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It appears you would want a NDE thread to represent your own views, and you are the forum owner, and so have the final word. I'm cool with that, no pr...

Say more if it interests you to do so, interested here, but this particular reader may require more dumped dumbed down translation in to armadilloese....

Aren't all opinions about death, mine included, unmoored speculation?

This part I get. The rest, kinda beyond the reach of armadillos. :-)

Never said you did. I hear you, a meeting place for mechanical transactions. In theory, neutral. Trouble is, in the real world, such places can routin...

I hear ya brother. One solution is a blog, a site where you control the conversation. But then you'd have to build your own audience from scratch, kin...

Market collapse of 1929 caused by hyper-speculation, leading to Great Depression, leading to re-emergence of Hitler, leading to WWII, leading to mass ...

What is extension?

Not making any demands here, but it might be interesting if in some limited number of cases the original poster had mod control over the thread they s...

Some junior officer on a ship in the South China Sea hits the wrong button sending a torpedo in to somebody else's ship, leading to full scale escalat...

REASON: A shifting of focus from that which we can't use, to that which we can.

I had no idea you felt that way!! Uh oh, more snarky applesauce!

Could we perhaps explore a distinction between the act of observation, and any conclusions which may arise from the observation? OBSERVATION: The act ...

Does this apply to you as well? Or just to other people?

As you have said many times. And so my question would be, having discarded religiously generated conclusions as unreliable.... What's next? The discar...

As much as I'm fond of JK, I still wonder whether having nothing to say might have been an improvement. Example, I once attended a talk by Amrit_Desai...

Yes, it was, totally agree. My apologies. I wore myself out on the forum yesterday and by end of the day my brain had turned to toxic applesauce. Sorr...

I don't misunderstand, I've been chanting that very thing over and over to the point where even I'm now annoyed by the chanting. :-)

I think you should apologize for apologizing in any way for your contributions here. :-) This is my clever one liner, uh, two liner.

Could be. I think I might be caught up in my Catholic upbringing that stated God is ever present everywhere at all times. I'm not stuck on the Catholi...

Would it be fatalism to recall that the Roman Empire thrived and dominated for centuries and then collapsed in to a thousand years of chaos and ignora...

Ok, argue away, keep going for years, decades, your entire life. Who cares?

Every ideology says this. If only everyone agreed with us then we'd have peace. Except that never happens, even within a particular ideology.

Religion is not science, we agree. To me, comparisons between the two are misguided. Science is concerned with facts about reality, whereas religion i...

Ah, sorry, so you know of what I speak. Thank you, same to ya! We shall see. Ha, I nailed your birthday. We great imaginary sages have a knack for suc...

Ok, I hear you, I'm not proposing a one size fits all solution. Price tag can be very high. But your choice of course. Honestly, what scares me is tha...

I will admit to having reservations about attempts to pop the delusional dream bubble we are living in. If nothing can be done, perhaps better to let ...

But the advances have already reached the point where a single bad day can equal game over. We aren't really talking about a speculative future so muc...

Real, but non-existent, according my use of the word. Like space, the overwhelming vast majority of reality. If you don't exist, how do you die? If we...

Phenomena can be real, without having mass. Space for example. Thus it seems useful to make a distinction between "real" and "exists". Admittedly comm...

It sounds like space to me. I have no hard opinion on this, but find myself intrigued by the notion that what so many have been trying to describe in ...

Ok then, please continue and share what you feel an appropriate definition would be. While awaiting your reply, my quick take would be that I don't co...

A religion might based on an encyclopedia of various practical techniques for reaching for that experience. If the focus is on the experience itself, ...

Thanks for this report. I understand this to be the exercise of will at the social level to attempt to manage conflict at the level of the content of ...

Yes, yes, we know, you are the Great Debunker etc etc. Yawn.......

I didn't say anything about forms. C'mon, give me a little break, you're sinking in to automated rejectionism mode. Ok, no objection to this. If I did...

Schisms, arguments, hatred, conflicts, violence. Problems.

My understanding so far is that many Buddhists have sincerely tried to do just that. And yet, still the schisms. Certainly many Christians have sincer...

And die with it. You are probably right.

Ah, good, would hate to see the thread die so soon. :-) I'm not a physics major, but it seems only energy exists, with matter being a form of energy. ...

Yea, that's what I was referring to, losing human nature. Crafting a new species. I agree there is likely nothing at all realistic about such an idea.

And the message is presented in the medium of thought, that which by it's inherently divisive nature destroys the experience of oneness. Imagine that ...

Quick plug, I've started a new thread about life/death, existence and non-existence and it would be neato if Buddhists might comment on it from their ...

I did? Hmm... Einstein says that energy can't be either created or destroyed, so ok, yes on that one. But the water could conceivably be boiled away f...

This example may help describe what is happening in a lot of philosophical conversations, particularly those about the largest of questions, such as r...

It's at least conceivable, in theory, that by genetic engineering we could redesign ourselves in to a more intelligent species. But it would be semi-s...

Metaphysics & Epistemology - ok, thanks, educational for the original poster.

According to the theory, you can not be destroyed because, as a pattern, you don't exist.

Do they have to be associated with people? If not, probably pine trees, and the retarded squirrel who resides in a cage just outside of our bedroom. S...

Ha! True that. I should have never brought up fart jokes. Ever since I did I've been plagued by this mental image of my hands on a computer keyboard, ...