One doesn't have to be religious in order to spend time in a monastery. Many open their doors for all who require a break from modern living. Perhaps ...
Humans are imperfect, and humans make up "the system". We are all a part of it and we voluntarily decide to reinforce it every day through our behavio...
Every child can become an orphan. Reparations do not alleviate poverty, because it does nothing to address the root causes of poverty. It's a criteriu...
Dealing with crime benefits the whole of society, and crime takes place, for the most part, in the present. Making Americans pay reparations for slave...
I don't think people who never partook in slavery owe anything to people who were never slaves. Notions that such would be the case have no place in a...
I like Baldwin. Especially what he says here. Quote (7:15-8:02): "I have said in effect that white men must give up what is in effect a crutch. So mus...
Because it has nothing to do with beliefs of racial superiority or inferiority. They're circumstances that came about, some explainable through histor...
Full disclosure, I'm not an expert. So why not let someone who knows a lot more about these issues than I do make the point better than I ever could? ...
I make little in the way of conclusions, other than that numbers often quoted to prove systemic racism, such as various statistics related to police b...
Obviously if certain ethnicities are overrepresented in certain crimes like homocide, that needs to be taken into account when judging the numbers, ev...
That is not how it works, but you seemed to have already understood this: I would have to show no such thing, since I assert nothing other than that t...
One (man or woman) who dresses up with the intention to sexually entice others is in the first place objectifying themselves. That they are then also ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPaBXcEVpOE James Baldwin makes two points in the fragment between 7:14-8:04. Baldwin thereby shows a sense of self-aw...
This was never the subject of discussion. You're dodging the point. Solid argumentation. I'm guessing the two of you were told something you didn't li...
Because he understands that all of this chasing ghosts is putting more and more emphasis on skin color. It polarizes. It makes people more aware of ra...
An event occurs, and the immediate conclusion is that it must be because of racism. What if the skin colors of those involved had nothing to do with a...
Beautiful words by Morgan Freeman, and I couldn't agree more. Sadly, media, politicians and other interest groups seem all to keen on promoting a 'bla...
Racism exists everywhere, sadly, in people of all colors. Whether there exists 'systemic racism' is, as far as I am concerned, up for debate. I'm not ...
This word is of modern origin, thus of little use. A fair example, but I am not convinced. If you can share a word that ends with -sophy, that would b...
Honestly, considering Aristotle never seemed to truly 'get' the concepts of his teacher Plato, I'm not sure if he's the one to refer to in this contex...
I don't see how anything I've put forward so far conflicts with that. This isn't about what I like. It's about the fact that, linguistically, philosop...
A body of belief or theory about love. A teaching about love. Better? PS: Anthrosophy: (archaic, as used before Rudolf Steiner) Knowledge or understan...
Had it meant 'love of wisdom' shouldn't it have been called something like sophiophilia? What about its Greek origins and the role of love in, for exa...
Maybe it was coincidental. Maybe it was not. The only way to tell with any certainty is to repeat the 'experiment' and remain as objective as possible...
Life needs to eat other life to sustain itself. Whether it be plants, trees, animals, fungi, etc. Whether it be in the form of actually consuming them...
That sounds very familiar. I've often used the exact words of 'everything will be alright' to describe my experience to myself. Though, I cannot say I...
In some cases yes, in other cases perhaps not. First, lets talk about insight. Not every person is capable of understanding quantum physics, and to do...
I can't speak for other people. I don't consider myself a 'mystic' nor a practitioner of mysticism. I do find certain philosophies appealing, which ma...
So you have a problem with people who are not knowledgeable but pretend that they are? Fair enough. What does this have to do with mysticism, though? ...
These concepts seem unfamiliar to me. The experiences I had did involve a profound feeling of goodness and inner peace, but they involved only myself....
An intuition or experience can give us a starting point from which to investigate further, but it should always hold up to the scrutiny of logic and r...
Anything that seeks to describe reality ultimately aims to be rational, so I don't see why one should consider the two as separate. I certainly don't....
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