Agustino

And the reason it is nihilistic is precisely because it castrates man's need for love, and man's need to suffer for their love. All in order to avoid ...

Hm, I think that you have already placed me in a little box that says "Christian", and therefore not worth aruging with, because it won't get anywhere...

See, just one session with the master was enough! :wink:

:lol: I'm actually looking forward! You do have quite a bit of talent at this art. https://media.makeameme.org/created/you-are-the-5b3ca5.jpg

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I would be glad to be taught by the master himself ;)

ADD? :razz:

Thanks for the replies. With regards to our discussions, I have a bit more time today, so I will use it to clarify my position. So that you don't clai...

I have a question. Does unenlightened still pull them strings? :wink:

Hi 0 thru 9, I appreciate your response. However, I don't see sufficient effort to answer the points I've brought up. For example: I've made a point h...

I am discussing Western Buddhism for the most part. I did claim it is a misrepresentation of actual Buddhism: Put that way, but very often it is phras...

Whenever I see them, I flag them. Simple really.

I am saying that Buddhism is accepted as it is accepted mostly because it is misunderstood through the lens of our hedonistic/consumerist culture. Bud...

Yes, they are not "actually" democracies because it belongs to the essence of democracy to be unstable and to, over time, decline into tyranny. Althou...

Killing someone in self-defence is not murder for example. Killing someone unjustly, and without due cause, that, on the other hand, is murder. Becaus...

Same as murder above.

In this sense, violence is not like murder. Murder is defined according to a particular context, and as such, it is always wrong.

I disagree on the distinction here I think. What is violence in-itself? To me, in-itself it is always contextual. That is part of its essence. You can...

I have an alternative. Violence in-itself is not a problem. Whether it's good or bad depends on the context. You just have an unnatural aversion to vi...

This statement needs some unpacking. Christianity is dead in the sense that its symbols no longer resonate for Western man - that much is true. And Ch...

However, such people are 0.1% of the population or less. For the rest, the whip is needed. (It's not that black and white - most people need just a li...

This is a very arbitrary way of thinking about the phenomenon, which actually obscures any understanding of the existence of man. First, people are ta...

Forget the state. Without the kind of violence that they are talking about you cannot even have this forum. Okay, how do we live in peace if I want X,...

Why not? Maybe the person taking them wants you to keep growing them. If he knew this, he would modify his behaviour and would not take all of them an...

Are you kidding me? How else can we have a society then? You're behaving as if we didn't have expectations from each other, and conflicting desires th...

So do you take all communications of reactions which can be seen as negative or unfavourable by the other party as threats? From my experience people ...

So why do you decry that the world is founded on violence if you don't even have an alternative? I fail to see how it could be otherwise, without us l...

How else can we live together, if not by this mutual give and take? We all have desires from one another, we are social creatures. If we don't take th...

I don't see it as a threat, I see it as communication of consequences. So if you were to tell your child, "if you don't do your homework, it won't be ...

I don't understand how the world you're proposing will ever work out. People need to know that there are consequences for actions. The sort of world y...

I sort of agree. Unenlightened is, in a way, sitting on the white sepulcher of colonialism, and crying foul. The irony being that, it is precisely by ...

My opinion is that we are sitting on the precipice of Western civilization as we know it. We are at a historical cross-roads at the moment, and what w...

Yeah, I just meant that I wasn't around, so I wouldn't know. I added to my post:

That's what happens when you're not around for awhile :rofl: Maybe I was spared because I stopped posting roundabout when Maw made his return.

Well, to be honest, @"Maw" is FAAAR more intolerant than Buxta, even though he doesn't swear.

I don't think he was intolerant, I think it was just his style.

Come on, did you or the moderators really expect Buxta to stop? Then he wouldn't be Buxta anymore. So I don't buy this. Whoever gave the warning did n...

By eccentricities I referred to actions which are peculiar to an individual (such as some swearing is to Buxta), but which are otherwise irrelevant - ...

There is no norm, they are eccentricities.

What about the title?

A deprivation (in the negative sense you use) is supposed to be the removal of something that is good. So if I remove your ability to slaughter a man,...

It's not about my knowledge here, it's about the way you conceive of men. That's the problem. And I'm not even saying that the way you conceive of men...

So men will not behave differently if they know abortion is illegal? I get it Maw, you don't give a damn about women ;)

Is it the enemy that promotes unity, or rather danger? Is danger the only thing that the state can be united against (notice that we switched from uni...

Red herring. Answer my questions. Yes, he should be asked to be loyal to the President. If the President is taking the country (and himself too) over ...

So the will of the people is divided against itself? How is it one will if it is divided against itself? A single will cannot be conceived which pulls...

What is a state united around?

So the SCJ is there in order to be in opposition to the President (keep him in check), and (obviously) the President is there be in opposition to the ...

In order to serve "the people", is it better if the three branches of power work together, or should they rather be at war and in conflict with each o...

Does the President not represent the office of Presidency? I'm pretty sure that Trump doesn't expect and never expected people like Comey to be loyal ...