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You'll need to say more. If Tom has holes in all his socks, he needs to buy new socks. What must Tom do now?

But why? Why not just leave them to their own devices?

Sure. But what is the use of this? It's not as if understanding that things look differently from different perspectives is going to bring about world...

It's understandable that many people are exhausted from the pandemic and feel a desperate need for a solution. But exhaustion and despair, no matter h...

And what power does that criticism have? None. It's not going to change anything. It's an idle freedom.

Believing one is epistemically independent of other people. Ethical and Epistemic Egoism and the Ideal of Autonomy Epistemic Dependence Okay for now. ...

Nobody said it was. Why would/should it be? Because you have attained some higher knowledge that allows you to know such things. I don't know whether ...

The American idea of democracy, as far as I understand it, is about obtaining a position of power through the majority of votes. This is how a capital...

Yet the idea of corruption is what keeps the hope alive that there is something more, something true to all this. How can you classify something as "c...

Why are such things considered as being a problem of logic, rather than a problem of the particular premises that are being used? It's not clear how s...

The BIV scenario takes for granted that there is an outside and an inside.

You don't even know what my stance is, and you don't bother to know it. You just judge. Authoritarianism at its best.

Yes, I'm aware of this. One of the things that is happening is that efforts to capitalize the pandemic are being masked by emphasizing to place the bl...

Oh, like the idea of doing yoga in order to "improve" one's "sex life" or "business negotiation skills". The horror, the horror!

Whatever. There you go. You don't even bother to inform yourself what the arguments for hesistancy about vaccination are. You just spew your contempt ...

There is a general plebeification of mankind going on. There was a time, and some people still think so, that living without honor is futile.

Sure. I'm saying there are different ideas about what counts as moral. Morality, as understood from a Darwinist perspective (mainly in the sense of "l...

Yes. If the governments are so damn sure of the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, then why didn't they push the makers of the vaccines early on to p...

Matters of public health should not be left to individual citizens to decide, simply because they are too complex for an ordinary citizen to have the ...

Not moral by humanist standards. But by Darwinist ones -- sure.

A thorough awareness of European cultural history from primary education on and upwards. Literature used to be taught in a temporal linear manner star...

Thank you for the correction. That's just it: In order to become religious/spiritual, one has to kick one's intelligence, wisdom, and discernment to t...

Toward you, perhaps, because you're male. There's a saying: Nobody can hate a woman as much as another woman. As long as you make the first step, righ...

What a strange idea of "thinking for yourself". I think "thinking for yourself" is about epistemic autonomy, ie. being autonomous in how one knows/bel...

So he did something similar as, for example, Christian theologians did and do: Adopt a religious foundation and build on it. I see nothing special abo...

Sure. Wait till you get age specific hearing loss. If you're the typical male, you'll lose the high frequencies first, so that you won't hear female v...

Perhaps the people who choose to have children have some damn good reasons for doing so that the rest of us just isn't privy to. Perhaps there is some...

If one is "sublimely confident and perfectly convinced", then no further demonstration is necessary. How can you possibly know that?? To rightly say w...

Then we shall pay him back in his own coin. Well then India wasn't all that spiritual to begin with, eh.

One should meditate etc. for the purpose of the complete cessation of suffering. Granted, it is said that up until the point of stream entry, one cann...

Eh? I'm saying that it is not at all likely that he arrived at his certainty about those religious ideas by those same rational arguments with which h...

Nah. It's not that uncommon even for top athletes to drop out of big competitions. But the narrative about sports have changed over time. Listen esp. ...

Hic Rhodus, hic salta!

Of course. It's the old conman's art, taken to the next level. I've been saying this for quite some time now.

If we drop our humanist sensitivities, a whole new world of opens up, a world of new ways of conceiving goodness and justice. Capitalism has been teac...

That's because the children must pay for the sins of their parents!

I believe that if God exists, he is a Trumpista. Seriously. It took me a long time to get to this point.

If one is a massive badass -- excuse the language -- motherfucker, then one can do so. We humans tend to judge God by our own standards, as different ...

This, however, points at the inherent unfairness of the situation. So God created mostly scrap?? In his infinite goodness and wisdom, he chose that mo...

These things are culturally specific, though. For example, we can't relate to Indian or Japanese music the way the natives do, the way they intend it....

Then you're doing it wrong. There should be some use to them.

Oh, how fresh you sound! How romantic! The upshot of being born and raised in old-fashioned Europe is that one did get a classical education. But it's...

But what is the use of "understanding the meaning of those teachings in a kind of embodied way"? You said elsewhere you have attained a "greater degre...

Why would you need to demonstrate it? If one had truly come to a spiritual attaiment, that would be the one knowledge, the one attainment that one wou...

Meh. Those folks mastered the art of humility. It is the mark of a plebeian mind to take things literally, to take them as if they were said straightf...

And these people make more money in leading one retreat than you do in a year. Or ten years. Not negligible.

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We are children of the State to whom we owe obedience. Or the State beats it into us. It is said that the spiritually advanced are generally beyond an...

To understand this, we need to go back a bit from Mahler, to the music of the Classical period, notable composers being Mozart and Beethoven. The musi...

It's not like Gautama cares what you think about him and his abilities. You know, just like you -- In that case, you're still in the positions of vict...