To put it quite plainly, the practical benefit of such a pursuit is simply the reduction of anxiety, existential and others sorts. The ‘cessation of s...
Your subjective experiences of satisfaction are essential, not simplistic. Again, you are free to confer whatever nuanced meaning you like to your exp...
At the start you wrote “the matter has to be approached phenomenologically” so that’s what I’m doing. You are entirely free to confer whatever meaning...
It’s not a complement. I merely point out that you subjectively experience the phenomena of both satisfaction and dissatisfaction, and this is evidenc...
It is rational certainly, though it is not a rationalization or compromise of any sort. Earlier, you were claiming this must be approached phenomenolo...
Buddha blames life, claiming that it is all disatisfactory. That is, of course, a lie. There is both satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Life requires b...
The matter, like any matter, can be approached from various angles, including scientific or “materialist.” Can you explain why you believe it has to b...
Even to simply point out theory’s, like Kohlberg's theory of moral development, or more contemporary theories like moral foundations theory, would be ...
I like the Suzuki quote. Everything changes and therefore everything is empty. Without change nothing is possible. I don't think that any religion is ...
Absolutely, yes, although not in a way that is likely to be agreeable to a... fetishizer. Various studies have been conducted on the suppression of th...
It's a religion like any other, and like other religions, I think it's built on some valuable insights. The concept and experience of 'emptiness', for...
True, but answered so badly as to be completely meaningless. It appears as though you cannot answer the questions. That's fine of course, but it looks...
To annihilate the world in this sense would mean erasing our internal model of the world. Clearly, that's not the case and practice is more like tempo...
Well, he makes sense in many absurd ways. Take death for instance, we’re all bound to die one day so what actual difference does it make if we die 10 ...
Does Camus make sense? Absurdly, yes. Just finished reading The Stranger, incidentally, and it did in fact make perfect sense to me, though I felt tha...
I would never disagree with that. Many many forms of media try to manipulate us with the intent to benefit some and not others. I asked you who and ho...
No, I wrote: “Trump is suing CNN because they frequently reported on his lies, particularly his Big Lie.” Should they be forced to do otherwise? Again...
You’re essentially saying that you can control people by lying to them. That has nothing to do with the integrity of the press. Indeed, Trump is suing...
So far you have neglected to explain how they are not free. You claim that politicians control newspapers and journalists but fail to explain how they...
So you don’t know who they are or how they control the news and yet have no problem with defaming Breitbart on a public forum. Shouldn’t news networks...
Anyway, getting back to the topic, I think that @"introbert" may have been attempting to introduce the concept of presentism to the issue, thought bet...
Maybe an example will help clarify what we are each trying to convey. Are you familiar with the Breitbart News Network? It's an American far-right syn...
I’m fluent in English, if that’s helpful for you to know about me. What most interests me is the part where you touch on “only now being looked at in ...
That's a good point. Rather than defiling the object as some claim, Lizzo actually raised its value, and I would guess that it also, by design, raised...
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