T_Clark

What you are calling "consciousness" I have been calling "awareness" and vise versa, which is fine. I don't care about the terminology much. It's the ...

I'm not sure I'm talking about the same thing you are - I have always felt cut off from the person I was before maybe 15 or 16 years old. I remember d...

If it's not prying and you think it might be relevant, can you describe the emotional tints.

I think it is you who is misrepresenting what Agustino wrote. Agustino pisses me off sometimes with what I see as casual disrespect for women, but I d...

By "unconsciousness" do you mean knocked over the head unconsciousness as opposed to a lack of personal reflection? If the first, then no. I think som...

Isn't what you call awareness of the "there is" really a lack of awareness of anything? No, I don't think that's right. It is possible to be aware of ...

I would like to follow up on this with something I remember from when my 28 year old son was about 7 or 8 years old. Tara Lipinski won the gold medal ...

From what I've observed with my own and other's children, children's temperament is established before they are born. They come out of their mothers a...

Drawing "some boundary around a particular pair of particles" is arbitrary, although I don't think it's strange. What it actually is is human. It's no...

I don't believe that calling people, or even actions or words, sexist is useful. They may be wrong, or more importantly, disrespectful of people who d...

My God! That's moose turd pie. It's good though.

I am ambivalent about the argument that I have been making about women taking responsibility for their own safety. On one hand, I believe it is true. ...

Hey, there is no "our side." I don't want to be lumped in with you troglodites.

Hey, Baden. I think StreetlightX is calling me a shithead. Is he allowed to do that? Hey, wait. Isn't that an ad hominem attack? Are those allowed?

Do we ban people for "ideologically backwards thinking" too? Maybe we should.

Hey, Baden. I think you should ban Lone Wolf too.

Gonna ban me?

Two points. First - it is neither sexist nor disgusting to say that people, grownups, are responsible for keeping themselves safe. Second - The questi...

Idiosyncratic = something Baden disagrees with

Then I stand behind my statement - Your attitude is more deeply disrespectful of women than whatever Buxtebuddha and his cohort have to say.

Here's a statement: If I were to go walking out in the woods where I knew there were tigers and I was mauled by tigers, would you consider me responsi...

Is it your position that Buxtebuddha deserves to be banned for writing "Dressing like a slut can be and often is a contributing factor in cases of sex...

No.

Saying "We won't tolerate sexism, racism, yada, yada, yada." is fine. Saying "We have to protect the poor little women from even a hint of a contrary ...

Baden threatened to ban Buxtebuddha for stating that women need to take responsibility for their own safety, admittedly in a way that has pretty creep...

The irony is that your attitude is more deeply disrespectful of women than whatever Buxtebuddha and his cohort have to say. It's creepy and it's arrog...

Well, you're changing the terms of the discussion. I wasn't, and the rest of the discussion didn't seem to be, talking about what it takes to find a p...

My God! That's moose turd pie. It's good though.

My experience is really different from yours. I am pathologically unable not to start conversations with strangers - standing in line, sitting next to...

You are correct.

Appeal to motive fallacy – a subtype of ad hominem that dismisses an idea by questioning the motives of its proposer.

It seems odd to talk about an illusion of an experience. All experiences are real experiences. It is my understanding that the drugs you are describin...

It is almost always in your power to make any conversation authentic by being authentic yourself. That doesn't mean you confront others with their fal...

WfPM's original post was about women's sports. Your posts don't respond to what she wrote or add anything new. Your appropriate role as a participant ...

I don't know you and haven't read your other posts, but this doesn't seem like an honest question to me.

I don't disagree that many humans think of humankind as special and outside of nature in some way. I also think that way of thinking can lead to destr...

You are being unnecessarily judgmental. There are many things said on a day to day basis that might be called ritualistic. That doesn't mean they aren...

Here's a definition of "artificial" from the web - "made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally." So, things produced by humans a...

Well, there's Women's Sports and then there's women's sports. Or maybe girls sports. The important thing about girl's sports is the same as for boy's ...

If you believe, as I sometimes do, that truth is what you can convince other people of, then philosophy and rhetoric are the same thing.

My religion does not allow to use those little faces used in emails to express emotion and mood. We are not even allowed to speak or write their name....

I think you and I are agreeing with each other. Someone, I think it was MysticMonist, said some nasty things about new agers in a recent post. He said...

The mystic claims to try to know what is not known, what is hidden.

This is sort of what I was discussing - I think presenting mysticism as granting superpowers undermines its credibility. It's one of the reasons it ge...

I've also asked myself what "spiritual" means to me. Well, if it's not intellectual, emotional, perceptual, or physical, what does that leave? The ans...

This is something I've thought about a bit. Beliefs called "mysticism", including pretty much all eastern religions and philosophies, are generally th...

I thought Gödel's theorem only applied to non-negative integers. Why would it have anything to say about mathematics in general or anything else?

In a serious and convincing voice, Xander has proposed mass murder as a political tool. I don't think he means 10 people, I think means millions. Othe...

Xander - this is a really disturbing post. It sounds like you are really serious about this. Is it something you have plans to put into practice? I've...

I hope I haven't contributed to your reluctance. A wise person on this forum advised me to let er rip and assume the person you are addressing can tak...