praxis

Empty and without value is what a trickster becomes when they’ve outlived their usefulness.

There are various sorts of biases, Dazed, do you boycott all terms that may indicate division and bias, such as old/young, attractive/ugly, tall/short...

I think this one is different in that it’s propaganda/self-promotion and not just to make a buck or promote a set of policies.

There’s really no need to read it, we’ve already heard it all in the form of Trump tweets and speeches. The only thing that seemed new was the indicat...

I dislike him but I don’t hate him. Curiously, if the book contents is taken to be from the heart and not simply propaganda for the base, it could onl...

That's surprising and unfortunate.

I was getting ready to walk the dog the other day and while searching audible for something to listen to I ended up downloading Trump Jr.'s new book T...

Meaning in the sense of belonging, purpose, narrative, transcendence, and the like. I don't think anyone would claim that such things are in short sup...

Then however the poll goes that’s how it will be. Power to the people! :strong:

The forum owner and administration can do whatever they want. It’s not a democracy, so this is a wasted effort.

I suppose meaning that if you know what meaning is you can recognize its abundance. Unfortunately, it's uncommon to examine what meaning is or how a d...

I don’t see the point of spewing gibberish.

Looking at it again, I guess you did. At the end where you wrote, “giving answers to whats obvious is a waste of time...”, I must have mistakenly took...

Your understanding of how thought relates to mind and consciousness is far from obvious. You’re free to ignore any questions that make you uncomfortab...

Why not answer the question?

What about the subconscious? Does that activity consist of ‘thought’ or is it something else?

I guess that depends on what you call mind. So, what do you think it is?

We’re basically talking about a concept, and you’re now giving it the qualities of plain, dark, black, and who knows what else. Also, how can there be...

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2722/1528/products/roundStressBall_white_grande.jpg?v=1517515149 Imagine the above as a timeless, uniform, unchangin...

To put it briefly, the commonality between mystical experiences and psychedelics is the deactivation of the neural DMN (default mode network). DMN goo...

We are all utterly saturated in meaning. Some just can't see it.

I don’t see the need to be vague. If you’re suggesting that there’s a true God, which God is it?

That’s a new one for me. Care to elaborate?

That says it all. :razz: just kidding, I live in the same county.

I only meant to point out the value of rhetoric in argumentation, and that it doesn’t necessarily consist of invalid reasoning (traveling on the wrong...

I imagine that it's highly debatable whether or not that's close to how the concept of God originated. I agree that mystical experiences often lead pe...

Invalid reasoning could be part of any argument. In fact, unless I'm mistaken (I'm in over my head as it is), a formal logical argument can only be va...

The bolded portion above is a mischaracterization. 'By-any-means' could be the use of logical fallacies, for instance. I haven't thought it through bu...

This seems to assume that rhetoric is inherently irrational.

I like the way @"ZhouBoTong" talked about the “best” argument. A successful argument gets others to see something your way. Logic seldom accomplishes ...

I listened to a lecture series about argumentation awhile back and in it a point was made that in many disputes that lead to argumentation a clear res...

I'm intolerant of deception, yes, as I imagine many on this forum are.

Don't be such a drama queen. It doesn't invalidate anything I've posted, and it's rather pathetic of you to think it would.

My pointing out an attempted deception from you was part of a different line of discussion... and we both know that you know that.

Completely irrelevant to the line of discussion we were having, and we both know that you know that.

— Alan Watts

Well, if that was meant as an analogy it’s a bad one, for reasons that should be clear.

Generally speaking, the reason is to take advantage of people in a minority or weaker position. Skin color is merely an identifier and an unnecessary ...

I understand your belief about the Hispanic middle class, such as it is. The neighborhood I live in is middle class and predominantly Hispanic. I was ...

We need to have knowledge of things in order to have faith in them, sure. I know what unicorns are, for instance, but I have no faith that they exist ...

You’re the one who claims that all knowledge is based on faith, if you recall. This means that you cannot know that your experience was real. You can ...

If someone told you this then you would be having faith in that person. If you read it somewhere then you’d be having faith in whoever wrote it. If yo...

That’s not what I said. You can’t put your faith in God. You can only put your faith in those who educate you about God. Of course if you were to meet...

Then the point of difference is what, or rather whom, you have faith in. Religion requires faith in religious authorities. For secular faith, I suppos...

I would like to once again apologize for disturbing your meaningful discussion.

Anthropologists and geneticists use terms like ‘white people’ and ‘black people’. Why wouldn’t they? And what new and old concepts are you talking abo...

By revising what’s behind (the meaning and implicit associations) the demarcations to better match reality. Simply not using them doesn’t do that.

Refusing ostensibly superficial demarcations only underscores their importance. Not the best way to deal with them, however.

So you're saying that it wasn't a lie, you just misspoke? Are you being honest?

So... why did you lie?