I like sushi

But not Jainism? What is the difference here? They both say the same thing and Buddhism would not exist without the ascetic Jains.

According to whom/what?

I have/had no issue. Sometime people speak with gravitas and sometimes with glib humour. It just popped into my head and amused me so I posted it :)

How can you end suffering if all life is effectively framed as ‘suffering’ (albeit a weaker sort of ‘disgruntlement’ and/or ‘dissatisfaction’)?

- someone WHO is - Brain fart when typing :)

I’ll let someone else point out the problems in that before I do. Have fun chat later maybe.

Funny you say that. One of the last Culture novels Bainks wrote was about an artificial hell. As for the internet. There are FAR greater shifts coming...

Too many Schopies :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Fuxkinhug

Not simplistic, but it is an unverified assumption that people will ‘dance, make art and make love’. I do not personally see this as the nature of eve...

Aestheticism is not entertainment. Schopenhauer (THE Schopenhauer) refers to aestheticism as being that which turns away from our inner nature.

I would recommend reading 1984 by George Orwell. Other than that I just want to point out that ‘absolute freedom’ means ‘absolute responsibility’. No ...

Some kind of ‘transcendentalism’ is usually the answer to this. Then there is the overt problem of sifting through the plethora of transcendental view...

No. Just asking. Clearly I think your view is a bit naive or maybe overly idealistic/simplistic. That is my first impression. If it offends it offends...

Still abhorrent then. Bye bye.

Are you a teenager?

You can say the same for ‘race’. There is one human race yet the term can be used in a more general manner. ‘Gender’ can mean ‘sex’ and it can mean so...

Anarchy means to question/oppose authority. ‘Total Freedom’ meaning what?

By the same logic how about someone you is a nazi. That’s diversity!

That is a slippery slope. For instance if someone is perfectly good at their job yet holds some racist views/opinions then does the employer have the ...

This thread needs its own category! I wouldn’t know where to start with this. All I know is everywhere I look and everything I think about is a messy ...

@"baker" The OP is asking what one should do. If you have no answer you have no answer I guess. If you have an answer then that would be a ‘good life’...

So there is no ‘good life’.

I am against antinatalism and, in part, against buddhism. I have no wish to say much more than that on those topics in this thread.

Me too. The only other one I listen to regularly is Mindscape (my first love was physics after all!)

I reckon there are several points Becker makes where we would be fairly understanding to each other’s attitudes and ideas. I have not read him myself ...

And the obviousness of ‘feeling/believing’ you are a man ‘trapped’ in a woman’s body (or vice versa) is acknowledging that you do not physically posse...

In terms of self awareness, simply posing a question to ourselves in our head could be considered ‘a prayer’ as we ask ourselves what to do. Often ans...

Morality is absolutely ridiculous and silly. End of story :D

@"schopenhauer1" What do you make of Ernst Becker?

And my point here was that the person was quite aware that he had a leg - not delusional. He ‘felt like’ the limb was not his own (and said so) and ‘k...

“model” Bye bye (that means you get a response from me for around a month). Have fun :)

The link I provided you numb nut :D

From a dictionary: “A 'dogma' is defined as a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority and held to be incontrovertibly true.” Truth is...

Cannot read it because not willing to give details. It is obvious to me that people have plenty to offer on subjects they are not experienced in. It i...

It is nonsense to say only x can talk aboud x is what I meant. Busy atm … will read later …

In the OP

No. That is not the definition I was using at all. It is one plied by religious dogmatic types to justify labelling science as ‘dogmatic’.

Based purely on that snippet it is nonsense. I will read later …

No. Religious institutes have attempted to combine ‘dogma’ and ‘doctrine’. There is no dogma in science. There is dogma in religions. There are dogmat...

Not by the APA certainly not in the UK nor would I imagine in most European Countries. Where do you live in the world? UAE? Saudi Arabia?

Perhaps if you read the OP and the link you would see? If you have and don’t see what it has to do with the OP I can only suggest you try harder.

That makes no sense. There is no ‘dogma’ in science because science makes no claim of absolute truth. Just because scientists can be ‘dogmatic’ it doe...

Where is this? In an African country or bible belt state. I don’t really regard either as an authority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

Er, no. That is not stating that homosexuality is an illness. Any more nonsense to offer?

No. Science is not dogma. Scientists can certainly be ‘dogmatic’ though with their beliefs and ideas. There is a reason why scientific theories adapt ...

Is homosexuality an ‘illness’ too? It was classed as such not so long ago.

So your argument boils down to complete nonsense. There are instances where people FEEL something yet KNOW that they are not physically the case. The ...

Read again? It doesn’t matter what the physical truth of the matter is if someone ‘feels’ a certain way they ‘feel’ that way. That is not the same as ...

Knowing you are not x and feeling like you are x are entirely different things. I remember watching a documentary about a guy who felt like his leg wa...