Neither do I. I guess I was talking more about this moral judgement against procreation. People are going to continue procreating, no matter what we s...
No political agenda, just a perspective that I’m sharing. Take it or leave it, but stop representing it falsely as some political scheme or forced age...
Yes, if I had evidence, it wouldn’t be speculation... Definition: degree of distinctness. A statement of the exact meaning of a word. It may be possib...
Relation of change refers to the structure of variability in any relation between two entities. If two atoms reduce the distance between each other, t...
Agreed. But we need to recognise that we can only control ourselves. We can’t force others not to reproduce - that just adds to suffering, and then we...
I already predicted that it would mean nothing to you. Death is inevitable, so limiting your life further based on a fear of death is a waste of resou...
But there IS life, and it’s ours to do with what we will, regardless of what anyone says. If you want to waste it on griping, like Schop1, that’s your...
None of this is an accurate interpretation of my position. I am NOT arguing that it is okay to start life, and I have REPEATEDLY pointed this out to y...
Not really - sorry, I should have clarified this here, but my aim at this point was just to acknowledge three event structures. I don’t consider a pla...
As I’ve said, I think it may get worse before it gets better, but I do think there will be a time in the future of humanity with far less violence tha...
Of course not - I can only speak from my limited experience and knowledge, and all statements are open to dispute if you have an experience that contr...
An electric current travels from one system to another, and is contingent upon both. You can’t isolate an electric current from the relational structu...
I think the view of good-evil as a ‘spectrum’ synonymous with perfect-imperfect is damaging - particularly in relation to behaviour and judgement of b...
I don’t think I’m contradicting anything you’ve said here. I certainly don’t disagree. Some agrarian systems were established from or heavily influenc...
What are you losing? The confidence that your ego is invincible or that hope alone enables? These are illusions, and losing them only increases your a...
Agreed. This is why I mentioned a dog’s consciousness. It shows that we cannot use the systems and structures we’ve relied on to this point in order t...
I agree - no-one knows, but we can speculate based on their relation to socio-cultural systems - patterns in the way they think about and correlate id...
It is in evidence of their early use that we see the development. There are ideographic systems of languages, such as Chinese or Japanese, and Egyptia...
No - I think antinatalists would be more convincing if they recognised that it is their valuing life’s potentiality in itself that causes them to desp...
What is bad or not bad? You seem to be talking about your subjective experience as if it’s some objective moral position. I appreciate you parsing you...
What is that ‘being’ who does not exist, if they do not exist? If they do not suffer, what is their significance for you? How are they ‘real’ enough f...
I read a YA novel a few years back called ‘Carve the Mark’ by Veronica Roth, which explores the notion of suffering in a fantasy world where each char...
I’ll admit I’m a little sceptical of transhumanism - mainly because I recognise the essential structure of what we call ‘suffering’ in every aspect of...
Both Buddhism and Christianity require the relation of scripture to the context of a single, exemplary life for their actual meaning. Early language w...
I haven’t called him an idiot. And I wasn’t referring to his concept of men and women, but to his self-acclaimed authority to answer for most men, and...
I would dispute that. We once considered ourselves essential and central to the cosmos, just as we now consider ourselves essential and central to con...
What is this state of non-existence that you value higher than being? And in what way is it more valuable in this non-state? What you seem to be refer...
This is what I mean by reducing potentiality to a binary value, eg. Suffering = bad; joy = good. Being is not a matter of simply choosing between suff...
The way I see it, it is describing them as ‘beings’ that leads to contradiction. The Trinity refers to three aspects of our potential relation to ‘God...
Then you’re reading it through a lens. A fourteen year old certainly has this capability. Someone under the age of ten usually lacks a sufficient self...
Sure, slap that ‘feminist’ label on and dismiss my perspective as emotional. Looks like you’re reaching for your last resort there. Having trouble for...
Just to clarify, wu wei is to act as if dead - to deliberately and consciously align our ideas and logic with that of the universe, striving to unders...
Aside from myopic, ignorant and destructive... Valuing the intelligence, strength and experience of women as much as men is not decadence or a ‘deadly...
I don’t think we’ll ‘save’ most of humanity, to be honest - but we’re far too adaptable and resourceful to go the way of the dinosaurs, even if we sta...
Ahh! The classic ‘men = most men’ defense, and then trying to cast dispersions on my sexual orientation. Seriously, it’s almost a caricature! I don’t ...
Well, I’d say it’s either a ‘literal’ modern interpretation of a translation of a translation of a transcription of a verbal tradition - or it’s a con...
To be honest, I think this interplanetary pursuit must take a back seat to understanding how we can collaborate with the ecosystem we have, rather tha...
And the fact is you do NOT have a number of dollars. You have reached the limit of your wallet’s potential for dollars, its lowest value. The potentia...
No, that’s a limitation of social animals that our minds have potentially evolved beyond, but we keep falling back to it for an illusion of safety. No...
Zero is not a number; it’s a limit. There’s a distinction between unconscious and non-conscious that is all about potential. Unconscious retains the p...
Where does it say there has to be definitive group? Are you suggesting a broken nose ‘looks good’ on a guy? I would dispute that. And plenty of girls ...
I don’t see why not, if she showed an interest. I certainly wouldn’t push my son to do boxing, if he’d rather do karate. But then, I took the sports y...
Knowledge of good and evil is not knowledge of ethics - it’s simply awareness of their own capacity for judgement, without any experience or subsequen...
I will be charitable here and assume you didn’t just mean this as a guide for masculinity. I think your son needs to recognise these qualities in both...
I feel like the option is always there for me to sink into the joy of my current situation, and ask no more questions in this march towards an inevita...
I think that my pursuit of profundity/wisdom is a choice I make to forego any final sense of satisfaction until I die. I’m content with that, at least...
I said you had a hand in it - not that you consciously chose them. You seem determined to absolve responsibility for changing behaviours, based on som...
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