praxis

How-z-bout your Orwellian thought policing? That has a similar stench to it, yes?

This should be sufficiently hyperbolic for you to appreciate: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM That’s all the libtards got, right?

The vast majority of the monuments were built between the 1890s and 1950s, which matches up exactly with the era of Jim Crow segregation.

It’s never a good sign when someone tries substantiate a remark with a work of fiction. You suspect that I’m part of the forum secret police and that ...

“word policing” “word policing” “word policing,” you incessantly cry like a petulant three year old who missed his afternoon nap. It’s not even origin...

Okay, but no whining next time. It’s undignified and you degrade the fine art of trolling.

No seriously, I’m just trolling you. You don’t have a problem with that I assume. It’s just words.

I think what you’re trying to say is essentially that I’m trolling you. That’s not projection because I’m fully aware that that is my intention. You r...

You’re trying to argue that I’m “word policing,” and failing. Actually, you’re not making an argument, you just keep mindlessly repeating the claim.

It should be obvious to anyone, who is actually concerned about such things, that the use of hyperbole in philosophical discussions should be discoura...

Are you whining about word policing or thought policing? Critical thinking and exaggeration are independent of both. Without thinking about it, I assu...

You might try to back up one of your hyperbolic claims for once and point some of these alleged uses. I haven’t criticized your language, numbnuts. I’...

Because you’re playing badly. Poor critical thinking and the use of hyperbole in philosophical discussions isn’t good. People will take you more serio...

Why is it a common feature of your speech, was the question. It’s less common on a philosophy forum such as this. I think you may know why that is.

It is a common feature of your speech. Why is that? You’re clearly not trying to persuade, so you must be attempting to provoke. For entertainment? Yo...

If it were commonsense we wouldn’t need a religious authority to obfuscate it for us. In other words, religious authority is based on access to uncomm...

You began participating in this topic with: And now you’ve got the nerve to talk about bad faith and logical fallacies? Yet another demonstration of p...

That you’re a poor critical thinker is not a surprise to anyone on this forum. It’s senseless to insinuate that critical thinking is not appropriate o...

You should have said ‘less’ if that’s the claim you wanted to make, yes, obviously.

You claim that there is “little” criticism of Trump failing to fulfill campaign promises over the last few years. Anyone with access to the internet c...

I guess you don’t realize that anyone can do an internet search and see how false this claim is for themselves. And about Trump tweets and sensational...

No one can effectively practice towards a goal if they don’t know what the goal is. No one knows what “enlightenment” is.

Not to mention all the campaign promises he failed to deliver on. Oh wait, those promises were just words. Okay, I see your point.

If you can’t say what something is then it’s safe to say that you don’t know what that thing is. That’s not a problem in religion, in fact it may be a...

Soooooooo.... what is it?

Well, even Buddhists don’t know what enlightenment is so you’re in good company.

Weird to accept that there is “enlightenment,” and that there’s a method to achieve enlightenment, by the mere authority of a man, and then doubt the ...

Anti means opposed to or against, simply. Any progressive liberal would be opposed to Trumps agenda. Or you’ve been watching too much Fox News. How ca...

“Relationship” isn’t a where, but you know that of course. You’re not doing a good job at appearing that this stuff actually makes sense to you. If it...

This “continual and enduring personality” that you speak of apparently does. Where does this thing exist? Let me guess, it exists in a ‘formless realm...

And that makes sense to you?

A few prophecies that were spot on: Mexico didn’t pay for a “huge” beautiful new wall (concrete and steal). Obamacare wasn’t repealed and replaced, wi...

Dawkins doesn’t make this assumption. While verifying that online I ran across the curious notion of non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA). Stephen Jay Go...

You’ve not made an argument that I’m any sort of fundamentalist. If you’re going to make a wild claim like that you should at least try to support it.

You make a wild claim that you haven’t even begun to explain, that I’m some sort of fundamentalist and that explains everything I say about the subjec...

Your mental contortions are quite unnecessary, Wayfarer, but if it makes you feel good to think of me as some kind of fundamentalist then be my guest....

Science simply disproves many religious beliefs, such as with evolution and other scientific discoveries that the people who invented world religions ...

He’s more spicy than astringent. In fact, if memory serves, S is short for sriracha, a chili sauce that thinks it can burn but ends up being merely mi...

All sorts of teleological narratives could replace rebirth. Can you explain why a different narrative would be any less effective?

Bubble gum cherry apple?

There are many aspects of Buddhism that is culturally alien, but are nevertheless consistent with our reality. The curious fact is that everyone must ...

That’s a silly way to phrase it, as though Westerners reject the notion because it’s “culturally taboo,” :razz: rather than it simply being inconsiste...

Meaning includes values, of course, but it also includes narrative, and perhaps purpose. Self-identity also seems to be integral. Value is simply the ...

I do too. Your meaning is clear, however the case of an ancient inscriber deliberately making random marks that appear to be hieroglyphics is curious....

that was a long rolling one.

In a sense, that’s why people are far more likely to donate a kidney, for example, to a niece or nephew than they are to some rando kid.

It only makes sense if you actually want to have children or whatever. If those things are actually meaningful to you, rather than you merely adopting...

The best way to develop any skill, be it physical or mental, is to work just beyond your comfort zone. Assuming you are serious, the best short and co...

A culture that values material wealth over meaning. This culture is instilled in me, so the cage exists in my own mind as well as the minds of others.

I suspect that the sloppiness of your monologues may be due to a lack of feedback. In that case, you'll need to develop the discipline to tighten them...