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A talk show parody of "... Godot"? Loved it! :lol:

... or minimally egoic (e.g. Laozi's wu wei, Epicurus' aponia, Pyrrho's epoch?, Spinoza's scientia intuitiva, Nietzsche's amor fati, Zapffe-Camus' abs...

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This immanentist agrees. :up:

Whatever reality is, reality necessarily excludes – negates – unreality (i.e. ontological impossibles (e.g. un-condittionals, un-changeables, reified ...

:up: :up: Flesh (facticity). I suppose to the degree one believes the path is not the destination. IIRC, Husserl begins as a mathematician ... I imagi...

Maybe; but so what? It's not an inherent defect or entailment of "materialist conceptions".

Exemplary daily exorcisms of foolery (re: meta-ignorance (i.e. agnotologies (e.g. pseudo-discourses, sophistries)); expectations misaligned with reali...

Property dualism (i.e. dual-aspect monism), for instance, is not "hidden".

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Apologies for continuing to flog this equine's carcass: https://www.dw.com/en/sea-surface-temperature-hotter-than-ever-before/a-66444694

... towards 'apophatic enstasis' :fire: https://youtu.be/0uAMOZvsmGg @"javi2541997" @"Quixodian"

@"Noble Dust" @"hypericin" & @"Caldwell" – Well done and thank you all! :cool:

Thanks.

@"Noble Dust" @"Caldwell" How many stories and poems were submitted?

c15 hours to go and ... nada. :death:

No. We haven't yet outgrown religion, politics or science, all of which require critical analyses and reflective interpretations. I suppose it depends...

The author of Against Method also thinks so.

@"NOS4A2" & other MAGAsshats ... BELATED HAPPY 3RD INDICTMENT DAY! :party: BELATED HAPPY 3RD ARREST & ARRAIGNMENT DAY! :clap: Next up for Seditionist-...

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I don't understand this reply. How do you KNOW this?

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You're talking about dogmatism and I was not. You have not provided any publicly accessible evidence or sound arguments for an "afterlife" which hold ...

:roll: Compositional fallacy. Just because some individual organisms might be "purposeful" does not entail that a population (or global process like e...

Actually, there is far more of a vested – self-flattering – interest in im-materialism (i.e. spiritualism, idealism) than "materialism", as you say, w...

Evolution – adaptive variations via natural selection – is not teleological. https://youtube.com/watch?v=p_AMTevZ93Y&feature=share

Writer's block tightens like a noose. 47 hours of blank pages still to go. (Sobriety is a bitch.) :up:

Your "argument" doesn't work, ucarr. This leap is unwarranted. Assuming that "life" is an "essential feature" of the universe, on what grounds – factu...

:smirk: I gave up playing music fairly soon because of jazz (à la Sinatra et al) knowing I'd never be that good. My college buddies and I mostly playe...

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:100: @"NOS4A2" A former, 30 year veteran, Federal Prosecutor reads the latest indictment of Seditionist-Traitor1... https://youtu.be/x6w2h8vHqIs http...

:eyes: :sparkle: :rofl: She was only resuscitated, not resurrected; ergo, no "NDE". NB: Gnostic / living-in-a-simulation fairytales are merely variati...

e.g. "Philosophy" ...

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:up: I was a sophmore engineering student at university that winter when the War album dropped and saw U2 perform it live at a small college in upstat...

Yes, and since you're making a fact-claim that there is "the universal mind" by which "consciousness is best explained", you're argument is pseudo-sci...

I don't understand the question or subsequent statement in the context of my exchange with Bob Ross..

@"Baden" @"Caldwell" ... Let's drop the third option. I'd forgotten we'd dropped it last time. K-I-S-S after all. I enjoyed it It's okay And construct...

What?

An "unmanifest mind" – how do we know it "objective exists"? I'd asked about your phrase "objective reality" ... and so you're saying – referring to t...

:cool: 3 down and 1 to go in 2023 ... 2.1 Miami, Federal Superceding Indictment (1), 27Jul23 :up: +3 felony charges (+1 Espionage (32), +2 Obstruction...

Perhaps "existence" is a predicate but not a 'property' – i.e. a noun in a sentence can either denote some existent or nonexistent object; however, it...

Arithmetically "infinite?" – no actual thing. Geometrically unbounded? – many things (e.g.) planets, moons, suns, apples, donuts, melodies, knots ... ...

I don't grok your statement. Clarify what you mean by "objective reality" and/or "mind-at-large". Also, if "the world is mind-dependent", then "mind" ...

What you say is so confused I can't make sense of what you are talking about. Apparently, sir, you have the luxury of 'living confused'; many don't.

:100: :up: Unarguable specimen of racist denialism: :mask:

Natura natura (i.e. Modes aka "everything") is not divine (i.e. not eternal, not self-caused) according to Spinoza, only natura naturans (i.e. Substan...

Reread my posts, I can't make my meaning any plainer. There ain't no "interpreting" on my part happening here.