Hippyhead

Ok sure, the new identify comes in many flavors, agreed. And then there's another factor, other people buying in to whatever new identify we've create...

Agreed. Either wisdom has to be dramatically accelerated somehow, or knowledge had to be slowed down dramatically, or some combination of the two. The...

You could be right. If JK had popped his authority bubble a bit with some fart jokes that might indeed made him more popular. But probably with a diff...

In my view, the self identity is a product of the real bottom line source, the medium which the self identity is made of. As evidence, this self ident...

Yes, he was very explicit about that. However, he was the one sitting on stage, and he spoke in a quite authoritative manner. The message was undermin...

Would it be possible for us to agree that NDE experiences don't prove anything one way or another? If yes, that might a basis upon which a conversatio...

Once we invent computers, then research in most other fields can then proceed at a substantially faster pace. Once we invent CRISPR, genetic research ...

Should I use yours above as my example template? Brief, dismissive, dodgy, devoid of actual content or reasoning? Please take another look at my posts...

I know what you write and don't write, publicly available for all to see. But you are not dropping conclusions. You are repeating the same conclusions...

Really and truly no kidding not trying to start a war with management, but how about this? Instead of the mods standing back and passing judgement on ...

Saying, but not doing. Thus, not credible.

Good point, we know only they have left the realm we know. And we don't even really know that. Imho, it can easily be a fascinating conversation, just...

I've already presented you with counter reason, which you have ignored, while claiming no counter arguments have been presented, exactly as Wayfarer p...

Why? Let's say there is a continent called SomewhereLand which many have traveled to, but none have returned from, equaling a state of pure ignorance ...

Aren't schisms inevitable in every philosophy, religion, ideology etc? If yes, what can we learn from that?

Many people have a typically unexamined faith that the rules of reason invented by a half insane semi-suicidal species with thousands of hydrogen bomb...

This is a reasonable conclusion which many people share. There is a simple obvious rational solution to this concern. Explore the experience for itsel...

It seems reasonable to question some of Biden's decisions, or any politician's decisions. If anyone wishes to that on a philosophy forum it would be e...

Well, they all lead to death, which in my unproven faith based perspective is reunion with something. Or nothing. Or nothing that is also a something....

Ok, thanks. As a follow up question, what flavor(s) of Buddhism would be the least likely to get drawn in to such controversies?

To the degree one isn't thinking in any given moment, all classifications of every flavor are abandoned and done away with. Given that many or most pe...

Just remembered, this fellow lived directly across the street from us for a few years. Buddhists in robes coming and going frequently. Perhaps interes...

Imho, being bored by nukes is the pinnacle of the insanity.

I have no beef with him personally. But just as I don't have the right personality for being a mod, neither does he, imho. My last comment on the matt...

Do we want to be in charge? Or are we content to ride on this train where ever it is going, even though the most logical outcome is likely some form o...

Whoa, you should go in to the consulting biz!

It might help if you could, here or elsewhere, dive further in to this description. Or perhaps point us to descriptions which have been translated out...

You, and everyone else too it seems. I've never met anyone with such detailed information on the subject.

From the science point of view, the following video seems to claim that space consists of an infinite number of particles which pop in and out of exis...

Well, discussing doesn't necessarily require the possibility that anyone will be convinced of anything. And as you undoubtably know from long experien...

If you are willing to admit that your position too is built upon faith, then this seems like a reasonable complaint. If you are not so willing, then W...

It's unknown whether valid conclusions can be derived from such experiences or not. My point would be that to the degree we feel the need for explanat...

That's just their experience. What if they are deluded too?

Because I'm annoying, stupid and stubborn, and insist on saying things that long experience should have taught me will accomplish nothing at all. :-) ...

Yes, thus the so very common assumption by forum atheists that they bear no burden of proof, that this is the other fellow's burden exclusively.

The solution to this could be to embrace the experiences for their own value, and don't bother trying to translate them in to some collection of abstr...

So my experience of sitting at this table can never be anything more than a belief or feeling?

I have no idea what your point is, and doubt you do either.

Tell it to Oppenheimer?

The king of lazy one liners is now lecturing us about how to do philosophy.

Ok, seems reasonable, so what happens when we get everything we want? I want everything I can imagine. I get it. Now what?

Right. We say how the world should be. And then we hire scientists to help work on making it so.

Early twenties, upon coming to adulthood. He repeatedly denied it over and over again throughout his life, but in an authoritative voice, which admitt...

I'd rather Praxis stayed too, as a useful voice offering constructive alternatives.

Praxis, earlier you mentioned a book you were involved with. Is it at all relevant to this thread? If yes, care to share?

If Buddhist doctrine is a doctrine which denies doctrines, I should fit right in. :-)

Ok, I'm agreeable to learning about this. Please recall, I did explain that my space theory is just speculation. Interesting to me. Sometimes a conver...

I was, well, referring to the universality of ideological conflict within every ideology. Which often looks kinda like that. :-) My ideology too, same...

Thanks for following up. Ok, that which some call God, and which is identified by many other names as well. As my Catholic upbringing also suggested. ...

JK and I were 50 years ago, but yes, I was influenced by his writing. Yes, but I've not suggested abandoning thought, except temporarily. Abandoning i...