Your ex-cathedra pronouncement is hypocritical and inappropriate. The op is a practical exercise proposal that need have no relation to any god. There...
A philosopher (or a scientist) is necessarily in the third position, triangulating the language of others. Here is a little clue as to what the functi...
There is no need for anyone to starve, or to be homeless, or to lack basic medical care or a clean water supply. We could sort all that out for everyo...
What did I say about withdrawing from the world? I missed it. Look, if you want to feed the world, or cure a disease or organise a society, that is a ...
Descend into hell, obviously. One has to relate to people where they are, not where one wishes them to be. Every ascended master agrees with this, fro...
I wouldn't say that, because duty implies conflict and division. But in this field, if one does not live according to one's understanding, then one ha...
You might point Susan in the general direction of The Hearing Voices Network. As a very general rule, it is wise to listen to your voices and treat th...
Yes no maybe, I don't know, can you repeat the question. (song) According to definition I think I can make all three answers feel correct to me. For e...
There are many readers and writers that complain about how all they get is words. And I am always sorely tempted to tell them to shut the fuck up. 'Th...
Hmm. I wonder what you found to be hostile here? It all seemed fairly sympathetic to me. I assume you are familiar with J. Krishnamurti, as he was pre...
Hi @"Jack Cummins". You have studied for many years, and you still do not know if the thing you are studying exists. Well one tradition is that these ...
Decay is a process, and falling is a faster process. But philosophers, lawyers and clerics still use the Latin language and thus still come under the ...
Yes, it could be said. I don't know what would be done and by whom, but I do know that the EU cannot leave that border open without a deal of some sor...
Keeping it really simple, the Good Friday agreement between the UK and the Republic of Ireland is the treaty that ended the civil war in Northern Irel...
I'd like to mention that there is something called Christian Atheism. One can have recourse to religious texts without claiming infallibility or divin...
If Hitler thinks you're Jew, he won't care what you think; and whether you care or not about what he thinks, it's off to the gas chamber you go. Not h...
Nor do I, particularly - I don't know the guy. I don't want to rewrite my old essay here, but the relevance to this thread is that game theory applies...
... and this leads to... The incomprehension here is remarkable. As if an unselfish person is selfish about their unselfishness. It's not that it does...
Indeed. Bracket off the axioms as conditionals, and I have no quarrel with the mathematics as an abstract theory. But folks will insist on applying th...
That is exactly how I am reading it. Perhaps you could to put a little more effort into understanding me, and a little less into telling me where I ha...
What argument? That is called an analogy. It's an aid to understanding. I have not made an argument at all, so your inability to focus may be due to t...
It's yes to both, I'm afraid - 'and also', not 'instead'. That might seem difficult, but compare with this: Now how can it be, given the separateness ...
Indeed. The horizon is not an illusion, it's how far one can see. And the self is how far one can feel and remember. But that's all it is. It seems to...
People risk their lives for one-another every day all over the world, because they understand in their bones that we are interdependent and cannot aff...
Well yes, but then I am saying that our limits are features of perception. I cut my hair and feel undiminished because my sensitivity does not extend ...
My favourite example is the stick insect. Stick insects are real. They are real insects, AND unreal sticks. There is a real insect and a real semblanc...
Oh! I thought you didn't want to discuss with me. So you claim is that we were alright until religion came along and before that there was no moral ni...
Yes, I am deliberately starting from a materialist standpoint, because it is materialism that leads to moral nihilism. The language is always tricky a...
I find myself wondering why we bother saying it? There are things that could be done in partial mitigation; preparations could be made to clean up the...
Morality is also as real as a psychosocial construct, which I also think is plenty real. What I am targeting, if you will allow a slightly more loose ...
Do you think so? Perhaps your experience is with exploiters of religion, or perhaps you are fundamentalist yourself. In any case, the conversations I ...
If one does not uphold fundamental human rights, mere survival has no merit. :roll: This is the real disaster, I fear, that untrue solace has swept th...
Yes, that would be a a real problem for the secret agenda to rid ourselves of that pesky province. But we have ways of getting the IRA to persuade the...
There's not much to say really. Marx could say 'Ha, told yer!' if he was around, the rest of us "So long, it was fun while it lasted." Except for a lo...
It would be a great novelty. Apart from the economic meltdown, the loss of trust, status and integrity, the end of the United Kingdom is assured; I th...
When I have studied something a little, and have a certain respect for it, I like to defend it, quite unnecessarily, from people like you who think th...
Impeccable logic. And so we arrive at the solution, that the real contains the illusory, and we gain the idea of the unreal from reality. A stick inse...
Gregory. I asked what the I Ching says that is religious, not what wikipedia says that is religious. It's not a hard question, because it is quite sho...
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