Further to my Guardian link above, here it is being questioned: https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2018/11/28/growing-calls-for-guardian-e...
Yeah, that's the Phillip K Dick novel. I was thinking of Len Deighton's SS-GB, but there are others too. Unless we are philosophers, there is little p...
Is there a problem with saying I was asleep and dreaming? Is that not already a clearer statement than the possibilities you propose? Generally, I wou...
Feeding this back into what has gone before, it is possible that Nixon was called Nixoff, and was a native of Canada and became a social worker. At wh...
I'm not clear what this means. If everything was as it ought to be, there would be no gap between ought and is, and thus no use for moral talk. But yo...
There is a flaw in your logic. All enlightened people do not claim enlightenment. Unenlightened does not claim enlightenment. Hence... no, nothing fol...
The constant repetition makes it seem combative, and that without any explanation of its significance. I'm here to discuss Krishnamurti's teaching, no...
I don't think I'm in any position to make the judgement; it seems like a rather combative question. One hears tell, but personally, I am not that inte...
One cannot, it seems, awaken oneself by indulging in anxiety, because that too is part of the dream. There is nothing for it but to take the dream as ...
Wank it may well be, but it is what Krishnamurti is claiming. Meditation, like any other path, produces fruit and humble gains. But though one polish ...
There's a snippet of conversation where someone asks Krishnamurti about another of his sayings, "You are the world." , asking, "When you say it, it se...
Compare the surgeon's form of life. "Scalpel!" "Swab!" Compare Ikea's pictorial instructions: the intent is shared, and it is to construct the cabinet...
I guess your assignment has been handed in by now, so here's a little paper that doesn't really answer the question, but is still worth a read. https:...
That's worth its own thread sometime *mumbles something about beautiful tragedy*, but only poetry can speak the unspeakable, because words are weak, a...
Well, how do you disagree with something without understanding it? I say 'six sevens are forty-eight', and I expect you to disagree just to the extent...
No. First order is always understanding, I think. Not 'Do I agree or disagree?' tends to be upper-most in my mind, but 'do I understand what is being ...
Dialogue. It's hard to see one's own rose-tinted specs (other colours are available), but we might well spot each others distortions, if we are honest...
Systematic errors. Getting things wrong is not a huge problem, unless one always gets them wrong in the same direction. Personalisation, for example, ...
Meanwhile, those who do not have the decency to be dead get rather less remembrance. At least 13,000 hero soldiers left HOMELESS after leaving the mil...
Yeah, but did you see Corbyn's disrespectful coat? ! So this is the shit that we dump on the follies of the past, to resurrect them for a pageant of c...
Let's call that reality 'the Presence of God'. all things are possible to God. Bla bla... I don't think it is impossible, but I don't think there is a...
When the conclusion invalidates the premises, the argument is weakened. That is to say, it is probably more convenient to simulate a universe that is ...
So what's fake? He didn't go. It was raining. He cannot operate an umbrella. His hair is a big issue for him. And it's all got absolutely nothing to d...
A musician, an actor, a philosopher, a grand master, a sportsman, or an engineer? I like the engineer's answer, that play is freedom of movement. Perh...
Frank, who are you, to demand this of me? No. I have said it three times, "and what I say three times is true". Request denied. As if my honouring is ...
It is only what you see here, a patchwork of hand-me-downs, fragments of stories and songs. For me, these are the traces, the only traces I have. Ther...
Hmm. There seems to be a mis-understanding between us, but I'm not sure what it is. This thread is my act of remembrance. The question is how to remem...
Surely it is seeing that he is me that enables judgement? One does not judge a rock. But the mindset of the ancients is indeed fascinating. It seems t...
If one sees the violence in everything we do, in every institution, every nation, every righteous identity, even every family, what is left of man to ...
Not in Britain. Britain was complacently dominant as the world's leader. However: http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_greatwar1.htm I'm not an historia...
I bow to your erudition on Horace, but I think I know Owen's intent well enough. Yes, it's a Europe thing, and some of the rhetoric that comes from th...
There is a ritual of remembrance - poppies, the Last Post, 2 minutes silence, that express, and thus evoke, honour, respect, gratitude, sadness. Fuck ...
It would be quite possible, if it didn't exclude its own possibility. As it is though, it is quite wonderfully foolish. But you have just said that we...
As maxim, 'when you have no idea, do not try to express it' has somewhat to recommend it. However, in this case even if you have no idea, you must ans...
I'm not sure what you're asking. Whenever Mrs un asks me what I'm thinking, I say 'nothing special.' And then she says 'what's special about it?' , an...
If the religious hate blasphemy, then blasphemy is hate speech? Perhaps not. But the law is against hate speech, not blasphemy. It is a slippery slope...
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