As I mentioned, I liked your list. I can easily appreciate it aesthetically. In fact it wasn't explicitly clear why I liked it until now. This doesn't...
Share the feeling of other peoples concepts and ideas? Anyway, I wanted to say that I've felt a little disturbed by your response yesterday and that I...
@"TranscendedRealms" Perhaps instead of completely reinventing the wheel from scratch you could take something like Epicureanism and add a dash of tra...
All I'm getting is positive emotions are healthy. True, but this is not a philosophy, much less a religion. A transcendent state is defined as beyond ...
How about 'subconscious'. Intuition, for instance, may be an example of subconscious thinking. From what I understand it does go both ways, in a way. ...
I don't believe it's that simple. Generally speaking, we all have corporeal needs and a desire for meaning. Materialistic behavior or wanton productio...
Most def. Meta-narratives mostly serve to bind groups in common values/purposes. It is important to identify with such groups in order to be bound to ...
This isn’t making much sense as written. You claim that women relate to each other based solely on gender and men come together based on sharing a com...
How about the so-called 'silent majority' in the US, who've had their freedom of speech oppressed by the politically correct dictates of the wicked an...
I was basically saying that in the final analysis both Having and Being owe their strength to the same thing: survival or gene propagation. At least t...
In the final analysis I believe the need to overcome one’s isolation by oneness with others is also biological and owes its strength to the desire for...
Maybe more realistically, the party passed legislation that they’ve wanted for years, despite Trump’s obnoxiousness. Perhaps they could have accomplis...
Buddhists claim that life is suffering because we are ignorant of our true nature. Emptiness is our true nature, so they claim, and because we are ign...
It’s Aristotle’s language, not the language of common sense. Are you trying to say that Aristotle had common sense? I’m sure he did. Review the exampl...
We can look for the final cause or the efficient cause. For a seed, the final cause might be a tree. The efficient cause of a tree might be a seed. Th...
You seem to have an odd notion of what science is. It's merely a structured way of studying the natural world. A scientific investigation could begin ...
Teleology is the explanation of phenomena by the purpose they serve rather than by assumed causes. In the field of biology, an example of an intrinsic...
Maybe it will clarify if you can explain why your apparent view that Aristotelian teleology is "real" rather than "as if." Or should I just assume tha...
No, you didn't just say no, you said something about "real" teleology. I was attempting to determine what you mean by that. This would be the part, in...
I stated quite clearly that my interest is in trying to understand what you're saying and your unusual language interferes with that aim. I've given n...
I'm not interested in winning an argument. I'm interested in what you're trying to say and your language is getting in the way of that. Perhaps you ob...
I think anything has the potential to be a stressor in the sense that practically anything can be associated with something negative or fearful. Look ...
The brain is sometimes referred to as a 'prediction machine'. On a subconscious level it's continually predicting what will happen next, based on the ...
Maybe that was poorly phrased. I should have said that thoughts can lead to anxiety without any external stressors. Conversely, high arousal and unple...
That would seem to depend on the kind of anxiety you're referring to. A prey animal may get anxious after catching the scent of a predator, but it's n...
I can tell what effect sugar has on emotions by consuming it myself. The affect sugar induces is nevertheless just internal sensation which doesn't ne...
Well, no, not really. A poor diet can result in excess energy or high arousal, such as from refined sugar or too much caffeine, but it takes a mind an...
Today, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Trump flies to Florida and plays golf rather than partaking in 'a day of service'. I suppose we shouldn't read anyt...
You're getting closer to accepting that "linguistic meaning" is based in values, it appears. Maybe try to think of it this way. If there were evidence...
It may be expressing an attitude that is generally racist. That's a disturbing thought for someone in his position, affecting policies, national attit...
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