praxis

One of the three discussions I started on this forum was about TDS. I think it's simply a method to invalidate any criticism of Trump, in the minds of...

I think you've misunderstood. I gave an example of bullying without legitimate criticism or your definition of TDS, if I follow your reasoning. You've...

So you believe that, for instance, people differ in their perception of a geometric circle, or rather in their concept of a circle? Also, do you belie...

Just one of countless...

Weird. Not much weirder than watching caged animals though, I suppose.

You equate realism with materialism? While waiting for tech support, I followed your link to the elaborately elucidated B/A principle. In one part it ...

In any case, DJT's hyperbole is effective on his supporters, but not anyone with the ability to reason.

It is hard to keep up with all the alternative truths.

Didn't Mitch say that they can't do impeachment and deal with corona at the same time?

Impeach Obama!

I haven’t read anything about his theory, being the filthy philistine that I am. It’s curious that he claims to have resolved the rift between idealis...

I don’t know why I’ve always liked the Kafkaesque kind of writing but you make it look effortless.

I wasn't claiming that we can't begin to imagine.

Yeah I was just kinda fooling around but that would be a good exercise. I'd very much like to improve my writing. I just read through the first thread...

May 9, 2020 I noticed when folding laundry this morning that there wasn’t a stack of pants, and realized that I haven’t worn them in weeks, maybe even...

Have you ever looked at the Breitbart comment sections? It’s hard to believe they’re real people.

We aren’t duped, we’re trained from birth.

Did I? The things that I mentioned are pretty unremarkable and I think show the how limited our imagination is, and not how otherworldly expansive it ...

Buddhists see past lives, Christians are one with God, some people see ghost girl... and yeah, cults and religions are built around these experiences....

Don’t go think’n that with all your fancy words and learn’n that ya ain’t one of them filostines.

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Quintessential Gnomon, dishonestly bending the truth to fit his incoherent narrative and oblivious to how utterly transparent it is. If you're here to...

Trump brutally attacked by his own party. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGORxuvdRSk

I understand that it's not really a bonanza, at least for the vast majority, but a Ponzi scheme. A scheme too big to collapse but doomed to a gradual ...

Depatterning may threaten to disrupt whatever order presides. Nixon claimed that Timothy Leary was "the most dangerous man in America."

It’s a shame that such repression is common.

I agree and don’t find it unappealing, though I imagine that many do. It’s only unnatural in the sense that it’s uncommon, in my opinion, and ‘mystica...

Though whimsically dramatic, at least my Frankenstein analogy offers the dignity of power and not the indignity of being reduced to a cherished toy.

I get the unattractive part, but shameful?

I find that physical intimacy is best with few if any words, and that there are far better subjects to connect emotionally in non-physical intimacy. N...

I believe that mystical experiences correlate to a deactivation of the neural default mode network. A couple of the basic characteristics of that brai...

Sure, but to me it doesn’t look like there’s much, if any, concern for... I’ll just say discovery. He uses persuasive tactics to sell “his” ideas. Tac...

And you’ve aptly put yourself in the weird rather than innovative category. Honestly though, the only thing that’s weird is the effort you put into se...

Epictetus in eudaimonia.

I would hope so, look what they do to stormtroopers in Alberta... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VswVzt-05Z8

I think it may be more accurate to say that it's a means of obtaining insight, or at least that's the way many think of it. Personally, I make a disti...

Hmm

An insult cocktail, what do you call it? Nevermind, it failed with Sushi because hot buttons need to be designed for the particular sensibilities of t...

Bribery? The plot thickens. :chin:

Hard to interpret what you mean here. I don’t think there’s any doubt that mystical experiences correlate to a particular brain state. What that brain...

So there is such a thing as divine grace.

According to moral foundation theory, out of the spectrum of moral intuitions liberals primarily value care/harm and fairness, whereas conservatives a...

Indeed.

Same temp here in southern Cal. When they open a lap pool I’ll be the first one in the water. Haven’t gone this long in years without a swim workout. ...

Was the restaurant like normal or were they spacing out tables, wearing masks, or whatever?

What form of theater was destroyed in Obama's wake? You may be confusing habituation and reactionism.

Well said. Or go the other way and devalue reason. :grimace:

That's not an explanation. If A can be X, then why can't B be X? Rather, you seem to favor idealism for some inexplicable (what you would call weird) ...