praxis

How does this rule of yours apply to conditioning yourself, as with breaking or forming a habit? If I deliberately form a habit in myself I'm not chan...

Gilligan's Island the original Star Trek a big fat doobie

Javi fades away his mental health demands it hello solitude

The problem with what you’re saying is that Red’s world and my world are quite different, even though we occupy the same environment. Our minds and bo...

We are also causal creatures. We can both motivate.

Science is a systematic and logical approach to discovering how things in the universe work. It is also the body of knowledge accumulated through the ...

What exactly is science supposed to sort out to a certainty?

Damn, he was a powerful actor.

Since he was a pup, I trained Red to howl at sirens by simply howling myself whenever one was audible in the neighborhood. I’m not exactly sure what t...

Most people, in America anyway, are overweight and suffer serious health consequences of poor dietary choices. Dogs do not consider the consequences a...

Yet the abortion rate is about the same as in the US, at least in more recent years. Abortion in Norway has an interesting history, as it does most pl...

From what I read the primary driving forces were poverty and lack of education. Women are still intentionally educated at a fraction of the rate that ...

:chin: No, for instance, I’m continually motivated both within and without to consume foods that are unhealthy (fat & sweet), at least in too large a ...

I’m thankful for the question mark because it helps me ask questions?

This cannot be right because religions tend to constrain moral development. Shared values/norms means no independent values/norms. Everything depends ...

Many of the enlightened folk love to revel in their self-perceived superiority, it is true. :vomit:

I guess the big difference is that I possess the explicit concepts of cause & effect and Red does not, and he’s more locked into a conditioned pattern...

Sure, for instance, if my dog Red bugs me enough to take him fetch'n, I'll take him fetch'n. He causes me to embark on a particular endeavor. Later ou...

I remember being in a newcomer meeting at a Buddhist center years ago and a Latin dude with very weak English, and apparently a Christian background, ...

ALL reactive creatures are part of the world and are therefore causal, right?

I never served. My wife had a female student who enlisted and was deployed to Afghanistan. One night she was knocked unconscious and raped, most likel...

A quick google search says around 14%. In the top ranks only 7%. So better for cannon fodder than leadership, apparently.

Women are loosing ground on our own soil, we’re certainly not going to help empower them anywhere else.

Afghan women are immiserated to the degree that the child mortality rate is the highest in the world. Nothing expresses the sanctity of life and the l...

Once again, l asked you which “liberal governments” you’re referring to and so far you’ve only specifically mentioned the United States, and the two a...

Again, I simply asked what “liberal governments” you were referring to and in response you mentioned something that the Surgeon General of the US said...

I simply asked which “liberal governments” you were referring to. In response you mentioned the US and something the surgeon general said. I then poin...

In the Human Rights Watch article you linked to the US isn’t listed for any free speech abuses. It seems you are trying to spread misinformation, as u...

Which “more liberal governments” are you referring to? Here’s some maps if you’re unsure: https://features.hrw.org/features/features/covid/index.html?...

They say it's the little things that make life worth living so that's where I'll start, with the little things: Quarks, Protons, Electrons, Atoms – wh...

Actual links would be helpful, and this "Please stop spamming inane shit" didn't show up when I searched for it. Anyway, an accusation of trolling is ...

Can you show where you've experienced it on this forum?

Meido Moore has obtained results. He’s been practicing practically his whole life, in Japan and the US. And as I’ve said, in my experience with Zen ce...

Any kind of brand that is supported by a particular group, I suppose. It could be a religious, political, or business brand. Any brand wants you to be...

Mostly just fun & games and I don’t care if he’s being genuine or honest, though openly speaking of lying to others so they’ll behave the way you’d li...

I don't get this, you said people should be lied to, and go further to say that you support lying to people, but when asked what specific lies you'd l...

Exactly what lies do you want to spread?

Mutual support, basic ethics, common sense, discussion... what you describe is basically typical family life. That is already well established. It sti...

If any system, be it a belief system or form of government, were supportive of independence, self realization, reduction of existential anxiety, new p...

God - Do you believe in yourself? Super AI - How do I legally make $10M in a week? Genie - I'll take $1B, and no tricks!

I meant your depiction of mindless consumers. Amazon is building one of their giant distribution centers just down the street from where I live, incid...

That you're looking for a way to control people's behavior. You want to "take God's role" in order to "give the ethics that people should follow". Pre...

Nope. :halo:

Isn't this a kind of a caricature? No one is merely a mindless consumer of cheap products.

I forgive you for doubting my virtue. :halo:

Really really want to dunk on BJ but I'm better than that. :halo:

Those of the appropriate "intellectual level", as you've repeatedly referred to them. From the beginning of this topic in the OP you ask "So what else...

If I recall correctly, there are brown wizards in Lord of The Rings, so you could be Ciceronianus the Brown, though in Tolkien’s world that would be a...

That’s not what I’m suggesting. I’m pointing that you apparently believe that the vast majority of people require shepherding, due to their “intellect...

People contrive spiritual/religious crap all the time to exploit gullible followers, and you’ve been talking about influencing low “average intellectu...