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Like a fellow human being? :D Seriously, I think the big problem some people have here is simply down to how in society men and women are different an...

I was hoping to steer away from that topic and address the OP. Looks like that is no going to happen. @"baker" Anyway, I never said buddhism was nihil...

Oh! My mistake :D Maybe I thought you were other person.

I didn’t.

I was not talking to you.

In direct response to the question posed there is an obvious thing to do … Do not except Schopenhauer’s view as the only valid view. He met his conclu...

Well, we are wired to take note of novelty so being ‘content’ (as I would put it) is not really going to last indefinitely. I still feel like you are ...

Hence parenthesis for ‘replace’

Read more. I don’t have my copy at hand to literally type in the exact passage. I’ve done so MANY times before. The bit with ‘negative sense only’. No...

Is that your view or just a random sentence? Empiricism is something. I am more inclined to lean towards empiricism I would say. What does what it doe...

The noumenal is not. The very term ‘noumenal’ is a ‘phenomenal’ (both technically and literally!). Nothing is not nothing. Nothing is the way to refer...

@"Jack Cummins" The basis of it is not that complicated really. That e taken on by many people in different ways is just part of a human’s will to own...

Study physics instead of consulting naval gazers maybe? If Aristotle is your first point of reference I should not need to inform you that things have...

@"schopenhauer1" It is hard for me to guess where you lie between buddhist views and Schopenhauer’s views on things so just say what you can in your w...

I imagine you can this being viewed as wanting something for nothing. Do you view a ‘good life’ as getting something for nothing perpetually without w...

Because you have next to no idea what mathematics is. Like I said though, it is not exactly easy to arrive at a vague understanding and I didn’t reali...

If you are only familiar with high school mathematics then you have literally no clue what mathematics actual is. At your level you are basically lear...

I think I know what you mean now. ‘Existing’ rather than ‘living’ is how I differentiate. Others say ‘to live an empty existence’. The main difference...

From what I am getting here you are saying ‘dissatisfaction’ is ‘suffering’. We are never FULLY ‘satisfied’ so all life is ‘suffering’. Correct summat...

Although you still haven’t noted the difference between ‘striving’ and ‘challenging yourself’ as far as I can see.

I was not looking for a ‘gotcha’. I was simply asking you to answer my questions as best you can. That is all. Thanks for trying … eventually.

@"schopenhauer1" I would still like a reply to the other question. I’ll ask once more. What is the difference between ‘striving’ and ‘challenging your...

The most obvious problem that follows is if EVERYTHING in waking life is ‘dissatisfaction’ then the term ‘dissatisfaction’ is fairly meaningless as no...

So you meant everything NOT “just about everything”. Okay.

Explain to me how ‘striving’ and ‘challenging yourself’ are different please. That was not really a response I can make sense of. Try saying X is … an...

As an answer to the title … BADLY more often than not :D

Because you misunderstand the uses of ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’. Like I said, they don’t mean ‘male’ and ‘female’ nor do ‘feminine traits’ (which com...

“No” … how are they different to you? If it is notthe right question why is it not. It is one I am asking.

It doesn’t matter what your opinion is here. Compassion is classed as a feminine trait. You cannot simply change how language is used to suit our need...

If rules contradict each other are they rules?

A big problem I have with Schopenhauer framing life viewed in reference to ‘suffering’ is that he states that all ‘fighting’ and ‘struggling’ involves...

Is ‘striving’ the same as ‘challenging yourself’ in your mind? Is ‘striving’ necessarily something negative, as it appears you are implying it is? Are...

I addressed this all on other page by agreeing with Praxis. I was just checking for clarification of how they meant ‘feminine’. It was cleared up. End...

So compassion is a feminine characteristic and you know of no men who are compassionate? Maybe noting that will help you understand that mere categori...

Colours, tables, houses … the list goes on. But the point was that it is an old term (like ‘race’) that has morphed into some other meaning depending ...

I would recommend looking for some discord channels that suit. There was a guy here who invited people to join book chat thing. Good entry level stuff...

Okay. All good. Just fishing for clarity :) It is a VERY good point that shows the problem some people have with distinguishing ‘gender’ from ‘sex’.

Thanks

Feminine does not mean female any more than masculine means male. It is unfortunate that those are the terms used now just like ‘race’ is used to desc...

Can you expand this a bit? ‘Ideas’ ?

As Stephen Fry put it “bone cancer in children?”

Thanks for the cryptic bullshit your highness

Sorry, brain fart! I meant phase space.

something he wrote 25 yrs ago for popular science books? Be serious!

What are you talking about? He is not a philosopher nor a psychologist.

Have you read ‘Cycles of Time’? The way he explains matrixes is utterly breathtaking! Makes something so abstract almost tangible.

I have the feeling the Peterson had not even bothered to read anything Penrose had written or done? The fact that Peterson didn’t seem to get that the...

Fuck off … please?

It is basic physics - but hard to get your head around too so ‘basic’ does not mean it isn’t mind blowing! Everything with mass ‘feels’ time/change. T...

What is called ‘logical’ in common parse has only a small connection to logic. Time is only a thing for mass.