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I was thinking more of a philosophical argument. For example: 1. Dingo has decided I'm a self-righteous twat with very little supporting evidence. 2. ...

Good. You concede you "have the experience of being a biped." Biped - that's one quality you possess. You have other qualities too: maleness and white...

I'm not sure the evidence points to that conclusion. Can you set it out?

I wonder if you know what it feels like to be a person.

Can you paste the whole article? There's a pay wall.

I'll keep that in mind. Many thanks.

Then your assertion rings disingenuous, silly, tendentious. It's clear you have an agenda. Enjoy.

Are you a white male?

Do you know what it feels like not to be a white male?

The Westboro Baptist Church?* Faith is as perilous a path as reason. It can devolve to a neurotic, narcissistic pursuit of glory (see Karen Horney's N...

:fire: :hearts: :fire:

Of course not. Life-meaning comes from all kinds of places and all kinds of life-meaning can be integrated and synergized. But without philosophy I wo...

Philosophical hold nearly as profound a meaningfulness as spiritual pursuits. Dispelling a fatal confusion is a profoundly meaningful achievement - an...

First-hand accounts and footage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmzJr1oUjKg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roeBgx3M5Eo

Words are always evolving. Language belongs to the people, not to lexicographers and grammarians. It's easy to see the distinction between gender and ...

So we might say that prayer qua hunger is first directed toward an absence. "I'm having an unpleasant feeling! I feel something is lacking! I cry out ...

They like to say they know what they only believe. Do you know that god exists, or do you believe that god exists?

It is. I had the gift of desperation.

The first ten years are the hardest. For the average Joe, I don't think there's anything like a permanent peak. There are peaks and valleys, and, by a...

Do not. "Divine revelation": breathtaking, inspiring, inspirited poetry; uncannily wise instruction or insight. Let's wait till we know god exists bef...

Now that humankind has appeared on the scene we can begin to evolve more consciously. Certainly this can be done on the individual level: this forum i...

Correction: This is consciousness of despair. Your tiny light is, in fact, sun and cotillion - perhaps "a multitude in transports of joy."* Get to tha...

Not sure where the above fits in. I'll just say if you're honestly aiming at a deeper understanding of religious notions and practices, anxiety is the...

Religion includes dark moments of excruciating longing - anguish - comeocomeemanuelings - and also rich moments of (let me play it safe) near-near-per...

Into the files. ??

Never tried that. Sounds like a bold approach. "Air hunger" - that's got to focus the mind. :smile:

The epoche can certainly be done. Banno likely has no experience with mindplay of this sort. It can be done in a state of undisturbed solitude. And qu...

Thanks for the explanation. I read Husserl twenty years ago and your words gave my memory a good jog. I remember having a kind of semi-mystical experi...

Consider: there could not.

I'm interested in the link between Husserl and "meditation yoga." Can you say more about this?

This definition excludes those for whom religion has become mere habit. Ritualistic habit with no thought of ideology or ultimate authority.

And the insults begin. Take care.

Clings to tonic in a milksoppy way. What is this song afraid of? It has to learn to be brave if it wants grow up to be a real song.

As sexy as it can feel to 'know' it - I know you know this is unknown. There is good here, now. That much we know. 'Good' is a malleable word. No one ...

The mind pondering the supermind*. That's a personal relationship with christ. The circle of the self-messiah. *Meaning the mind to come. Use your ima...

I'm no biblical scholar, but Google gave me this: “Eagles” is the literal translation of “?????” (Thayer, Strong’s). https://www.kjvtoday.com/eagles-o...

Eek. From eagles to vultures. How did that happen?

From the Introduction: "I tried with simple words, as in confession, to trace the spiritual struggles of my life, from where I set out, how I passed o...

Yeah, a brilliant poet. "Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together."

He gets close enough here: “If you knew God’s gift, that is, who it is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink of water,’ then you would have asked him; and h...

Awfully vague. What form of life is it? Is it a form of life centered in an act of reason or in something else? If something else, what? If not a feel...

I don't think it would be fruitful to discuss the work on this forum. It's about the vision, about spiritual energy (the energy required to pursue spi...

It's poetry. Open your heart. Read on.

I know Johnson and Nixon were deeply affected by the protests. Nixon went out to talk to them in a really risky way and, of course, we all know about ...

Lots of fire in his spiritual vision - perfect for getting it fired up again.

If in a discussion between A and B, A insists on the central significance of X while B insists that X be entirely excluded from the discussion as "not...

The perennial philosophy as set out by Huxley has been a stable source of inspiration to me as a spiritual seeker. A powerful inspiration for meditati...

Yes. A fascinating book.

So if not an argument - if not an act of reason - then a feeling?

Yeah, I get it. People have to decide. Do you situate the source of ethics and morals in the perennial philosophy you referred to above? I know it thr...