Imaginary innovation is by far the easiest to create and develop because the only limitation is the suspension of the audience’s disbelief, and that c...
I’m thinking that all it really amounts to is a finding in game theory that cooperation for mutual benefit is the best life strategy and anyone who fa...
Trump = bandit Trump support base = stupid Trump proves rule #1 for me. I think a problem with the theory is that intelligent people can be neurotic a...
And that's an insignificant difference for you? It indicates that their purposes are of an entirely different nature. If philosophy is the love of wis...
Doing some back-reading, I can't answer what you were asking any better than what 180 wrote and you seem to have ignored. I'm curious why you're so in...
:razz: I promise not to label you a heretic if you were to try explaining this claim. If you do try, I suspect that it will inevitably end in your say...
Not necessarily, some are raised within a religion and belong to it their entire lives. They may of course privately question it, but to publicly ques...
It isn't really available in religion because to belong is to not question the dogma, and it's all about belonging. The function of philosophy is not ...
I seem to recall Clark fully acknowledging that he's a product of his culture. I think the following is the essence of what we're talking about and Cl...
Disagree. I think the OP is essentially asking about what matters. Does "building little intellectual kingdoms out of the sand" really matter, or real...
In an Eastern ‘your cup is full’ sense that is how I interpreted it. Ignorance being ignorance of one’s true nature. Realizing one’s true nature is re...
I'm asking about the specifics of what's provided. Don't know anything about jiu jitsu but I've been practicing to develop skills in oil painting. Tha...
A PhD is advanced education, needless to say. What I mean is specific training methods to improve performance, similar to the methods used in the spor...
It’s that lack of clarity that makes me, and initially Janus, question the comparison to disciplines like tennis and jiu jitsu which have highly devel...
Several people have mentioned this ‘expert training’ and I still left wondering about it. A philosophy major is a humanities degree path that will cha...
As someone not at all provoked by your OP I’d like to say that I did find it provocative. If I had to guess, I’d say the reason for the unnecessary ta...
Kinda funny but, like your short story in the competition, fiction doesn’t seem to be your strong suit. At least I made it past the first couple of pa...
I’ve had a gym membership and stayed fit as a lifestyle for my entire adult life, but I’ve never been a money chaser. Low self-esteem though so your m...
What I was thinking when I read Hanover’s post. Deliberate practice requires a high degree of structure and well defined goals. There are definitely w...
I just finished the second book of the trilogy that’s an immediate prequel to Dune, by Brian and Kevin, and remember thinking in one part how conserva...
Argumentative Given to expressing divergent or opposite views. Using or characterized by systematic reasoning. Doesn't sound so very terrible to me. P...
Curious that you regard argument negatively. I put to you that our "positive" (in the Stoic sense) human traits have developed for a reason; a good re...
Searching for and finding alternative explanations and meanings is corrosive to religion because it disrupts faith in its authority. Religion is repla...
We are a social species and have the capacity of reason. Living in accordance with that nature is what stoicism is all about. We aren’t leopards, zebr...
It definitely rubs our capitalistic values forged in rugged individualism the wrong way. We're not trained for well-being, so we need to train ourselv...
This sort of thing supposedly lead Siddhartha Gautama to some world-renown insights. The OP didn't suggest to me at all that we should "blank-slate on...
I watched the new Dune movie last night on HBO. I generally liked the casting, and the visual and soundtrack aesthetic was gorgeous and seamless. Desp...
I understand the condemnation is due to their not being in our control and can all be lost rather easily. Virtue, on the other hand, is said to be som...
I've been led to believe that it means to hold something in high regard and not merely a sign of acknowledgment. No matter, I just found it amusing, a...
You respect Baker’s prudently polarized view that a person is either a true optimist about life, with **profound** reasons to back up such optimism, o...
I went to the page and did a search for "Mahayana". That word is not used even once in the article, so how could it possibly support your stupid claim...
It's a rather odd take to view stoicism as a strategy for coping with grave suffering. Also odd to delight in the suffering of others, I will add. I s...
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