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I disagree that "anything experienced has already been conceptualized" is necessarily true. I think it is possible to experience reality - noumena or ...

Maybe I've misunderstood. Are you saying that the difficulty in picturing a chiiliagon is the same as that for picturing noumena? That's certainly not...

Graceless.

That's what I'm doing with my posts here in this discussion.

Is this intended to be an example of "something we can’t know" in the same sense noumena are? I don't think it's a good one. I can create a more or le...

Good post. I think, although I'm not sure, that Lao Tzu would say you can experience the Tao. You just can't conceptualize it or speak about it. .

I don't see it that way. I think it just means that truth is a secondary principle. Truth is a servant of utility. Truth, or falsity, must be useful t...

I don't see any need for a label.

As I wrote previously - white people don't like, trust, or respect black people. This whole thread is about looking at society using race as a lens. Y...

Taoism is metaphysics, not science. It's not true, it's a useful way of looking at things.

Good question. The answer is... Who the fuck knows.

When you and I have discussed morality previously, I always felt that our understandings missed each other. It's not that we disagreed, just that we t...

At the risk of over-simplifying and misrepresenting, noumena is what is there before there is anything - before there is anyone to conceptualize. Lao ...

Good posts. I have come to think your emphasis on class rather than just race is the proper approach for dealing with our racial issues. I can't think...

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Whatever your thoughts on Huna, @"HarryHarry"'s post was substantive.

Oh, yes, and welcome to the forum.

Yes, I don't think I expressed myself well. I didn't mean to disparage your way of seeing things. It's just that you and I talk about moral issues in ...

Thanks for the link... and the support.

Good post. I saw "chaos magic" and was prepared for baloney, but you've laid out an interesting issue, one I've thought about a lot. I had never come ...

@"javi2541997" is right. This is a good idea for a thread. I never saw it when it was first posted. All of the points you've highlighted are important...

I am not the only one to notice that Kant's noumena have a lot in common with Lao Tzu's Tao. The Tao Te Ching is a whole book written to talk about th...

Good post. Well thought out.

What an odd thing to say. The evidence I see is the same as what you see - the way black people are treated here in the US. The governor of one of our...

Yes, I agree with what you've written, but I would go further. I am as huggy-kissy liberal as just about anyone. I also have very close black friends ...

White people don't like black people... There is no "ism" there. It's just a fact. It's not ideology or philosophy, it's the way the world, or at leas...

Stop, stop. You're making me blush.

Rule 11 - Never explain jokes or irony.

Hey, @"Quixodian", @"Tzeentch" is bickering.

You wrote: In response I wrote "RFK Jr. is a clown," because I don't consider him a legitimate political opponent at all. Whatever you think of me, yo...

Case in point:

As I've said before, white people don't like, trust, or respect black people. "Racism" is a euphemism that rounds over the sharp corners and takes out...

RFK Jr. is a clown.

I have a response, but to prevent further accusations of bickering, I will forgo it.

The problem is that "Jacks-in-the-box" could be more than one Jack in a single box. So, I vote for that. Ambiguous and a little goofy. I am a big fan ...

I like their logo. Minimalist and very ironic. /uploads/files/qg/34lvh8mwvzwvv45k.png

I don't appreciate that and I don't think it was appropriate. The statements on both our parts were short and not particularly harsh. I was expressing...

RFK was "smeared" for saying that covid had been engineered so that Jewish people would not get sick. How would you characterize Kennedy's claim?

I don't think it's ever useful.

As I've said before, I don't use the term "racist." I don't think it's useful and it certainly is misleading. As the text from your post I quoted sugg...

Good post. Sometimes you're just so... reasonable.

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You've always been better at avoiding that than I have. I continue to work on it. I like the icon a lot. You are the one I had in mind when I was talk...

I haven't heard this term before. Does it mean childhood abuse or neglect?

I said religion-related discussions, not discussions between theists and atheists. That was my point - all religious discussions are not about whether...

Yes, I was talking about the forums modus operandi, not any action by the moderators. And to be clear, I don't think there is anything wrong with havi...

Yes, that's one of my main complaints about anti-religious discussions here on the forum. They rarely have substance. People pull out the flying spagh...

My old friend @"Wayfarer" would have agreed with me... maybe not. Hmmm... I'm trying to decide if you and Quixodian are right... I don't think so. I a...

Religious voices don't stand much of a chance here on the forum. Anything that shows even mild respect for religious ideas is attacked and ridiculed. ...