praxis

Yeah, that must be it. The pandemic had nothing to do with it. You said "no wars" and I didn't know what that meant.

You must mean the civil rights movement, yes, I agree that was a productive time. :smile: Btw... How exactly did Biden single handedly raise gas price...

So America was a productive adult only a couple of years ago. :lol:

My country elected Trump as its leader several years ago so yeah, something’s rotten in Denmark, but it ain’t dementia. When I look at history though,...

Why should I be content with someone else’s answers to that?

Possibility is a woman, if I’m not mistaken. At the gyms where I live more men than women lift but the difference isn’t that great. Strong fit women a...

There are non-religious approaches to that end. I think the utility is in binding tribes, which can offer well-being, but if well-being were essential...

Not knowing doesn’t require faith.

So a woman only needs to be a good housekeeper and breeder? Sounds a bit insecure. Teach them to be afraid to feel? Why make a leap of faith if you're...

According to the instruction manual, Right View (twelve link chain of dependent origination, karma, rebirth, etc.) is doggedly claimed to be essential...

I still don’t follow. Concepts are interdependent and are meaningless in isolation.

I don’t follow. Torture weekend is not as bad, in the mind of the torturer, relative to torture millennium in both quality and quantity, assuming the ...

You’re a funny guy, Harry. :grin:

Hilarious. The critical theory dog and pony show that Republicans have been playing, at the confirmation hearing and elsewhere, seems to have gotten y...

Unfortunate. I’m aware when members that I develop a kind of connection with go AWOL, and I haven’t developed that with Mr. Wood, but nevertheless I n...

Where’s @"tim wood"?

In that case, it can still be an identity and have influence. People who don’t think for themselves and just go along with the tribe are the ideal fol...

This story is everywhere except, oddly enough :razz: , outlets like Fox News and Breitbart. 'We control them all': Donald Trump Jr. texted Meadows ide...

I'm still sticking with "an ideology that relies on ultimate authority," which to my mind covers its essential nature. This last post was only meant t...

It seems to be the case that all forms of knowledge, including scientific knowledge, are ‘ideological’ in the sense that there is no neutral, objectiv...

What if half the world “believes” that it’s accurate?

This reeks of prejudice and close-mindedness.

I think that moral behavior applies to the living and hope that those not living are beyond such concerns.

It’s extremely generous to say that religion offers a coherent undestanding of 'mind and cosmos'. There is no shortage of roles for people to occupy a...

Freeloaders take advantage of the cooperative nature of others for personal gain. That doesn't seem selfish to you?

If Frank is too skittish to express his objections maybe some else knows what he’s talking about?

I don't follow. Basically it's simply that, according to our particular biology, cooperation generally propagates more of our genes than freeloading.

The claim is “there is no reason to say that altruism is superior to selfishness in any biological sense” and I gave a reason why it fits our biologic...

The reason is simply that we are biologically a social species and therefore cooperation is vital to our survival, or rather the strategy our species ...

http://malankazlev.com/kheper/topics/greatchainofbeing/greatchain-correspondences.gif What’s striking about this graphic is how utterly egocentric it ...

If for no other reason, because the society judges it to be wrong.

The will to effectively dismantle democracy?

The first thing that comes to mind is: Princely Particulate But a nickname needs to be short so howbout: Princely Parts But that makes me think: Priva...

Fixed.

Similar to how the serpent tricked Eve into biting from the apple of knowledge, it also tricked her into telling the first joke. One day, after the fa...

It depends on the circumstances. Generally speaking, an employer wants the most amount of work for the least amount of money, and the employee wants t...

If our tradition is good and ultimately true then other ways must be false and bad, and this discrepancy is commonly capitalized on in order to reify ...

It was a small demonstration of causality, my friend, nothing more. I provoke, you reply.

It strikes me as a rather sad and shallow outlook to see the inclination towards religion as a random predisposition rather than a fundamental need fo...

In prayer, "We firmly believe that Donald J Trump is the current and true president of the United States." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YINsBXa4Xnw

My last point was merely that you would comprehend it via written form or by voice, things of a different kind (disparate). We could have avoided this...

Your meaning is not clear but I will point out that we are all saturated in values, narratives, and meaning. There's no shortage.

It seems there are two basic kinds of intentions or propositional attitudes in belief, one that is meant to reflect the world (our coherent inner mode...

Employees or labor has collective power if they can coordinate. That's why socialism is such a dirty word.

I’ve tried to explain to you that the information or pattern is independent of the medium. For instance, I’m conveying this message through written la...

I have the same star quality :starstruck: hairstyle as Jada Pinkett, so eat your hearts out, bitches.

You're simply limiting a causal sequence, so what? It would make sense to do that if the events in question were too far removed from each other to fi...

I think what we call belief is really a relation between different propositions, whether or not they agree, and actual beliefs are our internal models...

This belies the common trait in religions that a practitioners can fail miserably, commit a wide range of transgressions, and still be held firmly in ...

I can only hope this is all a joke on your part.