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Sounds like Lokis wager to me
November 07, 2016 at 14:56
There is a conflation, much like with the virgin birth and immaculate conception, non-self (not "no self") and co-dependent origination are different ...
November 07, 2016 at 08:21
Jorndoe is a really nice and cool guy. I met him a couple of times in person when I lived in Nova Scotia.
November 06, 2016 at 22:05
Oh Ellen, her or Rachel Maddow are whom come to mind when I'm grabbing my big rubber boots (tools of the trade you see, you put the sheep's feet in th...
November 06, 2016 at 21:09
I think that it's hardly a big deal, and seems reminiscent of that straight outta campton thing, where they apparently for auditions were rating the w...
November 06, 2016 at 21:00
If it cannot break out of its shell, the chick will die without ever being born. We are the chick- The world is our egg. If we don't crack the world's...
November 06, 2016 at 09:06
"For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything. There is no longer a reward for them because the memory of them is forgotte...
November 06, 2016 at 08:46
I have like a super duper secret for you. It's so secretive that I can't look at the screeen as I right it! See, thing is, that the next life is actua...
November 06, 2016 at 08:28
I would prefer to triple up excellently.
November 06, 2016 at 05:35
It was A Short History of Nearly Everything. I remember it fondly, and fairly well I believe, it had lots of dirt on a lot of histories greatest scien...
November 06, 2016 at 05:21
Yes, they wish to remove the person and render everything in the third person, which is why they use the language that they use. At work now, I'll hav...
November 05, 2016 at 14:58
More people talk about God. Yup, love me some sacred cow. Yum yum yum.
November 05, 2016 at 14:10
"science" is a hyperobject, or is an umbrella term for a large conglomerate of institutions, individuals, and practices. It subsumes, implicitly whate...
November 05, 2016 at 13:22
Really now, then I suggest that you undertake your own suggestion. Take the plunge, and then tell me that science told you anything remotely as inform...
November 05, 2016 at 05:53
I had no idea that it was science that makes stuff fall to the ground. It also, I hear, has improved life expectancy by a third, and instead of chanti...
November 05, 2016 at 05:31
Science is itself a myth without strictly adhered to principles, besides trying to do what the last superstar did. Science is so respected because of ...
November 05, 2016 at 05:16
Lol, there is no problem of justification. There's a problem of getting everyone to believe us. I hold "truth" to be identical to "honesty", and falsi...
November 05, 2016 at 03:21
Yeah, Sam had some sweet acid trips for awhile until they started getting good (weren't fun anymore), and then stopped. He also advocates the LSD use ...
November 05, 2016 at 03:06
Hopefully not all in one day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWy_Qf8gfko
November 05, 2016 at 00:51
They're all opportunistic predators. Anyone that wants to save the world by ruling it, talk, be interesting, or otherwise do fuck all for a living, an...
November 03, 2016 at 23:27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw8BAp5vDZo See, if I were in charge, I'd give Genghis Khan a run for his money. In a thousand years I'd shoot for 10%...
November 03, 2016 at 18:45
No, it isn't sound, as Hegel pointed out in his criticism of Kant, one can select any arbitrary chunk, as it were, of infinity and progress from the a...
November 02, 2016 at 20:34
Take it from Trump, Hilary is a fantastic human being, and would make a great president: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67hVjTu5HKI
November 01, 2016 at 22:30
An entirely unrelated dreary comment to @"BitterCrank's" happy birthday!
November 01, 2016 at 21:19
Anyone ever hear the legend of the cyclops? The reason that they had one eye was because they traded the other to be able to see the future, but they ...
November 01, 2016 at 21:13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVBHxcfpXJg
November 01, 2016 at 20:47
Beauty takes three forms, first being static form, second being continuous or changing/moving form, and the third is aesthetic, or logos.
November 01, 2016 at 20:35
He didn't say it per se, a character in a book he wrote did. The reason being that other people make us self-conscious, make us view ourselves as an o...
November 01, 2016 at 18:39
Nope, you're fairly creative, and aware of how full of shit people are. Anyone with children, and anyone that loves some real living people more than ...
October 31, 2016 at 21:10
Oh, well I'm glad that you were only pretending not to believe me then.
October 31, 2016 at 02:54
You're thinking that all I'm saying is bull shit, and I'm sensing a lot of "pfffft"s too.
October 31, 2016 at 02:00
I can't literally read minds, but if I get to know you I can guess at your reference material, influences, and dispositions and then contexts will ari...
October 31, 2016 at 01:46
I prefer the former.
October 31, 2016 at 01:23
It's all art brah. I'm an illusionist of sorts. I'm just pointing at stuff in your own experiences, that depending on your self awareness you should a...
October 31, 2016 at 00:51
Objectification is wrong to the extent that the person is depersonalized, and viewed not as a free self-directed agent, but a thing to be used for a p...
October 30, 2016 at 23:45
Shouldn't repress, should refine. Anger, or violence are strategies, and are always about control. They are last resort strategies when faith has been...
October 30, 2016 at 02:39
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You're right, I remembered that wrong, I thought I read it on the wikitionary but doesn't seem to be there, and looking into the etymology it original...
October 29, 2016 at 04:50
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And for fun, the word "essence" comes from "essentia" which used to refer to non-abstract or monetary properties.
October 29, 2016 at 04:18
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"thing in itself" is just a literal translation of what came to be referred to as "essences", the idea, simply being repeating Socrates in saying that...
October 29, 2016 at 04:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L3R0o3PEyQ
October 29, 2016 at 03:59
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo4GJ6YdDeY
October 29, 2016 at 03:56
You know what repetition is about right? How all songs do it? When you pay attention to the same thing over, and over, and over, and over and over you...
October 28, 2016 at 17:23
Of course it is, much much stronger, and that it's harder to be good, and self-handicapping is the point. To take on those stronger, not weaker than y...
October 28, 2016 at 04:49
The devil is in the details. The expression actually used to be "god is in the details", but people hate those... so...
October 27, 2016 at 21:39
That's weird... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/The_Wendy's_Company.png I was looking at this "20 advertisements with subliminal messag...
October 27, 2016 at 21:14
like, like, like, like lol.
October 27, 2016 at 19:45
I have that thing were I'm cursed with awesome, in that I have like zero visual memories. At like super pivotal moments of my life I've had like visio...
October 27, 2016 at 19:42
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_HAgFs6I4o
October 27, 2016 at 18:47
Proper attachment is visceral, intuitive, bodily. Attachment to images blinds one to what one is actually learning about a person while spending time ...
October 27, 2016 at 14:44
;)
October 27, 2016 at 14:23