T_Clark

Here's something I wrote about 6 months ago: In this corner – the challenger, Tao. The ground of being The Tao that cannot be spoken Oneness is the Ta...

If I understand what you're saying, it's not just artificial and bloodless, it can be misleading.

When you say "this statement" do you mean my statement about the Tao? If so, in my understanding, it has nothing to do with objective reality. In a se...

Unless you mean the whole default position deal, I haven't heard any "rational" argument from the realists. Or do you mean Sapientia's "It's patently ...

The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.

With a few words changed, this is exactly the argument I've been making about your and Sapientia's beliefs.

I'm not Christian or religious in any conventional way. I have no vested interest in any specific issues being discussed here. What I am interested in...

As I said, I was being a smarty pants. I didn't mean to mislead you.

I'm not a science worshipper. See my posts on other threads. What I am is a smarty pants. In a discussion of transubstantiation over on the Shoutbox r...

I watched the first season and enjoyed it, but I haven't been able to get myself back in the right mindset to watch more.

....ahem Says the man who has set himself up as the sole judge of what is patently absurd. Sapientia says "What you say is patently absurd. QED."

Oh! (T Clark hits his forehead with the heel of his hand) why didn't I think of that. You were right all along.

We're in life because our parents had sex, an egg was fertilized, we were successfully carried to term and born, and we haven't died since.

First of all - we don't all scoff at the metaphysical ideas we've been discussing. You do. No one said you should believe any of it. Nor did anyone re...

We're not talking about action, we're talking about belief in the nature of the world. We're not talking about any fact (except, I guess, for the exis...

A world seen through non-realist eyes is not chaotic or unknowable. It isn't the same thing as skepticism of any of the types we have been discussing....

Are you responding to my post? If so, I guess I was unclear. I support a basic income for pragmatic reasons. I don't care about the moral argument. I ...

This is pretty pitiful. Sorry, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but his is so hideously self-indulgent. Intellectually dishonest.

No, you are too self-aware for this life. Some of us love the world. For some of us, it is a pleasure to live. Sometimes living is just fun. Please do...

I guess I thought your experience with Zen was similar. From where I stand the seem to be addressing the same experiences. Obviously, you know more ab...

Yeah...well.... no.

In my experience, I don't observe my experiences, I just experience them.

The pragmatic argument is that a basic income will effectively reduce or eliminate poverty at a lower or similar cost to what we're spending now. The ...

You're so cute, I just want to pinch your cheek or give you a hug. @"ArguingWAristotleTiff" says I should. Where do you live?

Come on. Do you really not understand. You're experiencing things right now. You don't have to observe an experience to experience it, you just experi...

I'm with Bitter Crank - We're not making you or anyone else work except slaves and prisoners. If you don't want to work, go ahead and starve to death....

I guess to me, mysticism means understanding the world through awareness of the experience of it rather than measurements or observations of so-called...

I guess I don't see mystical experiences as so out of the ordinary. I don't think they are mysterious at all. I wasn't really thinking about Catholics...

I think we really disagree. Are you saying that the mystical experiences of billions of people are the result of psychopathology? If so, that surprise...

I'm sure BW can speak for herself, but I thought she was referring to the original post where TheMadFool made a comparison between children now and th...

Yeah! Damn that First Amendment.

Since we're talking about something I said, I guess I should speak up. I don't think quantum mechanics is bullshit. I believe it is true in the sense ...

My wife is Catholic with a thoughtful understanding of doctrine. I've talked to her about it. Transubstantiation is definitely not a metaphorical or s...

If it doesn't exist already, I can put together a trout/turkey in about 1/2 hour. There's a store down the street that sells both. I don't know any ne...

Good post. I assumed that we were talking about western culture now vs. western culture in the not too distant past. Maybe as recently as the 1990s. I...

It's a good thing they don't ban people for dumbass philosophy. @"Bitter Crank" and I would be the only ones left. But then I would ban him or he woul...

Aren't you supposed to put one of those dumbass smiley faces on a message when you are being ironic. I never do, but that's because my religion tells ...

I don't understand why you even participate in this or other similar discussions. I can't remember you ever responding in a way that shows you have gi...

Do Trout/turkey's exist? Yes. /uploads/resized/files/03/we6trg6hlxfmb891.jpg By I, Engelmann, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

"Cracker" is used as a derogatory term in the US for poor Southerners. It often includes an implication that they are racist.

You've thought a lot more about this than I have and your training and experience make you a much more credible advocate. For me it all comes down to ...

I seem to be having trouble getting my quotes and references wrong. I guess I need to slow down and pay better attention.

Interesting. I don't think I was making a distinction between realist, materialist, and naturalist. I may not have known there was one. I'll think abo...

You don't get to choose what is evidence or not. You only get to argue that the evidence provided is wrong or unreliable. Again, you're begging the qu...

As I've gotten older and more mellow, I have become more and more of a hugger. As a man, I'm pretty good at telling when a woman will think it's accep...

I don't think the placebo effect is spooky at all. I have been thinking that it is related to awareness. For some bodily issues, becoming more aware o...

As a student of law, you must see the possible difficulties implementing what you call a functional approach. Bureaucratic institutions are not good a...

I can say definitely that I didn't understand till much later than 14. I certainly didn't have the emotional capacity. I didn't when I became sexually...

There was another case, I believe in Australia, with the same situation, but the disabled person was male and the other sexual partner female. It was ...

You and I have started repeating our positions and responses without adding anything new. I can't think of anything new to say.