praxis

I recently learned more than I ever wanted to know about the early development of weapons and their tactical applications in the Destiny's Crucible se...

If I’m following right, basically that it devalues sentience, which is kind of ironic because Buddhists are intent on extinguishing sentience.

All I'm saying is that the country was divided. Can we agree on that? There was Lincoln up in Washington all by his lonely self and down south there w...

Granted it's unlikely the South would have ever won but if they did I don't think that Lincoln would have remained in power. But I see your point abou...

I said that the EP and the civil war is an instance of responsibility being imposed by force. The majority of the people and government won, fortunate...

The nation professes to value liberty and is therefore duty-bound to uphold it. Slavery isn't in accord with that duty so force must be used to stop i...

I don’t think you can claim to value liberty if you deny it to others.

And I’m not disagreeing. We (as a people) can chose to be responsible.

So you feel that is their right? What about the rights of the nearby residents who are getting poisoned? They can leave? Or they can legally sue the i...

That suggest that you believe the Southern slave owners were being responsible in the way they conducted their businesses. What if a business dumped t...

:lol: Ironic.

The Emancipation Proclamation and the civil war is an instance of responsibility being imposed by force isn’t it?

Then you are opposed to the Emancipation Proclamation?

Enslaving people has nothing to do with responsibility?

You know that’s silly. If you actually believed that, I could go to where you live and take all your liberty by force, make you my slave, and because ...

First time that I heard the expression “white trash” was when I was around 11 years old. Some cranky old Hawaiian woman had stepped into the bus at sc...

That apparently not everyone thinks they go hand in hand.

A tricksters job is only to show us what’s important. So what’s more important, freedom or responsibility? A libertarian will scream like a blue faced...

Affordable healthcare isn’t responsible? Regulations aren’t responsible? Etc.

I don’t know what you mean.

Liberty requires responsibility and modern liberalism pursues that responsibility.

:up: Again I’m reminded of a scene from a film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2EQ0FlVks4

@"T Clark" Looks like our new champion swimmer friend has an evangelistic bend. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, besides the creepiness.

I can’t help thinking something like this is behind Adams stunt. He fancies himself as a trickster, after all.

I think there are instances of people being unfairly ‘canceled’. I’m not sure how much wokeness may be too restrictive or if the claims that it’s too ...

“It’s okay to be white” isn’t racist (at face value) by design.

In new campaign promises Trump wants to take government owned land and build 10 new “freedom cities” on it. If I remember right they do things like th...

Welcome, Mr. Phelps! If it’s not impolite to ask, what is the truth? I ask as though you know because you seem so convinced that there is “the truth”....

To be fair, the guy spends an awful lot of time in the pool which doesn’t leave a lot of time to ‘get’ anything besides.

I think he means that it’s gone out of style. It used to be all the rage back in the 50s. You know, back when America was great. :wink:

What do you think the power of religion is? or rather the primary power or purpose?

I hear it enough from people like Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, and now fresh off the assembly line, Scott Adams, so you don’t need t...

This is getting very tedious. What you call a “collectivist impulse” is simply how our associative minds work. There is no way to get around this, eve...

Jesus, someone please pull the hook out of your mouth. "It's okay to be white" is an slogan that's been around for years and used by alt-right trolls ...

You don't seem to understand how a bias develops. Not sure how many times I've pointed it out in this topic but mere categorization does not create a ...

I'm thinking roughly along Buddhist lines, that everything is an illusion born of our conditioning and playing out in endless repeat until we realize ...

I trust no one made a joke about his wife. That could have landed very badly.

I'm thinking inescapable in the sense that we require some kind of framework. You can remove the water in a fish bowl but it will have to be replaced ...

The basic neurology of it is suppression of the default mode network. Modern folk tends to have a hyperactive DMN. I certainly do.

When in regular meditation practice I notice being generally more sentimental. Hearing a touching story, for instance, makes eyes water when ordinaril...

I'm reminded of a scene from They Live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjw_DuNkOUw It may suggest that ideologies are deeply embedded and inescapable...

Actually you tend to feel things more deeply because you’re more attuned to bodily sensations than wrapped up in what Buddhists call ‘monkey mind’. I ...

I think Trumpy got his idioms mixed up. He wants the anchors to be under the table (with their secrets).

You and me both, bro.

I don't think you need a cookbook to learn the artless steps to grilling hot dogs on the rusty exhaust pipe of your 74' AMC Gremlin. I imagine the onl...

If emotions are socially constructed then all that means is that they're like language. They help us communicate and regulate our energies appropriate...

Their concern is with its adoption in genetic research and medicine. NOS's concern seems to be with its social adoption, claiming that it is somehow i...

Nice. Never thought of it like that before.

Where exactly did I lie?

I would suggest that you do more than suggest and actually explain but that is clearly too much to ask of you. One thing is certain, your unwillingnes...