The government has the power and the authority to subdue any and all opposition. That's why it is the government. If the government believes that it h...
They are not simply rare freak cases. There are many more of them. It's that once a negative side effect of a vaccine is officially added to the list ...
What makes it worse is that most of the interaction takes place in a text medium, black on white, so there is no danger of mishearing or misrememberin...
Brother Wood, I already know you hold a weak supposal of my worth. What would you expect of me? That in weak plebeian fashion I defend myself, work ha...
Not as far as I know. High art, art proper, has always been about suprapersonal truths, ie. universal truths. Tying an art work specifically to its au...
I think Pop means conscious in the sense of "conscious of X". It's not a commonly used formulation, but a very basic one, so much so that it seems red...
Education can also systematically destroy a person's trust in their own experience. This is what they make a point of beating out of a person in the c...
They do work that way, when it comes to things like art, culture, society, religion. These terms don't work the way a term like "table" or "astronaut"...
I see many art works as actually dealing with philosophical problems, but the artists themselves and their audience often don't see it that way. In ma...
People are getting strokes from the covid vaccines, they are dying from the covid vaccines. What do you have to offer to the survivors and their close...
Is he really an "anti-vaxxer", or is it just your projection that he is? You yourself have implicitly accused another poster of being an "anti-vaxxer"...
No, this is taking the discussion in the wrong direction. There actually exist laws about issues of public health. The matter is largely settled, lega...
I doubt that there's anyone who has that kind of phobia (or it's extremely rare). But people generally do have an overwhelming and insurmountable fear...
There are contraindications for vaccination. Here the list from a Slovenian hospital -- https://www.zd-ms.si/ I can't translate the whole list, but it...
Yesterday in Slovenia, a 20-year old woman died after complications from getting vaccinated with the Janssen vaccine. The government temporarily stopp...
But we are not actually being legally coerced into anything. The pressure to get vaccinated against covid is informal; there is no legal foundation fo...
But the covid vaccines are not actually being made mandatory, in the actual legal sense of the word. On principle, a medication that legally has the s...
As things stand, every human on the planet is subject to some government, so, yes. (Even those people who don't have citizenship; and there is, on pri...
You'll need to ask those who claim that everything is determined by the past. Such as the contemplatives & brahmans who hold such a view: Thus such se...
Do you think that those passages are evidence that there is luck? By "dogmatic", do you refer to "going beyond what one knows by oneself and what is a...
Prospective truth lover, heal thyself! I have not forgotten how hastily you assigned me to the anti-vaccer camp. You've displayed there an amazing lac...
Compare what the Buddha has actually said (or at least what is generally accepted in Buddhism to be the word of the Buddha): The popular rendition of ...
Indeed, because according to the constitutions of many countries, one's body is by default considered private and granted the right to exist. Legally,...
I'm talking about life always being a matter of life and death anyway. It's a fact that people typically close their eyes to and behave as if all was ...
Of course. No. If you would be born and raised in an old-fashioned European culture, one of the things that the educational system (even a public educ...
Not "badly chosen". I dare you to find a Buddhist story that actually illustrates luck. You can choose from any Buddhist tradition you like, including...
Indeed, it isn't. But that doesn't make it a DIY hobby either. If you say that the Buddha claimed something, you need to provide a canonical reference...
A "high aim"? No, a most basic one. So we can do what? Remain on autopilot? Eat, drink, and make merry? This is supposed to be the whole point of life...
That doesn't answer my questions. Why do the vocal pro-vaccers complain about having empathy or compassion for the unvaccinated? Why do they complain ...
It's always a matter of life and death anyway. Where some people go wrong is in assuming that this covid crisis is something special, rare, extraordin...
The pleasure that people get from accusing another to be irrational, evil, bad, weak, etc. should not be underestimated. To ask them to give up that p...
Classical music just must -- must -- have an element of snobism to it. Trying to make it seem like something that can be accessible to plebeians -- th...
What do you expect me to say? You make a claim about the Buddha, and I ask for a canonical reference for said claim. You don't provide it. You see no ...
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