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Investigate this book: The Buddhist Teaching of Totality: The Philosophy of Hwa Yen Buddhism by Garma C.C. Chang Link: http://a.co/fMUmMjj

When Trump emerged as a contender, you may recall, there was the widespread belief that it was publicity stunt for his businesses, and that his campai...

It's not incoherent, but it's also not binding. If you believe it's a fiction, then you're acting, it's easy enough just to turn around and say, OK I ...

wish I could argue.... :-d

There was a US court case some years ago in which the issue was whether making child pornography with simulated children was wrong. I think, from memo...

No, that America has elected a narcissist and congenital liar as President. No, he's not 'like Hitler'. If that is your standard for bloody awful, the...

I feel the same! Climate change, you would think, would be a natural for a conservative. After all, it is all about conservation. I think the explanat...

Is that so? Well, I stand corrected. Anyway, here in Australia, we had one of the world's best Carbon Emissions schemes, and the then government aboli...

But you can't be informed about that. As I said before, there is a fact-checking service called Politifact - it is neither right nor left, it simply a...

I don't get why you're going in to bat for him. I marched against Vietnam. Trump's election is a far greater threat to the world order than that was i...

Which could be done, quite effectively, using the current immigration system, visa vetting, and other controls that are already in place. Right. But O...

I was convinced about 'peak oil' in 2008-09 - even started a blog about it. The book that I read was Half Gone, by Jeremy Leggett. It painted a very c...

Just to pop the caricature balloon peddled by Thorongil, the 'article he read' is from Victor Davis Hanson, in National Review - who says in the same ...

I think it's important to distinguish 'irony' and 'falsehood'. It is indisputable - beyond debate - that Donald J Trump frequently lies, dissembles, e...

But, in Orthodoxy and Catholicism, what you do is nevertheless important. That is central to the 'grace versus works' debate, which is ancient in Chri...

That is the Protestant view, isn't it?

That's definitely an assignment. Neat ASCI art, though.

Well, sure, otherwise, what's it for? However 'metaphysics' is generally understood as an intellectual pursuit, rather than an affective or dispositio...

One of the many infuriating things about Trump is that he now uses the most powerful bully pulpit in the world to harangue everyone about 'fake news' ...

You may recall, the first time I posted the video, you chimed in with a remark about 'navel gazing' within 30 seconds of it being posted - notwithstan...

Reads a lot better.

I think I detect a change in your overall take on this from the Marchesky of yore. (Of course, I could be wrong).

looks a fascinating book.

Crowley was an afterthought - it simply occurred to me that his maxim 'do what you wilt shall be the whole of the law' really sums up the general atti...

Got you fooled, hasn't he? ;-)

Crowley stole it. I quoted Crowley.

Irony is sometimes useful as a defensive shield when navigating minefields.

irony1 ???r?ni/ noun the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect...

There is no question of conjugal relations being the basis of the formation of future generations, nor of moral obligations that were traditionally th...

They addressed it in more detail in the book that came after the essay, called After the Ball, where they said 'As cynical as it may seem, AIDS gives ...

I had the opinion that Alfred Kinsey has been discredited as a social scientist. Gay rights and gay identity is a minefield nowadays - to say anything...

But I think what would be desired of anything that was truly physical, would be that it is real independently of any perception of it; its reality wou...

In the beginning was the word, eh? ;-)

Well, I think Apokrisis' background is biological sciences. 'Biosemiotics' is the discipline that is descended from Pierce. There's a particular scien...

Just struggling a bit with how 'sign relations' come into the picture outside of biology.....

I saw Imitation Game and liked it OK, but I preferred Hidden Figures. There are films I have liked more, but in terms of recent movies, it's one of my...

There's a ceremony called confirmation in Anglicanism (and I'm sure the other denominations.) It's the standard rite-of-passage into the Church. It ta...

thanks Benkei! Spoken like a true Scotsman!

'physically identical to water, but not liquid'.

Science can't really tell you if the world is real or not. It's feasible that the world might be a grand illusion, but an illusion that works consiste...

Actually, I too don't believe in a God who is a person (one of the reasons I didn't get confirmed as Christian, as that was obligatory.) But the way I...

What is this, a 'meta-argument'? An argument about an argument? Anyway, it was this: OK, maybe I picked the wrong pejorative but it's at the least, hi...

Two derivations of the word 'religion'. 1. Latin 'religio', 'an attitude of awe and reverence to the Gods'. (This was the sense of the word in respect...

I would call it brutal. Telling someone to fuck off is simply vulgar. Anyway, carry on, I'm glad to see Fishfry has joined here, he has completely dif...

Sure didn't read like that to me. Seemed a pretty brutal put-down, actually.

look who got elected.

I think a great number of religious believers believe that. I'm certain that is what New Atheism believes they believe. If I haven't mentioned it befo...

That is 'instructively mistaken'. First in respect of overall growth vs decline of traditional religion - it is true that in advanced industrial econo...

The way I have approached religion is through wanting to understand: what is the meaning of 'spiritual enlightenment?' That is an idea or a principle ...

A useful analysis of new age movements can be found in: Camille Paglia's Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in America in the 1960's. It...