What do you mean by "philosophy"and "spirituality" – what makes them fundamentally different? NB: Greco-Romans of the Hellenistic era practiced their ...
If so, then vote against him in the most effective way based on your situation: if you live in a swing state (i.e. polling trends are within the margi...
Your second statement does not follow from the first statement which is why physicalists do not – I do not – make such a claim. Sadly, Wayf, you're st...
Are you paying attention to someone patient enough to spoon-feed criticisms I and others have made countless times of your non-philosophical non-argum...
:100: :up: Okay, so make the case – a sound argument – for this alleged "continuum" ... Once the facts of the matter are established, then we can inte...
:ok: And yet ... i.e. learned helplessness. :mask: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness As for the OP's 'problem of secularism', I thi...
Even though dukkha cannot be eliminated, it is reduced or mitigated frequently and in many reliable ways daily by many persons. As a daily exercise fo...
:100: :up: :up: I.e. the interaction (e.g. energy conservation violation) problem¹ of 'mind-body dualism' presupposed by @"Sam"'s ontic interpretation...
:up: :up: In other words, initially un/pre-conscious (as per Libet's experiments) and consistent with cognitive phenomena such as e.g. sleepwalking (i...
:cool: :up: That's the fuckin' spirit, miss! 'Cept for unaccompanied progress among the many randy hoopleheads in the thoroughfare day and night and b...
I'm neither intrigued with nor inspired by long-form or episodic stories about contemporary (i.e. clichéd) gangsters, drug dealers and plutocrats, res...
Roevember is coming! :victory: :cool: dispatches from the ex-GOP bunker: https://youtu.be/5yt_LWe9dls?si=ZazIcwkv8RJH4ucY https://youtu.be/Oo2sTYXbrL8...
In sum, Deadwood unflinchingly yet thoughtfully, even sometimes comically, depicts many of the barbarities and injusticies (both documented & inferred...
Exactly. The selection of Tim Walz has been publicly supported, afaik, by AOC, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Manchin and a gang of well-known Never/former Trumper...
Yes it is! :up: No fuckin' doubt, Tom, we be a couple of dusty ol' cocksuckers drinkin' from the same crack'd bottle ... like all them other hooplehea...
Symmetrical, or two-way, "time travel stories" have never made sense to me science-wise or plot-wise. An unpardonable sin of the e.g. Star Trek & Term...
No doubt. :sweat: Wtf :confused: . :roll: Sub specie aeternitatis "the universe" is only an (unbounded, though finite) mode, not substance itself, tha...
5August24 Uh oh, even MAGA media has begun to wake up and smell the gourmet black coffee: https://youtu.be/5L7LrW_guPo?si=Cv0R6hQOYwOUa0Tj https://nyp...
Assume you were in-charge of rebooting Star Trek TOS (1966-69) that would run for five seasons (13 episodes per) on HBO, Showtime or some other premiu...
Yes, interesting, but I was referring to the institution of religion as such (i.e. its social function/s) and not the belief-system or ritual-practice...
I interpret True Detective (s1) as a "modern tragedy" because the story, while very atmospheric could take place anywhere , is mostly about 'professio...
Speaking for myself, I only vote for a third party presidential candidate when living in a state that's safe for either Democrats or Republicans. I li...
No, imo, it's more of an absurdist historical drama (if that's not too oxmoronic). Instead I consider the first season of True Detective to be "a mode...
My fuckin' hero! :clap: :cool: I think so. However, are both parents in the home? or in the daily lives of their children? Are the parents mature, sta...
:death: :flower: :100: :zip: :up: :up: @"Jack Cummins" Besides George Steiner's Antigones I recommended in my first post, his earlier book The Death o...
They are just text or links with on the end that corresponds to a (keyboard function) superscript¹ appended to a term or phrase. All the same text for...
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