praxis

How much do you weigh?

In the East it mean the realization of emptiness. In the West it means weight-loss.

Narcissism is wrong too.

Wrong.

So is this part of a stand-up routine or what? The door hinge bit was particularly hilarious. :lol:

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That is inexplicably funny. Maybe my subconscious has a better memory than my conscious mind.

Maybe Guinness is having COVID related supply chain issues.

I remember Clark mentioning that he's prone to flatulence. That claim is much more credible now.

You’re the one who’s employed the term “non-attachment”. If you don’t mean what that appears to represent then maybe it’s not the right term.

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I may have misrepresented the work if I suggested that it was presented in a manner divorced from a larger picture or story, although the title alone,...

I believe you are describing this phenomena. https://www.margithenderson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Happiness-U-Curve-300x232.jpg

I remember his lyrics stating that there's a crack in everything, and that's how the light gets in.

Hilarious. I'm just glad I wasn't drinking anything while watching. Probably would have ruined my keyboard. John Oliver has done stories on the NRA bu...

A bell may or may not make a dog salivate depending on its conditioning or, as you say, ‘system of anticipations’. In this case isn’t affect hedonic (...

How is affect somehow not hedonic?

I’ve tried unsuccessfully to make Caesar dressing a few times. Tricky to get the anchovies right. It hadn’t occurred to me that they’re not all equal.

I suppose that I find this subject particularly interesting now because I just finished a book called Dopamine Nation. As the title indicates, the boo...

Even a saint isn’t perfect and given sufficient time would surely eventually disappoint. How could someone experience disappointed if they weren’t att...

Even if it were something that I experienced with my senses, I couldn’t know what I was experiencing without all the previous sense experience that bu...

Love and beauty are not the same thing. I guess we now have to decide what love means.

A mind that would not exists without sensory input in its development. Minds don’t just pop into existence.

In non-attachment, why would you love any particular person?

I know that my objections are off-point. Regarding how true it is, how long do you think your mind would last without any sensory input? Maybe a few m...

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Minds require (are completely dependent on) sensory input to simply exist.

It is what I imagine. What do you imagine it’s like?

I wouldn’t claim that it’s impossible either. It is a rather dreary goal though, to be an uncaring zombie.

It is meaningless to say that anyone doesn’t rely on sensory knowledge because minds are built on it. No sensory input, no mind.

You have no attachment to anything or anyone, including yourself?

So a fantasy, in other words.

Enlightenment in the Buddist sense simply means the realization of what they call emptiness, and it has little if anything to do with the development ...

As opposed to the scope of rationalism?

Parm & Ploti’s minds both had a grounding in what they experienced with their senses. Without such a grounding they would not have developed minds.

Considering that it would be impossible to know anything without such a grounding it’s really not that unreasonable.

The Sand Dune Sermon The dude's robe caught on some bushes as he climbed the dune, making him spill his drink a little. Once on the mound, surrounded ...

Indeed.

Oh no, can't resist... Oompa loompa doompety doo I’ve got a perfect puzzle for you Oompa loompa doompety dee If you are wise you’ll listen to me What ...

The notion that this forum has the power to reform bigotry isn’t shameful, just terribly naive.

I think he thinks himself smarter than those who debate the banning of an unrepentant misogynist, to be precise.

Is Buddhism philosophically sound?

If he’s as influenced by social dynamics as you’ve suggested, it’s likely that he would have been compelled to remain consistent with this statement.

Thumbs up to the ‘one strike you’re out’ policy of unrepentant misogynists. Thanks for the exercise in futility. https://c.tenor.com/eAt5EfLNIuEAAAAC/...

Fair enough. I propose two strikes for the repentant misogynist and one for the unrepentant.

Such posts would be seen and they would offend. Don’t you care about that? They would also promote bigotry, and by allowing them the forum could be pe...

So you want the mods to vigilantly moderate self-professed sexists, or whatever-ists, in good service to society? Banning is much easier, and it sends...

Thankfully.

You definitely demonstrated that slippery slopes can be funny.

The forum generally lacks the misogynist spirit, fortunately.