Every so often I like to go through some of my old posts and correct the grammar. I also removed all of my statements from 2015 and 2016 where I said ...
I like goldfish, but if you were expecting some kind of epiphany, you probably went to the wrong cracker. Goldfish, like Cheerios, are great for babie...
The two terms are generally used interchangeably, although I acknowledge there is a bit of a difference in feel. Different translations of the Tao Te ...
Sure, although my understanding is a pretty mainstream one and I think my observation was valid. It goes back directly to the Tao Te Ching and Chuang ...
I don't think this is an argument against anything you are saying. I guess it's just an observation. I don't know much Buddhism, but in Taoism, it see...
Do you really struggle or is that just a rhetorical garnish? As Lao Tzu wrote: This is a fundamental insight from just about all ways of seeing the wo...
At the risk of starting an argument where you don't intend one, do you think there is anyone on the more materialist side of the consciousness issue w...
As you note later in this post, this is the essence of how Lao Tzu saw creation and the ground of being. Here are a couple of verses from Ellen Marie ...
Since we're talking about farms and where our food comes from- I've shown this video before here on the forum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDTiFk...
In the past we have discussed to what extent human babies are born with inherent cognitive abilities, including language and numbers. Here is an artic...
But at the same time, the way you see things and the way I do are often very similar. We both have a use what works pragmatism. That's a really good q...
I've been following this thread but didn't feel like I had anything to contribute. Then I tripped over this from Charles S. Peirce last night while re...
A lot of what I've written in this thread is a description of my own experience using my mind. Earlier in this discussion and in other discussions I'v...
People who lack intellectual self-awareness are often unaware of how their thinking processes actually work. I have found that's true of people who do...
This is something we've discussed here on the forum previously so I thought people would be interested.. I had always understood that humans first cam...
As I said, I'm not a fan of Dick, but many people seem to think highly of his writing. I was thinking of "Foundation" and how I loved it when I was a ...
It has always surprised me how many people are not aware of their own thinking processes. Unaware that their consciousness and reason are just a small...
The research applies only to the limited meaning you incorrectly applied to it, as we pointed out to you during this discussion. You can say it over a...
To put it bluntly, of course I'm not. The "evidence" you provided at the beginning of the discussion was based on an incorrect understanding of what i...
Intuition is a kind of knowledge. Has anyone really claimed it is more than that? If not, I'll do it now. I see intuition as that sense of the world, ...
Noamie, he hates it when I call him that, asked me to respond. He says fuck you all, he's still alive, so please wait for the eulogies. I quote "every...
Sure, but it seems like now is the golden age of dystopian/apocalyptic books and movies, if "golden" is the right word. There is a sense of doom that ...
This is a conversation we're supposed to have once Noble Dust gets off his ass and finishes "Ubik." Be that as it may, I don't have a lot of experienc...
You shouldn't be reading either DeLillo or Dick. They are both depressing. I suggest one of my favorite science ficion/fantasy books, "Goodnight Moon....
Now that I think of it, the one thing missing from all your stories is the "True story" at the end. I recommend you use it from now on. Better yet ".....
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