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One question - why the quotes around "highest" in the thread title?

Add to that, the eye-rolling on the part of Democrats that anyone could be stupid enough to believe the outlandish, ridiculous and vulgar things that ...

Right - but the connection I'm seeing is between absentials and the via negativa - which is also an integral part of metaphysics. Can you see that?

Right-wing dynasty is more like it. https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/516/d64/fd7ed09cadafa4e576c10d61092398472e-barron-trump-donald-trump.rvertical.w33...

I've had to learn a heap of stuff to constructively disagree with him - which I do (and I'm also grateful for it). But he still insists that at bottom...

Something I will add - our first visit to the US, in 2009, for the inaugural Science and Nonduality conference in San Rafael. In the cafeteria on the ...

It's not that I expect him in particular to be singled out, or anything, but only if the political climate becomes so hostile, and the economic conseq...

My eldest son lives and works in Wisconsin, where he moved ten years ago after marrying a girl from there. So I have two American grandchildren (dual ...

But that's not all! His tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy are going to spell disaster for government debt, while expenditure czar Musk does to public services ...

The ever-astonishing Kent Nishimura https://youtu.be/U2JFpCiuurs?si=yz4cz-jQpVrMbWUU The subtleties and attention to detail are quite extraordinary.

:100: And let's not forget that Trump has been completely transparent about it all along.

Bouncing this thread, due to finding a helpful Incomplete Nature cheat-sheet/summary that some kindly soul has posted on GitHub (although incomplete, ...

It says 'a chunk'. According to my preferred afternoon radio host, DJT had a spike in popularity amongst younger men. Older Australians and most femal...

I don’t think Conze says or implies that. In Mah?y?na texts you can find a comparable expression: Such later Buddhist texts express the concept that a...

But you can bet whatever crises there are, are only going to get worse under The Regime.

Oh yeah, now you mention it...maybe he'll want to send Jack Smith there. But first, he'll have to work out what to charge him with. Telling the truth ...

So - 'no privileged perspective' - is that it?

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/the-alarm-over-elon-musk-and-national-security-has-yet-to-sink-in-20241106-p5koda.html

:lol:

There’s a market for bumper stickers like ‘I bought the car before Elon went crazy'. Californians, who are one of Tesla's largest markets, and also ov...

The Retribution of the Regime begins. I wonder where they will locate their Gulag Archipalago? Although I suppose when they give amnesty to all the Ja...

World's Richest Man, Elon Musk, is set to become one of the most powerful (and, I bet, most hated) men in the new Establishment. Let's hope he f***s o...

I think today's culture is generally antagonistic to the idea of spiritual authority. Let's consider it from the perspective of philosophy rather than...

Depressingly, I feel that hordes of attack geese will not prevail against the might of a corrupted American military-industrial-political complex. (Ma...

That was an excerpt. The entire essay is Buddhist Philosophy and Its European Parallels, Philosophy East and West, 1963. Aside from Conze, the princip...

Probably not very. It is cited as a factor in the following detailed analysis from the New York Times (gift link). Let’s Not Lose Sight of Who Trump I...

Or in insight. That was, for instance, the basis of the Buddha's authority - one which was never imposed on others, unlike the tendency in Roman Chris...

I have expressed before the idea that the role of philosophy is to 'take you to the border' - the border of what can be said, explained, expressed in ...

It would be bleak if you take such a bleak view. If you were a piano student, presumably you would select a teacher who was an expert in teaching pian...

I feel your pain, like half of America and about 90% of Australia, I'm vastly dissappointed by the re-election of DJT, although I will stop posting ab...

I understand what I've read about him, and of him. In any case, I stand by the initial point - that the absence of presuppositions is what was intende...

Probably not obscurantist enough for him to blather about.

Isn't there a relationship between not entertaining presuppositions, and the epoch? of ancient skepticism, revived by Husserl? Recall that ancient and...

I wouldn't 'die on a hill' defending it, and I recognise that it is something often exploited by the unscrupulous to exploit the gullible, but I do. A...

Franklin Merrell-Wolff was an American mystic and esoteric philosopher. After formal education in philosophy and mathematics at Stanford and Harvard, ...

There’s a germ of truth in that but amoeba aren’t aware that they’re aware. The burden of self awareness only begins to appear with much more highly d...

I think the crucial, and depressing, point is that the voters don’t think it matters, and/or they don’t believe these things about Trump. Polls show e...

I will sometimes argue that there is such a thing as the philosophical ascent, generally understood as moving from a state of ignorance to insight or ...

OK, ‘heated’, not ‘violent’. Which it undoubtedly is.

I gave an example that I thought illustrates some of the issues, which was apparently interpreted by yourself as 'discriminatory against Muslims', alt...

Sure! 100%. I really do understand the issues that conservatives have with many aspects of modern culture and society. One of the questions in the OP ...

India has also absorbed and practices Western style democracy, it's often noted that it's the 'world's largest democracy.' No doubt there are many soc...

I made a remark about a particular situation in North America, that I thought illustrates the tension between liberalism and Islam, and that it must b...

Please enlighten me. What conclusion did I draw that was wrong?

I do see your point.

I did actually watch the 2024 movie Civil War the other week. But no, I don't actually see out-and-out armed conflict in the US. I think the real thre...

Not for nothing is Afghanistan called 'the graveyard of empires'.

I wonder if these kinds of historical parallels really are an accurate portrayal of this moment. I've said this often, and of course there is endless ...