praxis

Lol, are you suggesting that I fall on a knife? I haven’t had children, by choice, if that pleases your sense of consistency. The point was really to ...

A pawn can be fulfilled. I don't think you mean fulfilled. You seem to be talking about control or power. Nothing is more base than that.

Do we need oil? Renewable energy is still more expensive than fossil fuel so if we tried to transition on a large scale now it would shrink the econom...

You are claiming that people cannot care about the environment or social inequality and that they can only care about being perceived as a good person...

Yes, I’ve also noticed that white often swings first. I can remember games where white played unusual or bold openings moves with their pawns and my b...

Without trying to check with an internet search, I doubt that is true in terms of recognition.

This is false, for the simple fact that authorities rely on those without authority. Short of physical force, no one actually has power over others. A...

Wow, if I’m ever in that neighborhood I definitely will.

I’ve visited that one. Now I wish we visited Sainte-Chapelle, the one pictured in my post above.

This one’s magnificent. https://www.sah.org/images/default-source/blog/fig--1.jpg?sfvrsn=2c105d9b_2

Cancel culture once again rear’s it’s ugly head.

They lived during the Jurassic age and were not hunter gatherers. If memory serves, Fred worked in a rock quarry, and there were institutions like law...

There are all sorts of worldviews. I’m claiming that religions always make metaphysical claims (ultimate truths) that require uncommon access. Those w...

The claim seems to be that if you practice righty you’ll eventually get it and that only poor practitioners lose faith or never get it. If you hold th...

Without specifics I’ll simply say that practice or a “way-of-being” doesn’t require religion.

Faith in religious authority, yes. You are paying attention. :razz: I don’t know how to make a piña colada either, if I’m honest.

On the contrary, its only merit is found in conceptualization because it is religious ideas (fictions) that serve to bind groups with common values, a...

I meant the patterns in the electrical signals that you mentioned. Specific patterns that correspond to a sequence of sounds, such as spoken words. Ne...

I believe it is, yes.

It looks to me like you ditched my question. Excellent.

Allow me to rephrase the question, if you will. Do you believe that religious folk make metaphysical claims or simply describe the true nature of real...

Even if God was describing it?

In a word, metaphysics. It seems rather obvious to me that both esoteric Christianity and Shamanic religions make metaphysical claims, or do believe t...

Let’s see, the Christ in Christianity refers to, well, Christ, and not the average Joe, no? AverageJoeianity would be funny religion though, and I tha...

Maybe one of these others would be a good example. Please…

Can you name one that isn’t like that?

Anyone who can somehow convince others that they have experienced or speak for the ultimate.

Those with special access.

That activity is always happening, silly goose. What you neglect to take into account is the intentional pattern that is transmitted, and that is caus...

It refers to an ideology that relies on ultimate authority.

I believe that some intentionally obfuscate for one reason or another and that is their purgative, annoying as it may be.

If words only affected eardrums then it would not be possible to communicate verbally. Sounds cause patterns of auditory sense data to be transmitted ...

I don't either, actually. I've been playing the devil's advocate, your advocate, in order to try to understand your reasoning. Standing in another per...

Potato potahto. Prude.

Such as a cause of needle, and please pardon my racy language, penetration.

@"frank" isn’t that bad.

Progressive liberals openly propose both empowerment and restitutions. Anyway, what is the ultimate goal of this supposedly clandestine strategy? Orwe...

Is equality unappealing?

No, it’s spelled matriarchy.

What’s that? Pro tip: use a thumb or other blunt object and press in into the solar plexus as you breathe. This will help diaphragmatic breathing and ...

No, that’s not true. Many many more things are needed to cause a person to feel pain. Try again?

From the description of Will Smith’s book: :chin:

Slow your breathing, through the nose if that’s comfortable, and from the diaphragm rather than the chest.

You prefer authoritarian propaganda?

Conservative values are based in marriage? Why do Liberals want to destroy these values?

I think it’s because the responsive design truncates the formatting menu on small screens. Simply turn you phone horizontally and more formatting opti...

What would you say if I claimed that it's magical thinking for you to believe that pricking a person with a needle would cause them to feel pain?

I play fight with dogs. The last two we've had have both bitten me almost daily, but not hard. They learn after awhile to not bite hard enough to brus...

And they recoil in horror, yes, we've been over this. What would you say if I claimed that it's magical thinking for you believe that anything you cou...

It’s simple, you believe that telling someone that their words do not have the effect they believe they have can cause them to recoil in horror, and b...