Wiki might be wrong, but are you saying it is not a religion, or that it is based on rules other than it is claimed, or that in practice adherents beh...
It is alas the case that folks can and do unjustifiably oppose anything and everything that is inconvenient to them. (You cannot justifiably oppose th...
Why the fuck would anyone bother with your depressing meaningless drivel when they can have their own meaningless but less depressing drivel. Enjoy yo...
Have you guys looked at personal construct theory at all. It's a bit meta, in that it supposes that everyone has some kind of classification scheme by...
:rofl: You both would say the same, who should I believe? But there can be no such exactitude because there must necessarily be a different relation t...
I am saying that a person is all relationship. we know for instance hat all the particles of the body are replaced over a few years by new particles. ...
To counter-quibble, he went on, "and unto God that which is God's." And in the light of the parable under discussion, what belongs to Caesar is his im...
I try to be as vague as possible, but someone has to ask. Really, trot along to a physics forum, and when you find out what stuff is, come and explain...
Yes. Once 'you' has been stripped of particularity, and isolated from physicality and mentality, But my Cosmology is simpler: P1. There is stuff. P2. ...
Jesus is a communist. From each according to their ability to each according to their needs. Everyone needs to eat, whether they work all day or half ...
Of interpretation; of meaning; of the way language works. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. You spotted a mistake that resulted in something that is eith...
I recognise the truth of your observation, and can see informally how it follows from a correct interpretation of the context, in the context of the o...
What are the rules for what can or cannot be thought of (understood, interpreted) as a variant? I think this is the question at issue. Glaswegian is a...
Reminds me of computer languages - miss a comma and everything goes to pot. At which thought I wonder if a consideration of redundancy and error trapp...
What a curious notion, that in every circumstance, the same kind of response is wise. It's idiotic frankly. Mind you, as my mother used to say, quotin...
Never mind the deforestation, the collapse of environment, the loss of the most fertile farmland, the mass extinctions , the loss of pollinating insec...
But nobody calls dogs selfish; cats, maybe. Anyway dogs think they are humans so they must think they have selves, and as Descartes demonstrated, ther...
Bloody Dawkins. Utter not these terms in the same breath. The notion that genes are selfish is an analogy. Accordingly, take note that a self- interes...
Seriously, for a moment... Dawkins played with this, talking about memes. But look at nature and see if you can find a rule. The only one I can think ...
Buddhists are at least as as various as Christians, and I cannot pretend to speak for any of them. My understanding of both religions is much better t...
Can we not reduce all this to the simple necessity that language is prior to any language theory? Just as music is prior to music theory. In the begin...
I cannot answer all your points, but I will address one and hope you can extrapolate. Obviously one needs to have an image of the colours in such a ca...
To understand the philosophy and psychology of Buddhism, it is necessary to make some careful distinctions. Appetite v desire. Appetite is the physiol...
Writing desks can't write, and ravens can't rave. The measure of fitness is survival. Dumb ideas are like dandelions that seed themselves in poor dist...
As I already pointed out, this site is very unlike the social media being discussed, and more like Wikipedia. No personal data is collected, no profit...
One cannot answer the op's question in the negative, without admitting the very thing one wishes to deny. One would have to maintain that the op is se...
Hmm. That is of course what the AIs want you to think. :scream: No, they can't make you, a particular individual, narrow minded. but they can attract ...
Nowhere at all. That's another topic entirely. Yes, and it doesn't have to be that way. We seem to be stuck between private capitalism and state capit...
There are certainly some spaces between the dots being joined up. And certainly tech is not the fount of all evil. There is some evidence, but not tha...
I do make that argument elsewhere, but I'd rather discuss the program here. The down and dirty précis is thus: science is objective; the science of ps...
It would be inconvenient if conventions could not be convened. But of course it remains the case that one cannot be the only one to attend a conventio...
I don't need you to tell me what my life is about. I was trying to engage, with respect, with your topic. But I think I've gone as far as i want to on...
I understand that; truthful in the context of the fiction that I am dead, and some other speaks my life summary. But is the fiction that I died this m...
One has to wonder why someone who is cognisant of the terrible effects of trauma on human development is so negative, aggressive, accusatory, and unsy...
One of you externalises the problem, and the other complains that they cannot externalise the solution. No wonder you agree. You are the problem, and ...
Anyway, moving on and trying to avoid triggering anyone ... I'm not entirely clear what the exercise is in relation to this. Should I assume I will fu...
Well if you are not hungry, then hunger is not a problem for you. But it is quite a big problem for a lot of people. But the people in leadership role...
Of course it is of importance. The question is what can one do about it. Humanity has only one problem and that is humanity. Lift humanity's finger to...
No I would not. But you have refuted nothing, you have merely contradicted in a more dogmatic way something that the op recounted as his personal unde...
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