Why we don't see the physical world? Strange way to put it, as if it were possible to experience the physical world in an absolute way. I can see we a...
Salt water is a mixture not a chemical substance (by strict definition). A solution is always a mixture. Once you evaporate off the water and you have...
If I just had some extremely loyal and hard working pathologically altruistic volunteers to upkeep my property and take care of all my domestic affair...
Probably because feeling directs and is more crucial to thought than we think. Just a guess. Am relating this to disqualifying the positive or wallowi...
There is a more severe tension (or dissonance) between expected, normal or good behavior and the behavior of someone suffering anxiety or depression a...
It seems like most folks are prone to these cognitive distortions in subtle ways. Such thoughts are likely exaggerated in those who have neurotic or d...
Part of the problem is that the entire production process behind goods and services is usually hidden. As consumers we enjoy the fruits of the market ...
Resentiment ala Nietzsche and others has re-entered the political atmosphere via Jordan Peterson (though perhaps it has always been since Nietzsche). ...
Knowing what you're doing wrong is part of the answer to navigating your way to a better place. Duh! It has all been said before, over and over and ov...
Have you tried any changes to your diet and exercise habits? Anything is a lot to ask for someone who may feel like they are trapped in the bottom of ...
The expansiveness of mind is more significant to waking reality. Everything you can dream can probably be cooked up in some form, even if it is an ill...
If nothing is knowable then nothing exists. Only minds know things. Without minds, there are no things. Worlds without minds don't exist. Worlds witho...
Voted for all democrats though it doesn't much matter in my state. Think a majority of incumbents are blue most of the time, probably what one would e...
The first folks who go will die there in service to those who come after and it's going to take way longer than a century to make it a sustainable ope...
If you've been hypothetically marooned somewhere in the Solipsistic Archipelago with a fundamental Christian sect, you will benefit greatly from being...
There is research now that shows depression may follow from an immunological primer for anticipated trauma. It's a way for the body to prepare for phy...
It goes without saying events have many causes in which case countless narratives could be used to argue for why any particular outcome is true. If an...
I could pay you to hang out with me, assuming you're not totally nuts, but alas I live in a subtropical paradise (overcrowded hot rock) in the middle ...
Maybe a plain answer to emergent complexity besides irreducible stuff is quantity. The more of set of a particles space the more relational aspects th...
You make it sound as if these folks are actually mistaking their car, computer or robots for actual anthropoid-like beings in the moment. I guess when...
Maybe the conceptual scheme (analogy of parts) is somewhat irrelevant to the physics of these particles. They say particles can also be characterized ...
Wouldn't the component parts of a subatomic particle be the context of interaction (other things) through which it becomes significant or a knowable t...
There is a bit on the wikipedia page about the pathetic fallacy which might help. Literal readers might get hung up on the a kind of language which mi...
Yes, it would seem the OP is full of contradiction because of this (anthropomorphic, figurative, general and unclear language). As a result I don't re...
Given that folks here would aspire to scientific modes of querying reality, that the value of rational thinking is assumed out of the gate, isn't the ...
Nostalgia is interesting in relation to cultural or religious myth, or the way myth (cosmogonies) possibly functioned for peoples prior to our scienti...
So, after reading and watching a few things, nostalgia arises during times of transition, identity flux or liminality, which maybe associated with hei...
Eh, I was trying thinking of a weird scenario with set and setting and how that might influence subsequent experiences with a drug. How the memory int...
Actually, I think the context of use (set and setting) may be of some relevance to the features of the drug and future expectations of experience. In ...
Eh, I'm sort of guessing. Might have to go read about nostalgia before I continue talking out my arse. Just read that drug tolerance is reversible but...
Nostalgia is possibly relatable to the kind of biographic progression of a human being, from youth to adulthood, from an experience of pristine novelt...
Acid reflux, gastroparesis-like symptoms (food not passing out of stomach at normal rate) and insomnia, all going on for months, while having to do my...
Had suicidal panic at the beginning of this year. Have ongoing insomnia and my digestion is pretty poor, likely due to autoimmune problems. Thought ab...
God is a creature that promotes great and rigorous distinctions. What is good belongs to God and must be sorted from the bad in order to secure witnes...
Since the OP's theme is related to escaping suffering a Buddhist view on fantasy might be appropriate here. The three poisons of maya (ie. the phenome...
When you're stuck in a zoo enclosure the best thing you can do is imagine yourself elsewhere. Even if you want to escape the best you can do is to try...
Still trying to read Autobiography of a Yogi and the miracles make me angry. Just another example where the lay person is excluded from the powers con...
"A religion of one is a religion of none." This is a great and awful meme. A religion of Oneness is a religion of Noneness (Sunyata). Sunyata is a Bud...
Sounds so traditional. Just listened to a podcast about the notion of hyper-real religions, where satirical response to religious tropes become seriou...
Robert Wright just had a discussion with Sam Harris. As academics they give a sober view of enlightenment. Is Buddhism True?: A Conversation with Robe...
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