praxis

So in the situation where someone seeks out a conflict in order to gain a gratifying sense of superiority your claim is that, if they’re victorious, t...

The degree of seriousness in whatever the purpose is for seeking conflict, I suppose. The purpose for seeking conflict could be practice in argumentat...

Allow me to rephrase the question: what exactly do you mean when you say 'personality' in the opening post?

Personality. If you don't think it's complicated then you shouldn't have any trouble defining it clearly and comprehensively.

if only it were that simple.

Nuclear weapons have been around for about 75 years and we haven't blown ourselves up yet. Their existence may in effect have prevented war between nu...

What you’re apparently failing to see is that the “more is better” impulse applies to any valuable resource and not just knowledge. You can’t cure the...

The question is moot because enough power to ruin the world is already available to people with bad motives or those who are too shortsighted. Our Wes...

Knowledge is a valuable resource. That fact hasn't changed over the years. Similarly, fat and sugar are still valuable resources today, although not a...

Conservativism in general seems to be based in fear of change and maintaining the status quo. Problem is that even if progress were somehow obstructed...

Ah, I get it now, you’re anti-progress because you can’t keep pace with it and lost your livelihood. High end web developers still charge at least tha...

This is a misapprehension or misrepresentation. I wrote that claiming the story you contrived about my neighbor wasn’t a story you contrived was redic...

Now I feel embarrassed. My neighbor is probably a terrorist as well.

Jake, try to be sensible. You invented a story about my neighbor creating new life forms in his garage and then claimed that it’s not a story you inve...

From CNN (fake news): It’s frightening to think that tactics like this actually work. Are Trump supporters really that moronic?

It hasn’t happened yet but you didn’t invent the story. Truly remarkable nonsense.

You’re the one who started with the sci-fi story about my neighbor creating new life forms in his garage like a futuristic Frankenstein, and I pointed...

That is the entire trick of it, as I see it, to quiet the incessant assault of superficial minds (mostly our own).

And you're not stuck in it? What is your lifestyle like? Is it eco friendly or reflect an ethic of scientific/technological economy? We know that you ...

I don't think you're getting the point. You talk about scale but fail to appriciate the full potential length of it. Knowledge and technology could po...

Not true at all. Mystic experiences can occur in the absence of theology. Theology is often built around mystic experiences, but theology doesn't requ...

Trump doesn't bow, he curtsies like a proper school girl. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo8UGiMVeys

Your focus appears to be skewed to fit your belief that knowledge needs to be regulated and this is an expression of intellectual dishonesty. For inst...

Okay, Jake, do I want my neighbor to create a life form in his garage that will rapidly decompose plastic into environmentaly beneficial material? Yes...

It’s a your question is idiotic. So many other potential developments would need to proceed bioengineering becoming child’s play that it’s silly to co...

If we reached a point where bioengineering was child's play, with that tech we might have already made ourselves invulnerable to biological threats, o...

Skimming that topic I noticed that ChatteringMonkey put a good deal of effort into helping you out and made the following point that you seemed to hav...

No, you haven't presented an argument for why it's necessary. You need to outline what kinds of information would be regulated and the method of regul...

Of course. It's just the idea of regulating power and information sounds so, well, absurd. For one thing, the regulator would be the super elite, poss...

So what sort of method could be used to regulate power & knowledge? Nazis love a good book burning but they tend to be unpopular in general.

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

Duality? This was occurring long before the concept of duality came into existence, sorry, being.

The point is that you’re apparently confusing thought or information processing with dualism or something that ‘operates by a process of division’. We...

I believe the role of God as ultimate authority and the role of religion as a source of shared meaning can't be replaced by reason, and that the resul...

What is it that makes an electro-chemical information medium dualistic? Is, for example, a mechanical recycling device that separates bottles from can...

Volunteer work. It’ll create a cognitive dissonance in your mind and force you to like people. I tried cryotherapy a while back. Stimulating and calmi...

It seemed as though you were suggesting that God is it rather than within it, but then any separation or duality is necessarily within.

They say that talking to yourself is a definative sign of dementia.

and their mob buddies. :smile:

Cool photo. Great gran dad looks a bit trepidatious.

No one under 80 uses the word “youngster,” ya senile old coot.

I didn't point to non-dual being. I pointed to non-duality. Being is relative to not being and a duality. If one thing exists then nothing can be said...

To put it as succinctly as I can, the problem I'm having is that being is based in duality and Parmenides's One is supposed to represent the non-dual....

Don't get excited, grandpa, it's just a commercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0e9guhV35o

I’m wary as well, particularly after pondering the notion and coming to the conclusion that 1 requires 2 (duality) in order to Be. Contrary to what Th...

The Parmenidean poem that you mentioned talked about two realities, which to me sounded similar if not identical to the ‘two truth’ in Eastern philoso...

“Sapere aude! (Dare to know.) ‘Have the courage to use your own understanding,’ is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.” So yeah, the fall of ult...

An atheist can believe in numbers so 'being' in itself isn't a problem. Although, you claimed that God could not be called "a being" among other being...

I’ve run across many moray eels while diving but I’ve never seen one crewing on its own tail like some samsaric uroborus.