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It's a truism. It goes without saying that people don't want to suffer and that they look for ways out of suffering.

Then why did you address your reply to me?

Two types of deniers with whom it is misguided to talk about the science of man's negative impact on climate: Those who have an enormous sense of enti...

Too bad that in my question you don't recognize Joseph Campbell's question. He wondered how it is that one can tell whether one has indeed had a relig...

No. Since Early Buddhism considers being born as a human to be precious (because it is in the human form that one can most easily attain enlightenment...

Exactly. Makes one wonder why. Within the monotheistic religious doctrines that contain the concept of eternal hell, there are also specified factors ...

Again, no. It's that any kind of seeking happiness outside cannot provide satisfaction. Whether one seeks happiness through obtaining things, relation...

No, the idea is that any kind of existence is burdensome. It's about a dissatisfaction that would persist even if one had all the health, wealth, beau...

Heh. You're not so humble. How else is it possible to make moral judgments, other than on none's own evaluation of life? I disagree with both of you, ...

It's not that they don't recognize this task of subsisting, it's that they claim it's a matter of your choice, not of something forced on you. In thei...

This indicates a less than optimal fictionality competence.

The basic default of what a person must get out of life And if someone doesn't do that? You will do what? Nuke them? Draw and quarter them?

That's not what I asked you about. No, it's more systematic than that. Can't you tell? Killing oneself in a public place for a political reason is not...

If after all this time, you still think that ... then go fuck yourself.

On the contrary, it's not defensible. The different religions that have the concept of "enlightenment" or something like it have quite different ideas...

Such "stepping out of texts" is, for all ordinary practical intents and purposes, impossible. What you're doing is just ditching standard religious te...

Oh. Do tell how you distinguish between on the one hand, religious/spiritual/philosophically deep/profound experiences or insights, and on the other h...

Logical necessity is about abstractly defined relationships between terms. E.g. If A, then B. Physical causation is about figuring out between which p...

Same goes for you. You have no way of proving your own evaluation to be objective - it will always be relative to the affect of your limited experienc...

"Separation from reality" is a party line some people toe now that threatening others with eternal damnation isn't all that fashionable anymore. But t...

But this is true only for ordinary peope, not for the elites. The elites don't have to play by the rules.

It depends on how much you want to keep your job ...

Socioeconomic status. Pretty much everything. The class war is the only real war around.

I think this hatred is an argument against comparative religion. Why do you think it's an argument against religion? How does it do that, can you elab...

If the trans person is your superior at work, you must refer to them in whatever way they want to, and this has nothing to do with the trans issue per...

You're describing the experience of zoning out. It can certainly be pleasant enough, it can seem profound. But I question its value in relation to suf...

I have always understood religion to include epistemology, and other philosophical disciplines. Granted, some religions are more explicit about this t...

Neither. But simply for the sake of precision, I cannot just exclude the possibility that god exists.

It"s not clear how you get to that from what I said ... My point is that comparative religion offers concepts that are alien to actual religions, conc...

The moment we 'pull away from the participation', we stop being religious. What use is the 'broader context' to a religious person?

But what when no actual religious person believes those things? Comparative religion tends to offer concepts that are alien to actual practitioners. R...

@"schopenhauer1" I actually envy the antinatalists. They seem like really tough folks, or relatively well off socioeconomically, or both. I'm down wit...

I'm refering to the uselessness of self-mortification practices.

You seem to think other people are as much in the dark about god as you. That's bold.

Good for you. I'm not so lucky.

@"schopenhauer1" How much misery can a person take ...

The conviction that merely reducing suffering is not enough.

And the Nazi soldiers just took her word for gold? This is what is so unrralistic about this scenario: that the soldiers would just belive people. You...

Relative socioeconomic wellbeing shouldn't be underestimated. Not as a goal, nor in its consequences for the person's metaphysical outlook. It seems s...

No. When it comes to people deliberately killing people, this is because the killer had the means the motive, and the opportunity to do so. The Nazi s...

You seem to think that your choice can only be free if nobody else knows about it. But why? As long as their knowledge of your choice doesn't interfer...

The origin of humor is existential complacency.

What is the aim and purpose of comparative religion? That's because you didn't start off with purification of bodily actions, and purification of verb...

That would be religious moral historicism. But that's not the point of religious doctrine. Religious doctrines tend to claim to be "timeless", "not bo...

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That's what religiologists, culturologists, and the like do. Not what religious people do.

Talk about rigidity. The point is not to lie. You seem to think the point is to have the conversation on the other person's terms.

Not necessarily faith, but a goal (although, arguably, this can involve faith). By pursuing a goal, nihilism and amoralism are not options anymore. Be...

I objected to your saying because it goes too far.