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In: Do we really fear death?  — view comment
Birth leads to death, Fool. :roll: But okay, agree to disagree. Pax.
July 02, 2021 at 04:41
In: Have You Had An Out-of-Body-Experience?  — view comment
If you say so.
July 02, 2021 at 04:12
In: Have You Had An Out-of-Body-Experience?  — view comment
Uh huh. So it's more likely it's my physicalist (narrower) perspective and terminology, rather than my writing style, that confused you.
July 02, 2021 at 03:28
In: Dating and code talk.  — view comment
Exactly. :cool:
July 02, 2021 at 03:23
In: Have You Had An Out-of-Body-Experience?  — view comment
Maybe a third time will be the charm ... @"Noble Dust"
July 02, 2021 at 00:54
In: Dating and code talk.  — view comment
A skydiving first date?! :up: :sweat:
July 02, 2021 at 00:51
In: Life currently without any meaningful interpersonal connections is meaningless.  — view comment
:up:
July 02, 2021 at 00:48
In: A Refutation Of The Ontological Argument, Version 1.0  — view comment
I don't feed trolls, lil troll.
July 02, 2021 at 00:43
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Trump Org CFO Allan Weisselberg FROG-MARCHED into the arraignment this morning and formally charged with 15 counts of ... https://www.nytimes.com/2021...
July 02, 2021 at 00:00
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DiSwrrWPifM "My Sweet Lord" All Things Must Pass, 1970 George Harrison https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3gwQ92uGU_M "What i...
July 01, 2021 at 22:53
In: Error Correction  — view comment
:up: :cool:
July 01, 2021 at 18:22
In: Have You Had An Out-of-Body-Experience?  — view comment
Yes, being open as much as you're able is a key. The other key is to trip in an asshole-free space while doing something creative & playful. More than...
July 01, 2021 at 18:20
In: Do we really fear death?  — view comment
Persist in error as you wish. The intuition of the ancient Greeks who paired Thanatos & Hypnos as siblings speaks to me and informs my translating the...
July 01, 2021 at 18:04
In: Mind-Matter Paradox!  — view comment
:up:
July 01, 2021 at 05:57
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:mask: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/30/trump-organization-and-its-cfo-indicted-by-manhattan-grand-jury-report-says.html update ... LOCK. THEM. UP. htt...
July 01, 2021 at 01:09
In: Have You Had An Out-of-Body-Experience?  — view comment
@"Noble Dust"
June 30, 2021 at 22:39
In: Mind-Matter Paradox!  — view comment
:up:
June 30, 2021 at 22:36
In: How Do We Think About the Bible From a Philosophical Point of View?  — view comment
Meds, lil troll, meds are your friends. Well, I'm a haint hoboing along Highway 61 with old hellhounds on my trail ... :fire: :cool:
June 30, 2021 at 22:24
In: Have You Had An Out-of-Body-Experience?  — view comment
:up: Yeeeees. Not for my first year or two indulging (experimenting), then I began guiding others as we tripped. That lasted for a while until I retur...
June 30, 2021 at 22:15
In: Have You Had An Out-of-Body-Experience?  — view comment
Does your ontology include "disembodied consciousness"? Cartesian mind-body dualism? supernatural (immaterial / nonphysical) intentional agents e.g. g...
June 30, 2021 at 20:52
In: Does systemic racism exist in the US?  — view comment
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/6/29/headlines/un_demands_end_to_impunity_for_officers_who_violate_human_rights_of_black_people (re: UN demands end ...
June 30, 2021 at 19:48
In: Have You Had An Out-of-Body-Experience?  — view comment
If that was so, then there'd be no discussions or useful arguments – gems in the usual dung piles – to be had between me and others here, which is by ...
June 30, 2021 at 19:36
In: Have You Had An Out-of-Body-Experience?  — view comment
Must be you, ND, because my writing is clear enough for most others I interact with on these fora. As for your question, I don't conceive of nOSM (via...
June 30, 2021 at 19:32
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
No "hope", Count, just decades of experience as a paralegal (in the financial industry no less) and carefully following various "witch hunts" since 20...
June 30, 2021 at 19:25
In: Have You Had An Out-of-Body-Experience?  — view comment
Not confusing, just not quick reading. You got the gist with slightly more effort to unpack the post (without spoon-feeding my understandings). Yes. Y...
June 30, 2021 at 19:16
In: How Do We Think About the Bible From a Philosophical Point of View?  — view comment
Far from a devotee of angelology or the like, Rilke's poetic flights had seized me with shocks of the 'numinous and sublime' many many moons ago ... –...
June 30, 2021 at 18:58
In: Have You Had An Out-of-Body-Experience?  — view comment
Okay. I can't read it for you – that's not what I wrote.
June 30, 2021 at 18:49
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
"Tell me, tell me, tell me the answer You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer!" ~Macca, '68
June 30, 2021 at 18:47
In: What have been the most worthwhile threads on the forums?  — view comment
:up: Like shelves full of great (& not so great) books in the private library of an eccentric scholar"s inherited, old, seaside villa: Currently Readi...
June 30, 2021 at 18:30
In: Have You Had An Out-of-Body-Experience?  — view comment
Reread my first post.
June 30, 2021 at 18:21
In: Mind-Matter Paradox!  — view comment
:up:
June 30, 2021 at 17:37
In: Do we really fear death?  — view comment
A "prophet" heralds the coming of his god(dess) and does not "keep her at bay". Sleep, not "pain", is a glimpse, a reheasal or reminder, a nightly pra...
June 30, 2021 at 17:34
In: Have You Had An Out-of-Body-Experience?  — view comment
How can they not be "organic" given that we are "organic"? Besides, "OOBEs" are illusions better described as nOSM, also occurring during dream sleep ...
June 30, 2021 at 17:20
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Remember "the big six" accounting firm Arthur Andersen?... In NYC the Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance, Jr's office is about to criminally indict the Trump Or...
June 30, 2021 at 16:58
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/CjFzw8AxSBA "Loves Me Like a Rock" (3:32) There Goes Rhymin' Simon, 1973 Paul Simon https://youtu.be/AvjluSNofsc "Stranded in a Limou...
June 30, 2021 at 16:08
In: A Refutation Of The Ontological Argument, Version 1.0  — view comment
No :sweat: ... read Popper or Peirce, my friend. No scientific entity is 'true by definition'.
June 30, 2021 at 10:04
In: Have You Had An Out-of-Body-Experience?  — view comment
Mescalin. Psilocybin. Peyote. Ayahuasca. LSD. (Caveat: mindset & setting are paramount.) "OBE"? More like out of ordinary states of mind (OOSM). Bodil...
June 30, 2021 at 10:01
In: Mind-Matter Paradox!  — view comment
No I haven't and yeah you have. Don'tl lie, Fool; in the very same paragraph you claim :roll: In my previous post I say how use the term "non-physical...
June 30, 2021 at 09:13
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
:cool: ?
June 30, 2021 at 07:58
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
:clap: And ... each one of us a grain of sand in the hour glass of our species ... can we replace the sands faster than Time removes them? Oblivion – ...
June 30, 2021 at 07:41
In: Mind-Matter Paradox!  — view comment
:up: :roll: Only formulations such as yours, Fool, introduce the apparent paradox. For instance (once again), is digesting non-physical? breathing non...
June 30, 2021 at 07:37
In: A Refutation Of The Ontological Argument, Version 1.0  — view comment
Yeah, it fails but, first and foremost, because it is, at most, merely valid and not sound, only the idea of God (essence) is 'demonstrated' but not t...
June 30, 2021 at 07:17
In: Does nature have value ?  — view comment
:up:
June 30, 2021 at 06:51
In: POLL: Is morality - objective, subjective or relative?  — view comment
If it's murder (i.e. intentional / negligent homicide of a defenseless human being by another human being), then it's not only 'illegal' but also immo...
June 30, 2021 at 06:38
In: Does nature have value ?  — view comment
'Cause you're not one of "the quickest". :joke:
June 29, 2021 at 20:55
In: What is Philosophy?  — view comment
Dammit, Spock! I'm a doctor, not a metaphysician! :nerd:
June 29, 2021 at 20:34
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
Back in the day, this song always reminded me of an even lyrically weirder piece of pop, a Bruce Springteen tune brilliantly covered (reinterpreted ) ...
June 29, 2021 at 20:23
In: What is Philosophy?  — view comment
An oldie but goodie.
June 29, 2021 at 19:51
In: Does nature have value ?  — view comment
In others words, look both ways before crossing ... The quickest species in an unstable ecological niche, is what I mean, tend to survive – not "the q...
June 29, 2021 at 14:31
In: Forcing society together  — view comment
:up: Wtf.
June 29, 2021 at 14:23
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