Bill and Jeff have to eat too. So we give them the necessities as of right, and get them to pay some tax on their "earnings" like the rest of us. Is i...
Demonstrably, most people don't need to work most of the time, because we can afford to have to pay people for playing football, and painting each oth...
Anyone would think that employment had value itself rather than being the cost of producing value. Employment is being produced, but no one is buying ...
https://zenstudiespodcast.com/zazenpart2/ Again, it is obvious that the practice is substantially the same across cultures, though the language is dif...
The question of why we content ourselves with a little even when we have intimations of possible abundance is an important one. I think it is fear - t...
Br. Lawrence speaks of himself in the 3rd person. A conventional humility. I wonder if you can read through the unfamiliar religious language? Sometim...
Or in this case, mending the sandals of the monks. Sandals are mended, letters are written, in a state of inactivity that fills the whole life where b...
I likewise bring my thoughts to you, and appreciate your thoughts - most of them. There is a danger in the solitary life of entering a fugue of self a...
This moral surrender should be familiar to anyone who knows of the 12 step program for recovering from addiction. and it goes together with the focus ...
I don't believe you have discovered for yourself that suffering pushes you towards God. I think you are repeating some thing you have picked up from t...
So I will repeat what has been quoted and further indicated in all three cases as a direct and solemn warning that to attempt to understand anything o...
Possibly. I should have known better than to quote him at the top. Ok, Krishnamurti was a charlatan or an idiot or a lunatic. Now go read the God stuf...
Yes. Krishnamurti at least, rejects authority, including his own, in favour of a scientific approach. Do it for yourself, and find out for yourself. D...
You may be able to educate me further, but wiki seems to think that there is reduced and increased activation. It's early days for neurology, and spir...
All you have there is a perfectly ordinary fact with a place and time specified. The cat is on the mat. - An ordinary fact. The cat is on the mat in u...
If I put it negatively, psychologically, I might say that the past is trauma, the present is pain, and the future is fear. Or in more neutral terms, t...
It turns out the hippies were right, there is a cure for conservatism. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-if-a-pill-can-change-your-polit...
Extract yourself, if you can, from the notion that faith as used here is a species of belief, subject to persuasion of argument and evidence. We live ...
That's actually a bit insulting, you know. Why doesn't everyone that has the least criticism of society go and live somewhere else? I want my country ...
It's a point of view. My point of view is that we have reached peak travel, and peak noise, and "they" will not relinquish the imposition of endless n...
An amount of apology to an amount of other people. I am very happy to admit that fewer people are dying than I feared. Long may I continue to be wrong...
This the logic. The known is always 'more of the same'. You have noticed the limitation of desire, and the inherent contradiction it contains. There i...
Yes of course it is valid and sound. You cannot get an ought from an is, and you cannot get a will be from a was. But don't expect people to stop talk...
Some, not all. There is a tendency to forget that the biggest, fiercest dinosaurs went extinct, that the interdependence of every ecosystem includes t...
Cows prey on grass, which is too weak even to run away. But the predator is dependent on its prey although it is stronger. Your insight is a tradition...
There are more workers than bosses. The bosses have property, money power and influence in abundance, but lack the numbers. Thus 'divide and rule' has...
No no, the aim of every gene is to go extinct, not to survive, because genes are antinatalists. Fortunately, most genes achieve this sooner or later, ...
Metaphors aren't literally true. The world is not literally highly competitive, and this does not entitle us to expect certain qualities in our genes,...
It's extraordinary that the argument has gained any currency. The metaphorical selfishness of genes is used to explain, and prove - against all experi...
The thing that a metaphor is, is metaphorical and thus not literal. I'm not taking it literally, but you are. Let us suppose, if you like, that genes ...
This is the same equivocation I was complaining of in Dawkins. If its built into something, it cannot be a metaphor. the scare quotes prevent me from ...
my emphasis. It's clear her target is the supposed science being popularised as well as the populariser himself. and the unexamined assumption is that...
In fairness to Dorkinch, he does acknowledge in the introduction that the selfish gene thing is a metaphor. But in fairness to Mary, he forgets that c...
No. Just saying. That's the thing about nonsense, it's not amenable to argument. I'll just mention that to talk of 'the you' is precisely to reify and...
There's a bit where the guy is playing with his tiles, and points out 2 positions that can have alternative tiles, but once one is chosen, there is no...
Don't limit yourselves to National flags. https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/asafo-flags-fante-people-misc-110918 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki...
Because everyone is sometimes deliberately, ignorantly, and stupidly stupid sometimes, although it is hard to think how one can be deliberately stupid...
I would wish that my posts are always of some use to someone. I will never make another post on this thread. When one cannot even express the notion t...
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