T_Clark

But I'm not talking just about self-awareness, what's going on inside myself. I'm also talking about awareness of things going on out in the world. Li...

I'm not sure which of my comments this is responding to. As I see it, what I have been writing goes right to the heart of self-awareness. Please expla...

I have become aware that some of my behavior has been hurtful and self-serving to people I like. That made me feel bad, but it was important that I kn...

I wasn't offended. My essence was offended. I love that phrase and my friends and I would always laugh when Allesandro used it. It was just a way of s...

I have attacked your ideas. Ideas you put out for critical discussion. I haven't attacked you. My responses don't constitute bullying or trolling.

Then, as I wrote, you have jumped on the bandwagon. As I hope I've made clear, and as my Italian friend Allesandro says, this argument offends my esse...

Perhaps my comment would have been more temperate if I had stopped at "Lot's of really intelligent people are boneheads." Probably better "Lot's of re...

Your response to Myttenar: This response shows the same contempt for the governed as most of the posts on this thread.

In my experience, the process of becoming aware and what it feels like to be aware are similar for all kinds of awareness. For me, that's the point of...

You say you aren't proposing that philosophers rule the world. Here is my refutation. You have made the following statements in previous posts on this...

I like discussing things with you. On several of the issues we have discussed, you have interesting positions at angles, if not opposition, to my own ...

Is it a valid philosophical method to refuse to respond? Mr. Putin, there is no refutation in our statements so I won't point out the fallacies. I'll ...

Just out of curiosity, do you see yourself as one of those who could appropriately be chosen to govern?

There was no appeal to emotion. It was appeal to what ought to be common values. The fact you don't recognize that is telling. I'll say it again - int...

Agreed. Also, and for what it's worth We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator ...

The arrogance of this post and most of the responses is a bit mind-boggling. The contempt shown for the benighted hoi polloi is staggering. The whole ...

As I said in my original post What does it feel like to become aware? For me, becoming aware of any aspect of myself usually takes place over an exten...

That brings a number of things to mind. Does this set of conditions represent the current situation in the world or is you point hypothetical? I don't...

This is a thread which is, at least partly, about mass murder. My question - What is worse than mass murder? not what is worse than xyz?, is what you ...

You get to choose the values in your own life. If you think it makes more sense to end your life than to live with the suffering, well, knock yourself...

I don't find this very satisfying. I think it misses the point. Of course people murder each other. Of course the families of the victims are shocked,...

Not sure exactly why, but this came to mind during the backs and fourths of this conversation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FArZxLj6DLk

Thank you.

Say what? Did someone say that race is not genetically determined? So it's just a coincidence that people of African ancestry tend to have brown skins...

I'll take the taste buds. If I can acquire a taste for raw oysters, blue cheese, and red twizzlers, I can acquire a taste for anything.

I love to eat. I love to sleep. I love sex. Can I say "none of the above? I wonder how many of the other people in the world I made the choice for wou...

Well, ok. As a person who can see the end of his life on the horizon, I agree that there are many things worse than my death. Are you willing, as Xand...

As you indicate, values are not absolute, but I think some are fundamental to our nature as human beings. Among those fundamental values is the value ...

In my experience, being aware is not the same thing as being aware of being aware.

I've done that several times. That's what happens when someone resurrects an old thread. I appreciated the opportunity to give my mea culpa.

I wasn't saying what I thought was true. I was trying to paraphrase Apokrisis. I don't agree with him, but I don't have good responses to what he was ...

I wrote that response to Xander almost a month ago. I've thought about it since then and come to the conclusion that I treated him in a condescending ...

I don't know if you remember my response to your story - what you called inauthentic behavior, I called ritual language which signals a sense of commu...

So, you've tried and had no luck. Seems like you think it's somebody else's responsibility. Those other guys who live choreographed lives. Is it their...

You reminded me of my father there for a second. He was an engineer too. We had a lot in common, but the way we saw people was really different. He ha...

Maybe you think it's too good to be true, but I think that's seeing things backwards. It's not a call for us to look on the sunny side, tra la la, la ...

They can see no reasons 'Cause there are no reasons What reason do you need It's a clever song, but I don't really see it as funny. As a matter of fac...

One of my favorite songs, although I'll only listen to it on Mondays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dplpWIpofHI

It wasn't my intention to pull rank on you with my 40 year history or discount your own experiences. I'll go back to what I said in my first response ...

I love reading your stuff. You always put so much thought into what you write that it's a bit overwhelming to respond. So, I've talked about conscious...

As has been noted numerous times throughout this series of posts, what you claim Agustino said is not what he actually said.

Does it make me New Age if I pick and choose ideas and concepts from different traditions without buying the whole package? As you might guess, I am f...

I read through all the comments back and forth in the set of posts - Agustino's and everyone else's. Sometimes things Agustino writes are disrespectfu...

The reason I asked is that I sometimes attribute colors or other characteristics to feelings, ideas, or other mental constructs. I was just wondering ...

One of the reasons I like reading what you have to say about relations between men and women is that, even though you focus your efforts and attention...

You expressed it much better and with much more knowledge and insight than I did, but what you are saying is similar to what I was trying to get acros...

It's my understanding that, if I reach enlightenment just 10 seconds before I die, I win.

I doubt that's how the Buddha saw it.

In my experience, which is limited to one 40 year continuing marriage plus observations of others from the outside, problems in marriages are not prim...

It's sad, or maybe funny, that it's taken me 50 years to get to the point where I can sit in the same room with that 15 year old boy.