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But as far as faith and belief goes A) often the evidence is subjective, so irrelevant to logic B) deductions start with some vague assumption as to s...

and how does this problem with belief relate to ontology...…..where are we left between proposing realities and whatnot. I mean like how can I say I "...

non belief seems to come up several times in meditation/etc. also.. if I believe I am in control or not it always has negative effects. what is going ...

and I just want to bring this up yo, so I am also more interested because this question is practical-ish: in trying to deal with the subconscious, and...

yea so what are the other positions beyond doxastic voluntarism, the status quo(?). I mean honestly the dichotomy between belief and knowledge to me s...

I get that dude, I really do. Thanks. It's pretty cool. Hopefully my non pissy bitchy response helps ur day. I don't see how it expands on my queries ...

Oh wow wrong thread? IDK. Sorry

Uh science is a method of investigation not a dogma. I don't get you nor am I going to read all this.. what's your point dude.

This is cool, but funny. ill respond when I'm not drunk. Some good comments.. but they are basic. I see what you mean but again if you really mean tha...

I mean in the texts they take a hard line approach. Ur son dies and ur in Nibbana and you know the truth so it doesn't bother you. That's what I mean ...

Here is an example set in causal order: Trauma = happens to everybody Inner anger and displaced anger, addictive behavior = path of illusion, defenses...

(I added to the last comment) And thanks for the good discussion which furthered my understanding

Well I would not throw the baby out with the bathwater. I would wait for science to further understand the mystic entity of "Kundalini" (which I have ...

I see what you mean about the psychological aspect, and how we can basically interpret it how we want. As with everything in philosophy, the inner mea...

That's not quite related to what I meant here, as there is no way to logicize Nibbana itself of course. I agree with you on that as far as mindfulness...

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/59c70216a196200bfd90b7e0bb5899f8c8136339e102442b26dbba8459912c2b.jpg Despair and victory - 2 aspects of the one h...

Forgot to say, interesting advice here. Not what I expected. Thanks. I read from here and there as concepts and interests come up. Right now I picked ...

Ive heard good things about those books. Here is some more background information, which is always helpful in this context. I had a very traumatic exp...

Well I see association as being important because it allows 1:1 reference to the particular with the universal.

Ok cool. So what I mean is similar to what I think (was it? I don't remember) frege wrote and Aristotle said about homonomy and synonomy. I can look a...

Well it's not really religious. But experience is a prerequisite to fully understand what I mean, in terms of a desirable spiritual goal (perhaps some...

That would be because I am referring to a truth that is not logical but experiential also.

The first few lines are just a description or summary of the latter stuff. I would start at the example. I don't intend to start off with knowledge be...

I have no idea. I am concertedly on the path, having gotten very far compared to where I started, but those are things I wouldn't dare guess at unless...

I am not saying that, no. And no, I have not reached that yet.

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d212f46904bf119cd7cc09be880a9c5aba9c07b47e7c89106d125792c12d3e79.jpg The imagination: A. Definitions are contextu...

What does tabula rasa look like in the brain?

I start from the origin point of simple experience. This subject perceives sensory properties - for example, a child tastes a sweet square then a sour...

True. I actually just learned that use of the term. I was using it from what I vaguely remember of medieval philosophy I guess, I figured you all woul...

a few seconds ago Eh yea now as far as empirical knowledge goes I think it's pretty simple. A relationship between the statements and the object under...

I feel like we are in this situation where all these unknowns box us in so much so it's funny. We can't really share sensory perceptions, we don't kno...

As far as the categories being a priori or not (tabula rasa), I would tend to say that they are filters we cannot escape leaving us to say that in per...

Thank you for the helpful response. So is what you are saying is that causality and the other categories do not exist in a meaningful sense, but are c...

Any type of change in what we think of as the world, any type of thought, and body.

One response says that only our ability to talk/think about reality is limited. I agree with that, but the same question remains I think. Another resp...

Hello, cool. Sorry I worded that question incorrectly. I don't assume we are in an illusion, but am merely trying to start from a place where I take i...