"Maya (IAST: m?y?), literally "illusion" or "magic", has multiple meanings in Indian philosophies depending on the context. In ancient Vedic literatur...
Discussion is kind of moot, as we don't think in the same dominant faculties in the first place, Spinoza knew that -- but a better example is... hmmm,...
He only did that to upset everyone's precious sensibilities. I meant belief more in the sense of hope, and acting with respect to that. Of course ever...
Lol, you know, Diogenes used to like to walk around Athens during the day with a lamp, saying that he was looking for an honest man. The joke being, t...
Probably why Christianity was massively more successful, but everyone is human, everyone needs wants, hurts, and is corruptible. It's always about con...
Don't get me wrong, I don't know what everyone should do, but neither did they -- my major point of disagreement though is "throw away the raft?" I be...
You know what my emotional state has been. Pretty well perpetual terror, besides a couple cry breaks. Your heart literally could not bear the truth, y...
I know almost nothing about the American election, I haven't even been keeping up with Jon Oliver, whom would have been my only source had I been. I k...
I'm sorry, I can't help myself... you know that the person that is shot down, regardless of why is not a monster, a comic book villain... people loved...
No one cares about your justifications, they only see your actions. Violence always perpetuates more violence. I won't deny it's possible necessity, b...
It's not as much reason as pride that makes me wish to not enslave, exploit, and harm things that these terms can be meaningfully applied to for my co...
The ironic thing is actually that Foucault and Derrida were far from best buds, and Foucault accused them all of being intentionally obscure and diffi...
Hope that I'm not promoting point scoring or anything... I of course do have vested interests in everything I have to say and support, and everything ...
You know that in anime, it's always the super villains that are going on about transcendence. Personally I think that being a human is pretty great. N...
I'm by no means an expert on any of them, and I haven't been to university. I've read Hegel's a general history of the world, as well as listened to l...
Lol, yeah. My little sister gave me a poster of him for thanksgiving yesterday, she said that I should dress up like him for Holloween, just as she th...
Lol, well Wayne Gretzky, the greatest athlete that ever lived comes from Edmonton! Got that west edmonton mall (which I've driven right by like five t...
"No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to...
"In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the prophets." The entire Law is fulfilled...
"infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person." Actually almost verbatim that's wha...
We're just creatures. Inherently, and when we are wronged, or we see others wronged, part of us wishes to pay back that suffering and pain a thousand ...
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