Thinking

I appreciate your insight in the use of folk wisdom to verify the validity of applicable paradoxes. I will study more into folk wisdom and perhaps the...

Interesting. I do think there can be a 3rd perspective in a sense that you are simply observing a situation.

Both past and future only really exist in your mind. What happened in the past actually happened in each present moment, while the potential for the f...

Besides some evidence like trees mature over "time" and we revolve around the sun some days of the year. There is no absolute proof that the "past" ex...

I see your point, but then what is the cause for the present?

Since past and future are concepts of the mind and are ultimately illusory, then the only real "time" will always be the present. The reason being is ...

Thanks for letting me know and I am aware that speaking of Mysticism in a philosophy forum would probably be pointless. Good book source as well, I fo...

I will add a quote that "when you understand you cannot help but love". If that's true and if "you have to experience it to understand it" is true. Th...

Why can I not answer questions on this discussion:)

Is it more important to understand love or experience it? You will come to understand that love is quite understandable and acts in quite irrational w...

"No matter how omnipotent a monster may seem, once it is forgotten it ceases to exist altogether." -Anastasia.

The Ringing Cedars of Russia by Vladimir Megre

why is it that thought is so uncontrollable? Like a child throwing a temper tantrum whenever it gets bored?

You can intellectualize all you want about love. But, you would still not understand it. To understand it you must experience it, hence it is termed "...

Everything that exists in the universe has a state of being, which is nothing but pure awareness. Said in other words, giving your awareness to someth...

This world is a world full of outcomes and the spiritual world that ties with this world is the world of causes. Looking into the cause of all things ...

That's neat, I was wondering if there was an ancient philosopher who shared the same ideas on this as me in the past.

I like your wording there. I will add that to use the devices and methods of non-existence, or anti-mind and press it for good you gain a newfound pow...

I'm not saying your wrong, but your words fail to illustrate the more details I have already discussed in this forum. Just to be super clear my opposi...

Conceptually absolute extremes exist but in reality no. So long as there exists its other it can't truly be non-existent. to your latter question my a...

I guess I maybe wasn't clear enough, but yin yang has polarity. My opposites would be excess polarity or lack of polarity. As I said, you could descri...

It's not the same if you study yin-yang further my definition is different, it is also slightly different from what you explained

I did, but I can put it more straight-forward. Yin-Yang are extremes(like absolute black and white). While the union of opposites utilize both of thes...

You're extinguisher is well deserved. We seem to be on the same page for most of these concepts and I was able to extrapolate additional information f...

Taking it a step higher all matter can be boiled down to information or energy. Then, perhaps information and energy are synonymous. Okay, then it goe...

polarity would be black and white. my definition for yin yang would be the absence of black with an excess of white and same way visa versa. Similar b...

polarity as in north and south, male and female, left and right, attraction and repulsion, hot and cold. Although now that I am thinking about it, pol...

The main thing is that yin and yang denote polarity mainly. The Yin Yang I create is the one of excess and deficit, being and nothingness, mind and an...

I suppose the Dao under my definition would be this unity of opposites which create the universe and in turn, ourselves.

Exactly my point: it is not a complete balance otherwise there would be a neutrality of the two and nothing would happen and the life wouldn't exist, ...

So far I've heard of only theories in which everything has always existed/exists or nothing exists/existed. These are two opposite extremes of thinkin...

Thanks for informing me

My meditations on beauty has been this: Beauty and perfection are synonymous with each other. So as is what is beautiful and perfect. All life is perf...

Honestly I see the possibility for both of these being correct pretty high. Perhaps your both right? or perhaps we can only guess which one is right a...

True scientific knowledge has existed for a very long time, before the philosophers even. Science in itself (to know the properties of reality) is not...

I agree with you and believe you. concepts even in spirituality are taught by many through analogies such as lotus flower and enlightenment concepts a...

I don't believe that is a very technical definition but I think I know what you are trying to get at. To keep it short, it sort of is like people are ...

Interesting, so the boy will associate his senses with the thoughts he is thinking about in that experience. So what if he is thinking of something of...

I'm afraid someone would say something like this. This simplicity of the question really can catch up to you. So, then, feelings would be the most bas...

I can respect the man who gardens and bakes bread and helps his neighbors. I'm sure more than half of the men on this forum don't even think of doing ...

that is called planned obsolescence.

I can't tell if you are joking or not

perhaps, have you heard Plato say that children are born into the world with all knowledge but have to remember the things they will forget throughout...

Maybe have a "don't buy shit" week in the month of January too.:yum:

How about trying something new then if you feel like you've answered all the questions of reality correctly.

That is a great problem, due to our lack of ability to change and always striving for truth. When you have been studying science for 40 years and all ...

It goes to show how important philosophy is even in this modern day and age. But the current worldview sees philosophy as a joke I am afraid.

Thank you for answering my question.

I can agree with you but also having people who have had a more privileged experience just adds another neat dynamic in life, so I try not to despise ...

so, then, what is your philosophy on philosophy?