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Thinking well is an interesting objective criteria. What we have here is a competition similar to figure skating or synchronized swimming. Can I be a ...

No. The Four Noble Truths stand as a philosophical insight. One can simply accept them as they are. One approach, my approach, is moderation (The Midd...

Consider the life-and-death cycle no different from the awake-sleep cycle except for a certain loss of personal memory (some is retained in the form o...

Not sure what sect if Buddhism you are drawing from but your OP is equivalent to conferring upon Catholicism the beliefs of a Born Again Evangelistic ...

We are all creating all the time. One only needs to observe it.

Memory is jyst there and it's basically being filtered for the task at hand by the mind. There is no separation. It is all one. Immediate is what we f...

You just created a paragraph of an idea.

Each person can do what they want with their own body.

There isn't a sharp divide. It is a subjective judgment and is very fluid.

So you figure setting oneself on fire is going to change the views of the Vietnamese government? Sometimes reading history books is more helpful than ...

What a funny truth. A gun can kill? I thought it was the bullet? Or was it the person who pulls the trigger. In anycase a gun without a bullet can sti...

I mean we all make observations but for some reason people like the idea of truths and pay money to all kinds of institutions and people to know these...

Well if you can find a truth then exactly how long does it remain a truth if everything is changing? Simple observations are not truths. They are simp...

Yep, including my own statement. Just my observations. Now, if you want to really show how great you are at philosophy, tell me where you observe stag...

Well, prime certainly are taking more drugs as every behavior is now considered and abnormal for marketing reasons. Somehow there is a direct correlat...

You brought truth into it, not me. Just my observations. If you can tell me what you observe that is stagnant, then everything changes - again. This i...

Life without purpose is not a bad thing, but we all seem to be sharing the same purpose, to create.

People are just living their lives. Some fit in better than others.

It wasn't intended to be. It is an observation. If you observe stagnation anywhere in the universe, let me know.

Lots of research on the effects of mediation on physical body activity. Just go to google scholar and search for meditation. I've practiced mediation ...

One has to ponder this. The mind has mediated access to itself? The mind is creative thought that is filled with its own memory. There is no mediating...

There is no way to define mental health from a philosophical perspective. Health is holistic and simply the ability to physically persist and is it's ...

There are no truths in a Universe that is in constant flow. There cannot be. Philosophy is about learning to navigate our lives and understanding our ...

Life is just one big competition - or not. Apparently we have a new one, thinking better. Sounds like an Olympic sport. We can have judges judging on ...

Lol. The gift of hubris.

Humans create some mobile phones and self-congratulatory abundance call it "intelligence". A bee creates a beehive and water creates the Grand Canyon....

Yep, the answer is always that it is "natural". The core of "scientific" biological reasoning. Coincidentally it is also the core of racist thinking. ...

People are going to come to their own actions irrespective of any self-proclaimed privileged position. One can simply state their views, and act upon ...

What does such a question mean? Everyone is evolving in their own way. For some reason, using reasoning, some people just absolutely insist on some ar...

People just think in different ways. Some just prefer to think that they think better. It is a hierarchical thing without substance. I'm amused when t...

If course you are correct. Reasoning is entirely self-congratulatory and had no meaning or validity beyond that.

In this regard we can posit that we are all "gods" if this is the nomenclature that one wishes to use.

From observation one can say that we experience changes in memory that feels like personal (psychological) time (duration). This is the time we experi...

Call it what you wish, it is if no matter to me. Anytime anyone claims they know the shape of the Earth, I shrug. Every subject has subjective element...

The point is that however anyone describes the Earth shape is in error. Anyone. It is an entirely subjective point of view whatever description is use...

Yes, it is a feeling. There are no instruments that can measure feelings or the nature of any experience for that matter. Feelings are an internal exp...

In which case, everyone is mistaken about the shape of the Earth, since the Earth does not have a shape. The best we can do is to approximately descri...

This idea of consciousness/Mind playing hide-and-seek with itself is a recurrent theme in mythology. It would be manifestation of what Jung called the...

In case no one has noticed, this passage is pretty much what Hinduism Maya is all about with a sprinkle of Ascetic Hatha Yoga.

To create.

1) There is no future time. What we call the future time is a possiblity that we imagine in memory (memory already in the past). 2) The present is the...

I was speaking him holistically, since taking things appear always creates something new. In this regard, God and Natural Evolution are equivalent in ...

This is what philosophy is all about. Too provide meaning. But one must be creative and leave the box.

You cannot argue over similarities, only over differences. I already explained that both are used in exactly the same manner to explain the same thing...

There are many reasons we choose to follow, most obviously "to be part of the group". Marketing simply lays the foundation for the group, it is for ea...

No difference between a belief in Natural Evolution as the Almighty Force or God. As for me, I don't believe in either.

There is an abundance of evidence that things change. There is zero evidence for some external super-Natural force that governs change whether it be n...

There is always goal oriented reasoning whether it be God-based or Natural Evolution based. They are equivalent. One can interchange the phrases witho...

Creating desire profits is not just modern. It reaches back to n antiquities (hence Buddhism). We all have choices. Whether or not we are content with...

A couple of points: 1) Explaining human existence as the result of God's Design is no different than explaining human existence by Natural Evolution. ...