Yes, this has certainly been my experience interacting with Eastern culture. To me, it symbolises the priority of God's will over man's will - of the ...
No disagreement there. I think the concern with me and mine is valuable up to a point. Love your neighbour as yourself. I think this idea of complete ...
Indeed, that's what makes Christian mysticism different. Hmmm - maybe, but there are certainly forms of Buddhist mysticism where the goal is the blowi...
I'm not sure if "identity" is the right word. You don't obtain "identity" since personality is still preserved. Rather you obtain communion with the d...
Actually, sometimes it is possible to experience people as a mind if you develop the sensitivity for it. In this way, you can catch what they're think...
Yeah, I was referring to dualism / non-dualism as commonly used in the religious traditions of the East. For example, even Advaita Vedanta admits that...
I think the hypothesis is clearly false. A depressive realist does not have a better grasp of reality because they typically ignore the role they them...
Have you always been this way, ever since you were young? I think this matter is largely one of personality. For example, I always remember myself hav...
We have to be careful around this though because non-dualism is something that is applicable to God's essence in-so-far as He is uncreated, and not to...
Yes, Alan Watts also assents to this. In fact, he says that precisely because creation is a freely willed act, and not necessary, we can distinguish f...
I see. For me, I love self-cultivation too, but I can't say it I do it as end-in-itself. I do it because I know it will be useful on my path. Otherwis...
Another thing that he misses that is extremely important is not following the herd. You cannot follow the herd and do what most people do and expect o...
The bigger problem, of course, is that any "method" for success that is widely known will no longer be a method for success, as everyone will be doing...
Okay, (1) is sensible, but (2), (3), and (4) seems over the top. I don't see why the post would have had to "acknowledge the contentiousness of regard...
It's not meant to be a character assassination, it's just a fact that one of the moderators has an emotional bias (very likely due to an overindulgenc...
I doubt he'll do either. Which is quite unfortunate, because I don't think he's actually a stupid person. He's just stubborn on certain issues that se...
Okay, I don't know his original post, so I can't comment on that. But the problem with racism - in my mind - isn't that it offends the sensibilities o...
Are biological differences between the races racist? :s To me, racism would be a certain type of ideology that encourages active discrimination, not j...
This seems to me to be very wrong. This is a feedback thread, you shouldn't delete posts in here, so long as they are not things like threats, etc. Fe...
Yes, I think everyone saw in that discussion your inability to accept the facts. The discussion is here if anyone wants to have a look: https://thephi...
Yes, there is no doubt about that. When I told Mr. SLX that greater testosterone levels make men more competitive and aggressive in general and on ave...
Oh, and if you go to somewhere like Poland, you'll find a lot of cheap programmers/designers, etc. to hire. Just go to a computer science uni, and spe...
>:O . Yes, but it's not so easy to set up that kind of business. It would actually be a lot easier in a country like Poland. Because most people there...
What does "it" refer to? If you're referring to the love of self-cultivation, then probably not. If you're referring to the love of God and the world,...
Yes, money can come very easily from some types of work, but it takes years to develop the infrastructure and practical knowledge required to pull it ...
Why not? It depends on your motivations you see. When most people say they don't want to work, they really mean they don't want to work a certain job,...
A preeminently what? I'm not sure if you can apply for residence from outside the country. It is dependent on the individual law of the country, and a...
You don't actually "apply for residence", but rather you go there, rent a place, and then sort out the residence aspect. But to rent a place, the lett...
No, quite the contrary, the skeptic sets the bar for knowledge too high. He says knowledge only exists in the complete impossibility of doubt. And the...
Sure, but the brain in the vat has no grounds to doubt that his experience is of an external world (and in some sense it is, because the electrical im...
Yes it does. You experience things like your thoughts and emotions, and you see that they're not always the same. But you wake up in the same bed (pre...
No you don't. This is what you imagine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISugbhXnVTU How are ghosts shown in paintings, etc. ? Be honest with yourself....
Yes. By disembodied you refer to things like light - light has no body (according to your own beliefs in the other thread). Think about what you imagi...
What's your concept of a ghost? The concept of a ghost is a composed concept - composed of multiple atomic concepts, just like unicorns. Its atomic co...
Experience. Experience. Experience (we experienced both horns and horses). Yes we do need to have had an experience of exteriority - something externa...
I don't think I'm conflating anything. If experiences of type A are actually "dreaming" as well, then what grounds our concept of wakefulness? :s We h...
That makes little sense though. Otherwise we'd always be doubting ourselves, and we wouldn't be able to get anything done. Quite the contrary, if we d...
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