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I want you to look into the foundations of the advice/insight you give here. It's that same old "everyone is responsible for themselves", even as you ...

Oh, he owns your teeth.

No, your resorting to neoliberalism shows your true colors. Yes, yes. The Jews, for example, have "created their meaning" "together with other people"...

The refugees at the border of Poland and Belarus, stuck there for days, neither state is letting them pass: https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/211...

This only applies in the person's relationships with their superiors, but not with their equals and their inferiors. The same philosopher or scientist...

Authoritarianism. Specifically, right-wing authoritarianism.

That's to teach humans their place and not to cling to things that ultimately aren't theirs.

That's a false dichotomy and mirepresentation.

Enter power games, hierarchy, and all that which eventually makes life so meaningless and so inauthentic.

You've been criticizing the order in which the various forms of theism developed, from polytheism to monotheism. Evolutionarily, there must be a reaso...

But not using them in an effort to spare them isn't helping either.

Is this so by design, or by accident? Like I said, I don't have high expectations of scientists, that's all. That doesn't mean that I think they're cr...

Back when I was going to college, there was a philosophy professor, who had, let's call that, "neglected hair" and usually wore a tattered old sweater...

Biology and philosophy are not comparable. If anything, one expects biologists and other scientists studying crude matter to be ... well, crude as per...

The human knee, one layer visible. What could possibly not go wrong! https://thekneeresource.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-24-at-...

Is that even the aim? Look at the academic texts published about other (academic) texts, people, and events. In one sense, academia exists in order to...

We already do that. It's called "popular culture". Once, there was the Theatre of the Absurd. Now, we're living it.

Why bother with philosophy when one is determined to be an ordinary redneck anyway. One thing that has always fascinated me about philosophers and peo...

IOW, political correctness. To say that the development of god-belief should have taken a different course is to argue against the Theory of Evolution...

Don't get all excited yet. The trial is far from over.

?? Why not? Says who?

Speak plainly. What exactly are your misgivings about Buddhism, and why?

Really? What is the holy grail of worms?

Externalize, externalize, externalize. Always use you-language. Millennia of philosophy down the drain.

The point isn't to "muddy the water". Concepts need to be clarified. In different religious contexts, the same word can mean different things. This is...

No, nothing so elaborate is needed to see the problems inherent in the desire to dominate. One only needs to be aware of the limits of one's resources...

There you go. Exactly like the slave owners, religious people, etc. etc. You define me. Objective reality is on your side. I am whatever you say that ...

It's a type of reasoning you're well familiar with and do not shy back from practicing. Look at yourself, the disparaging things you say about me. You...

I'm just saying that you have a terminology that is novel to me. As for the details of abandoning the hindrances: this is worked out very well in the ...

And the only one you're making happy with that is yourself, and even that not very much.

Is it indeed dehumanizing if there is disagreement about what is going on? The slave owners didn't think they were dehumanizing the slaves. Probably m...

Yes. What I'm seeing here are two things: 1. You display more sympathy and empathy for other people than average humans. 2. Your line of reasoning see...

No. Putin cares about ruling a country. Very few high politicians nowadays care about ruling. Most are just intoxicated with holding a position of pow...

on those distractions. If those are gone, those people crumble under the futility of the task. The real feat would be to face the boulder and the moun...

(Sorry, technical problems, the edit button doesn't work from my phone.) Being able to calmly endure all kinds of hardship is the holy grail for many ...

@"frank" @"Manuel"

And he made plans to get baptized into the Roman Catholic Church. So much for his integrity.

Too bad these happy sisyphuses refuse to share their secret to success!

It's evidence that there is someone who can outsmarten Trump. It's a consolation.

Really? I'd love to know who are those people.

No, there is no such universal should in Buddhism. All that the buddhas say is, if you want to be free from suffering, you should do such and such. Bu...

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sagga/index.html In Buddhism, a deva is not a permanent identity, it's a type of body that one can be born ...

I have never before heard of "responding to the hindrances". To "respond" to sensual desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and worry, and d...

Where did you get that phrase "responding to the five hindrances"? I've never heard it before. The hindrances as something to "respond to"?

I don't know. The Buddha of modern Buddhism is an entirely different figure from the one in the Pali Canon. To say that there are modern Buddhists who...

The reference is to Freud's idea that the goal of psychotherapy is to overcome being neurotically miseable and instead be ordinarily unhappy. I actual...

"Sourgraping" refers to the old tale of the fox and the grapes: The fox was eager to eat some grapes, but because they were too high on the vine for h...

In the case of the Buddha, his solution to the problem of suffering is so radical that it doesn't seem like a solution at all, but, rather, a whole ne...

If "ordinary unhappiness" is your aim ...

That depends on whether the Buddha of the Pali Canon really was sourgraping or not.