If he retired as a mod that would satisfy me. It's one thing to be an ornery puss, cause you know, this is the land of philosophy and that's not so ra...
Well, there is a partial solution available. Kill all the political threads. Or perhaps shove them all in to the Lounge? A significant portion of the ...
Not arguing the point, just trying to understand and explain his appeal to so many. A great many people feel that politicians are always cutting priva...
I think the master plan is to own as much of our attention as he possibly can. The cliche for this strategy is "all publicity is good publicity". If y...
Semi-suicidal? Yes, thousands of hydrogen bombs ready to go at the push of a button. Single species on one tiny planet? Yes, obviously. Only recently ...
This is not as esoteric as it may sound. Does space exist or not? Thought demands a yes/no answer because that is how thought works, it categorizes ph...
Read please. I didn't say you said that. But you do see do have some affection for the word fuck in general. I like Bernie. Voted for him. But did you...
This is judged to be entirely reasonable, so thanks for that. Given that I am after all a Hippyhead, I expect we might experience considerable agreeme...
I cast my vote for this explanation. Having experience and skill in some particular area is not automatically the same thing as having skill at transl...
Trying to bring the country together somehow = fucking spineless. Emphasis on civility and compromise = fucking spineless. Hysterical emotional pose. ...
Here we are again. The requirement for evidence is a rule of reason, a system of thought invented by a single semi-suicidal species only recently livi...
Political discussion on this forum, perhaps every forum, tends to be overwhelmingly dominated by emotional poses. On this forum it's often the mods wh...
Such reactions are perhaps odd, taking no position there, but they are utterly normal and routine on philosophy forums. I hear ya, and often feel that...
It doesn't seem hypocritical to use reason to point to the limits of reason. As example, it wouldn't be hypocritical to use reason to point out that s...
Well, in this case I was perhaps largely agreeing with what these masters are saying (devalue philosophy) while perhaps questioning what they are doin...
Hippyheadists would explain the suggestion to reduce intellectualizing in this way. If one seeks to experience a sense of unity with reality, it's pro...
Ok, to further my Zen education, if intellectualizing is supposed to be largely discarded, what is that supposed to be replaced with? What are the pri...
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that. In a surprise move, I was for once too stingy with words. :-) What I was trying to say is that it's my understan...
Space "creates", that is defines the Earth as a thing. It would seem to do so without taking any action, or even existing (no weight and mass etc). Un...
Can't comment on Brexit details at all, and so will offer a hopeful bottom line reminder to our Brit friends across the pond. Britain was a very succe...
Perhaps it helps to remind ourselves who it is that has created rules like "paradoxical" and "nonsensical". A single semi-suicidal species only recent...
Another problem afflicting such discussions is that many religious authorities, and philosophers too, tend to gravitate towards complex fancy talk lan...
As a barking dog myself I doubt I can fix this, but here's a try anyway. In the age of science I find it interesting to compare the God concept to spa...
Yes, but it seems reasonable that one of the things we inspect, challenge and chat about are any limitations involved in the methodology we are using....
Native peoples inhabited North America for 10,000 years or more before Europeans arrived. During that time they seem to have developed a deep reverenc...
Another way to say it... Imagine trying to explain the Internet to your dog. Your dog can see the Net on your computer screen. But he can only experie...
I'm reminded of a story I heard years ago on NPR. A team of doctors were treating patients recovering from heart attacks. The doctors wanted to help t...
I'm not qualified to comment on what Buddhism is. Assuming the above to be true, and we wish to keep doing that which is not suggested :-) it seems re...
Ok, thanks for this education, that sounds good. As best I can understand it, the source of the philosophizing is the transformation agenda being sold...
You should move the US where unbelievable really embarrassing utterly crazy dangerous nonsense could never possibly happen. https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1...
It's the ill who typically show up at the hospital. So it seems it would often be chronic overthinkers who have suffered from that excess who would go...
We haven't yet demonstrated that transcending self is even possible, except perhaps for a tiny few who are so rare as to be largely irrelevant. It see...
Philosophers might be compared to astronomers. Astronomers are typically focused on physical things, while philosophers are typically focused on conce...
Yes, and then the entire house of cards collapses, and we are left with nothing. In my mind at least, it seems relevant that the vast majority of real...
You haven't discussed the underlying assumptions of your puzzle at all, you've simply repeatedly insisted that we accept them without question, a proc...
Isn't the old master attempting to hand Shoju a badge of authority? Shoju seems to take a purest position by throwing the badge of authority in the fi...
To you, a good discussion is one where arbitrary boundary lines are carefully drawn so that you don't suffer inconvenience. You want to draw a little ...
It's essentially an illogical methodology which stubbornly refuses to examine the assumptions it is entirely dependent on, a process it calls "philoso...
I love it that I can learn more about pandemics from quacky blowhards on little forums than I can from vast teams of scientific experts who have spent...
This seems an interesting question. One way to approach the question could be to consider that on a global scale the average American consumer is an e...
It can be argued that the reason that few of us ever learn how to forget about our self importance is that the self importance is built in to the natu...
It seems sanctions against murder are required for the establishment of civilization. The law is an attempt to apply sanctions from the outside, while...
This seems like a good solution. If a poster can state that their goal is not to solve a problem but rather to talk about it, ok, fair enough, go for ...
From the mechanical perspective, the required understanding can be reached pretty much immediately through the use of common sense, by anyone who is a...
And so we can apply reason to the discussion, and inspect and challenge the value of philosophy for a particular task just as we would anything else. ...
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