"Talk of consciousness is nonsense" (mostly) – folk psychology. "First-person subjective experience" is an intermittent, metacognitive illusion of suf...
IMO, the (macro) ideological spectrum in the US from "1960" to "1990" ... • Progressive/Reform liberalism (center-left/right) • Laissez-faire liberali...
Remember: over seventy million dittoheads & "deplorables" voted for Criminal Defendant-1 (aka "Putin's Bitch" "Agent Orange" "Grifter-in-Chief" "The B...
Consider this equation-free gloss on the Hartle-Hawking No-Boundary proposal (alternative to BB cosmology) ... https://science.howstuffworks.com/dicti...
An American-Israeli Jew tells it like it is on the ground (re: ethnic cleansing, occupation, apartheid & US supported-collective punishment / atrociti...
Well, the ancient dharmic bias for moksha ("oblivion") is obvious, no? I ain't scared of Bodhisattva sages' just-so "horror" stories of bardo – I shou...
Yeah, I voted her in 2020 while I still lived in Atlanta. I was quite impressed (and bored enough from the quarantine to watch a tv local program on) ...
Maybe the only 'free' choice one ever makes is made at death (bardo?) either to relive one's life – travel again along one's worldline – or oblivion. ...
Suppose eternity is the ocean and time (i.e. our spacetime) is a wave on the ocean's surface ... Not "the absence of time" but rather eternity is the ...
"In principle" there is not any fact of the matter that can make the statement true. At most, it's a supposition expressed (confusedly) in a declarati...
So "god" is nothing but a primal euphemism for ego – in other words, a self-serving/flattering delusion (L. Feuerbach)? No wonder it feels "real" to m...
:roll: You've conjured up a distinction without a difference, Bob My point about the confused OP stands: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/com...
I already have "imperfect knowledge" so I'd lose much more than I'd gain from the deal. And my memory is limited enough, I don't need to further handi...
That's almost always how RICO prosecutions happen, about half plead guilty and some flip getting lesser charges in exchange for turning state's eviden...
:roll: IMO, nothing could be more hedonistically anti-Gnostic (contrary to the OP ) than "universal animism" of "technopagan" raves/festivals. :party:...
Well, that didn't take long – 3 out of 18 dominoes have fallen so far. They're doing the MAGA flip, Donny! :clap: :sweat: https://www.bbc.com/news/wor...
Does Murakami mean "basement 2" is, more or less, where one is broken (one's breaking points) or one's blindspots (denials-in-order-to-cope) or one's ...
Hey, MAGA Morons ... The "Kraken Lady" has just flipped on your cult leader, Criminal Defendant-1, down in Fulton Co., Georgia. :lol: :up: https://www...
Very improbable, not "immutable". Speculations derived from probabilities may be insightful (e.g. diagnostics, forecasting); however, derived from imp...
... but mostly, friend, they willingly live like dogs and sheep. :mask: :100: I'm convinced @"Athena" is completely incorrigible on this topic, but I ...
Apparently lacking the courage of a 'deliberate loser', I'd missed by calling ... https://psyche.co/ideas/learning-to-be-a-loser-a-philosophers-case-f...
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