Nothing follows. Not I, nor Jesus are making any argument. However, here is a suggestion from some psyche expert whose name I forget. There are two ty...
I see you are in the UK. Have you any contact with The Critical Psychiatry Network? If not you may find a sympathetic ear and possibly some useful inf...
You might want to distinguish psychology, which is mainly in the business of persuading you to vote for the tyrant and spend your pittance on the tras...
As instructed by you, and in fideist tradition, I am against and doubt this assertion. Consider the unwritten essay, 'against scepticism'. Again Witty...
Since he was an Englishman, obviously. Surprisingly, Jesus does not say how happy are the lottery winners, those whose wives give great head, popular ...
If you define happiness as getting what you want, then everyone wants to be happy, because everyone wants what they want. But this says very little. I...
I don't. I want to be angry about injustice, worried about my children, desperately sad about the state of the world, agonised by love, and frightened...
Do you even want to be happy all the time? Happy when bad shit happens? Happy when people near you are in trouble? Happy when the mad axeman asks you ...
Why not ever less nefarious ends? I applaud your suspicion, but not your despair. For the word to be repurposed and betrayed it must have a meaning an...
Well it came to mind as I read you. But I think on further consideration W realised that there are questions that can only be answered with one's life...
There is a deal of material, and some links in the thread I linked earlier. Bruce Perry has a useful analogy to aid a general understanding. One devel...
As if liking and not liking is something other than life. Reminds me of the horror story of the man who was disgusted by the idea that his body contai...
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof is immortal and free. 'Elsewhere', the examined life is seen as drunk; the looming self and distorted world of the c...
Experience is always in the past. And here is a blast from the past by the Professor of Experience himself that both expounds and exemplifies: https:/...
This used not to be a question very much. The problem with consciousness based definitions can be seen in many art galleries - a small pile of rubble,...
By hypothesis, I don't need to, since he produced the first woman anyway. But alas I, a mere mortal, have no cure for literalism. You don't even want ...
A standard rhetorical move. You make an argument that if I think X, this implies that I should accept Y. If Y does indeed follow from X, it is a legit...
I bow to your superior knowledge on the terminology, but... It has to do with the notion of original sin. See the op, question, was Jesus born with or...
Rhetoric is used by, for example, legal representatives in court to make the best possible case for their side of a dispute. They do not resort to fal...
I'm afraid it is. There are differences in eye colour, we can see them, people talk about them, they are genetic. I have blue eyes, my wife has brown ...
That is indeed the crucial question. and the answer is 'no one'. It was an immaculate conception and no one gave a fuck, and that is why Jesus was bor...
Royalty is itself a racial term. To make the monkey comparison with them is also racist. And yeah your arse and mine and 180's can discuss this furthe...
And I'll stand over his grave 'til I'm sure that he's dead. Let's also remember his sterling work defending the right of the tobacco industry to peddl...
Manslaughter, not murder, then? I'm sure the corpse would be relieved. Accidental, thoughtless, deniable racism is the rule; only complete fuckwits de...
Classic! :smile: The actor and the mask. Unfortunately, not being yourself leads to not being accepted even if you are accepted. See alice Miller, htt...
But from the pov. of someone who has been traumatised as a child, in a condition where one cannot escape and must as a biological imperative form an a...
There's a lot to go at in your posts, but I'll say some stuff as if I know what's what, and see if we agree at all. Who is to say that the oldest lady...
You need a theme tune for the thread. I'm sure it's in the guidelines... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwn0R1PFUwU Have you read Pirsig on the influ...
To the extent that a person is identified with their posts, not everyone is welcome on this site. But in this case, my comment can hardly be seen as l...
"Stuff"? I have a strong theory about stuff - that everything's got to be somewhere sometime. And if it isn't, it isn't stuff. Accordingly, there is i...
Given that there is something, where can it have come from? I suggest nowhere, rather than nothing. Nowhere separates out into somewhere and anti-some...
We agree exactly. It can be made to appear to say something 'there can be no up without down', but this is only a linguistic rule, not a law of nature...
The thread title; my aim is to block the discussion entirely. It's a silly game that does not clarify the language, and does not have any impact on ph...
In general, it is ill-advised to try and tell the world what it can and cannot do according to your ideas and symbols. Rather, let the world tell you ...
Au contraire, I diagnose humanity as the source of the non-ideal and of all the other problems. Thus for example humanity is as real as human caused g...
I voted political corruption, because without the ability of humanity to act in its own best interests, none of the merely practical problems can even...
If it is a question worth asking, then the answer must be that it is worth living, if only to ask the question. But I suspect it is not worth asking. ...
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