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Yes, which makes you the loser; you are afraid of being the loser, of what others might say, of losing your standing, and so on.
September 26, 2016 at 23:26
Yes, and those kinds of beliefs may be understood to be more or less puritanical in the the sense in which I was using the word.
September 26, 2016 at 23:24
The jealousy comes on account of the insecurity of feeling that he has gained at your expense; which is certainly accurately classed as a kind of fear...
September 26, 2016 at 23:20
puritanical pj??r??tan?k(?)l/ adjective adjective: puritanical having or displaying a very strict or censorious moral attitude towards self-indulgence...
September 26, 2016 at 23:17
I don't disagree Agustino; I am not promoting indiscriminate shagging at all. Personally I would have no interest in such a thing. But what you fail t...
September 26, 2016 at 23:08
Another category error; laughing when hearing your father has died is an action, not an emotion. Again, no. Jealousy is a possible feeling regarding a...
September 26, 2016 at 23:02
Your are reducing yourself to absurdity, no one else. When you have no argument you resort to insult; I had hoped we had gotten past that. What is you...
September 26, 2016 at 22:57
That just is feeling threatened. When you perceive injustice in regard to others and feel rightly angry about it, the focus is not on self, and not on...
September 26, 2016 at 22:52
You keep talking about emotions "being justified'; this is a category error emotions cannot be justified or unjustified; it is thoughts and actions th...
September 26, 2016 at 22:45
If you genuinely believe the difference between beating your partner and committing adultery "has no practical ramifications" then I have little confi...
September 26, 2016 at 22:30
This may be a factor; but it also depends on how open you and the other are. If two people are very open, intimacy my be established extremely quickly...
September 26, 2016 at 22:26
Sure, but they still experience coffee, not swimming pool.
September 26, 2016 at 11:18
How could we be taught to use the same words in the same situations if we could not recognize them as such?
September 26, 2016 at 11:15
Yes, I think that if there is an underlying spiritual reality that manifest as our familiar physical reality, then we must have the intuitive or clair...
September 26, 2016 at 11:14
The fact that we don't use such different words shows that we experience the same things. If you are going to say things such as that what I experienc...
September 26, 2016 at 11:07
We have no proof, and that is what you are really, inappropriately demanding. But we do have good evidence, insofar as we have little reason to doubt,...
September 26, 2016 at 11:00
If you place a hundred people in front of a red car and a green car and ask them to identify each they will reliably do so. The fact that due to physi...
September 26, 2016 at 10:49
But, if two people love one another, however they might express that love and organize their lives together, disapproval from you based on a generaliz...
September 26, 2016 at 10:46
We know we use the same words and we know that others identify the same features of objects as we do. That's why se say things are independently, beca...
September 26, 2016 at 10:31
The thing is you could love someone so much that if it makes them happy to have sexual relations with another, then you will happily allow it. We do n...
September 26, 2016 at 09:58
The distinction is one that is significantly more than merely "noticed". The distinction is fundamental to the intelligibility of our experience taken...
September 26, 2016 at 09:20
It's true that from experiencing and finding intelligible the differences between what we call 'reality' and 'dreaming' we can extraplolate to imagine...
September 26, 2016 at 07:43
The problem with this is that in Matrix-type scenarios there is always a reality that is not part of the dream. So reality is never totally reduced to...
September 26, 2016 at 02:35
Well, I meant that I have experienced hypochondria in the past and now have it pretty much tamed, so I have no need of Mr Carnegie's self-help pontifi...
September 26, 2016 at 01:18
Thanks Punshhh good suggestions and ideas; and I appreciate your openness. I live in Sydney.
September 26, 2016 at 01:07
No, I would forgive or not forgive based on my love and on my ethics regarding forgiveness, not on some generalized expectation about her character. I...
September 25, 2016 at 23:08
I disagree with any claim that you could possibly know what most people are like. Again with the unwarranted generalizations. There's no point for me ...
September 25, 2016 at 22:55
Then I don't agree that adultery, for the most part, qualifies. How do you know what the characters of "most people" are? Have you met "most people" a...
September 25, 2016 at 22:34
So, not all that exists is real, but all that is real, exists? By "real" do you mean "empirically real", or something else? Because your position here...
September 25, 2016 at 21:54
To varying degrees infidelity does harm people. But then so, to some degree, however small, does all social interaction. How much harm have you caused...
September 25, 2016 at 21:26
You have quite nicely presented a pretty standard picture of Buddhist metaphysics darthbarracuda and I am left wondering if this raises any particular...
September 25, 2016 at 08:11
I was there under the name 'Thresholdsun' (and other previous online identities) and I do remember reading some of that discussion, although I cannot ...
September 25, 2016 at 05:23
Here in Australia, an oncologist is currently being accused of (although not prosecuted for) possibly killing some of his patients at one of Sydney's ...
September 25, 2016 at 04:45
Other human souls.
September 25, 2016 at 04:34
OK, so apparently you join Agustino in being for state-sanctioned and prosecuted punishment of adultery. The question is, taking (at least to begin wi...
September 25, 2016 at 04:18
I can relate to this. Sometimes in dreams I write poetry or record what seem to be profound philosophical thoughts, or find myself looking at extraord...
September 25, 2016 at 03:55
That's real cute!
September 25, 2016 at 03:37
The experience of the body is given in two ways; as an external perception (of other's bodies, or parts of my own body) and as an internal somato-sens...
September 25, 2016 at 02:05
I really like your fresh sense of colour Cavacava.
September 25, 2016 at 00:36
Another nice work! Thanks for you frank answers Punshhh; I appreciate it. Unfortunately the genres in my area are not exactly genres that my work (for...
September 25, 2016 at 00:34
You have said that adultery causes harm, that the harm is intentional harm because all knowingly caused harm amounts to intentional harm, in this conn...
September 25, 2016 at 00:17
I agree there is nothing pathological about understanding your own body, but I do think monitoring your pulse and blood pressure and even performing y...
September 25, 2016 at 00:06
Thanks Bitter Crank. While I more or less agree with most what of what you say here; I don't think it is really relevant to the purpose of this thread...
September 24, 2016 at 23:44
It's a pity that you didn't put the tremendous amount of energy into answering the question of the OP, that you obviously did here with your ,sadly, i...
September 24, 2016 at 23:34
Erik, I don't think Spinoza's and Heidegger's views are actually contradictory when properly considered. Heidegger does not advocate morbidly thinking...
September 24, 2016 at 23:20
I have never tried to sell my work. When you say you will have them printed, do you mean in order to sell as prints? You say your work is popular, and...
September 24, 2016 at 09:01
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Thanks for your explanation, Hoo. So it seems you are saying that when you experience such things you have no accompanying sense of coming into touch ...
September 24, 2016 at 06:25
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September 24, 2016 at 06:01
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/thresholdsun
September 24, 2016 at 05:54
These are mysteriously intriguing, Mongrel; are they self-portraits? What media are you using?
September 24, 2016 at 05:02