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What does this have to do with good communication and communicating intelligibly?

I sympathize with the skeptics, though. The available accounts of the recollections of past lives are, at best, confusing, opening up more questions, ...

Talk about ivory towers ... People, Trump and co. really could win.Then the fun will be over.

If people are going to make up their own meanings of terms, how can they then hope to communicate?

That's because you're trying too hard.

I'm not sure we're on the same page here. I'm talking about the need to "grow a pair", to "show elbows" when it comes to interacting with others in re...

Mkay, but then who's to blame if such a creative person doesn't have intelligible communications with others?

See, power in numbers.

Being creative, or just being Humpty-Dumpty-when-I-use-a-word-it-means-exactly-what-I-choose-it-to-mean?

It's the democratic order itself that is the greatest danger to the democratic order. Because the democratic order is ultimately about power in number...

What I don't get is this: Why is it that scientifically inclined people wouldn't even dream of talking about terms like "gravity", "force", "mass" wit...

The Buddhist monk Thanissaro Bhikkhu also makes a case for rebirth here: The Truth of Rebirth: And Why It Matters for Buddhist Practice.

Because there is suffering. The usual course of a person's life is that it swings from grief to joy, and again to grief, and again joy, and so often, ...

At stroke of midnight, Trump shall win. I am certain that it is just a matter of time before Trump or his children win the presidential elections.

But who is the Christian's neighbor?

True, I dismiss them too, but for other reasons than most. I dismiss them because they are not relevant in terms of insight into how to make an end to...

They are clearly aware of some shadows, sometimes, and not of others, at other times. If a shadow suddenly appears, the cat becomes interested or even...

This bloody victim mentality again.

Are there any Christians and believers here who could speak up?

Oddly similar to how the capitalists and the bourgeois do things.

Source?

A recipe for wasting time, and for confusion.

Then why are you discussing this?

I think looking for evidence of rebirth/reincarnation or that consciousness can operate outside of and independently from the physical body is a dead ...

Presumably you mean something when you use the word "reincarnation". So what do you mean by it?

As far as people are concerned who proclaim to be members of a particular religion, the above can be ascertained, by checking in what way their testim...

Experience is not enough, though. It takes a certain self-confidence, a "big ego", if you will, to trust one's experience over and above the comments,...

Absolutely. It's peculiar how otherwise intelligent people can turn into morons once the topic is reincarnation/rebirth. (Personally, I myself don't e...

I am very disappointed in you. I thought you better than you've shown yourself here. You apparently believe terms can be understood on their own someh...

Read with more precision. Now, did Thanissaro Bhikkhu actually say "life is not suffering", or did you perhaps miss out on a word? And clearly, you do...

Or a sitting one.

Yeah, being individualists, they sure have an awful lot to say and need an audience. Hm.

(I'm not a Christian philosopher.) People should fear the Lord -- the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. God shouldn't be treated as one's buddy.

What do you intend to do about it in the next 24 hours? Unlike some, I have not fallen asleep at the wheel. Referred to for the n-th time: Life Isn't ...

Perpetrated by scientists who want to rule over other people. Or, to be more charitable: Bad physics is the result of the proletarization/plebeificati...

Thanks for the find! The discussion of recollection of past lives starts on page 404 here. It includes the differences between the ways different cate...

You're a semantic atomist.

I answered your question. Why did you ignore it? But you're like someone who claims to want to learn and talk about "gravity", and then insists on cat...

It makes for standard Hare Krishna doctrine: And they claim (at the link) that they can prove all of this with the scientific method.

Some people drink with buddies in pubs, and some discuss stuff on internetz forumz. Oh, there are things to read into this, things that drive the OP! ...

For one, the State owns your body, literally.

I asked about doctrinal evidence of the spontaneous recollection of past lives. As in, whether Buddhist doctrine makes allowances for the possibility ...

I learned the very hard way what can be rightfully expected of people and what can't. People don't want to be asked, much less forced to be charitable...

I just don't see that freedom. Where is it?

Stop confusing yourself and go study some actual Buddhist doctrine instead of relying on popular pseudobuddhist soundbites. In Early Buddhism, there a...

?? How do you get to that from what I said??

Does science want to be the arbiter of the truth?

Oh? So what are children free to do? Piss and shit their diapers? And scream? And what are they free from? Certainly not from aging, illness, and deat...

Does Analayo's book provide doctrinal evidence of the spontaneous recollection of past lives?

It's futile to talk about a topic like reincarnation/rebirth or recollection of past lives without first defining the terms, or by categorically ignor...