Everyone I know who claims to believe in an afterlife believes that they will either go to heaven or be reborn as some fancy, exalted being. In fact, ...
Is "no reason" ever an acceptable answer? Depends on the relationship between the person asking the question and the person replying "No reason". The ...
To name just a few: They get bored more easily by the music. They miss out on important artistic elements. They contribute to the culture of shallowne...
Ideally, yes. No. Over time, those differences drifted us apart. There is apolitically correct notion that one should be able to be friends with prett...
Hm. A black American celebrity making remarks about race. Tricky. If a white American celebrity were to say the same things, it might have come across...
At this point, with this all-too-relevant example, we'd have to venture onto some very delicate territory. But all the other examples in which your re...
*sigh* Presumably our aim in ethics/morality is that people would coexist in relative harmony. But this relative harmony can be brought about in many ...
To me, her spiritual quest is simply a spiritual quest, the way so many other people are on a spiritual quest. It's just that in the case of a celebri...
Why? Codependent people, for example, engage in behaviors that indicate a disposition of predominant concern for others, but we don't consider codepen...
So let's listen to a nice little piece from the classical canon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot6bhMED5JQ Is your life any better now? Have your ex...
Being born and raised into a life of money and influence can make one hear things differently. If one has had the opportunity to listen to classical m...
Like I said, I'm talking about the distinction between you-language and I-language. You-language is an attempt to rule over others. Some people who us...
I don't think it's all that important per se to understand the old Greco-Roman world correctly (this seems to be impossible anyway), but rather to con...
I think this is, sadly, mostly wishful thinking. In real life, martial arts skills can often be of very little use, because the assailant is likely go...
Of course. The US will strike first, deny it, and blame Russia. For over 70 years, the West has worked hard to build up an image of Russia as The Bad ...
That's ironic because on the ground level, whether or not you have a pain that justifies a visit to the ER or to the doctor at all is a matter of pers...
It's not clear where you're going with this. But what you're putting forth so far excuses, for example, the way the Nazis treated the Jews during WWII...
You don't say. In that case, the GR is a liability, not an asset. Or in the best case scenario, its only value is in that it can function as an ego bo...
Beware: Mainstream psychology has a definitive answer to your question: you're simply depressed. The normal way of being human is not to think about t...
Not just any death. In some cultures, it is valued to have a "good death". For a soldier, that means dying in combat. From a brief overview article: S...
For the admiration of skill and stamina, one can also watch ballet, or breakdancing, or do gardening. Etc. Watching fights that don't go and end the w...
I'm referring to using you-language, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-message One uses you-language when one states one's feelings, beliefs, values...
"Spiritual" is a fitting word. It conveys the vagueness of the "spiritual" endeavor and sets the task at hand, namely to clarify things for oneself. I...
But the problem with this is that when one lacks the insight into another's capabilities, one doesn't know thusly, one doesn't know one lacks said ins...
Do that, and you will be perceived as a pansy, and exploited. So the GR is asking you, in the case where you're black and have a KKK neighbor, to acce...
In that case, those artists are confused, to say the least. They want to make money with their art (and a lot of money, at that), and they want it all...
To give the impression that we're in a democracy; or "so that others may get a chance as well". None of those were goody two-shoes prior to their asce...
I don't see it that way, and I don't see those people as "haughty". The elite have different cultural and practical predispositions than the lower cla...
Women are not the kind of innocent victims of men as so many people try to portray them. This is a highly controversial point, hence it requires some ...
In the film, the character played by Gary Oldman at first passionately listens to classical music. In the scene I referred to, he says: You don't like...
No, you're reading that into my words. Yes. No, awareness alone is too general. Awareness of what? It's not clear what exactly you mean by "awareness"...
Do you actually know (of) any people with whom this was the case? Have you known people before they've attained a position of power, so that you can n...
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