Right. And so the rational point of Trump bashing with those who already agree is.... what exactly? The answer is somewhat inconvenient. Preaching to ...
Sorry to go off like a bomb on this subject. My experience of having to face the fact that even very intelligent well educated nuclear weapons experts...
As I already said, we don't have to negotiate away anything that is important to us. We just have to start respecting those whose votes we need. We ne...
You're ok with not reaching any of our substantial goals? Is that what you meant? Rather than challenge a report from inside of your own mind, let's t...
We might consider that when we talk about Trump, we are playing Trump's game, doing his bidding. An alternative to being sucked in to becoming pawns i...
I just meant the experience has it's own value which isn't dependent on any explanations. From my perspective, mysticism is a focus on the real. Expla...
Hey, that's cool, you're a brother. I went to the same high school as the brothers, but five years or so behind, so I'm just a wannabe brother. Never ...
Mushrooms? Oh dear, that's so over. :-) Well, maybe you're like me and you just can't stop playing those old Allman Brothers records. If we're going t...
That may very well be true. If one sees experience as a means to the end of understanding, then that could be a problem. If one sees experience as hav...
I enjoy discussing philosophical perspectives of mystical experiences too. Here I am after all. I'm just exploring what the relationship between exper...
Yes, that's what normally happens, agreed. But even in discourse the explanations are not necessary. Discussion could instead focus on how to have exp...
For those new to the subject of DMT, here's a good intro vid. Scientific study, not new age propaganda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwZqVqbkyLM Ye...
What I like about the question of this thread and the resulting discussion is that it tends to illustrate how concepts which are useful at human scale...
Unless we then investigate 1) why we are slinging insults, and 2) why we are offended by them. Reasonable parties might use the occasion to change the...
EMOTIONS: Each philosophy forum user is responsible for their own emotional experience of the forum. If you call me a nitwit and that causes me distre...
It's a matter of degree I suppose. Mysticism is a form of psychological death. So in those moments when we're taking ourselves seriously, that's proba...
Thought operates through a process of division. It appears that all the old white people such as myself are in the process of dying off. And the young...
I don't object. I'm offering my thoughts as part of such an intellectual examination of mysticism. It can. It will. And in doing so a great many peopl...
If there is a problem, it is that all such discussion is made of thought, which is proposed to be the primary obstacle to mystical experience. There i...
Wisdom will never be able to keep up with knowledge. Knowledge grows exponentially, while wisdom grows incrementally at best. Thus, the gap between wi...
Sounds like a tricky business. Uh oh, here come ego, slapping his little hands together in glee. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/36/04/f1/3604f13bbada2...
Couldn't agree more. Well said. The problem is that scientists have done an excellent job of providing us with all kinds of goodies, and so naturally ...
I agree in theory, but in the real world the "harshest possible criticism" typically triggers ego storms which derail the investigation. And then ther...
They are making a positive claim, without knowing that they are making a positive claim. But I know you'll never get that no matter how many times it ...
I agree with the thinking and looking for evidence. And so when it comes to the largest of questions we might ask, where is the evidence that any thei...
It's not just you. The understanding of Christianity on philosophy forums tends to be pretty primitive. Almost all the focus goes to ideological asser...
Because the knowledge the scientific method delivers has proven itself to be reliable on countless occasions. What's not reliable, and very much in qu...
Could you please introduce us to the atheist who does not believe that reason is qualified to generate useful statements on the subject? Here's how it...
I agree. But the assumption that reason is qualified is not a requirement in theism, as one can become theist by other means. That assumption is howev...
Hey there Wayfarer, thanks for joining in. Great post! It seems a good goal for such conversations is to offer a variety of options for approaching su...
Atheism is the belief that human reason is qualified to deliver useful statements on issues the scale of the God question. Atheism feels like "simply ...
Apologies, but you appear to have no understanding of what Christianity is all about, and no, I'm not going to teach you. Good luck with the holy jiha...
What do you mean by "religious to keep their religions out of politics"? Are religious people not supposed to organize, advocate and vote like the res...
By turning down the volume of that which is generating the division. Thought. If you're talking with a friend and you can't stay focused on what they'...
Yes. To translate this in to religious lingo, it could be said that we don't need to get back to God, we just need to realize, or perhaps experience, ...
That's an interesting question, thanks. While I generally don't have a lot to say about souls one way or another, your question has stirred my curiosi...
The only one true valid analytical philosophy is summarized by this formula. All other claims are just noise. :-) https://st2.depositphotos.com/213447...
It appears I'm all mouth today, so we're a good match. Your problem is probably that you're intelligent. Somebody should have warned you about that. :...
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