There is but an interplay of energies, that which perceives an apparent reality is an experiencing energy form. While the surrounding energies play up...
Is there a real external world, the answer has to be no. It is all energy and that energy plays biological consciousness as its instrument, and the me...
One only knows apparent reality through one's body as biological reactions, or a biological readout if you like, it indicates what those outside energ...
The good is that which is life-enhancing, pain and discomfort diminish the life force. Avoidance itself is good if it protects one from that which wou...
One must define what one means by illusion, as far as the screen goes you are the screen, for in your absence there is nothing subjectively speaking. ...
Religion was once fluid changing with the times and the spoken word which is in keeping with the nature of the world, for the only thing assured in li...
This is Schopenhauer as well, "The more one increases one's knowledge the more one increases one's sorrows." The depth of understanding with many peop...
Well, physics states that all is energy, only in our apparent reality is energy said to be manifest as object, so one need ask, how is object manifest...
Perhaps this needs clarification, subject and object stand or fall together, which means mutual dependence, take one away and the other ceases to be, ...
Certainly, there is no physical world in the absence of a conscious subject, for we can only know the world on a subjective level, take away the consc...
Agent, I believe the differences are in the nature of adaptation, most organisms adapt to a particular niche and display appropriate structures and fo...
The foundation of society itself I believe is compassion springing from self-interest, bear with me, compassion does not arise unless one identifies t...
The essence of all life is the same, indeed you are distantly related to every living thing on the planet. There is no difference of essence, but ther...
It has been my personal experience and my observation of others in intense pain. Pain has the power to wipe the mind clean. Being is that which experi...
In response to your dialogue about an assisted end to life, or the morality thereof. I've never posted in this thread, I take it, it is inappropriate?...
ArguingW, With intense pain, one is already gone in a sense, for when one is in intense pain, pain is what you are. Intense pain is a little like an o...
I only have a rough idea of non-locality wherein physics everything is said to be connected --or entangled. This thing, this non-locality makes sense ...
Struggling to wrap my head around this, how does non- locality figure into the processing of subject and object on an individual level? I understand t...
Astrophel, Another way of describing your concept would be to look at it as an expanded concept of the self. Where there is no expanded concept, no id...
One must remember that nothing in the world has meaning in and of itself, but only in relation to a conscious subject. Another way of clarifying might...
Mythology, religion, and storytelling all have something in common, they are all trying to be informative giving some sense of orientation. Mythology ...
The topic is, will versus intentionality. To me they are the same thing, like subject and object they cannot be separated. In order to move without, a...
Schopenhauer's will is blind, which fits comfortably with the fact that there is no such thing as free will. One should suspect something amiss with t...
The human condition is such that individuals are subject to various forms of poverty through the context of their environment. This is assuming the in...
The Enlightenment is a historic period, granted it is not enlightenment itself, but it gained its name from its opposite, dark ages. So, enlightenment...
Does no one here appreciate that beauty is the refinement of form and function, beauty is found to be so because it speaks to the order of being, the ...
We just bounce from one happenstance to another, ever play pinball. Neurology has pretty much eliminated the concept of a free well. This really fucks...
The beautiful I think is the perfection of form and function, the two must necessarily play off one another, the ugly is when the essence of creation ...
Yes I think that is the most mature and intelligent answer to life. The human condition, as well as the condition of all life, is quite wretched, but ...
The answer is upon us, pandemic whether natural or created, is the only way a global population without a collective mind can save the world. So, if y...
Intentionality infers free will, but one can intend to do something but one cannot intend the intention. All creatures are reactionary creatures, one ...
Correct me if I am off the mark, but your inferring that life taken as a whole is rather grand and the suffering involved is more than worth the price...
I don't believe most religions are powerhouses of wisdom, with a few acceptions. Joy through sorrow borders on sadism. We are getting pretty far off-t...
The individual's manner of dealing with the human condition really isn't the topic, it is the human condition, the nature of being and being in the wo...
Subject and object cannot be separated, the physical world is object and cause to all organisms, all organisms are reactive creatures. Truth is what y...
Humor like faith can be somewhat affective, but they are both a form of either delusion or escapism. So, reality makes you depressed, so suck it up, i...
Hi Jack, Emotions I think determine the direction and color of any thought of an experience had. Only an exceptional mind can redirect thought away fr...
Bitter Crank, I sometimes think that the root of this dumbing down and accepting theories without evidence is the natural outgrowth of the religiousit...
Most Americans buy into American exceptionalism, meaning we are the good guys, the problem with that is, that the world knows differently. It's been a...
Ignore, The entire context of our physical environment is cause, so other people are part of that context and thus casual, which only means they affec...
Truth is what your whole body tells you it is, for one can only know the world through the body, so truth is the body's truth and operates upon the pr...
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