BrianW

I think the equality of law is such that it should allow everybody to be whatever they want. But it should not allow anyone to be under another's 'swo...

The point is to get people to think about what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said about fighting discrimination: That it doesn't matter who is the majori...

I said that: I'm not calling them stupid to their faces. In this discussion I'm just pointing out the root cause.

I don't think objectification is discrimination unless it is only directed towards a particular people and not others. The truth of human relations is...

Everybody wishes their response against discrimination is in the same context as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s great 'I have a dream' speech. In this c...

I have. And, my actions and reactions were stupid once upon a time. They don't have to be, still. In part, yes. Also, there are so many other "things"...

If someone flaunts their "thing-ness" (white-ness) over others, then in response those others reverse the point of bias and attempt to flaunt their "t...

I don't know. I'm just trying to figure out what a discriminating (racially biased) response to discrimination (racial bias) would be. I mean, it is f...

(No one really says they're "poor and proud". Although, Socrates may have insinuated something close to that, if translated loosely or poorly :wink: )...

I don't know. I'm not sure. I think there's a universal understanding that some kinds of discrimination have lost whatever advantage they may have bee...

Yes (at least from my point of view). But, is stereo-typification a form of discrimination? I don't think so. I don't think we stereotype to make peop...

What isn't clear?

The quotes... seriously? Ok, the quotes are mine (consider them as a kind of soliloquy in reply to the numbered questions). Since they're under my nam...

You seem to either not understand the point of the OP or to insinuate your own meanings into it. Allow me to explain with an analogy: there have been ...

Imo, this has nothing to do with overcoming discrimination. Resorting to verbal attacks or physical brutality is a statement about the level of intell...

The OP is good by me. If you don't get it, you just don't get it.

I think it's more of a translation of a greater underlying rule.

If there's such a faculty, then perhaps doing something is an intrinsic part of being human.

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First, you're saying the same thing I am only with a different conclusion. That is, we perceive God according to our human perspectives but we interpr...

I don't know what that means but I think there's something logical in that query.

Not necessarily. Our light is just luminous energy expelled from certain interactions of form-configurations. That other universe would have theirs, t...

- https://www.learnreligions.com/reincarnation-in-buddhism-449994 - https://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/reincarnation.htm

Imo I think Plato is trying to say that love is not a means of gratification of our sensual nature and that true beauty can only be realised when we a...

Knowledge is knowledge. It doesn't matter whether it's science or religion. They're all trying to give us information with some kind of utility in our...

Yeah. I know they follow the ten commandments and also most of the laws stated in those five books by Moses. In some places, they still try to apply l...

Reality/existence begins with those beings themselves. From a different thread I posted this: The above is according to my own investigations. And, I ...

Like I said in the succeeding statements, Also, Therefore, gravity still remains gravity, no matter what. The fundamental truth must be that, "REALITY...

Not quite. Einstein's theories are still highly hypothetical since he gave no definitives on the relations between quantum phenomena, time, gravity, e...

The universe is always changing with respect to the configuration of its components, are its laws always changing in the same regard? Or, in what way ...

Can we say that human progress is towards humans and humanity attaining a level/degree where we have mastery over our life mechanism and the environme...

By my understanding, natural laws operate the universe and can change the universe without the laws themselves changing. In fact, I do not think the n...

So, we're in agreement. Right... ?

I get it, and as I said, my explanations may not be semantically appropriate or definitive, especially with the multiple meanings we assign to some wo...

Right. Yeah, this is pretty flimsy on my part. However, I used "scientific laws" because that's how they are designated. However, they are not laws in...

* The asterix above shows a change made several minutes after the initial statement, Please bear with it.

Not quite. As one who subscribes to spirituality (without religion), I sincerely beg to differ on account that your over-simplification of spiritualis...

I think that's the one thing we can't reconcile. Perspective is an ever-present factor in everything we know and when we try to escape it, we can't se...

What about perspective? Somethings which are not matter to us may be matter to others, for example, magnetic energies can oppose each other as surely ...

I think it depends on your understanding of reincarnation and karma, and then whether you accept it as real and as having value in the logical sense. ...

I think a definition is just an organisation of characteristics and qualities and their significance. On the contrary, it has given science a perspect...

It's all the same no matter the name we call it. Even in your analogy, the empty space is interacting and out of that a configuration called "somethin...

To answer that question I usually ask myself, I think if one finds the characteristics that are ever-present in reality/existence then one gets a much...

Thanks for mentioning this. I hadn't given it a name, but I kept telling my friends that Jesus wasn't in the least bit "christian" or judaist like the...

I don't see any form of discipline in any of those examples. In fact, it's quite the opposite - cases of indiscipline. They are good points on reactio...

Then, if the universe is real, I am real.

Ok, I think we're digressing from the original point: If God did as humans do, and played the deniability card or masked His actions under probabiliti...

My personal experience is different because I used to call out my parents on their nonsense, for example, I asked my dad how he thought he could impar...

We totally are. :chin: