I agree with aspects of both analyses, but consider this. We're speaking as if what is 'physical' is known when it's not. Matter itself is actually a ...
:pray: Of course I do. But what has the Trump presidency been but a parade of outrages right from the start? That's part of his shtick - he can get aw...
Yeah and also the 'Trump is only a symptom'. That's like saying 'a malignant tumour is only a symptom, the underlying problem is that you're alive'. T...
I really don't think you've been reading what's going on. And that's perfectly fine - my family gets really annoyed with me for being obsessive about ...
It's just a URL. You know how to post URL's, right? text that will show Anyway, more to the point - this entire outreach from the Trump administration...
The Democratic Party has no ethical choice other than to launch an impeachment enquiry. To do otherwise would be to condone, or even to be complicit i...
At this point there's no choice. It's not a matter of expedience, or of 'winning', but the requirement to stand up against obvious criminality in the ...
This is the review I had in mind. (That said, whenever I engage with Zen, I become acutely aware of my fundamentally Anglo nature :yikes: .) The Buddh...
that's so obviously a duck. Anyone who says that's not a swan is probably a member of the fake media. By the way - this story about Stephen Barr being...
The problem is that it was never couched in those terms. When you read early accounts of the soul, they're often metaphorical, mythical or allegorical...
Having taken up the practice of Buddhist meditation, inspired by Krishnamurti earlier in life, I find satori states are very hard to reach. But then, ...
Of course. An old philosophical maxim is that if man were just an animal, then he would be the most unfortunate, because only man is aware of his impe...
Trump and his defenders are responding to the impeachment case with a blizzard of lies, threats, rationalization and obfuscation. Rudy Giuliani is spe...
That's not 'the ancient mind/body problem' but 'the modern mind body problem'. The ancients never conceived of the soul as a separate entity in the wa...
Mind: body roughly corresponds to the division between symbol: meaning. A symbol is a physical object but its meaning is not physical. The rational mi...
Put it this way - if 'God' was as depicted in posts like yours, then you'd have to be daft to believe. But from the perspective of religious faith, th...
Real. Hence the fundamental truth of mathematical Platonism: that intelligible objects are real, but they're not material in nature (in other words, t...
This is ‘the hotel manager theodicy’. Because there is suffering, then God must be either evil or at least a terrible manager, because He lets evil oc...
Oh yes, let’s all quake before Lindsay Graham and Wayne LaPierre. What titans they are. Lindsay’s strategy: ‘hey, it’s a big fat nothingburger’. What ...
It’s still a myth that the phrase is a later accretion. He approved it, as he should have done, as it is perfectly in keeping with the thrust of the t...
Yeah all those people in the State Department, and Justice, and the Intel community, and greater Republican Party - they all love him so much, don’t t...
The key paragraph from the Ukraine call: Here's the rundown on CrowdStrike. In short, Trump believes that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was ...
I think it would help you to re-frame the issue. My approach was shaped through the idea of the spiritual path; I never knew there was such a thing un...
The idea of ‘the undivided’ is, you could say, a cipher for ‘the One’ - the philosophical conception of the source or ground of being. The goal of phi...
Question for the Brits here - this Nigel Farrage - how much of a threat is he, really? My impression here in Oz is that he is a small-time demagogue w...
Nor do your ad homs. T. Clark said, I quote, ‘everything is undivided’. Granted, this might amount to a profound philosophical insight but I’m simply ...
:clap: There's a writer called Andrew Newberg whose book The Spiritual Brain is very much about this kind of idea. Sorry, but I've just peeled a manda...
But ‘substance’, as I noted earlier on, is the Latin translation of Aristotle’s ‘ouisia’ which is elsewhere translated as ‘being’. So, quite different...
Quite right. That is why up until Aquinas, any statements about G*d were understood as strictly analogical. To say that G*d ‘exists’ is an error - ord...
Let’s not forget that John Mitchell, who was AG under Nixon, went to jail. The release of the 'rough transcript' Recall that it hasn't been a week yet...
That explains a lot. It’s very much like the kind of thing a patient, non-religious youth says to an elder Christian: ‘I understand your need for a fa...
It does seem Trump has Eye of Sauron type of power to persuade vast numbers of people that he’s beyond reproach. That’s why there’s something more tha...
Soliciting a foreign power for information harmful to a political opponent for personal gain meets all criteria without breaking a sweat. From what I ...
Reckon there’s a chance this time. How many Republicans owe The Don personal loyalty (as distinct from fearful subservience?) Already Mitt Romney and ...
But the problem is, the last sentence in your OP actually undercuts your title: It's not 'meanness' or 'violence' or 'hateful language' that's really ...
Can't disagree in the slightest. Isn't this what environmentalism is basically about? Is that what the thread is basically about? Sorry if I was misch...
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