praxis

Last $10k of my wife’s student loans were forgiven today. That vote for Biden really paid off.

Your style of flirtation is paradoxically both clean & dirty.

Sounds like the deleter’s got a crush on you. May want to fire in order to avoid future awkwardness like… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JS6Gw6NVgRg

My sense of humor has matured greatly since then. Anyway, the incident may provide an example of the virtue of self-moderation. The so called yellow b...

If I recall the incidents that Sky is referring to correctly, the cowardly ambush occurred in the territory where some topics go to die, namely the lo...

You could could use a spreadsheet or other program and then take a screen capture and upload it. The forum software may have an html feature that’s no...

How sad it would be if this is the answers to the paradox. :cry:

Not necessarily, no. A man of bad acts may see the harm he's caused and change his ways. Conversely, a man of good acts may become corrupt. Who can sa...

9. Sentient life has a tendency to destroy itself.

It must have been a prodigious birth.

I speculate that he got serious about practicing the way and surmised that a place like this tends to stimulate our default mode network (monkey mind,...

Deliberately training yourself in some way or, as you say, self-conditioning your unconscious, is one thing and karma is another. In the last paragrap...

You appear to be dismissing pre-Buddhist metaphysics.

No, you pointed that out yourself.

My mistake, I only glanced at the quotation in the OP, not that that’s a good excuse. Nevertheless my point remains, there’s underlying metaphysics th...

I once tried to read Mind & Cosmos by Thomas Nagel, a Wayfarer favorite, but honestly it was largely over my head and difficult to hold my attention o...

On Buddhist forums he would speak of how insufferable all you scietismic materialists are and his intention to never ague with you again. This was yea...

I just checked and he doesn’t appear to be active on another forum that he’s been known to haunt, although it has a stupid search function so I’m not ...

No. Religious followers are devotedly at the mercy of their leaders whims and leaders with that much power tend to be corrupted by it.

In terms of homeostasis, Buddhism and stoicism may be similar though I think the latter may have the view that we are less in control than the former,...

The recent banning of StreetlightX should put this rumor to rest.

Perhaps you missed it but Banno suggested grouping athletes by factors like: Unless I'm missing something, this should theoretically reduce the chance...

You appear to be suggesting that a transwoman will have a performance ability somewhere between man and woman, if I’m reading between the lines correc...

Can you point out these studies?

Being aggressive isn't acting in bad faith, but speaking of it, do you believe that you always act in good faith? You seem rather trollish at times an...

I thought the problem was being stabbed in the face for writing a book.

In considering the issue people often fail to take into account that trans women in sports undergo hormone therapies that make them physically more li...

Maybe true but you tell better jokes.

Because the underlying metaphysics include concepts like the twelve link chain of dependent origination, etc etc. I might have a better idea of where ...

It matters because it puts the reasons for your fate in the hands of religious authority. If you question that authority, for instance, that authority...

Perhaps we should form a search party. I can bring beer and gluten free pretzels. :party:

Karma necessarily includes what we have no control over, which in reality is a great deal. Why was I born into a particular set of conditions? Buddhis...

That’s quite a leap. How exactly were you able to make it? Obviously it is not the case that our unconscious is ultimately self-conditioned, though we...

Your interest is no concern of mine so there is no reason for you to express sorrow or regret. We have no choice but to conclude from your silence on ...

Why? What does it have to do with defining religion? The implication seemed to be that mentioning it somehow supports the notion that atheism is a rel...

Yes, and you also wrote: What exactly do you mean by that? Simply that it’s necessarily treated like one under the First Amendment? A better question:...

To be honest I only skimmed the article for something that corresponded to my interest in something you said, though you’re post touches on several po...

I wonder if written online stimulation/socializing like here at TPF counts in this way.

To put it bluntly, I think the reason Trump can become president is because many Americans are ignorant. Not that our other choices are much better.

Atheism must be treated like a religion under the First Amendment. The establishment clause not only prohibits governments from directly establishing ...

We Americans try not to deplatform anyone because they may influence elections, ideally, unless it's from a hostile foreign power.

I thought he was Canadian.

I'm tempted to talk about the specifics but the larger picture, as I see it, is that JP is a brand and all this crap is totally on-brand for him and h...

Agnosticism and atheism aren't generally considered religions if that's what you meant to say. If that is what you meant to say, can you explain?

I just watched the Perterson video about his twitter suspension so that I might better understand the comparison. I didn't know, or I forgot, what tha...

My mom used to regularly make tuna casserole. I tried recreating it awhile back in a fit of nostalgia. I used the canned mushroom soup that she used s...

I could eat that.

I was threatened with banning once for allegedly expressing bigotry. I would characterize it more as devils advocacy. In any case, the threatening mod...

You’re displeased with the moderation? If so, I’m curious and interested in seeing an instance of what you regard as heavy handed or whatever. Btw, yo...

Hmm, I’m not salivating. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Stracciatella_formaggio_fresco_2.jpg