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Maybe. But I think your argument makes the mistake of conflating existence with suffering.
May 06, 2020 at 17:21
"There was, however, no significant correlation found between D614G status and hospitalization status; although the G614 mutation was slightly enriche...
May 06, 2020 at 16:35
Interesting. For (everyone's) perspective, the areas are: Care/Harm, Fairness/Cheating, Loyalty/Betrayal, Authority/Subversion, Sanctity/Degradation, ...
May 06, 2020 at 15:16
No worries. I do agree, it's hard to describe. But not impossible!
May 06, 2020 at 14:51
If not the Tantra, what else? Look around you. Am I wrong? Can we get back to your essay?
May 05, 2020 at 23:56
Ah.. sure. My objective is to shake you out of the dharmatic sleep. Your essay is good but not good enough for me..
May 05, 2020 at 23:07
Ok. What do you think about that weird Tibetan thing? They did a thing! :]
May 05, 2020 at 23:00
I like your honesty. Give us your thoughts on Sarvastivada? (Briefly)
May 05, 2020 at 22:54
I know enough, but most importantly I can learn. I currently only like N?g?rjuna. N?g?rjuna smells like Parmenides. And Nietzsche. Am I wrong?
May 05, 2020 at 22:47
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Unless you're entertaining coffee beans there's no reason to grind a corpse.
May 05, 2020 at 22:28
I'm merely suggesting you're overthinking this.
May 05, 2020 at 22:21
Yes.
May 05, 2020 at 22:10
I see. But how does this fit into N?g?rjuna? There is no dharma, sir. The only reality is null.
May 05, 2020 at 22:04
Both. I think. Yeah, both.
May 05, 2020 at 21:40
May I please have a condensed version? I'm quite willing to take this seriously.
May 05, 2020 at 21:34
I dunno man. Come closer. Let me cough on you. Sensually.
May 05, 2020 at 21:31
Thanks. But aside from quotations, what does this mean?
May 05, 2020 at 21:15
This ethics crap is so confusing. I can't express why I wouldn't cough on someone.
May 05, 2020 at 21:02
I admire intuition. But I don't know what it is.
May 05, 2020 at 19:08
The issue deontology faces -- that's Kantian -- is that it faces no enforcement. Utilitarianism will win every time.
May 05, 2020 at 18:45
Revolutionary.
May 05, 2020 at 18:39
I think the only way you can fly that is by involving the circadian rhythm and our liking for a blue sky.
May 05, 2020 at 17:33
I understand the story of "orange" is a whimsical irony. Just like people.
May 05, 2020 at 17:28
Oh gosh, this just reminded me of a great video involving color. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqZR3pqMjg Sorry for YouTube but this illustrates pr...
May 05, 2020 at 17:13
Spinoza is cool but his system is not open to criticism. It was too well done.
May 05, 2020 at 16:53
I don't think they're serious. Interesting perspective, though. Specifically the last line.
May 05, 2020 at 16:18
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You both worry me. Please be kind to yourselves.
May 05, 2020 at 15:40
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Thanks I never knew the Black Sea was an ocean.
May 05, 2020 at 14:51
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This made me laugh a little because Romania doesn't have a single ocean port.
May 05, 2020 at 14:36
This may be slightly off-topic, but I wonder if these experiences can be described as a combination of pronoia and derealization. To understand each o...
May 05, 2020 at 13:38
Thanks for the elaboration. I do appreciate where you're coming from, and I broadly agree. For example, I understand MRI imaging identities regional b...
May 05, 2020 at 12:55
I'd like to stay on track. Is it "neural priming" or just "priming"? Because I'm afraid the neural part may be quite fatal. Neuroscience can't examine...
May 05, 2020 at 11:24
Sorry. I was flippant about atoms having minds. But a mind is something which has mental states and mental contents, no? Where, or rather how, do we d...
May 04, 2020 at 21:50
That's fine. My only problem with panpsychism is that it's virtually indistinguishable from animism. Perhaps it would be best to assume we're all mind...
May 04, 2020 at 21:20
Panpsychism isn't neutral monism. Russell had in mind a third ingredient in addition to mind and matter. There's nothing special about neutral monism ...
May 04, 2020 at 20:59
I have a horse. You got a cart? :] We're certainly not invisible. We're just.. an island.
May 04, 2020 at 20:42
An observer's position at the center of the universe isn't substantiated by the CMB or quasars, no. Wherever you look from is as good as the center, a...
May 04, 2020 at 20:24
I'll translate. Look for the base of all knowledge with humor, since you'll never find the ultimate reason. Look for the knowledge which fits into oth...
May 04, 2020 at 20:12
Lol, yeah. I just thought it was funny how the first reference I found was.. absurdly unhelpful, but that's not anyone's fault. That you focus on an e...
May 04, 2020 at 19:40
Maybe this is the issue. A dash of coherentism, a drop of foundationalism, and some pragmatism, too. Add some nihilistic egoism Tao-style utilitariani...
May 04, 2020 at 19:30
How? I don't know, dude. Comedy and cuteness. We do a trial-run of losing our life with sleep, no? If it helps, the sum of information comprising a li...
May 04, 2020 at 18:39
Well, that clears everything up..
May 04, 2020 at 18:11
I don't know. How seriously a given person connects words and concepts is probably highly variable. I think this is a question which psycholinguistics...
May 04, 2020 at 17:04
What do people do in a world where systems design and maintain themselves, though?
May 04, 2020 at 05:52
On a related note, will new technology make something like this a necessity at some point, I wonder?
May 03, 2020 at 19:55
Yes. Soft science. Technically, and in view of demarcation, social science; linguistics. To give some scope, code cracking is about mathematics, etymo...
May 01, 2020 at 20:09
As long as people fear the unknown it may be possible to ground this as a linear question of survival.
May 01, 2020 at 15:22
If 200-1000 words is ~1000-5000 characters then I think that's about perfect. The only other thing I can think of is that theme words may need to have...
May 01, 2020 at 14:40
I have a secular take on the notion of an afterlife which happily bends the rules of its accepted meaning. Every action a person takes in their life i...
May 01, 2020 at 13:18
Library destruction was routine. It could've been burned, partly or entirely, on more than one occasion. Neglect is also possible. What happened will ...
May 01, 2020 at 00:31