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How?

Doubt is a verbally expressible, informed, justified wavering between two options. When you doubt, you waver between A and B, and you know your reason...

I think this is simply what happens when science is popularized into scientism and people with a plebeian spirit (are allowed to) publicly express the...

The disagreement is in your mind, manufactured by you.

That's not doubt, that's caution. - - - That's not doubt, though. It's worry, uncertainty, indecision, that feeling of unease.

Which is very tricky when it comes to mental health, esp. on the part of the patient. For the therapy to proceed as intended by the therapist, the pat...

I can't quite articulate my concern with this as succintly as I'd like. So, for the time being, I'll limit myself to this: To use your example with th...

Then why your glum OP?

I'll just stick to the title of this thread.

Do you think this example with the car mechanic is analogous to a person visiting a mental health care professional? If yes, why?

That's not help then, it's a business transaction and should be understood as such.

*sigh* Make no mistake: I'm not writing this because of you or for you, but because of some other people reading this. The sad irony is that you're ma...

Read. I posted a link explaining what emptiness means in Theravada.

I wonder what kind of person would develop the kind of outlook on life and life advice as captured in the Enchiridion (and other works of the Stoics)....

No. I don't know if your optimism is genuine or a matter of being diplomatic. So here's that to figure out. I want to see the breadth and depth of you...

And while fighting strawmen of your own making, the real monsters take over!

Then list those commonalities.

You and your three monkeys again. Do you think that CBT or REBT would work on someone like Prince Siddhattha? I think it wouldn't. Would you say the r...

*sigh* When evaluating something that is proposed as a coping strategy, one has to test it to see how it performs under pressure. Read the god damn th...

When they intend to do harm. Sometimes, people make this intention clear, like when they say in public "I'm going to shoot Frank Miller dead". That lo...

No, you're lazy.

Can we live in doubt? In doubt of what? "To live in doubt of X" would mean to be able to stay focused on X for all of one's waking hours. That doesn't...

It shouldn't have only little to do with the degree. If someone gets to prance around demanding to be reffered to as Dr. So And So, then they better d...

My problem with Ellis is that he was a staunch humanist, without ever explaining the foundation of his view. You just have to believe that life is wor...

Surely slaves were ambitious? Or at least our particular slave here was. But here's the catch: How many Stoics actually attained ataraxia, aequanimita...

Okay, you could even genetically modify the sperm before it meets the ovum. If you did it with the intention that the man/the sperm would produce defe...

Imagine, for a moment, that I'm just trying to make the conversation more concise.

A doctor philosophiae is supposed to be someone who can teach others the love of wisdom. How many people with a Ph.D. do you know who qualify as peopl...

A little bit south of where I live, it's called "the devil's box".

I'd love to see these modern-day stoics (and the old ones, too, actually) cope with some real problems, like poverty on the verge of homelessness or g...

Sounds like something said by someone very powerful, someone on whom others depend for mercy.

In contrast to Buddhism, AN works on the premise that death (as is understood conventionally, death of the body) is the only real solution to the prob...

No.

Some do. But other times, this is how you interpret their claims when you have left your sphere of competence and ventured into foreign territory with...

And who are those "others"? Toddlers? Senile old men? Teenagers? Bored housewives? Poles? Argentinians? Jews? Stamp collectors? Chemistry teachers? Wh...

Indeed, it's tedious to have to repeat the same point over and over again. I haven't met any! Religious/spiritual knowledge is a field of knowledge in...

Duh, of course it's an important term! People have been fighting over it for millennia, so it definitely has to matter!

Why should religious/spiritual people hold the philosophical community as authoritative over the religious/spiritual community? No, your use of religi...

Well, that's your problem then. And what are you doing about it?

Oh, thanks, massa. Well, someone making the claim "No one can ever know that they have access to truth in any absolute sense" certainly presumes to ha...

No, the sad irony is that one can usually know that.

So ironic.

Eh? Sure, there are some religious/spiritual people who do that, but what I'm saying refers primarily to people like yourself, people who are proponen...

But how can you have such good reasons for selecting or dismissing evidence, if you're not actually an expert in the field?

I was referring to something Flannery O'Connor said: Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they do...

Indeed, something you should try every now and then.

Your self-confidence and authoritarianism are outstanding. You do very good in life.

Yes, universities don't stifle enough people.

Because women live to TOLO! And they must live to TOLO!

*sigh*