praxis

Everything that exists can be understood as merely conceptual, so this point seems extremely weak. Do unicorns exist? They certainly exist conceptuall...

No, and I haven’t made an argument. I will simply repost what I posted before: Politifact claims: Can you see the part I underlined, fishfry? You can’...

I think this is the other way around. ‘What exists’ is necessarily dependent on everything else and necessarily transitory in nature. ‘The source of w...

The reason is, like this post of yours that I respond to now, I found it largely incoherent. Let’s say that’s my failing and end as friends.

I don’t think bigotry and racism are synonymous. The latter is a specific form of bigotry. If I’m missing some subtly or entire concept here I hope so...

That’s not disputed. Separating thousands of children from their parents is not a fine point, my unsympathetic friend. I explicitly stated that I want...

Good, I have no idea what your point is there. Bigotry would be alive and well in a world with only one race, given sufficient ignorance. You just cou...

Not sure how your rant relates to what I wrote, fishfry, but there's one point I'd like to clarify. Politifact claims: Can you point out public record...

I equate what might be described as ‘excessive or inefficient’ border control with an effort to mobilize political support by exploiting a natural con...

This alone indicates that you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Analogous to a peacocks feathers. I’ve seen that theory debunked but I don’t recall how exactly. Do you tend to find artists sexy, by the way?

I think what a lot of people are suggesting is that this continued branding is self-defeating. Moving forward, a narrative that extends some dignity a...

Trump Obama Of course this requires some trust in politifact, which you may not have.

And yet she is clever. Maybe she thought that she had it in the bag so why not have some fun. The audience laughed. Pure hubris.

Not sure how to interpret this. You realize that he’s not what you’d call an honest man, don’t you?

Highly doubtful “they knew all that.” In any case, mendacity and willful ignorance is the normal state of affairs in the USA. A tectonic shift has occ...

Regarding the Erie Pennsylvania Obama-Obama-Trump voters, manufacturing jobs have not returned and there's no indication that they will ever return. T...

Whether or not this was on Trump's todo list, I'm sure he's thrilled about it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/DIki-_O9ljq_nH13XWkQemgLr3c=/144...

Maybe the enhanced intelligence could be powerful enough to prevent hacking. It’s all highly speculative at this point, as far as I know.

The instinct to have as small and loyal a staff as possible is something you might expect from a dictator wannabe though. Who could be more loyal than...

Millions more Americans with health insurance was a correct result. It seems to me that both parties have their strengths and weaknesses, or perhaps a...

I thought I remembered Musk saying something to the effect that human intelligence enhancement might help keep us in the game (of life) once true AI w...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1181232249821388801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-2756889676645118645.a...

The God Punishers, I think they’re called.

There’s no difference because in both the Eastern and Western traditions the subjects of ‘understanding’ cannot be understood. No one can explain how ...

Obamacare wasn’t blocked. It also wasn’t repealed and replaced, despite a republican administration and a majority in both the house and senate. Grant...

I said “supposedly,” but if all you can do is focus on that, fine.

I wish he could come back just so I could call him The God Punisher. So cool :cool:

Inflicting punishment on gods by ceasing to worship them. He really was a mean bastard.

Now that I think about it, conservative speakers, even those as far right as Richard Spencer, routinely visit college campuses to influence young mind...

I’ll miss the endless deluge of comedic Trump satire. So much material, so little time left, hopefully. Nose4 has corrected one misconception I’ve had...

The perception is easily understood with celebrities appearing to be overwhelmingly liberal, and so many of the narratives expressing liberal values. ...

We all have rituals. It’s also common to have explanations for things that can’t be scientifically proven.

It wasn’t clear if you meant that one individual could do both simultaneously. It appears that you don’t.

People can be easily mislead about what’s important, by appealing to base impulses, if not other methods. If this were not true then advertising and s...

In your response to my question you generally claim that the Left doesn’t take advantage of these positions for various reasons or that they don’t act...

Or maybe your conception of how this all comes together is false.

The question was how did the Right fumble those positions if they’re so much better at taking and maintaining positions of power. To me it suggests th...

The intelligence community seems to think that it was influential to some degree. Trump has proved to be a destabilizing force and accommodating to Ru...

That’s funny, coming from a Trump supporter. It’s all about branding and speaking to a specific audience. Trump is good at that, but he’s a one trick ...

That’s easy to say, but what does it mean exactly?

Regarding power positions, the Left has supposedly taken higher education, the arts and entertainment industry, most news networks. How did the Right ...

This will sound terribly obvious but it appears to be the case that the Left is just as adept at taking control of institutions, getting their leaders...

Your point is unclear.

In this case it sounds like it’s functioning like a religion.

So has every other religion. Indeed, and the Buddha supplies all the answers.

I suppose we got the silly notion because it’s called Buddhism and not, say, Tom, Dick, or Harryism.

Sounds like he wanted to be banned. Probably because of the shame he felt always losing arguments with me. He’ll be missed.

StreetlightX made the claim, not any Trump supporters that I know of.

Elders > monks > laymen & laywomen? With the Buddha being the ultimate authority, of course.