I think that part of the complicated of understanding how inner and outer levels of experience work together is that while we may perceive others as a...
I am pleased that you are not suggesting that individuals should be proficient in all areas, but have connections with other areas and awareness. When...
I think that missed opportunity do say a lot about free will because being fixed in the moment often means that we are inclined to follow determine pa...
Yes, I will call it a day as well, but I want imagination in philosophy but I want the fantasy to stay in fantasy and science fiction. I am not a big ...
I do agree that the inner life can enable us to keep hold of a sense of purpose, because it is too easy to get overwhelmed by the path of reason, as i...
I do not wish to go down an Alice in Wonderland philosophy path but I think that the present path of reason is often arriving at antinatalism and nihi...
In my current room I try to tidy up for about half an hour a day. The problem when I was working I only tidied up for about half an hour a week. Healt...
My goal of keeping my room tidy might seem a pretty one, but I do have some grander hopes too. But sometimes the basics like keeping a room tidy, whic...
I have just said to the Madfool that I do believe that the world of the imagination should not be dismissed by philosophers. I pointed to the importan...
I think that fantasy is one of the most central aspects of life. I am talking about daydreaming, but also fantasy as a source for developing ideas and...
I made resolutions a few times and ended up breaking them in a few days.I made one last year and broke it within about a week, but I do feel that I ma...
I do agree that the interaction between the outer and inner life is complex,. However, at the same I do believe we have distinct inner lives, even if ...
If you believe that the chair and objects around you are animated this might mean that you are a panpsychist. I do not believe that objects around me ...
I agree that the distinction between outer and inner reality is not absolute. Even when we are alone we can perceive the outer reality of our own body...
Yes, that is the true extent of the question of the possibility of immortality. It depends on belief in a soul, or spirit. It is hard to define these ...
I can see what you mean that my experience was more of an unusual experience than an actual near death experience, but perhaps what you are saying abo...
I am interested in the whole area and did get some debate going but generally I found that some of the members on this forum found the whole topic to ...
I see that you have started your old thread. Someone mentioned it to me, because I began a thread on the subject of consciousness when we die less tha...
It is interesting that you raise the question whether the Buddha was perfect, and this raises the inevitable underlying one which is what would be the...
I find the most interesting point that you make in your post addressed to me, because you have written many generally, is a recognition that art and s...
I have read 'Small is Beautiful' by Schumacher and was very impressed by it. I would love to see it put into practice but it is hard to know how this ...
This is an interesting area of discussion as the whole way in which law is sometimes seen as restrictive, while it can be protective too. The example ...
I have just read what you have written about grief, and that is a very interesting about what grief says about the attachments one has? Is it the case...
The ideas you suggest are interesting, I am very open to them, but just not sure how they would work in terms of practical applications. Thinking abou...
I think that we have a lot of work to do. The whole social questions, including problems like homelessness should not be about trying to enable the ho...
Being stripped back to deprivation of basic needs, such as fluids, does seem questionable indeed, but, all human beings, including those on the precip...
I have been reflecting on what you have said about suffering and impermanence and how it bears upon the whole question of attachment. What I have been...
I think that the balance between right and left brain thinking is of supreme importance. It could be that this whole area is worthy of a thread in it'...
I am sorry that you have been homeless. In terms of attachments, having somewhere to live is about the most basic. Homeless and blindness are my worst...
I am sure that Buddhism does not actually suggest detachment. I think that the problem is people interpreting in a shallow way. I think that it is unf...
I think that the biggest problem is when any group of people think that they are in a position to dictate how we should live our lives. For better or ...
I think that part of the diminishing role of art is because people are beginning to want fast solutions, especially entertainment through television a...
Do you think that suffering is a 'pernicious lie' and that 'which we cherish the most is immune to damage, death and decay', because surely this contr...
Yes, that is a good point that we should not work upon attachments unless they are a problem. Personally, I have felt guilty about attachments and I h...
I would agree that there is a problem in viewing this life from the standpoint of future lives. Even if a person believes in future ones, surely this ...
Yes, I think that attachments are complicated and each person's own set of them are unique. We probably have to negotiate the right balance in all are...
Meaningful connections are fine, but sometimes they become more than this, or we would probably not have friendships or relationships at all, includin...
Apart from formal education I would say that families are the beginning of the process of learning to think, rather than just being told what to think...
I would say that we have to connect with others before the attachments occur. Attachments don't arise out of nowhere. They have to have some basis fro...
The conflict between time spent alone and with others is as 'a paradox' as the Madfool would say.I grew up as an only child and often spent a lot of t...
That is a good question, although it is as if we are living in space capsules during this year of social isolation, with need or unmet needs. My imagi...
Even if we follow the path of self realisation and self-analysis, I think that attachments are still likely to play a large part. I do believe that we...
I do agree about your essential idea about our brains being transmitters, receiving information, and I think it is a bit similar to those of Henri Ber...
I have read the posts that you have written and I believe in you have addressed a number of very important problems. One of the main ones is the tensi...
Yes, this is a new, interesting area of discussion and I am thinking about it before I begin replies to other discussions. But I can relate to it, of ...
Having read what I wrote a short while ago, I realise that I am also doing the shifting of blame, placing the blame on biology. It is just that it is ...
Hopefully, education will improve and not simply be about religion. However, I do believe that even with the best possible education some people are g...
I am glad if you are able to clarify your thoughts through discussions on threads because that should be the purpose of philosophy. It may involve har...
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