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I think it is only an artifact of grammar, that is, each one of us using (verbal & nonverbal) language for socially orientating oneself (re: semiotics...

From my read, the bolded qualifier is an espousal in the form of an implicit norm (or duty): "I am an unrepentant misogynist. For me, the concept that...

:up: It's only a self-reflexive indexical for claiming – declaring – first person (possessive) singular, discursive agency.

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A motley gaggle of hilariously "philosophical" rodeo clowns who can slap-n-tickle my "pineal gland" into a frenzy: ( ... ) Groucho Marx Lenny Bruce Ri...

:up: I didn't realize till this quip, Fool, you're a closet- Spinozist! How absurd.

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My God, to be brutally honest, it's just Z's Obscene Ideology! And so on and so on ... :monkey: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YvJocp4Ovzg

Like empathy, eusociality is an adaptive species trait, or functional defect, and not an individual organism's "preference".

D&Ding as "group therapy" both online and off ... https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/nov/30/a-safe-haven-how-dungeons-dragons-is-slaying-social-an...

My experience with Zen exactly. I agree. :100:

No doubt, we all did. :smirk:

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Guilty as charged. :yum:

OTD 20 years ago ... George Harrison d. 29 November 2001 1969 https://youtu.be/KQetemT1sWc 1988 (Nelson, Lefty & Charlie RIP) https://youtu.be/UMVjToY...

Both. We're an eusocial species à la "no one is an island" (i.e. natality refutes solipsism).

When in doubt about "love" :broken: ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-u9eyImD3i4 ... and so on and so on. :eyes:

Clarify, if you will, what you mean by "rationality" in this context.

"Soulmates" betray, domestically violate and divorce each other every day.

Mr. Mojo was a poet not a musician and Freddy was a poet, composer, philologist & philosopher. I feel the "link" too, but have learned far more from F...

This is integral to Schopenhauer's WWR. And Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music (though not so much The Case Against Wagner). ...

Huge topic! Almost too much to say about it, Jack, I'll have to give it some thought and get back to you. The following quote for now: Our brains ('su...

This is me too. By my early/mid-thirties I'd come to seek only casual relationships realizing that I was more consistently 'happy' single than when I ...

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:100: :up: In a highly integrated technocapitalist civilization, that would take something like (I prefer) restructuring the global nation-state syste...

Coming from outside any Buddhist tradition and not bothering with due diligence before "joining", then no doubt "initiation" can be a shitshow. Blind ...

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You're right that I haven't. My point is not that the local religious accretions or sectarian schisms are not important to those involved; simply, rat...

In principle, probably yes; but, assuming so, that '100% fidelity simulation' would require more computational resources (bytes, energy) than the univ...

Some indeed may think so, but that in no way means that what they believe is consistent with the early practices and the Pali canon. Fidelity to philo...

No, baker, that statement doesn't make sense. Cultural "venerations" and "gods" in countries wherever Buddhism has taken root are not – could not be –...

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No doubt you mean 'libertarian capitalists' (in contrast to 'libertarian socialists'), right?

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I agree both with what you say about metaphysics and what your friend said about Jesus – neither, however, need be learned from Language, Truth and Lo...

See Max Tegmark's Mathematical Universe Hypothesis (re: the secondary Computational Universe Hypothesis imbedded within the MUH). This is more Leibniz...

I think nontheistic (i.e. "devotion (attachment) to deities" is irrelevant for – perhaps even hinders – 'moksha') best describes Buddhism.

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... for which there is not a shred of circumstantial evidence presented on any (world-class) infectious disease institute's or medical school's websit...

I'll drink to that. :up: I don't think you actually understand what I mean and blame my "lack of clarity" (so far you're the only one, bert) for your ...

Gotcha. :shade:

This explains the idealist's penchant for reification fallacies.

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:up: Once upon a wanton youth ... now day to day, moment by moment, as best as I can (my mandala) :death: :flower: @"Gregory" I (understand) 'nirvana'...

"Different" but not unrelated: noun, verb, and preposition, respectively.

Since when does defending yourself against an active shooter make you a "violent criminal"? :up: :100:

Nonetheless, R had a guardian the night he killed those men who also chaperoned him to and from his murders.