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Only Augustine. So then it's about you - it's not really a universal situation? I mean it isn't necessarily so, or?

Wait, I don't quite understand you. So sex is always immoral but it can be either necessarily or unnecessarily immoral. If it's unnecessarily immoral,...

Yes no doubt that some of these characters had all sorts of troubles. You would too if you had devoted your life to struggling against the same proble...

The Schopenhauer quote is a very rich and informative passage. Let's investigate it. Is this to say that one is both angel and devil? Is the unreality...

https://youtu.be/krudM4kHZt4?t=3m27s Is Borat right? Do you need a big hram to be a great leader? :-O

:s How does knowing logical impossibilities have any significance? We didn't need systems science to know what is logically impossible anyway.

What conflicts can't exist?

Systems science has been critiqued by a few philosophers - the problem with a system which starts from vagueness (everything) and differentiates down ...

But I don't see why that requires a transcendental dimension, maybe you can illustrate it for me. So you perceive the transcendent with the intuitive ...

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I have read the mystics, doesn't seem to help. And either way that is irrelevant to the conversation I'm seeking to have with you now. So tell me then...

In what sense is it "beyond" sensory/rational experience? Is it beyond them in the same sense that taste is beyond sight?

Why is it transcendent? Transcendent is an ontological category, you know that right?

But you did ask why "sex isn't necessarily immoral" which is kind of strange if you think it isn't necessarily immoral. Anyway, what does "inherently"...

Well Terrapin is saying something reasonable - I don't see it identical with the point YOU are making in this post however. Apokrisis is just re-stati...

I'm not sure Schopenhauer really wanted to be a "spiritual exemplar" himself. As he put it, the job of the philosopher is different than the job of th...

This is nothing but anthropomorphism if you ask me, and definitely not "central" in my humble opinion. Yes but the non-duality of Samsara and Nirvana ...

Okay but why do you think love is in short supply? Why God or his hand when the bit that I quoted you on spoke about bitches?

Sure so? This isn't to say that life is long and love is short... So I'm asking you what in particular grounds your belief regarding this. >:O As far ...

Okay this may be so, but you haven't outlined a "correct understanding" either. If Samsara and Nirvana are non-dual - not two - how is it possible to ...

Why do you think they ignored those in their life who supported them? For example, what would you have had St. Augustine do, for example, not to ignor...

Hmm but what would you say to folks like Augustine, Aquinas, etc. who found God's love to be sufficient for life not to "suck"? Do you think they're w...

LOOOL >:O you know mate that Terrapin not only "did a course or two of philosophy at uni", he taught philosophy at fucking uni - maybe if you had atte...

I think you in particular would like him :P Why do you think that "love is short"? Have you read, for example, Augustine's Confessions to see how God'...

Really now.... really...? What if philosophy is precisely the disease that must be cured? (Wittgenstein would agree ;) ) Do you remember the story of ...

You should read Seneca's "On the Brevity of Life" then :P you said you liked Roman philosophy ;)

"The Trouble with Being Born" (if you want a more mature work) or "On the Heights of Despair" if you want an introductory work (also happens to be his...

How is that a slight on you or him? I know you've found his work interesting, I suppose that must be because he isn't labelled an atheist and a nihili...

Have you read something by Cioran homeboy? :P I'm actually curious what you think of him if you have.

And I have noticed that discussions with you reduce to "he's a nihilist/materialist/atheist, dismissed". Really Wayfarer, you call this philosophy? Re...

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Common bruv it's just a poem, we wouldn't go through all the hassle of stealing :P

:s Yeah if you actually bothered to read anything more from him apart from Wikipedia you may discover something different. How interesting that your h...

LOL Why hide it? :P

Do you mind sharing the poem? :D

Meaning?

F. Nietzsche: "Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by: they do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest , fe...

Why? Most people would say probably not. Why is that?

>:O Pollock - it's a metaphor for the penis which can flop around just like the pollock does! I was tricked :’(

But if they have some awareness of death, then to me they already know this. What they wouldn't be able to do, is to contemplate the meaning of death ...

Are you kidding me mate? That's a fucking big white pollock, if you had that you'd have to carry it over your shoulder!!!

Well can it have such a thought?

:D But I do know all this, and I do have a look at my stool briefly every time I go to the toilet. I'm not freaked out by stool regardless of what I s...

Thanks for sharing, great exposition! (Y) The Chinese have indeed a hidden fountain of knowledge and wisdom that is little known in the rest of the wo...

But by re-directing them it seems to me that it can create entirely new combinations of feelings and reactions that we would never have before. And th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3CMsjY5c_Y

:-O >:O (Y)

Do you think that virtue doesn't actually have anything to do with that, or rather that it CAN'T have anything to do with that? In other words do you ...

>:O :-x Yes the sweat smell thing is interesting. Personally, despite very strong pressures from my environment and from my parents as a teenager to i...

No that doesn't really make sense. The asymmetry involved is that virtue certainly doesn't have anything to do with the feelings of your penis, and th...