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Fool, You had to know you get stuck with that handle--lol!! You are of course right, no suffering is involved, whether psycological or physical. You m...

Major cute dog! Human action simply is not possible, everything you do is a reaction, and your motivations come from mostly the outside world, but one...

I agree there is much suffering involved in most deaths, but there are those the gods smile upon and it's BINK, the lights are out. The big sleep is g...

Throughout one's life there is a common avoidance in pondering death, and more so the more one is full of life's vitality. I have found some peace wit...

Just what absolutes are you referring to?

HI Praxis, To be motivated to eat, for every true need of an organism there seems to be the counterpart in the physical world to fulfill that need. Wh...

Given the temporality of everything around us, what makes you think the universe is eturnal? Sorry if I misenterpreted your perspective as being bibil...

Your point here about the adoption of a myth, an unlikely method alone to find truth, simply to obtain existential comfort, is a betrayal of your inte...

In my intro post, I did mention no downside where there is no form of suffering to the process. I am afraid I am unfamiliar with the references you ma...

HI Praxis, Well as far as being locked into a conditional pattern, the roles of both earth as object and you as subject are iron clad for both you and...

Sorry you lose me right way when you get biblical. I do not have any respect for it.

The only true meaning of conscious existence is that it is the working relationship between subject and object. Consciousness is perception, is reacti...

This is about how organisms function relative to the physical world he/she lives in, there are particular functions to be recognized in the relation o...

Praxis, EXCELLENT!! You caused red to do something as part of his greater world, but to you, it was a reaction to Red, and through your reaction, you ...

To try and makes sense of this cause business, place yourself in the centre of your universe---not mine--lol!!!! Experience for yourself what moves yo...

Each organism is part of the world, such that other organisms become objects in the relation between subject and object. So, in your experience, other...

The world is cause, and organisms are ALL reactive creatures, give me one example of human action, there just isn't any.

WOW, a most impressive response from all, not just a bunch of pretty faces--lol!!! Still recovering from my grandfather's passengers -- going to make ...

Humanity is a function of earth and like all other creatures, humanity is a reactionary creature and that spells out, a function of earth affecting an...

OK! The argument is this, that there is no such thing as human action, there is but human reaction as such life is a function of earth. All life on ea...

Hi apokrisis, Something simply being is an object of possible affect upon a conscious being/read subject. The old philosophical statement that subject...

Hi Manuel, The mind is what we think of as active in sleep, working the night shift. If apparent reality is a reaction to the affects of the physical ...

Reaction is a response on a biological and/or behavioural level to an affect, and that which is the ultimate affect for a conscious subject is the wor...

Yeah, I guess that is why they would post just one sentence--LOL!! Actually I think a lot of people would find much to object to. I was feeling a bit ...

Hi Manuel, Well most people I've discussed this with disagree that perception is reaction. Personally, I believe that apparent reality is a biological...

apokrisis Yes, indeed, but probably there is a scan involved. You do not seem to disagree that perception is reaction, is experience, is consciousness...

My thinking on the matter stems originally from first-hand experience, many times growing up I would have seizures and blackout upon awakening for a b...

What is moral? Self interest of a collective.

I believe humanity would be shocked to really appreciate what it is as a multicellular organism, it is a community. Individuality, the sense of self i...

Truth by what circumstances? If it is lying in enterpersonal relationships, often it is said to be done so as to not hurt the feelings of others, when...

We are all the same at birth, meaning without identity, born into the world as simply a constitution in whatever state. What becomes of you is what ha...