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Exactly. The adrenaline junkie fights the urge to flight and wins, and that becomes their 'habit'. It was all going so well, until the last sentence, ...

Yup, your hetero-normal conventionality has been totally exposed.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14393/the-beginning-and-ending-of-self/p1 Sure. :up: :down: :meh: Is "meh" a feeling? The feeling of not hav...

I blame the patriarchy. Because property, status, name and title are passed down the male line, and because patrilineal is not self evident the way ma...

Interesting discussion guys, and not off topic at all. It connects this thread neatly to my follow-up thread. It is my working definition of life that...

I would have been impressed if you had stopped, and that would have been a demonstration, but unfortunately you didn't. What I have presented here is ...

That seems like a very odd claim. My understanding is that entropy equates to disorder, and disorder increases (in this universe). This immediately re...

Yes. And shall we go round the circle again, or shall we stop here? The next step is that you tell me what real identity is... again.

Reasonable passions are what decent, {ie English} people feel. The Continentals cannot control themselves, and the savages don't even try. I think it ...

Because that would deprive you of the freedom to ignore my suggestion, just as Adam and Eve ignored god's command. Explaining the joke rather spoils i...

At least it keeps its wings folded in the house.

That's a cross between a cockatoo and a poodle, right?

Of course it does! All this is only a story! there's nothing real about it. But when you tell me about the real me and how it escapes - that's just a ...

I think it means Google is your sadly neglected only best friend. https://www.wellbeing.com.au/mind-spirit/spirituality/dreams-involving-nudity-meanin...

Here is a play wot I wrote to illustrate the 'portance of the use/mention distinction, called "The Trial and Executions of Socrates. Socrates:— I unde...

If you don't like it, you can appeal to the mods, whose dogma is final, subject to the terms and conditions of the service provider, that are subject ...

Well you have a problem because you are looking for a 'true' or a 'proper' identity. I don't have that problem, because for me, identities are marks o...

Yes, sure; but who was elected, the governor or the cowboy? I get that things have gone from cowboys and indians to nightmare on Elm street, with Nixo...

This is much more interesting to me, because it is a conflict that people, especially teenagers go through, and some have more trouble than others. If...

Looking from the outside, I'd say the psychological rot set in when the first cowboy actor, Reagan, got elected. It's been government by fantasy ever ...

Friend of mine made raspberry champagne with white raspberries. It was very nice, apart from this really intense raspberry flavour, and having no colo...

which came first, the chicken mayo or the egg mayo?

I've had no complaints - is your story obscene or antisocial or something?

Yes, i understand what you are saying, but I think you are conflating what one is and what one identifies oneself to be - being with idea of being, te...

Google. Yes, one man's indictment is the same as hundreds imprisoned and thousands losing their jobs. Trump's ego is just that big.

Boris is incredibly decent the way Donald is incredibly innocent. But don't take my word for it, listen to his colleagues: Privileges committee.

Hence one has recourse to dogma: "The referee's decision is final." Or the Supreme Court's, or the Central Committee's, or whatever. Right, even when ...

Leaders should be like figureheads on the ship of state, out in front, catching all the weather and doing and saying nothing, while the power and stee...

Is there something wrong with being coercive and unrealistic?

I've always been completely sceptical of astrology – until now. :joke: And it would encourage the (ab)use of the law to bar candidates. I imagine the ...

I would be adequately gratified merely by his exit from my in-box. To be replaced by something more boringly acceptable and mediocre. Where he festers...

And if so, is it towards yin or Yang? This answer needs to be obvious, and I think it is obvious — that there is and excess of yang in the culture; th...

Farewell @"Andrew4Handel" A troubled soul. A decent chap most of the time I found, but became a broken record on the one issue.

Thats just what I mean by identity; that which comes into being by the process of identification. You do understand that this thread is about psycholo...

None. It's a story; it resonates with you, or it doesn't. Make a new story if you like; tell it in a thread; see what odd questions people ask you.

Anything is whatever it is, but to have an identity is not merely to be what one is, which any rock can manage., but to identify oneself as being some...

Is a non-narrating narrator of a self-narrative not a straightforward contradiction? Your suggestion goes against anything i have read of spirituality...

I disagree. The narrative is a retelling of what was present is present and will be present, that is available at any moment. there is nothing whatsoe...

I don't recommend trying too hard to understand unenlightened on the topic of enlightenment. It's all projection and imagination on my part. Losing il...

My fault entirely. Thank you for querying it.

Yes, they have memories, I said that. but the interface of past and future is the present. I'm not clear what you are saying different? I think I have...

I think we are pretty much in agreement. Before enlightenment chop wood and post on philosophy forums; after enlightenment chop wood and post on philo...

Oh, Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood. This... the assumption seems to be that dogma makes for intolerance, but perhaps it is more related to...

I see your point, but the Bodhidharma clearly knows how to talk, and has not become innocent like the beasts, And likewise Lao Tzu and Chiang Tzu. The...

You have my attention. A couple of quotes would be helpful.

Ah, the invincible optimism of the New World. If you're up shit creek without a paddle, plant roses.

I agree your carbon footprint isn't the issue, it was more your lack of support I was lamenting. That dam bursting in perhaps a century or so is going...

Chat GPT is Nyman surely? Aka No-man. Quine was obviously prescient, but couldn't quite discern the name aright.

Maybe try this for another context and reference. http://www.philosopher.eu/texts/quine-on-what-there-is-summary/

That is so clearly the theme-song of the shout box, that it ought to autoplay whenever anyone navigates to the thread. Feel free to move or copy this ...