unenlightened

Ok, go on, you are not alone, but neither am I - "The tao that can be told is not the eternal tao." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism I would d...

I am agnostic myself. That is to say that I regard anything experienced and anything known to be aspects of the physical and thus not spiritual. This ...

That's what it means for a problem to be global; that no one group can solve it. As in a global pandemic, that could have been quickly halted by globa...

Objectivity is obtained by demonstration. 'Show, don't tell' - as the novelist has it. If one believes in fair punishment, or in just war, or defends ...

Here's a nice story of how the elephant in the cave was mistaken for a one-eyed Giant - a cyclops. https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/birth-of-a-monst...

No. Great film, but why would one bother to confine humanity in these vast self-sufficient prisons, when you can just send them to war to kill each ot...

Here is my local hydro storage facility. a grid scale mechanical battery completed in 1984 and operating ever since. If you have a couple of lakes at ...

May I suggest: 1. Murder is an act of violence. 2. Gentlness is the negation/absence of violence. 3. Gentle murder is a contradiction in terms. 4. ex ...

I live right by the cooling sea and well out of the red warning zone, and it was still hot enough to warrant a long 4 hour siesta. UK normal climate i...

Watching "As Good as it Gets". I'm completely hopeless at compliments because I was brought up with both English reserve and Scottish dourness; in my ...

I appreciate the slowness, and the response. Yes indeed. My illusion is this: when I am hit I feel that it hurts, but when you are hit it is merely di...

Yeah, I specified self-image rather than social image, but point taken. I think it is a contradiction, how could one be what one already was: viz, the...

The existentialist is resigned to the prison of self, and seeks to make himself as comfortable as possible within the image he has of himself - that i...

I wish you harm, I wish you to suffer and die. It is the necessary position of the pro-natalist, of the Creator or the procreator. It is the price of ...

Alas it seems unarguably false to me, but I have spent my working life not looking at trees so much as cutting them down, chopping them up into logs, ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8X-MhY8LmI&t=262s https://news.artnet.com/art-world/andy-warhol-films-1387729 Or for a DIY version, take a long look ...

One does not validate spurious claims, one doubles down on them.

Everybody knows about clickbait. So they become somewhat immune and it has to change. In order for psychology to be a science, it needs to keep subjec...

Hurrah! A tedious arrogant rude and contemptuous fool.

The theories of Freud have totally transformed public attitudes and behaviour regarding sex, from regarding a glimpse of stocking as something shockin...

The general public read trashy women's magazines and watch tv, which are full of the latest freshly out of date psychology theory concerning losing we...

"The expression “the elephant in the room” is a metaphorical idiom in English for an important or enormous topic, question, or controversial issue tha...

I wonder if anyone is interested in a different analysis of war, in which it has a psychological/religious function. This goes around the moral ideal ...

But, but, but... that number arises from calculating infinite sums, and explicitly not from setting a finite limit. You cannot get to it if you set a ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4

So if you are so fortunate as to promote a therapist to president, it would be the madness of a toxic society to ever remove her; anyone suggesting su...

Probably not a great deal, but it might have a lot more to do with psychology of any sort getting together with politics. Mentally healthy folks think...

Chaps do manage to forecast the weather to an approximation, and that's a complex system. I think economics suffers from the same problem as psycholog...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWsa_sqdYzM&t=4s Your complete guide to the chimera of UK democracy: https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2022/july/11/pe...

I thought this was going to be interesting, but it turned out to be about fucking bonobos again. https://nautil.us/overthrowing-the-patriarchy-through...

In the UK it is illegal to cook without a special licence, but we all like to watch cooking on tv. Some people have even installed a tv in the kitchen...

That's interesting. I don't see very much loss there, aside from the loss of face of the old guard of alchemy, and for poor Lavoisier, his whole head....

To honestly answer yes, it seems to me that one would have to examine one's interiority and experience and find nothing there. Not the nothing that on...

My friend David Hume made a little room in all our hearts for some faith, with two sceptical insights into the limits of reason, that I like to summar...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number Don't go messing' with mathematicians with your "c'mon, be reasonable" attitude; they'll have none of ...

Yes. There are two possibilities if such a simulation becomes possible; either they are zombies, or they have awareness. It seems to me at the moment,...

Alexa, I love you.

https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/187/examples-of-kuhn-loss I'll refrain from adding my ignorance to your poll, but looking at the above, the lo...

Yes. A p-zombie would be like a phone, not like a partner.

"Are you awake?" the first aider asks the patient. "No." responds the patient, and the first aider is reassured. How does your phone know what it tell...

Oh you mean am I aware of stuff? Sure, of course, all the time when I am awake. But I never experience red - I see red flowers and postboxes and swatc...

I can't make sense of quaila either. Never knowingly had one. Am I a zombie?

You do. But I do not have the power to make sense of the philosophical zombie stipulations. It seems to me that the concept relies on a confusion of a...

Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, Wol was explaining to Piglet all about iron flow batteries to make large scale energy storage much cheaper w...

Yeah, I was asking what the the topic was.The Saudi regime is is a brutal dictatorship with a cloak of piety, propped up by the West. A witch-hunt is ...

Good idea! But not your sons, call them Bill, George, anything but Sue, Chicken Hawk or No Name.

I only mentioned it because I thought it might be the social worker.

Either you need an apostrophe or a social worker.

My suspicion though is that the Conservative Party will change its rules to rapidly come up with a new leader. Tom Tugendhat or more likely Ben Wallac...

It isn't a good thing, and it has been going on for a long time. When one cannot believe anything the government says, one literally has no government...