praxis

Imagine how juvenile it would get in a holocaust.

I'm sure he wasn't. I was just using his joke as a launching point for my little rant on human irrationality.

We can meaningfully talk about a place we've never been or an experience that we've never had.

Because it's sexy.

Only 40% are obese, and they tend to be poor and rural rather than elite and in areas worst hit by the virus, so poor targeting. Whoever invented and ...

I think it’s essentially about rationalization, or an inclination towards order and predictability, which is both creative killing and soul crushing. ...

It’s only an obstacle if you don’t belong to the same tribe. :razz: I agree with you though.

Are you suggesting that there should not be secularization within mysticism? If so, why?

I wonder what you mean by this, particularly after relating experiences that you still pursue the meaning of.

Ah, you do have a sense of humor.

So like this then: A (metaphysical) and B (physical) are components of X (metaphysical). And this also works: A (metaphysical) and B (physical) are co...

On several occasions, he mentioned issues related to stress, so as I see it he was remarkably open. I've had anxiety issues in the past so I can relat...

A (information) and B (matter) are components of X (unknown but more primary than information). A (tails) and B (heads) are components of X (coin). It...

Very hard to believe that he meant that. He's been expressing frustration and disillusionment with the forum lately, so to me, it sounds like another ...

It depends on the school, of course. For instance, the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry may offer a magical defense against emotional outbur...

He makes a distinction between "physical substance and metaphysical Information." Presumably, "spirits" are metaphysical, so your C is A, and not a su...

So I’ve been promoted from reasonless to unreasonable. Cool :cool:

And then you proceed as though I have the capacity for reason. You, Sir, are a lier. You keep asking the same question and expecting a different resul...

You're partly to blame for making off-topic assertions.

You claim that everything is information (A). If everything is information then whatever it is that we "conventionally" call matter (B) is A (informat...

And you believe this is a reasonable claim?

Yes, take a computer for example, we could say that one property is hardware and another is software. There’s another way that makes a difference that...

... similar moral framework.

We say something is weird when we can’t explain it.

Again, if something is both A and B, what difference does it make if you call it A or B?

Rationalization https://www.visionandacceptance.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/1014326_674309415918801_1366345710_n.jpg “ the care for external goods ...

What difference does it make if you call quantom particles, or whatever, matter or information? We have to call them something. For the spiritualist/m...

Banks - money based on debt - and various financial instruments.

I'm currently reading a book about the end of economic growth and in it the metaphor of a 2 lb hummingbird is used to express the point that degrowth ...

Then the bullshit jobs that produce all the bullshit products would disappear and America would no longer be great. :sad:

As fun and interesting as this is, why don’t you just reread what I actually wrote. I don’t think anyone else would make my statements, but to answer ...

Economic confidence is a belief in how the economy will grow in the future and many things can influence that prediction. I imagine it's possible, for...

What's weird about a form of idealism?

I'm interpreting the thrust of your question to be something like 'what philosophies are generally accepted?' Generally speaking, established views ar...

You're essentially saying that you don't have more authority than scientists or philosophers. You're not saying that you have less. Nothing wrong with...

The funny thing is, having googled ‘Enformationism’ and briefly skimming the results, that this appears to be your basic modus operandi. It makes me w...

Not a great idea unless you don’t minds them being practically everywhere you go. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QG8o39fCjLc

I made a hammer for the purpose of pounding a nail. I set aside an olive so that come cocktail hour I can make a martini. Etc... Do they provide answe...

I tend to think of philosophy as pre-science. I notice that you don’t have a chapter in your book dedicated to metaphysics, incidentally.

I like seeking the truth, practicing writing and critical thinking, discovering things that I might not have otherwise found, and seeing if others agr...

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/495050-states-telling-workers-theyll-lose-unemployment-benefits-if-they-refuse

Having checked the New Yorker article that I was reading this morning it appears that I misread it. :yikes: It says that in many Western countries ove...

It equates to ultimate authority. There’s no ultimate authority in secular institutions.

Some economists believe that a relatively low growth rate is normal for a rich nation, because there’s less of an incentive to work, people have fewer...

I’m not sure how you get that sacredness “literally” means that. That, of course, is not what it means, much less literally means. I assume that’s one...

If an authority figure repeats something enough times people will begin to believe it. It’s like a Jedi mind trick, only it doesn’t require any talent...

You're also not responsible for the reader's comprehension of the content of your posts. Rather than banging your head, you could try to explain how t...

Both TDS and TD accomplish the same task... what you wrote doesn't appear to address anything I've posted.

I think that most Trump supporters only require the barest of excuses to dismiss embarrassing facts. Trump's recent public musing about injecting disi...

Sorry, you'll have to refresh my memory, what is the argument that I don't like?