T_Clark

Intelligence - Bang your head on the table - Bang, ow! Boy that hurt. I won't do that again. Wisdom - Bang your head on the table - Bang, ow! Boy that...

Alas, I am not Lao Tzu.

You've made your opinion clear. Now all you are doing is sniping with no substantive content. As I said, it's harassment. Please stop.

You're right, I do take this thread seriously. Please stop harassing it.

Unfortunately, no. If you add a quote after you've first posted it, the person quoted won't be notified.

Alcohol and drugs Death Enlightenment The first two are easy.

Separation of church and state is intended primarily to protect religion from government influence rather than the other way around. One obvious way t...

Avoiding attachment without trying not to try to avoid it is the hardest part. Please don't imagine I know how to do it.

Wayfarer has quoted this text several times on the forum. St. Augustine, one of the Catholic Church's Church Fathers, wrote it in 415. It shocked me t...

My own reading of the ancient Sanskrit texts indicates that the correct translation is "All life is surfing." But seriously, here's one brief explanat...

I think you are committing the No "No True Scotsman Fallacy" Fallacy

This shows a pretty egregious lack of understanding of what "suffering" means in Buddhism. Thank you for the opportunity to use "egregious" in a post.

This is certainly not true from my experience.

I haven't heard of anything like that? Was it in the US? Australia?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy6CFTMnYa4 Troy McClure in "Planet of the Apes - the Musical.+

Definitely powerful. "The power of will" is not just a cliche.

When I first read that I thought - "Yes, he means exactly the same thing that Lao Tzu did." Then I read the poem. It's the anti-Tao. For me, the Tao i...

The people who originally set the rules made the government a secular institution because of the problems they saw with religions intimate involvement...

As I see it, for Lao Tzu, desire denotes our craving for worldly treasure - acclaim, success, money, power. On the flip side, our fear of pain, death,...

Separation of church and state doesn't mean we exclude religious values, it means we exclude religious institutions from government.

I never explain my jokes. Thank you for filling in for me.

Yes. He was a pain in the ass, but in retrospect he looks like a regular Chopin-hour or Can't.

6, 12, 18, 24, 30

The Philosophy Forum i-faqs: What ever happened to Jamalrob? Why is such a dumbass? Who is the Knee-chi guy everyone’s always talking about? Don’t any...

To equate today's inflation with the depression and the 2008 crash shows a lack of perspective. I remember in the 1980s when inflation was greater tha...

For me, depth comes from awareness. To the extent that thinking and writing increases our awareness of ourselves, the world, and other people is the e...

Well-thought-through and well-expressed.

Good post. What you wrote makes a lot of sense and is well-put.

I think it's the other way around - if it feels true but we can't prove it, we call it self-evident. That's my problem with the whole concept of self-...

Women should have the vote because they are adult citizens of our country with as much right to the benefits of citizenship as anyone else, not becaus...

No need for anything so draconian. I'll be satisfied as long as they keep letting me whine and complain. Or as they say in places other than the US, w...

Five now.

I get burned out sometimes too. A break can be a good thing. I get tired of hearing my own figurative voice from time to time.

There are four threads on the front page right now about rational arguments for God. They overlap. People say the same things on each of them. Most of...

If the discussion were substantive, that would be fine, but...

A post of serious interest as a pleasant interlude in the knucklehead tennis match taking up most of this thread. Thanks for that.

For me, personally, philosophy is the practice of becoming more aware of how my mind works. How I think, feel, act, know. Self-awareness is the destin...

That doesn't make sense to me. If it's wrong to put men down, it's wrong to do it to women too. Women are people before they're women. Do unto others ...

I started out just reading the Stephen Mitchell translation, which is very Americanized, colloquial. Many don't like that. I acknowledge he leaves thi...

This should be in the Lounge.

I won't object to your comments, but until you're willing to respond seriously, I won't respond to you further.

Verse 24 Lin Yutang He who stands on tiptoe does not stand (firm), He who strains his strides does not walk (well) He who reveals himself is not lumin...

As we've discussed before, and as I've noted in one of my recent posts, I don't see the Tao Te Ching as logical or qualitative. For me, it is metaphor...

I've had my say more than once about this. Yes, as I've noted before. Capra is another one who doesn't know his metaphysics from his physics. Reading ...

We've had this discussion before. I'm more confident than you are that we can hear what Lao Tzu is trying to say even 2,500 years later from a very di...

I was mowing the grass today and thought of this. /uploads/resized/files/wl/edbczjxfb1rw5ql7.jpg

As a registered Democrat, I think this is a naive way of seeing things. A member of Congress is not just one person. They are a member of a delegation...

I doubt many here on the forum see these as the good guys. I certainly don't.

You take something different from this than I do, which is fine. Nostradamus wrote Patriots by 10, nuff said Put your bets down now

Yes, I think it is. I've taken exactly the position you're taking in previous discussions. I came to realize that setting this up as a men vs. women t...