I am inclined to see things your way, that intelligence is a kind of creativity, rather than aptitude. This is why I disagreed that computers are inte...
I don't much like the question. If everything is something, then nothing is, as there would be no difference. I'm something of a monist, but there can...
I never suggested one (although all things being equal, I think that most people would say that they'd rather be more than less intelligent, more than...
I wouldn't call computers intelligent myself, nor see creative endeavors like musical composition, or an abstract painting to be a "solution". My unde...
So that the potential for novelty itself is intelligence? If then, say a flatworm as changed, and come upon a new behavior, or niche, and begins to ad...
That's the sad thing really... do we really know anyone? Even if we don't know ourselves, it seems a whole lot more tragic to not know anyone else at ...
Alcohol reduces inhibition, so it all comes down to what personality traits you're inhibiting, I think. I have a deep seated agreeable streak which I ...
I was only reading my following list, and came to the thread because of someone I followed, and gave my two cents based on where the conversation had ...
How can anyone love you if they don't know you because you've hidden from them? How can you love yourself if you've hidden from yourself, because you ...
People are wrong about what will make them happy, what will satisfy them and bring them health. No wicked person dies happy, and no good person dies m...
You make a 2 second google search, saw it on fake buddha quotes, didn't even read the page, and called it lies. Despite that the page said that it was...
We're the authorities. We're drawn into, and by things because they resonate with us, make some kind of sense to us. When we turn it around, and quote...
I used a couple Indian terms, and now just referenced something the Buddha said, but not as an authority, but just an example. I'm no scholar, I'm not...
Want to be further confused, eh? The Buddha once gave a "flower sermon", in which he held up a flower and said nothing. A lot more clear than anything...
Clarity obscures, obscurity clarifies... so let me confuse the shit out of everyone... The material that makes you up changes over time, until none of...
Something is true no matter who said it, or where it is found. Something is false no matter who says it, or where it is found in my view. This is why ...
Again, concepts are not something that can be understood, or apprehended a priori, besides for logical form only, coherency and consistency. Facts are...
You're not mocking people's names? Shouldn't be too attached then... In all fairness, I disputed it myself when it was thrown in my face a few days ag...
"God exists" is a proposition, but both "God" and "exists" are concepts, and not propositions. I personally like to try to figure out what's being tal...
I don't care... how do you expect me to when you condescend, while claiming that I'm not giving examples in the midst of disputing one? I guess it's t...
I did... what we're discussing is an example I gave... wayz “Nothing.” “However”, Buddha said, “let me tell you what I lost : Anger, Anxiety, Depressi...
You continually just presuppose that it's either God, or not God, as if this concept itself is true or false. My suggestion was that no concept is lik...
I'll also mention that Buddhism is hardly complete when it comes to mere survival, or how to develop functional societies either. When it came to that...
As I attempted, and obviously failed to say, I didn't agree with any of the options. I also think that Buddhism is a response to yogic and Hindu tradi...
The things that he explains losing are the causes of suffering. Similarly to Daoism, what is found is the way. The truth, the light, and the way. Whic...
It's in the sutras, his objection is that it doesn't sound right, and probably isn't translated right because Buddha was poisoned (which isn't extract...
He was asked what he gained, and he replied "nothing", and explained that he had only lost things. Lao-tzu similarly said that those that seek learnin...
Third time around, I didn't say that. I said that conceptual schemes are not to be trusted, and "God" is a conceptual scheme. They're ideas, which one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyINNJU6Qc Is that what the universities are for? Creativity? Not dissection? "Intellectuals" dissect, and discuss gr...
As I attempted to explain, knowledge of God is not harmful, but an empty image of God is. Isn't that also something western religions agree about? No ...
https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/08/untitled.jpg Where is the reversing? Isn't it that because mirrors don't reverse things that y...
Mirrors don't actually reverse anything. You're just imagining that if you were standing over there, and facing the other way, that the reflected hand...
I'll also add that I don't believe that the western tradition is as developed. It comes down more to God, and Satan possession. The logos is God posse...
They all comes out of yogic tradition. It wasn't so much that Buddha eschewed God, as much as that he thought that dogma was counter-productive, and l...
Fourteen ears and seven eyes Bottle up the midnight skies Dance amidst ice and fire String thy soul like a lyre Close two eyes and open four Make the ...
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