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A more apt and less indecent simile would be a kind of reverse Moby-Dick: :ok:

:lol: If Brad were at all practical he'd be a MUCH better meditation teacher.

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I'm praxis11 on chess.com, btw.

I can barely manage the personality that I'm aware of, much less an additional one. :grimace:

Apropos, the Atheist God’s mockery of the first guest and the resultant vendetta: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/7163/stoicism-is-an-attrac...

Oh yes indeed, the Atheist God’s true nature is revealed in his paranoid ramblings.

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Scott Meyer’s wrote a book about that. Some halfway good humor in it, if I recall rightly. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed...

Have a babe.

Do you mean emptiness? Next time perhaps try not to make so much ado about nothing.

You wrote, "To those who've never been through the mystical looking glass it means nothing", and also seem to claim that Nietsche was incapable of see...

@"Wayfarer" Nothing Waywarer? Have a smidgen of intellectual honesty and say what it means to you, please.

Sorry, I didn’t realize that we were talking about hiding away in a Himalayan monastery or whatever.

So what does it mean? You should be able to explain it to us because we’re not aliens. Even our cultural differences are not that great. You said ther...

Because it's better to suffer that anxiety for more of your life than less of your life? :chin:

Primarily existential anxiety, I would guess.

I did a search for that quote and got a fuller quote: We don't need religion to pursue 'transcendence', and like morality, religion may hinder our dev...

Whut??? :worry: Allow me to refresh your memory. In my previous post to you I wrote “I'm saying that religion requires hidden ultimate "truths" and it...

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There are countless examples of religious authorities creatively adding a spin to doctrine, or just making shit up on the fly, in order to influence t...

It's just a way of distinguishing them. There are all sorts of ways to distinguish them from each other, I'm sure, quaint as some of them may be. I'm ...

The former is held to be true, simply. To a large degree, science is responsible for the way we think about the world, literally the world, that it's ...

I’m not sure that you realize what you’re saying. Anyone can review core religious philosophical ideas. No problem. No one can fully explicate these i...

Clark was admittedly being provocative in the OP and has been duly chastised for his choice of words and loose terminology. I’d feel sorry for him if ...

Nice post. Going back to the different approaches that we talked about, they may each have their strengths and weaknesses, and for whatever reason, we...

Sounds reasonable except for the fact that no one understands religious philosophy. No one can answer questions at the "heart" of any religion. That i...

No disagreement, though it’s unclear to me what value this may personally provide. I wonder if it’s possible to have studied these problems, have a so...

What is a handful of years compared to 350 million? Practically nothing, but feels very important because that facilitates gene propagation.

My take is that it’s more like claiming there are different approach’s to shoe making & repair, such as a more rational approach or a more intuitive a...

I had noting to do with the 350 million years of evolution and genetic information carried in the family jewels. If I’m any part of that, it’s so negl...

I’m no biologist but I don’t thing anything needs to travel down to my balls for them to be fertile other than blood and stuff. I’m blood? And if I’m ...

Just trying to be helpful and give you something to complain about.

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I voted yes for the simple reason that insight, an understanding of the true nature of something, can inform judicious action.

Ironically, if you bothered to do the reading all of your questions should be answered.

Ugh, I thought all ya blokes dawnunda we’re all wise and shit. Turns out you’re cunts like everyone else on the planet.

“A stitch in time saves nine.” Oh yeah? what are the odds of that? Should be “A stitch in time saves several, if not many, stitches”. “If you can't ex...

Please stop doing that. :grin:

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:lol: No, lots of things move me, for different reasons and in different ways. You just moved me to laugh internally. If people actually have an "a pr...

Jonestown comes to mind. I didn't express my thoughts well, there was certainly social agreement in Jonestown.

All I'm saying is that there are fictions (institutional truths) that are based on social agreement (rational) rather than social delusion (irrational...

Not at all. People believe in countless institutional truths and it's not delusion but practical agreement. Money, for instance, is one the most widel...

I was curious about your use of the phrase 'the secular age'. Subtraction theory or something else?

Etymology: dyeu- Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to shine." Make washing the dishes shine, babe! :halo:

We would also do well to acknowledge a foolish consistency. Curiously, you seem to point out that we’re surrounded in daily rituals and that any one o...