? The reason I'm asking is because I thought part of the symptoms of most mental disorders we...
Yeah, for people whose life conditions no longer allow the extraction of utility from them. For them it's ok because we judge lives by the value they ...
I'm sure cessation of pain is one of the reasons. But the mode still remains by committing an act of destruction of self. There are many ways to allev...
Yeah. I mean, most people already know the possible consequences of their bad-habits or careless acts. Also think of drunk drivers who end up dead, it...
No, I mean people who kill themselves unconsciously through the many channels which are consequences of negligence, carelessness, bad habits, etc, etc...
I think there's a difference between reports or statements we are conscious of and states or conditions which we conform to. Although, sometimes due t...
How about unconscious suicides which lead to death through diseases and accidents which are consequences of negligence, carelessness, bad habits, etc....
I was raised by a protestant mother and a catholic father, so you could imagine the drama. Anyway, they weren't strict about religion so I somehow man...
I'm a big advocate for this. I've always thought that if psychology was a part of our considerations in reviewing religious teachings then perhaps mos...
The idea that hell is a 'place' of restitution is a feature of esoteric teachings, spiritualism, spiritism, some factions of hinduism, etc. It is also...
There's this idea, especially prevalent in esoteric spiritualism and in teachings of the likes of Emanuel Swedenborg, where the typical notion of hell...
I think there's less of the mental-dependency/independency factor and more of the kind of influence at play. A stone by itself cannot affect any break...
Yes, I would think so. But still a big if. I like the idea of (3) being everpresent. I'll try and see what it would mean for the other states of consc...
My answer was 1 and 3. This is just a little mental exercise. For example, take my answers for instance, sub-conscious usually means instinctive or re...
You seem to have misunderstood me. I'm only trying to say what I think is better than a drug based approach to mental health. In my statement, both ps...
1. Conscious - Voluntary awareness/response. The state we would designate as wakeful or alert. 2. Unconscious - Devoid of any awareness/response. 3. S...
It is right to find ways to quell the internal conditions of a disturbed person. It does not mean that it's the ultimate solution but it's a good stan...
Psychiatry is partly right and partly wrong. There's something wrong with a human who manifests a response to antagonism by being harmful to oneself t...
I think this is one of those unique cases because, by asleep, we usually mean being beyond the range of normal consciousness. And yet, by creating mem...
I think it's a combination of the sub-conscious and the conscious. By this I mean, that while my consciousness was below the state we call wakeful, th...
Here is one of the more common steps thought to be key to the creative process. Various investigators seem to have different ideas though they seem to...
I understand your point of view and am partially supportive of it. However, I'm still thinking, By learning the many rules and directives which are go...
The various arts sure are close enough to creative endeavours. But, I'm talking about the process of creation itself. Learning arts doesn't teach you ...
Thanks guys for the feedback. This is true. Something must be conceived from something. Let's not get caught up in how we categorize phenomena (this i...
How about metempsychosis (reincarnation), cause and effect (also reflected in the idea of heaven and hell), evolution, atman (the divine self), etc, a...
When I say that by creativity I mean generating a distinct concept which can be characterized independently of its source material, I refer to somethi...
Sorry about the incoherent statement. It should have read, I think mathematics is a way of expressing our concepts, ideas, etc, without the bias of ho...
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