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So, you acknowledge my point is well-taken, but don't plan to change your approach. Is that correct?

You clearly have a well-developed and well-thought-out understanding of reality and mind. It is also very idiosyncratic. As far as I can see, so far a...

Thanks for the link. I read the article. I never really know what to do with Paglia, but it's fun to read.

If you want to start a discussion, you should contribute more of your own thinking before you ask us for ours.

I don't see how these are significantly different than my formulation. I'm not sure this is relevant, but I'd think the first step would be to researc...

Whatever you do, I hope you'll share some of your translations here. In case you haven't found it, here's a website with many translations of the Tao ...

I see it more as showing disrespect for discussions of mysticism in general. I thought the "What is Mysticism?" thread was a good one. It had some rig...

This is an old thread. Anand-Haqq was banned two months ago.

Or $10 million for each of 200,000 Taliban.

I don't understand why @"1 Brother James" new "Is Mysticism capable of being 'experienced' by the use of the Intellect?" discussion was jammed in here...

So: Telos = goal Telosis = plan for achieving that goal Endstate = intended future condition. What value is added by using highfalutin philosophicalis...

There are 38 million people in Afghanistan. There are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands who are endangered by the return of the Taliban. How ma...

The word "mysticism" has many definitions. Yours - "that which the brain cannot experience" - is a bit confusing. You say that mysticism cannot be exp...

Again - gracefully and artfully translated. Many translations feel forced and clunky. Yours are poetic. Some questions: Do you work only from the text...

In the words of Winston Churchill, or was it Chico Marx, "What could possibly go wrong."

I don't think there was ever any other way this was going to end.

Really incredible. Clear and straightforward. Written in 415 by one of the early fathers of the church. If someone were to read it without knowing the...

I remember when things started to fall apart, but I wasn't as involved as I am now. I didn't remember the name.

So tell the rest of us who Eric Porat is.

If you look you'll see that I make many positive comments, but when I see something I think is intellectually dishonest, I often point it out. If you ...

I feel bad that I haven't responded before this. I really like talking to you. I think we share a common outlook, an openness, on many of the issues w...

I didn't contribute to this discussion when it first started. I wasn't sure if it would go anywhere interesting, but it did. Not much got covered in a...

Here's what Wikipedia says about textual criticism - "Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and of literary criticism that ...

I agree, but is that all of philosophy or just metaphysics, including epistemology? I like this. I might even agree with it. I'll think more about it....

Well, my father knew it and my children know it. More evidence for collective consciousness.

I don't see how any of this changes my first response. I'll summarize - are the two situations, i.e. driving drunk and going in public without vaccina...

Proof of the existence of Carl Jung's collective consciousness. These are all phrases my father used: Up the wooden hill Pimple on the ass of progress...

I don't disagree with the distinctions you are making, but I was trying to keep focused on the specific question @"Tuckwilliger" asked - whether or no...

If you drive drunk, you put vulnerable people in the public at risk without their knowledge or approval. Being drunk is ok. It's going in public that'...

Deleted picture of gift-wrapped turds.

It makes sense to me that there are aspects of what we know that are not learned, but hardwired. On the other hand, the distinction between inside; wh...

If you're going to reopen a thread from months or years ago, it would be nice if you'd let people know. Responding to old posts on threads that have r...

Why would you ever unwrap something as beautiful as that? Just eat it, paper and all.

Maybe not important, but interesting. I've always liked waxed paper more than plastic wrap, but I just end up with a bunch of crumpled paper and food....

Hypotheses have to come from somewhere connected to current knowledge. Just tossing some jargon from various theories, e.g. entanglement, superpositio...

True. There's lots of crap on the forum. As I noted, I don't have any objection to your stuff remaining here. On the other hand, what you've written i...

I agree with what you've written so gracefully. I don't look forward to death, but I'm not particularly afraid of it. Is it a natural part of life? I ...

I guess I hurt your feelings with my last post.

What does this mean? It means nothing. Nothing in this post means anything. As the saying goes, it's not even wrong. It says nothing about anything. I...

He said, with pride.

If philosophy is nothing more than our everyday experience and actions, then it is really nothing at all. At least nothing worth mentioning. You talk ...

Small price to pay.

Of course there's a counter argument. I'm not a theist and I can see it. The fact that you are so smug in dismissing the possibility just shows you ar...

Forgot to say - A well-written and clear post with good ideas. With which I don't agree.

Please don't take this as criticism. I think that the underlying basis of our philosophies reflect our temperament as much as our intellect or circums...

This is the "realist" lie about faith. Not that I think there is a need for "intelligent design" for life to begin and proliferate. This is probably o...

Not surprised. Too bad. I kind of liked her.

So, what, you poked holes in all the pages?

As you'll remember, I was looking at the toys while Hanover was looking at women in lingerie. I got nothing to hide.

Yes, but be honest. You only read the dirty parts.