Noble Dust

I think I somewhat agree; what you're saying is mostly what I mean by generative. I just like that word better because it seems more elegant. But I ca...

As far as I can see, if defining the mental or the physical will always be circular, then I'm not sure what we can define, since the most immediate hu...

So in this case, knowledge of the two worlds is impossible, but it doesn't mean they don't exist?

So defining "physical" is misguided because it suggests dualism? I assume you have a different reason to deny dualism, then? Otherwise, if no definiti...

So what's a definition of physical that isn't circular?

I think that's actually an argument against materialism, though. What other definition can even be given?

I said hard dualism; my understanding is that's a Kantian dualism where the two can never interact, but correct me if I'm wrong. But I'm saying a "sof...

I don't think so. The problem for me is that the dualism/monism distinction is unessisary; it's an illusion. This actually relates somewhat to the thr...

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Quantity time; the 6th love language, along with taking away gifts and words of defamation.

Twin Peaks: The Return was so much better tho

They really are; I can never bring myself to look away.

What a delicious line.

Subjectivity just means that you, the subject, are experiencing the world from your singular perspective, and your singular experience is how you then...

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Haven't you shared all of those on here by now?

The rare, mythical everything pumpernickel bagel is where it's at.

I revisited this jam of mine today, and figured I'd share it. Probably my favorite song arrangement I've done; not necessarily the best song I've writ...

Absolutely; I agree, and I'm pretty sure I've argued that here more than once. Yeah, I guess so. But I don't know if that's unique; I wonder if anywhe...

Interesting. Growing up in the 90's in the Midwest of the US, in the church, I was taught to "read my bible and pray every day". And I did, actually. ...

I'm not sure if it's missing; "read your bible and pray every day", "practice yoga"...however many times a week millennial women in the West practice ...

Not my thing...I think I like bagpipes because my stereotypical perception of bagpipe music is that it's drone music; stays on the tonic the whole tim...

*smh*... Sounds about right.

I assume a teacher is required, or no? I could probably find one in NYC, but I'm not sure I'm committed enough. I'm also horribly undisciplined and ph...

Btw, who of the mystics do you admire?

I could see that working, but could also see it as turning into one cyclical mind game. Has it worked for you?

I haven't had much success with meditation either, but I want to keep trying. I've had some small successes, actually. Singing in an enthusiastic choi...

What's wrong with bagpipes anyway? The lack of dynamic range? Haven't you ever heard Bach on a harpsichord, BC? Or listened to Meshuggah? https://www....

Did he mean eternity when he said "the end", or nothingness? It's an important distinction. If eternity, then no, all seriousness (assuming that means...

Oh, don't be so pedantic. :P That was the God you seemed to have in mind, so that was the sort of God I was referring to. Correct me if I'm wrong.

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Gotcha, forgive me for assuming. What does a spiritual disposition entail for you? Well, it's hard for me to see how the concept of unconditional love...

But of course what we think it means would be even more important, since if we get it wrong, we might go to hell...?

Eh?

The suggestion here is always, implicitly, that appealing to the more "vulgar" passions would be permissible, because those decisions don't matter wit...

How do you predicate that concept sans religion or a spiritual disposition?

I'm a noob, I'm just getting into the mystics, but I'm feeling right at home reading Evelyn Underhill's "Mysticism". I've read a little Julian of Norw...

No, about an hour south of Lake Erie. Was randomly smoking on my front porch or something and just looked up...

I once saw the lights in Northeast Ohio, in the states. Super rare...it was red. :-O

I think of belief as the filter through which we view experience. It's not a great analogy, though. But it illustrates that belief creates reality, an...

I thought so too.

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Thanks Tiff! I was just exhausted by all the unnecessary drama from awhile back in this thread when I said that. I do plan to stay around.

I assume that was sarcasm, but what you couldn't have possibly foreseen is that, yes, I really do agree that those eyes are truly adorable.

I love birds, actually. I have this weird thing, that, sense childhood, I've been, somehow, a "birder". I was a bird-watcher from an early age. I thin...

Why contest it? It's just reality. You've made a great victory.

Saints be stricken! Can it really be so? And all these years of work...

>:O

That's not even a contest; it's easy....

No, I don't see autonomy and belonging as opposites. Autonomy only obtains within belonging; I have autonomy within the context of other autonomous be...