How? Reducing the work week is a complex problem requiring a long-term perspective in order to be solved. Antinatalists, on principle, can't have such...
I already had some negative side effects after vaccination. If next time around, I get some more negative side effects, will the science fans tell me,...
But philosophers don't all believe that our existence is absurd; in fact, many, if not most, don't. As for the mismatch: If anything, philosophers are...
Which could make it illegal. I'm not convinced about this anger angle. It could be anger, or it could be disgust, revulsion, righteous indignation, st...
Meh. Just don't think about it, don't try to understand it, don't analyze it. Just memorize the proper spelling and the proper pronounciation.* That's...
I didn't read it as a disagreement. You were approaching the conversation from the perspective that we're disagreeing. I wasn't. I'm not interested in...
I can't take him seriously. He fidgets too much, his surname spelled properly means a type of bug that lives in beans, and spelled with z's means 'tit...
But some (many) don't want to be eusocial with others, they don't want to eusocially build eachother's faith in humanity with them. For example, just ...
I think it is sad. With the scriptures talking so much about gradual training, then, in practice, I expect gradual training, not a need for "love at f...
Ideally, they should be, yes, provided enough test subjects and time. Surely a person's psychological state and philosophical outlook factors in how s...
Oh, you think I joined, got initiated? Nothing of that kind. I read up on things first, and since that alone was inconclusive for me, not enough to ma...
Superior IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-news-for-the-highly-i...
Not necessarily. Slavery is instrumental to a type of argiculture or industry that is aimed at producing a lot of the same thing or completing large p...
Entitlement. "I simply have the right to express my opinions, and other must listen to them." Duty. "I simply must express my opinions, it's what a pe...
I genuinely don't understand why an antinatalist would care about any worldly cause. If life as such is so bad that it would be better to never have l...
Actually, I was thinking of the French people who live in the fancy homes pictured in magazines about interior design. Such corporate mindfulness is p...
Look it up yourself then. It's from the Sn. And welcome to the wonderful world of free translations. The point is that the Buddha would not say the so...
I mean, if you're not going to procreate and are not young anymore either, then why does it matter to you what happens to other people (such as whethe...
I think it depends on the context in which one sees this practice. For a relatively wealthy and healthy person who doesn't have a problem with getting...
I want to know the role of the placebo effect in all this. Also, I want to know inhowfar people end up with more severe symptoms, depending on their p...
To whom is the noumenal important? To those who believe in a kind of transcendence, ie. the religious, the spiritual, the theists. Those who have a st...
Two things: One, on the ground level, when one is actually involved in Buddhism and Buddhist life, esp. when one approaches Buddhism as an outsider wh...
When people are raised into God belief from early on, the issue of questioning the acceptance of the religious claims of their parents becomes moot. T...
In Buddhism, there is fierce intersectarian fighting going on about this issue. Read another translation of this: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/K...
Most complete available online: https://suttacentral.net/pitaka/sutta A selection: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas...
I think it's more or also that you have not experienced sectarianism among Buddhists first hand. Witnessing this sectarian fierceness, the sheer wrath...
It very much is. Most ideologies/philosophies/religions propose that there are things which should not be, beings which should not exist, which must o...
I replied to your post saying Indeed, in some Buddhist schools/lineages, "devotion (attachment) to deities" is considered relevant for liberation. Lik...
Could you reference a Buddhist source that teaches this? What you're describing sounds like what could be found in some modern secular Buddhist teachi...
It's how we use it in my native language, to denote something shapeless or which changes shape, something undefined, non-specific. I've noticed Englis...
Are you sure? When I watch US films, shows, etc. the characters there usually appear to be conscious of class differences; in fact, class difference i...
An amoeba (/??mi?b?/; less commonly spelled ameba or amœba; plural am(o)ebas or am(o)ebae /??mi?bi/), often called an amoeboid, is a type of cell or u...
Not sure what you're talking about. Controlling the expression of one's emotions is common in traditional cultures, as well as in modern times ("emoti...
Doing so appears to be specifically religiously motivated, as a retrospective (presumably, retroactive) justification for holding a particular religio...
Yet none of the people who believe "there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe" do so because George Carlin told them so. He's just ...
The working term is defensive pessimism. It's strange though, because in psychological research, defensive pessimism appears to be implicitly conceptu...
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