Nuke

Sounds like you are twenty something, a time of life when friends are everything. Been there, done that, had some fun. Now I'm 68 going on 14, and am ...

This may help? I just learned that the Yukon, a Canadian province east of Alaska, is bigger than California geographically and contains only about 35,...

Ha, ha, yea, that's kind of a problem! Great opening line for a post though.

No expert, but that sounds like a serious misreading. I don't think the founders sought a world free of religions, they just wanted government to stay...

Those are my concerns as well, not just for the Middle East, but for modern civilization more generally. The pandemic is horrible, but we have survive...

I would question a notion that what some call mysticism is an act of becoming, development, advancement, progressing from A to B, and so on. It seems ...

It could be argued that the most rational manner of talking about mysticism would be discuss how to do it. If a reader finds a useful method in the pi...

Yes, tribal groups with ideologies they cling to, so far so good. Though to quibble a bit we might recall that the vast majority of both believers and...

It can be proposed that nothing made of thought can accurately model the real world. This isn't a problem of the philosopher or any philosophy but of ...

The more intelligent and insightful an article, the smaller the audience.

Yes, mysticism (at least as I'm using the word) is meaningless. That's the whole point. If you can do completely meaningless, I applaud you! :-)

Perhaps much of the confusion about mysticism can be resolved by changing "knowledge of ultimate reality" to "experience of ultimate reality"? However...