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You painted the internal surface of the horn, but not the external one, which is bigger, even if just infinitesimally. How is this accounted for?

Freedom of religion as freedom of delusion? And worse, "choose to believe" -- IOW, epistemic trivialism as foundation for religious choice?! /facepalm...

So you're optimistic like that? Tell me more! On the grounds of what do you think that our philosophical resistance is not futile in the long run?

No, for me here, it has nothing to do with "offences to the purity of the Buddha's words". You keep bringing this up, but you're barking up the wrong ...

I'm not the one making stuff up about what nirvana is or isn't, nor putting words into the mouth of a religious figure. Unlike some.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.

Well, karma's a bitch.

Are you black by any chance?

This sounds a bit like the "curse of knowledge/expertise": The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when an individual, communicating wi...

Nope. I'm not the one making stuff up.

So all our philosophical resistance is futile.

Yet the world has worked that way for millennia. Do you recall a day of life when you didn't walk on eggshells? Honestly? This is simply small town me...

And back when it was only the elites who had access to higher education. It seems that the elites somehow figured out what is proper to say and what i...

I suspect that the free speech clause in the US might have been actually motivated in a similar way as freedom of religion. Namely, I once heard the o...

The method of questions and answers is one of the ways to organize one's thoughts. "Where have I put my red socks? -- In the bottom drawer." In this m...

So you don't have personal experience, nor can you quote actual sources, but still you can make claims about nirvana ...

Really, you live in a society where people don't have to walk on eggshells all the time??!

It's not possible to do so anyway, so the whole idea is a non-starter. Deplatforming would be possible if there would exist neutral communication aven...

Yes. It's called "being civilized".

The early Buddhist teachings on karma and rebirth are _not_ mere "historical trappings". One may ask: "Can we strip the Buddha's teachings of any ment...

And now they are gong to actively, governmentally champion stifling free speech!

And yet they rule the world.

Sarcasm travels poorly online. I was agreeing with you. I don't know why some people believe that if it doesn't hurt, it isn't the truth. Personally, ...

Yes. If it doesn't hurt, it ain't the truth. I was even told once, and I remember this verbatim: A truth that doesn't condemn the one who speaks it is...

I think this "just be true to yourself" (BTW, funny how people love to quote that line from Hamlet, when it's said by the one of the dumbest character...

Oh god, no. Where do people get such ideas ... Eh ...? No, one most certainly doesn't need to read Heidegger for that. Oh dear. If you like to questio...

Bear in mind that people's compassion and generosity are not infinite. So be careful how you appeal to them.

*sigh* Are you enlightened?

This too, but I was thinking the other way around: "The world is real and important, but the individual is not. The individual is an intruder, an impo...

I don't see how it is possible to separate between ethics and metaphysics -- thinking that they are unrelated. I think metaphysics dictates ethics; et...

(You say this so nicely.) Yes, the assumption of separation between self and the world. It seems to me that an essential part of being "civilized" is ...

I would think that everyone thinks so, at least intuitively. It's not like people actually confuse words for reality. Confusion emerges when people sa...

So the questioner is applying the Socratic method to themselves?

Do you mean the things you ascribed to the Buddha? No.

The perfect Humpty Dumpty land, then!

Do you mean that when it comes to things intellectual, asking questions is always a matter of the Socratic method?

One cannot just ascribe to someone some words just because they "make sense to one". That's bestial. "This makes sense to me, therefore, said it" --??...

I was being cynical. It seems that the only way to live up to the American ideals of freedom and responsibility would be to abolish the United States ...

Like they say, The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist.

The opposite: I was expected to believe, on pain of physical punishment, that the world is a good place.

So he was acquitted, as expected. Now what?

Such states are trivially possible. Just ask any meth addict. The salient point is, and this is where veracity issues come into play, 1. whether such ...

The US is a free country and everyone is responsible for themselves.

But it _is_ _their_ argument. Most religious people have come to believe their religious doctrine before they were even old enough for their capacitie...

At 27 posts, you should be able to already post links. There are all kinds of things circulated around as being "the teachings of the Buddha". One wou...

That would be more Mahayan-ish. It's ironic, to say the least, that the one Buddhist religion that maintains that the world needs saving and which is ...

That's a nifty princple! If a person does something that would normally be prosecuted, but they do it close to the end of their term, in a time-window...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words -- here's one, with a few words to it: https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Image-from...

Again, what is your canonical support for this claim? Are you enlightened? Have you attained at least stream-entry? If not, you have to base your unde...

I think it's consistent with early Buddhism and Theravada, but not with Mahayana/Vayrajana.