I haven't done a scientific poll, and it would seem to be quite difficult to find and poll mystics not interested in discussing mysticism. So I guess ...
Thanks for sharing the Pentagon videos, a great contribution. Imho, I agree, the existence of UFOs is sufficiently proven. What they are exactly is a ...
Perhaps the most persuasive evidence for UFOs is the sheer number of reports from credible witnesses. Credible witnesses include folks like airline pi...
Yes, physical suffering goes back to the dawn of nervous systems. I was attempting to refer to psychological suffering, which I tried to indicate. Yes...
Ha, ha. Well, from the age of 68 I can report that those are the kind of failures which tend to stick with us over time. So perhaps Jackson had a poin...
Good point. And we don't really need speculation, given how many civilizations have already come and gone here on Earth. From the perspective of His F...
I decided to change strategies. Instead of focusing on examining the faces of particular witnesses of UFO sightings, it seems better to focus on sight...
Yes, although I'm not at all a Bible person, I find it pretty remarkable how well the first book of the Bible predicts where we find ourselves today. ...
We could explore in that direction if you wish to. Fall Of Man: As thought evolved in human beings and became an increasingly prominent part of our ex...
Um, just a reminder, we have thousands of hydrogen bombs aimed down our own throat, an ever present hair trigger existential threat which we typically...
I agree this is a crucial issue upon which much depends. If one feels that human suffering (psychologically) arises from the subject matter of thought...
Same for Gregg Allman. These guys worshipped at the alter of the blues, music born of tortured souls. Be careful what you ask for I guess. Of possible...
As for the future of humanity and so on.... It's debatable how much such topics can transform an individual. Many grand claims have been made, some of...
Does this help clarify? The experience of mysticism is not a goal oriented activity. What we think about that experience may very well be goal oriente...
You didn't say "more is better", but that is what is implied by an attempt to turn mysticism in to a philosophy. As you reported, we are lost in thoug...
The vast majority of reality at every scale is space, that which we typically call nothing, or non-being. Reality is overwhelmingly evil? If life is g...
Yes, it seems they had quite the musical connection. That album is a blues rock classic for sure. My favorite Clapton album by far. Duane did a good b...
Ok, interesting post, thanks. Wouldn't good have to be in reference to something? You know, good for who or what? The lion eating the lamb is good for...
Ok, but language use seems too easy a way out. How about we provide totally free education (room and board, books, tuition, everything) to all Black a...
Eating is an essential aspect of our natural development. Does it follow that therefore we should eat all day long every day? More is better? Everythi...
Self help might start with simple obvious things. It might end there too. Get a lot of exercise. Eat a healthy diet. Get a good night's sleep. A bit o...
While it's true that genetically there is very little difference between the races, a cultural divide built over many centuries is a very real thing. ...
My highly speculative crackpot theory for which I have no proof whatsoever :-) is that the "aliens" are future human archaeologists. Time travel seems...
Yes, agree completely. The evidence for UFOs seems quite strong. The evidence of aliens seems quite weak. This is why I suggested dividing the topic i...
A suggested methodology: This is just how I go about watching UFO documentaries. You may have your own methods, to each their own. I'll pick out a par...
How would we respond to a chronic troll on the forum? Ok, first we would yell at him for awhile. Then we would see the pointlessness of the yelling an...
Hey, good post Monitor. I'm all for heading in this direction. Perhaps this is a semantic quibble, but I would phrase it enlargement of the self. That...
One of the things feeding the cult of personality is our demonization of Trump's base. If we insist on calling them things like a "basket of deplorabl...
Yea man, that's what I'm trying to discuss. Do we lefties wish to overcome our prejudices? Or do you mean that prejudices are an affliction that only ...
I can't speak for the original poster, but my sense is that he is speaking to something which is particularly relevant to we philosopher-type folks. I...
Such principles have been suggested above. You apparently don't agree with those principles, which is ok of course, but the distinction has been made....
That is, they care about their issues enough to actually vote. That is, too many lefties don't care enough about their issues to actually vote. We can...
When Trump says something ridiculous so as to stay in the headlines, we don't have to feed the beast by playing his game and getting all excited. Exam...
Aren't income/occupation and education very related?? There are such folks on all sides. You know, some lefties want the government to control pretty ...
I hear ya, but there is a turning back. We can simply cut out the tribalism and superiority poses etc. Again, I'm not making a moral point, but a tact...
Then why did they lose the last election to a comic book character who boasts about assaulting women? Why were all the Democratic candidates in 2020 s...
This is a good question. I'm not asking any Democrat to give up their principles. I'm suggesting we dial down the tribalism and show those with differ...
There you go, that's it. Thanks for saying it better than I could. It's not just policies, it's culture too. Hillary Clinton's "basket of deplorables"...
For decades that included the working man. Democrats largely abandoned those folks, so they found a new home. That's not Trump's fault, that's our fau...
I completely agree. But saying it over and over and over again is unlikely to accomplish anything. The fact that we already know that, and keep doing ...
Tailgating is big one for me too. Traffic is a good window in to the human condition because it's so inclusive, and so anonymous. I hear and share you...
My take is that Trump's success arises from the fact that he is a ruthless business man from NYC, arguably the media capital of the world. Trump insti...
And yet, he is President, and we are not. Perhaps what we're seeing here more clearly than before is that it is the fate of democratic societies to be...
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