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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Joupv6f-M
June 27, 2018 at 17:59
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeQy4CE9bto
June 26, 2018 at 14:57
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Documentary on religious daoism on Wudang mountain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKe-XREy95w&t=0s&index=2&list=PLHcd6JRba7QueJHpCTUC1Wc9NnFvpRcV-
June 13, 2018 at 23:10
"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the...
June 13, 2018 at 22:31
Even better, you can get some entheogenic substances straight from your local garden center. The number of those go up if you're in for particularly h...
June 13, 2018 at 22:17
Wat. https://thethirdwave.co/legality-ayahuasca/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_psilocybin_mushrooms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lega...
June 13, 2018 at 22:13
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entheogen
June 13, 2018 at 21:55
He's talking about the entheogenic use of mind altering substances. Not unless you take a near lethal dose of coffee every morning. Most of those enth...
June 13, 2018 at 20:17
While chimpanzees aren't more intelligent than humans overall, they do outperform us in certain areas. Here's what that looks like: https://www.youtub...
June 11, 2018 at 00:08
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June 09, 2018 at 21:52
Well, it seems your hippy drugs wore off. Good. I like you better that way. :rofl:
June 09, 2018 at 18:13
No, though I suppose you could read it as such. Such an emotional response to getting high struck me as funny. I tend to not have that.
June 09, 2018 at 17:44
Beginner. :lol:
June 09, 2018 at 13:17
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June 03, 2018 at 15:02
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It and the "Shangshu" are fundamental texts in classical Chinese philosophy. Many treatises in classical Chinese thought assume a familiarity with the...
June 01, 2018 at 15:39
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Laozi is talking about the duty of what's called a "ren": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_(Confucianism) It's not specifically a confucian term sinc...
June 01, 2018 at 00:34
Phishing?
May 31, 2018 at 19:52
Sextus Empiricus - "Outlines of Pyrrhonism" Maurice Merleau-Ponty "Phenomenology of Perception" Thomas Kuhn - "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" Ka...
May 31, 2018 at 19:39
It's a fairly common misconception though. Rather irksome, since I prefer a dubitative approach. As such, that whole project of "truth seeking" is los...
May 17, 2018 at 03:11
Yeah. Sextus Empiricus mentions those when he's talking about the five modes of suspension. Let's not forget in what context those ideas are most rele...
May 15, 2018 at 20:33
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May 15, 2018 at 10:59
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May 14, 2018 at 09:43
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May 14, 2018 at 09:31
... Because sending a Sun Yat Sen statue would look weird..?
May 13, 2018 at 05:40
"Huizi said to Zhuangzi, 'I have a large tree, which men call the Ailantus. Its trunk swells out to a large size, but is not fit for a carpenter to ap...
May 12, 2018 at 17:46
"The monk Fuy? D?kai, whilst on Mount Daiy?, once asked T?su, “The thoughts and sayings of the Buddha’s Ancestors are like the tea and rice of everyda...
May 11, 2018 at 10:34
I'm not saying you have the right mind. I'm saying you're confused. Apparently with a sprinkle of inflation, too. Your mind isn't like "water", obviou...
May 11, 2018 at 10:15
"THE RIGHT MIND AND THE CONFUSED MIND The Right Mind is the mind that does not remain in one place. It is the mind that stretches throughout the entir...
May 11, 2018 at 02:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMGFDRFN6U
May 03, 2018 at 02:45
While I don't have any books I can recommend when it comes to evolution, I do know of a few lecture series: -"Major Transitions in Evolution" https://...
May 03, 2018 at 02:41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYE4JKAXSfY
May 02, 2018 at 17:41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZfsB58wYLs
May 02, 2018 at 17:28
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_(linguistics)
April 17, 2018 at 17:00
Well - yes - that really isn't hypothetical. Pyrrho of Elis, the founder of scepticism, founded the school after meeting wise men in India and Persia ...
April 14, 2018 at 22:58
I feel at home already. :grin:
April 14, 2018 at 22:47
I don't visit the forum for a few days and this happens?! :rofl:
April 14, 2018 at 22:40
In it's base, it's a fundamentally different stance on the question "what is the mind"? Instead of starting at concepts, phenomenology proposes that w...
April 11, 2018 at 12:57
Alright. :grin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGvr7w8FgIQ
April 08, 2018 at 22:29
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April 08, 2018 at 21:25
Nice. My French sucks so I have to rely on translations. :)
April 08, 2018 at 21:18
Ah, ok. I posted that after just waking up so it might have been a brainfart. Apparently not. :) I've got the Routledge translation here. I'm guessing...
April 08, 2018 at 20:52
I don't remember him talking about neurosis in that text (he did talk about aphasia and the like). A quick control+f of the text yielded no results ei...
April 08, 2018 at 12:55
Brentano talks about why in the last paragraph I provided. Talk about the cause of neurosis isn't generally part of phenomenology. So if we are going ...
April 07, 2018 at 13:53
Well, it actually does matter if something is caused by a psychoactive substance or not. As for "unfocused anxiety", well, that would be a topic for p...
April 07, 2018 at 12:57
Notice that the dude has been dead for a while now. I don't think he's in any position to shift his position on any matter anymore. OK. Write a book a...
April 06, 2018 at 16:50
Note to self: Don't assume silly things. Anyway, my bad. Sorry about that. :) No. What I'm talking about is called the primacy of experience. It's loo...
April 06, 2018 at 03:17
That's why I particularly like reading the "Zhuangzi". Well, the "inner chapters at least. :)
April 05, 2018 at 19:46
"If"?! Didn't I post the relevant paragraphs? "Something quite similar is true of the preceding argument. Maudsley is not incorrect in saying that men...
April 05, 2018 at 12:25
OK. Are you talking about intentionality? Since if you are, then you might want to brush up on your Brentano, there. Brentano distinguished between me...
April 04, 2018 at 19:51
Enlightening. :joke:
April 04, 2018 at 13:54