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I will drink and vape to that. Essentially, infinitely and eternally, God is quantum mechanics and so much more.

I can't take you seriously at all. You are playing bating games. Pattern Chaser asked for ; I was responding to this request and I avoided using the t...

Sandbag? Are you the sandbag? I won't battle anything out with anyone.

It doesn't matter to me if you disagree; I feel sorry for you that you have the need to be nasty about it. You can try to insult, but it may be that y...

I'm not aggravated--not in the least. Here I must say that you are wrong, and that I know what my best course of reading consists of. I'm not asking f...

I don't buy that for a minute as a justification, as if the sperm were any more active than the egg. Your statement comes from inside the philosophy t...

Which I believe it always has been. It's the essence of patriarchy. I've been studying a little about Isaac Luria's kabbalistic system and its sexism ...

I don't seek consensus--especially not about God. I explain my terms as best I can and will be glad to expand and clarify.

I think that's what we've been doing for thousands of years--perhaps throughout our existence as a species--which, as we know, is a lil drop in the bu...

That is so cool; I read that and I got really happy.

That's the idea, and thus we can eliminate the anthropomorphic and somewhat parental notion that God causes this and that to happen--like maybe global...

I agree: the eternal respiration of the cosmos (God's breath): in (contraction, tsimtsum), out (expansion, big bang, matter moving away). I was imagin...

I'm expressing my thoughts and my continuously-transforming understanding. If it makes you uncomfortable or you disapprove, it's fine with me. I'm not...

If God is existence of everything, did God create the laws of existence? I would say the laws are part of everything's existence. Why would/how could ...

There is no stasis; there is transition. However, we humans can devolve if we don't keep learning deeply.

Isaac Luria wrote that God contracted to create a space for matter. I find the concept fascinating, but it's underpinned by the opposition of Godhead ...

I think dying is the event, and when it's over...

It wasn't sarcasm: it was irony. I enjoy poking fun at myself, but I try not to be mean to myself.

I think it's just right for me.

But did you like it?

It's against my ethics, but that doesn't mean that I don't snap at people or get impatient with them. I have no halo over my head: I'm very impatient ...

irrelevant and ephimeral...

For one thing, the "no one would dare" comment was meant to be a joke, but I guess people don't know me yet and my keen sense of irony. For another th...

I conclude that your understanding of "poking fun" includes being mean. Now I tease my friends, but we all know when we're teasing. For me poking fun ...

So does anything go as long as someone's being honest, keepin it real? Verbal abuse and insult is fine as long as the abuser's being sincere? I can ac...

You find being mean to people fun? Are we talking about the same thing? I'm beginning to think we aren't.

No one would ever dare to call me an idiot. And there's a huge difference between a comrade saying that and someone saying really nasty things to me o...

But lots of people aren't: they do that Jeckyll and Hyde thing and only let their nastiness/cruelty come out in certain contexts.

You're saying that you troll because you believe it's ok to be mean to people you don't like and who you think are stupid idiots? Do you have an ethic...

I think we need to examine why it is that so many people are terrified of learning about themselves and being corrected. Here's a snippet of what I re...

You are both too kind to write what you have written!! I'm liking it more and more around here! I've been longing to find a place where we can go DEEP...

Here's my take on that statement: Not all of us consider that a virtue. It's also recognized historically, psychologically and sociologically as extra...

Yes, unfortunately I've noticed a lot of nastiness and definsiveness on this forum; this makes me very sad. I was looking for a place to have a lively...

Good question!!! That leaves me wondering, Is self-destruction natural or unnatural? Is destruction of the environment natural or unnatural? I'd use t...

Or at least, it's a way to make the powerless feel as if they had power. I call this the trump mode: a lot of people now believe that they have the ri...

Your post gives me lots of insights. People can "voice" whatever they want in so many ways now. So there is on the one hand, the explosion of media th...

I didn't mean to sound pompous: sorry if I offended you. My point was that Cannabis is a very helpful medicine to lots of people. If your personal exp...

I will drink to that!!!

My pops was gay, and we had many great discussions about queerness (in the army in the 1940s and after) before he died at age 91. I'm using Bakhtin's ...

I'm 66, and I don't really worry about impressing anyone either, but it's nice to know when others appreciate our intellectual prowess or the applicat...

Which is why I'm skeptical about their projections for 2100.

This is the same thing that occurs with rigorous, good therapy! The unexamined life... Plus, philosophical discussions are very helpful in impressing ...

The best game there is!! Is this distinction parallel to genotype/phenotype? Ontic as human genetics or the things that all humans do (eat, poop, slee...

Freud's term is "polymorphous"--not polymorphic--perversity.

Yes. As opposed to "straight." But these terms tend to take on multiple and often contradictory meanings as they are used by different voices over tim...

Very interesting what you say about the negative impacts of the one child policy in China. I had never considered it. I wonder what the demographers s...

Hi. Unnatural compared to environmental conditions prior to the Industrial Revolution. I am not sure how to answer the part of your question, "in what...

I'm new too. If there are too many trolls baiting others on this forum, then I won't stick around. Because I'm not here to insult others or be insulte...

Well said. Getting hurt/hurting others: isn't this at the core of the art of being human? It is to me. I will not speak for anyone other than myself: ...

I wonder what you mean by using the word "unnatural," and I'm trying to avoid jumping to conclusions about what you mean. When I responded to your ini...