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Thanks very much for your response. That puts the thread into a fuller context of the origins of the Yin-Yang idea. I definitely do not want to “reinf...

Thanks for your elaborations. That helps a little understanding your thinking. I still disagree, but I’m going to withhold going any further with the ...

Thanks for your reply! :smile: Yes, that’s an excellent point… it interacts differently with each person. Even for me, CBD with a little THC won’t be ...

Thanks. Yes, civilization as a whole… But any pockets of sanity in a sea of upheaval is definitely a good thing, like an oasis in the desert. Mmmm… ch...

Thanks for your reply. Most appreciated. I hope to respond more fully later. :smile:

To wax philosophical about cannabis… I’m surely not the first to say so, but I think we are trained and encouraged to consume as much as possible. Fro...

Thanks! Much appreciated! :smile: I think Nietzsche nails it, especially as a description of his time. And it largely carries forward to this day, eve...

This may be the alcohol talking… but i love you and everyone soooo mush! :love:

Thanks, that’s good to hear! Probably the reason I’m still here. :grin: :monkey:

Well fortunately the Lounge here has an excellent bar that’s stocked with a variety of quality booze. And isn’t alcohol called ‘the lubricant of philo...

Great idea to move the news/politics/opinion/butt-hurt threads to the Lounge! :up: (In my humble and butt-hurt opinion, of course. :sweat: )

Thanks for your many in-depth replies. They were read and appreciated. However… But unfortunately, when you write things like you did in the second ha...

:100: :clap: :smile: Couldn’t have said it any better than both of your responses!

Nietzsche said that God is dead, and on a mythological scale, he was accurate. Now Progress (that which tried to fill the endless void) is on life-sup...

@"Chet Hawkins" :up: Thanks! I feel similar anger and frustration about being stuck on the Titanic with billionaires who don’t care if we hit an icebe...

Excellent answers, both of you! :cool: :up: Thanks for the responses and effort! Much appreciated. I was wondering if anyone here still held on (even ...

Ok thanks for identifying it. Nothing wrong with a little polemic for spice. Haha, yes I know what you mean. I think every culture attempts to produce...

:smile: :up: Not exactly sure about the ‘investiture’ part means, but yes… I’d agree that one gives rise to its partner and lover. Yes, I am maybe add...

Yes, good point! :up: I think there are major discoveries yet to be made about our little planet, despite the feeling that everything useful has alrea...

Ok, thank you very much for your reply. :up: To expand on my post somewhat… As you noticed, I play a little game with myself categorizing a pair of re...

:up: Exactly, thanks! Great quote. I probably put everything into a yin-yang relationship, but ‘understanding’ is definitely the under-appreciated ‘yi...

Yes, I agree. However, to that I’d add the less common (but still significant) trait of wisdom traditions to place value on openness, simplicity, and ...

This excerpt from the Wikipedia page on Ken Wilber’s The Marriage of Sense and Soul makes some points that I think relate to this thread. Specifically...

:100: :smile: :up: Thanks very much for your posts and insights. I can appreciate some nutritious and delicious food for thought.

Thanks much! :smile: True. And you may have just coined an interesting word (even if it was a typo). :blush:

There seems in general to be two broad approaches to philosophy: (at least that seem quite evident in this particular and interesting thread). One tha...

Thanks! Haha, that was an attempt at some subtle irony or British-style dry humour. :nerd:

Interesting, thanks. :up: I imagine that I know what you are getting at here in the OP, in general. It seems that the divide you mention is growing li...

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I offer this dire prediction concerning the election campaigns… Mr Trump will be in middle of a rally or debate, in full harangue, and despite being i...

About taking ‘pure CBD’, I was curious if it could provide me enough of a buzz like the other forms of cannabis I’ve tried. The answer is thankfully… ...

I recently purchased some CBD Isolate powder. I guess you could call it ‘pure CBD’. Wanted to try it for laughs and out of curiosity, and also if I ne...

:up: Thanks. Tragically, that about sums it up in a nutshell. Poop-aganda… our steady diet since birth. Where does a two-ton gorilla crap? Anywhere he...

Some related ideas… We have been conditioned to think of negative aspects of powerful ruling agents such as “fascism”, “authoritarianism”, “imperialis...

Extremely windy and blustery weather here now. The squirrels are rolling down the street like tumbleweeds. I threw some peanuts to them. They rolled d...

In an odd way, I sometimes find it comforting that such ideologies (or ‘idiot-ologies’ lol) have been kept at bay in the past (though never completely...

:up: Yes definitely. I was raised Catholic / Christian. Now lapsed, but the core beliefs linger in me. Core beliefs that in bitter irony are now rejec...

:lol: True. Though I think that the British roaches do equally well, and are not as gauche as the American ones. Plus, they have that charming accent....

Hmm, quite. Bounced like a gnat off an elephant’s butt! But thanks for trying again. I’d venture to say that we are possibly all the characters in you...

Thanks for that. :up: Sometimes I wonder if (core aspects of) our society are just insane (meaning unfit and unhealthy for humans, to be simple and bl...

Kind of vague… sorry Frank. An OP full of assertions and claims. Sounds like the thoughts I have when I just wake up, and I’m still tired (and tired o...

No ‘sixth sense’ as traditionally named? AKA, ESP (extra-sensory perception)?

:up: It’s difficult to go against our training to be machines, warriors, consumers, patriots etc, and actually think, feel and act like the higher pri...

Thanks, that helps me understand. :up: Feelings may fossilize over time into tendencies or biases. Recently, I did an online survey to find out if I h...

Interesting… could you please explain more. I think you are perhaps referring to a person’s judgement of their emotions? Thus diving deeper into their...

Interesting! Thanks. :up: I hadn’t heard of him. Any suggestions for a starting point in his writing? This book looks like an interesting combo of phi...

Haha… great line! (I’m still internally debating the question it was answering… but I appreciate a good turn of phrase).

There is a shockingly small selection of beige Hawaiian shirts available online. A good possible marketing and investment opportunity if I’ve ever see...

Thanks for your reply! :smile: I’m not a Sufi or expert, but I’ll go out on a limb and say that at the height of the experience, the Sufi merges with ...

Thought this video might be appropriate here. I enjoyed and was inspired by it. (Spoiler alert: the video refers to certain practices that may strike ...