Jack... I feel you're coming at this in the right way. But you seem stuck in scholasticism. You say " Endless books have been written on these subject...
So I take your point to be that if Saddam was torturing your family we should not intervene. Ok, duly noted. What a damn silly comment. Surely you can...
hey're all happy to accept our help when it's their head on the psychopath's chopping block. I don't resistance to the invasion of Normandy by our Bri...
Saddam just moved in next door to you. Will you be calling the police, or listening to the screams? This is an irrelevant question, as you must surely...
Oh well. I must retire from the forum I think. I cannot sit and listen to a bunch of people trying to justify the the arrogance of their behaviour and...
Anyway, I'm being stupid to bother typing this because those who didn't get it then will never get it. I'm surprised to find we disagree on this. I su...
You can't 'invade' a democratic nation open to all- rather, that'd be stupid. Unnecessary. It seem very necessary to me and it's been done many times....
Well, could be. I dunno, seems kinda obvious though. Space. No weight, no mass, no shape, no form. Not meeting the most common definition of existence...
REAL. Just not existent. An idea that takes some work to get across where metaphysics and mysticism are poorly known, but utterly crucial to philosoph...
Yes, it is perfectly clear. The US et al waged a war of liberation. They successfully managed to convert a dictatorship into a democracy, something th...
This can occur once one identifies with the universe, rather than something anthropocentric. The universe dose not die. It would indeed be a shift in ...
---"Millions upon millions of people supported the Iraq invasion, including me. Why don't you simply ASK (not TELL) them (or ask me!) what their motiv...
If matter and energy are not ultimate forms of being and can be destroyed, then would the purported "something yet more basic" continue to exist? Not ...
I don't think Hippyhead's patterns are in conflict with what Schrödinger said. Nor me. These patterns are bang in line with what Schrodinger said. But...
So I can't die, nor do I live. It seems unsatisfactory, somehow. You have to assume there is a third state, and this would be immortality. With practi...
In Buddhism refuge is taken in the Buddha (ultimate authority), the Dharma (the nature of reality or metaphysics), and the Sangha (tribe). reply="prax...
I haven't argued against the idea that some individual's regard for Buddhism is to some extent influenced by subjective feeling. In fact, in my opinio...
If I were a newcomer to Buddhism I;d probably dismiss it for being unreliable, as indicated by its internal disagreements. — FrancisRay "Maybe my thin...
I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you're talking about in your comment. I cannot grasp the point that you've been trying to make for so long. Why not...
o, my policy for Iraq (and other countries) at this stage in world history is to install democracy and let the winners of democratic elections kill pe...
Perhaps we should gather a huge UN force and send it into the US to install social cohesion into the US. I rather liked Trumps idea of a wall, We coul...
i. I have spent an enormous amount of effort, starting in 2002, You'll never explain the Iraq invasion,. It was a family feud for the Bushes against I...
Erwin Schrödinger : “There is obviously only one alternative, namely the unification of minds or consciousnesses. Their multiplicity is only apparent,...
If you have an explanation of how calling Buddhism a religion limits possibilities it would be interesting to know. It's fine to call it a religion. B...
Thanks, That's a nice description of the history. There are lots of schools, but Theravada is the only one that causes me difficulties. I'm afraid tha...
the ocean is where I come from — Hippyhead You can't know that. Maybe you come from a very different place and upon death will return there, wherever ...
In theory at least, profoundly simple things might be best explained in profoundly simple language. Quite so. But then there are questions and objecti...
but this particular reader may require more dumbed down translation in to armadilloese. It is my mission to explain how profoundly simple metaphysics ...
What is extension? Space and time appear to be extended phenomena. 'Extension' just means they are spread out in space and time, as modeled by the num...
That's a really rich comment coming from someone who dragged out the book of Buddhist Romanticism, a work that goes to exhausting length to distinguis...
Could be. I think I might be caught up in my Catholic upbringing that stated God is ever present everywhere at all times. But this is fine. It implies...
To get to the broader picture of that, Ajahn Geoff is saying..... Ah. I get it now. Regrettably we are never going to be able to agree about Buddhism....
It is the universal cause of existence while itself existing not, for it is beyond all being’ (from his book On the Divine Names). This might seem lik...
Every ideology says this. If only everyone agreed with us then we'd have peace. Except that never happens, even within a particular ideology. You misu...
Pardon my confusion but in some instances you claim to be a Buddhist and in other instances you claim not to be. I don't mind being confused about thi...
“It is the goal of spiritual life to open to the reality that exists beyond our small sense of self. Through the gate of oneness we awaken to the ocea...
If you believe that murder rationalized based on atman is part of the Hindu tradition, that’s really weird, in my opinion, We certainly agree on this ...
A Buddhist who believes that Buddhism is about Oneness is simply a mistaken Buddhist Oh hell. That would be me then. Can you explain what is wrong wit...
No, I really do think your definition of existence is wrong, and obviously so, and I don't think it's a popular view either in philosophy or on the st...
well when you define it like that then “Dying” as used in day to day life becomes “A pattern ceasing to exist” in which case you still die. We (patter...
I like that way of talking about existence, but you don't make much use of it. If waves do exist, i.e., they stand out phenomenally against a backgrou...
To my knowledge there is no ideology which is not afflicted by schisms. This might be the definition of ideology. Easiest thing is to abandon ideology...
Yes. I'm saying there's no need for this situation. Most people do not approach religion and philosophy as I suggest, so trouble follows. I'm suggesti...
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