You can't talk about men without talking about women. I was actually impressed by how well Antaus expressed his thoughts without over-emphasizing the ...
I wonder if our differences don't just come down to the idea of action without action. Acting, living, without conscious reflection. Action flowing fr...
Of course. It would be laughable for me to deny I am a person of words. Words bubble from my brain and out my mouth continually. Continuously. If I cl...
Sure, men and women are different. Japanese people are different from Chinese people. Christians are different from atheists. Rich people are differen...
Some of us do sometimes. People experience the phenomenon or phenomena differently. They feel and think differently about it. Why is that hard to unde...
I'm not trying to justify anything. I'm trying to explain. Have you had the experience I'm describing? The feeling of yourself. When you say "me," wha...
A car is a car. What's important is that it works when I need it to. That's it. A car. That doesn't mean I don't recognize a steering wheel when I see...
When I think of any of those terms as they apply to me, there is just one thing. All of me. Body, mind, soul, whatever else there is. There is only on...
I went back through my posts on this subject. I don't think I said that the existence of a soul is a matter of choice. If I did, I was wrong. I said t...
My experience is exactly the opposite. For me, the internal voice examining and reexamining everything used to cut off any connection to, awareness of...
I've wanted to reengage with you on this subject since our most recent previous discussion. I think it was in "Being or Having." It was the first time...
This doesn't seem like a very fruitful discussion. I can't tell if you believe what you say or or are being intentionally obtuse as a rhetorical devic...
Kool Aid. To those of us who grew up drinking that crap (krap?) it matters. Then came Funny Face Drinks - Injun Orange, Chinese Cherry; after protests...
Here's a definition of "verify" from the web - "make sure or demonstrate that (something) is true, accurate, or justified." Is "the sky is blue" a tru...
I went back over my last few posts on this discussion. I think I expressed myself clearly. I've responded to your questions and comments. I don't know...
How do you verify: There is an absolute, objective morality. The outside world exists. There is an objective reality. Every event has a cause. There a...
Not sure if this will help - I don't have a lot of friends, but I have found friends here. If you hang around a little while, you will too. Maybe that...
Over the months we have known each other, we've clashed once or twice about this reason vs. intuition thing. Sometimes you've been mean to me and I we...
Well, it's in me, but how could I ever have made a living at it? My time here on the forum has made me a better writer and thinker but I have the luxu...
I'm sure it reflects a character weakness on my part, but if I come across philosophical writing that's poorly expressed and confusing, I just stop re...
I'm not from academic anything. I took two philosophy courses in college 45 years ago and swore I'd never touch the stuff again. Over the years, I've ...
This is no help at all. Yes, I know. "Want" is a synonym for "desire." Never mind. When a discussion starts spinning it's wheels in definitions, which...
We all, most of us, try to guide each each other to sources of insight here. That's the whole point. One of them. We also like to hear ourselves talk....
I'll let Kym or someone else who knows more about this than I do respond, but I think what you've written shows a complete misunderstanding of the bas...
If what @"Kym" was talking about was any kind of motivation or intention, it kind of takes the point out of this discussion. The original discussion w...
I am in no way a student of eastern philosophies or follower of their practices. All I know is I picked up "Tao te Ching" and was zapped by instant re...
Seems to me that you and @"Kym" are using the word "desire" in two different ways. First, desire as "a strong feeling of wanting to have something or ...
More lip service. Reducing eastern philosophies to "practical mental exercises" while ignoring the fact that they represent a metaphysics in some ways...
Principles of physics are matters of fact. Principles of metaphysics are not. They are "...not verifiable. This does not mean that we should like to v...
So, you, Unenlightened, and Erik don't like "social capital." What's the right word for what BC is talking about? Social values? Civic virtue? Communi...
I think it's probably inevitable. There's a discussion on "social capital" going on next door. I think the two subjects are related. The globalized, i...
I don't doubt the value of what you're saying, I just don't think it's what BC started the discussion for. I won't continue with this since I'm basica...
You give lip service to eastern philosophies, then ignore them. The Second Noble Truth of Buddhism is "Desire and ignorance lie at the root of sufferi...
It always bothers me when people conflate spiritual entities with scientific principles. Prime example - Discussions of the illusions of self discusse...
I find myself imagining @"Bitter Crank"'s frustration at your and @"unenlightened"'s unwillingness to discuss the issue he has raised and turning it i...
I can understand why the term would be used. It's a way to "monetize" social and cultural values so they can fit into standard economic understandings...
Word of the Day - April 12, 2018 Erstwhile - one of my favorite words because it's so easy to misunderstand it's meaning. It's often difficult to pick...
In my job as an engineer, I would be forced to bring her in off the eagle until she put on a harness and lanyard in accordance with Occupational Safet...
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