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And how do they match "how things really are"?

Because it's silly, to say the least! It's not how people generally function!

No, you're like someone who reads only a few entries from a language dictionary but claims to be proficient in the language. If all paths would lead t...

It's a rip-off of Goethe's supposed last words -- "Mehr nicht??" (ie. 'Nothing more??') (The official party line is that he said "Mehr Licht!" (ie. 'M...

"That's it??"

I was asking for _your_ motivation in particular.

This is not a stance generally held by philosophers or scientists.

A special kind of satisfaction. Yes. In order to test drive it, to see what objections to it others would raise, and as such, where the flaws and vuln...

Why on earth would anyone want to do that??

And why is that? What do they get from it?

You do realize how immensely impractical this is, do you? I'm sure you do. I also doubt you practice it consistently. You aren't all that concerned ab...

The thing is: You're not doing your homework. I'm tired of referring you to suttas for the questions you ask. There are Buddhist answers to the questi...

And the patient is, of course, by default "the fool who thinks he knows".

Yet both religious apologists as well as their a(nti)religious counterparts tend to dismiss this approach, arguing that "compelling reasons by one's o...

What's so hard to understand? What do _you_, as an antinatalist, get if other people don't have children? There must be something in it for you, or yo...

And yet doctors and other medical professionals routinely expect their patients to blindly trust them and obey them. They hate an informed patient.

This contradicts/undermines what you said earlier:

Ha! Good point!

Incomplete how? Because it's a short paragraph from a glossary? Every term in that paragraph has numerous references in the suttas and in the commenta...

This doesn't solve anything, it just shifts the whole burden on the neurotypical vs. neurodivergent distinction, taking it for granted and taking for ...

Cultivation in accordance with the Buddha's teachings leads to a particular and irreversible ability to discern Dhamma. Without this cultivation, a pe...

The existence of suffering is, for some people, proof that there is something fatally wrong with the universe.

The mistake you're making at the most fundamental level is assuming that it is people who produce other people, with nothing else required. When actua...

I'd refer to the emic-etic distinction. When talking about the mind, we talk about the emic. When talking about the brain, we talk about the etic.

Pffft!

There is only one good reason to believe in God, as far as I can see, and it goes like this: "(A small child thinks to himself): My parents feed me, c...

They don't consider it their problem, wherefore the following is moot.

Motive is essential to establishing whether an act committed is a crime or not.

Philosophy, ie. love of wisdom entails rejecting foolishness and lowliness. Sometimes, this seems to work out in less than democratic ways ...

Well, and whose problem is that?

?? That's a bit of strange religious epistemology ... Why do you want to "decide whether God exists or not"?

And yet they don't consider it their problem. You consider it their problem -- and that is your problem. And whose problem is that?

David believed that The Highest Power In The Universe was on his side. This is what makes him different than the ordinary person.

In that case, we're talking about symbols: A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, obje...

Because that's how we define "thoughts". That's why we speak of "thoughts" and "feelings", two separate things. *Nice typo there. :)

Of course he did: pa?icca-samupp?da Dependent co-arising; dependent origination. A map showing the way the aggregates (khandha) and sense media (?yata...

But maybe the sins they confessed openly were just the tip of the iceberg, an effort to hide their graver sins?

In defense of H., such linguistic supremacism and exclusivism has been a trend in many European nations. In the light of this, learning a living forei...

Not at all. It is beneath the consequent moral realist's dignity to discuss such things. The pudding proof of consequent moral realism is precisely in...

IOW, you have knowledge of God? First-hand, certain knowledge of God? Presumably, there are God's terms. And whose problem is that? Do you believe in ...

No, the problem is that you're taking up a problem that is not yours to begin with. If you don't believe in God, then the presumed, claimed, or factua...

If it can be thought, it can be put into words.

I'm trying to establish what the motivation of the AN is. Because I suspect that this would be the quickest way to undercut absolute AN.

It just goes to show that those people are judging everything by their own standards. But the moment one introduces God to the discussion, in order to...

I'm not sure that changes anything. My native language is very verb-centred. It's a language that allows for a great variety of word formation pattern...

"Nothing bad" by whose standards of nothing bad? Man's or God's?

The consequent moral realist has suspended all self-doubt and anything that could induce it.

Shall we revisit the Psalms, wade knee-deep in the blood of David's enemies, to see that there is plenty of justification for hostility and violence i...

Hindu monotheism or polytheism with one major god validate such claims. But since those theisms don't threaten with eternal damnation for making the w...

Would need to? Why? Who or what are theists that atheists would need to justify themselves to them? Other than that, I'm an atheist, and I have one de...