'They' ( conservative MPs) are debating quietly when to make their move. What no one wants is a leadership contest that The Cunt wins, because then he...
Likewise, Physics. "Shut up and calculate" is the discipline imposed on novices; only when the calculus has been mastered can one begin to discuss the...
Why do you say that? Consider the 10 commandments - an explicit enumeration of the dimensions of the shadow, surely? Perhaps I need to explain my own ...
I want to consider for a moment what I will call 'altered states.' We might understand that there is something it is like to be a bat, that we cannot ...
Well if you want, you can listen from the other end. I must say I am more frustrated at the extra members only casts that I cannot access without actu...
#12 on the mysteries which are distinguished from ... #13 & #14 on mysticism. These are particularly useful efforts at disambiguation - #13 and #14 re...
I think that is a false question. Reason declares her other to be irrational, and then deals with her accordingly. Nor is the question of belief impor...
The esoteric as whatever Western philosophy neglects or denies, is almost a tautology. But I wonder how a naturalist account of the supernatural, or a...
1. don't be afraid to say "I don't understand" or to ask stupid questions. 2. Keep a sugary snack handy as brain food. 3. Have loads of fun! 4. Ignore...
I haven't checked, but my guess is that it'll be #150 - #200 before we get to the time when Chinese philosophy had any significant impact on the West....
Not particularly. Take your time,; I zone out at times into old-man reverie. I'm expecting comments to range back and forth as people catch up or over...
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4732/pg4732.html I leave this Here for those who prefer text, to introduce #11 of the podcast, https://shwep.net/...
Episode 7: We’re Together In Dreams: Dreaming and Western Esotericism Freud is prefigured but not discussed here. Now Freud has reached the nadir of h...
Incidentally, when I was reading around The Golden Bough, back in the psychedelic ages, it was well understood that Frazer, far from making the distin...
I would appreciate particularly the sceptical response to Episode 5: Methodologies for the Study of Magic. However the warning about glamour particula...
Why "should" there be a week of any length? But better numerologists than you, also ignoring the 1/4, choose a year of 364 days and then an extra day ...
You just have to summon the appropriate Demiurge and instruct them to cast a shadow of ignorance in the direction required. but I haven't got to that ...
This is the model of philosophy as science we haven't done yet. It's amazingly popular considering what a travesty it is of anything resembling philos...
I'd like to suggest a bit of discussion about the difficulties of addressing questions like this. First, most of the site members are male, and rather...
I had covid back when there was only one version, then 2 astra jabs and a pfizer boost and a few weeks earlier, the flu jab. And when I get offered an...
Daughter visited this weekend and mentioned that the alcoholics in the hospital where she works routinely steal and drink the hand sanitiser. Now that...
There are circumstances; phantom limbs, numbness or paralysis, alien limb syndrome, perhaps some virtual reality aps, where the possession of a hand b...
This seems really straightforward to me. It is never the business of medics to be in moral judgement of their patients. everyone is equally entitled t...
You think the bible's bad? you should try Aesop's fables. Childish pranks punished by being eaten by wolves, Grasshopper attention deficit punished by...
I was thinking of the epidemic of self-harm, and those crowds of ill wishers waiting outside jails for news of the execution of prisoners, and then I ...
It would be useful to have some context for particularly the notion of ego death. If people talk about in descriptions of NDEs etc, it because it is a...
I've been an idle waster for most of my life, but even I can tell the difference between a work meeting and a party. But this government needs an inqu...
I'm not the expert, but I think the lateral flow test is better at telling you if you're infectious, versus the other one, pcb that is a better detect...
Yeah, pathetic isn't it. How about a post of the week competition, or thread of the year, or something related to what we are supposed to be intereste...
Looking forward to watching you on The Great British Fuck off, or Britain's got Wankers. "There can only be one orgasm." What? Publish stuff as it com...
I am terminally disgusted by the reduction of every human activity to a competition. Deadline for submissions, deadline for votes, it's all fucking de...
Shamelessly stealing this from EnPassant in the climate thread. Not even new, but illuminates this ahem,"discussion". "Catabolic capitalism" - a reall...
It's impossible to prove that my underpants are real. I might be able to demonstrate that they are, but proofs are arrangements of words, and no arran...
It's a cakes and eating them problem. Everyone prefers, all else being equal: Low taxes to high taxes. More government spending to less. Fiscal respon...
We live in anarchy: therefore there is and can be no prohibition on government. All government and all resistance to government are equally legitimate...
Yes indeed. The player creates input data to the machine; the spiritual being provokes human thought and human action that would not happen otherwise....
This is a bit tangental, but might give another perspective on the source of freedom ... http://accountability.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2016/08/Phil...
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