Hippyhead

Ok, I can obviously endorse this suggestion. In that spirit, we might start by attempting to approach this advice in the simplest most straightforward...

When I was a teen my Dad and I would often retire to the family room after dinner to engage in debates that could go on long in to the night. As can o...

My parents (neither college educated) taught me "philosophy" in this manner. I was a teen during the sixties when MANY contentious social issues were ...

How did you find out? Who told!!?? :-)

Entrance fee to being taken seriously. Or not.

Listen up punks! Now THAT is how to give someone a good debunking! But now I'm terrified of what he's going to say about my screen name.... :-)

I agree and spoke imprecisely. Was trying to say that I'm a human being, and so there is no perfection in here. The evidence suggests that this will a...

Homework: Start a new thread on any subject where you share your own insights, without any reference whatsoever to what anybody else has said. If you ...

And if a perspective should consider "the truth" to be the real world, and not any collection of ideas pointing to it, then concerns about dogmatism, ...

Because I'm not putting it well. That happens a lot. Your patience is appreciated. What if questions and insights and philosophies etc are largely unn...

Apparently I'm one of the great Buddhist sages and didn't even know it. Would someone please tell the hippy chicks? :-) Best I can tell, that seems a ...

I found this page about Nagarjuna. https://iep.utm.edu/nagarjun/ Here's the summary at top of the page. I've added some white space here and there bec...

Where is the barking dog option??? I can't find it anywhere!

To hear the glorious trumpeting sound of my own voice reverberating around the empty cathedral of my tiny little mind. To enjoy the sound of the keys ...

To get engagement, forget about your reasoning, and ask questions about the reasoning of others. Most of us most of the time, here and everywhere, wan...

Hippyhead runs through the digital commune, hoping to impress the hippy chicks with his vitality. https://vimeo.com/444092251

Often threads deemed not up to par by the mods will be relocated to the Lounge instead of being deleted. You, know kinda like Catholic purgatory, it's...

I hear ya brother. Luckily I have uncovered a simple solution to this very problem. :-) Get rid of all the people in my life except for one truly wond...

I now wish to make a highly predictable remark. :-) You know how everyone is saying we should have seen the virus coming, because it was obvious that ...

I'm nervous about the debate tonite. We are so close. Please Biden, play it safe, say what you always say, don't get creative, keep smiling when he tr...

Perhaps this thread could also be titled... What Happens When We Get Everything We Want?

Given that you seem to have investigated these topics extensively, (amazing really!) I'm wondering if you can point me to any schools or teachers who ...

Good God Mr. Way, you are truly well read, a good teacher for me in that regard. Ok, so impression so far is that Buddhism would come down more on the...

Sounds familiar! My college roommate decided he wanted to be a doctor about 3 weeks after we entered college together, and then he totally vanished in...

Sounds very familiar. Most people enjoy rather wandering random conversations about the mechanics of every day life, and the doings of other people of...

Here's one of my pet rant questions which perhaps members can examine through the lens of Buddhism, as I am not qualified to do that. Do the problems ...

For nerd people like us, we use reason, or what we consider to be reason, because we were born in to brains with a built-in inclination towards such o...

Which I am agreeing with. I was objecting only to labeling the fundamental problem as a sin, as that implies a choice, which none of us had. The Adam ...

Ah, a well done edit. Thank you for the upgrade. I'm attempting to upgrade here as well, as I agree I can be insufferable. Please note that at no poin...

As a mod, like it or not, know it or not, you are setting the standard which represents the goals of the forum.

I do. It's because your writing, on this topic at least, is little more than the chanting of emotional slogans spiced with generous doses of fantasy s...

The "breaking out" notion is of interest here. I still remember the moment 50 years ago when it first dawned on me that I don't actually have to be an...

You and I both would seem to have a natural talent for getting under people's skins. The two of us together is annoying squared. Let's just take a bre...

I attempted to address this above. Alcoholics are the primary people in AA meetings. Thought-o-holics (like me) are often those most interested in exp...

Speaking of bannings, could someone please remind me how to automate the ignoring of a user? I don't want them banned, just wish to "ban" them from my...

Consistently clogging thread after thread with these kind of lazy little gotcha quips which aren't actually clever is tiresome. Maybe you could try ra...

Example. I believe I could make an intelligent reasoned case which puts Nazism in a broader more objective context than "they be the evil bad guys". I...

WTF? Isn't agreeing against the rules??? Ban him, ban him!!! :-)

Yes, agreed. To me, it's the expression that matters, not the belief. If a member is consistently incoherent, lazy, sloppy, and otherwise disrespectfu...

Good points! Yea, here we are, so we must be perceiving benefit. It's true that many miracles have happened online. One happened for me, so I know it'...

Imho, some religious practices can credibly promise and deliver "salvation", but probably not in the sweeping permanent existential manner which is of...

When you're not distracted by being a Gotcha Monster you can ask good questions. This is one. Truly not being snarky here, just asking, have you read ...

The concept of sin is an unfortunate spin, as we had nothing to do with what is being described. But yea, otherwise that concept you refer to is indee...

I think there is some truth that talking in an anonymous environment where there are few consequences, and none of any consequence, can be more honest...

He he.... :-) Made me smile. I'm probably an Internet psychopath.

My understanding as well.

Perhaps this helps? The purpose of all nouns is to create conceptual divisions. This is how thought works, it divides a single unified reality in to c...

This is cool, like it. I sense that a lot of us who get involved in such subjects are people like myself with overactive analytic minds. I'm guessing ...

Thank you for chanting your usual dogmas. But ok, you're right, in that getting what we want might make us, um, less cooperative with other humans. Th...

I recently heard an analysis of the pandemic around the world which claimed that it is the societies with the most allegiance to the common good that ...