praxis

I think that I was too aware of my emotional state as a child and teen, or rather that I felt things to strongly, and this resulted in anxiety problem...

Of course there's a difference. Valuing art as an investment expresses a capitalistic value system. Valuing art for aesthetics expresses a different v...

I actually just thought it was funny. Haven't seen the movie. I think the leader is enough.

If nothing else, it's certainly failing to recognize advantage/disadvantage.

So for instance someone might purchase a work of art as a useful investment and not because they like the art, valuing capital more than art. Imagine ...

Perhaps that the propaganda was more successful than we might imagine.

You haven't explained exactly what you mean by useful. I suggest there can be a big difference between 'useful' and 'meaningful'.

What do you mean by useful? Playing monopoly well is useful in the sense that it keeps the game going. Also useful in that it's the path of least resi...

You're speaking as though playing monopoly. What if there's a different game. A sustainable and more meaningful game.

I'm praxis. The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie o...

That depends on the procedure. You may be proceeding from a misconception however, the mere belief that a surgical procedure has the power to cure can...

You should read Cure, Agustino. It shows some science behind the "miracles".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sbjHOBJzhb0

It’s dependent on other concepts (as well as everything the concepts depend on to exist), most pertinently impermanence.

Look at it this way, @"Agustino", in order to evaluate the state or quality of something being permanent a requirement for doing so is having a compar...

It’s a state or quality. There are online dictionaries you know, if you don’t happen to have one laying about handy.

Can you expand on this? It doesn't make sense by itself.

This is getting a bit tedious. No conditions, including the condition of (im)permanence, apply to that which is unconditioned, right?

I'm asking him to provide a doctrinal reference for a claim that a condition applies to something where, according to the mythology, conditions don't ...

Doesn't deny that Nirvana is permanent, basically?

Can you back this up with some doctrinal reference or anything?

I don't believe those concepts exist independently, personally.

Okay, so an alternative would be something that has an independent and unchanging existence. Do you know of anything like that?

Do you know what I mean by emptiness?

You're claiming that SpaceX is prohibited by the government to have any other contracts? NASA, the military, and other industries will pay billions fo...

Why not? Is there an alternative?

Contracts are mutual agreements and many industries are regulated. None of this excludes competition. Google "orbital satellite."

If SpaceX had a lot of competition it would be very relevant.

Jobs created an incredibly successful brand. The brand may eventually fizzle out, but creative business development and branding isn't a fad.

Don’t mind me. I was following the enlightened lead and expressing my inner Kevin.

It’s not nessisarily one approach or the other, you can be methodically creative, although this may require a discipline that creatives often lack. In...

Damn Russians.

That Agustino's concept of God is derived from culture? That would put me to sleep, sure. Actually, I woke this morning at around 3 am by some bad dre...

Truth can be infuriating. Have you read any Steven Pinker, btw? I’ve got a couple of his books in my wish list.

Assuming that’s a true story, forty people who waste a college education.

What can you do about that?

I actually agree with you on everything except for a couple of absolutist positions you seem to hold, namely that content is relevant and emotion is i...

I can see how elitist and arrogant the strawman version of me that you've constructed is. The actual language I used is: "it couldn't hurt to try" and...

As others have pointed out, you contradict yourself. For example: If a non-Kevin is an individual who possesses the capacity of emotional intelligence...

When it's too sedate sparks may be useful to rev things up, as Baden may be suggesting: When things get out of hand more decorum may be appropriate to...

I’m not exactly sure what his point might be but it may have something to do with the fact that we can’t imagine or dream of things that are beyond ou...

As I understand it, rhetoric attempts to paint a persuasive picture that resonates with a particular audience by aligning values and/or purposes. Like...

Pleasuring people for a living is supposedly the oldest profession. No wonder you get cranky at times.

It's funny that you would say something like this, being as skilled in the use of rhetoric as you are.

If a group of painters gathered around and painted the same tree, their various rendition would ordinarily be wildly divergent in feeling and style. T...

Studies indicate that all these instances are mental simulations that actually use the same neural pathways. The difference is that ‘imagined’ simulat...

Philosophy as the love of winning, rather than the love of wisdom?

Moderators facilitate discussion, they don’t lead discussion. It strikes me as more appropriate for a leader to express condescension, as it exerts do...

No, not really. Your concept of God was given to you by your culture. If, for example, you were raised feral, you would have no such concept, or your ...

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