praxis

Beating up a “stupid” article, what is it kill the scarecrow day where you live? The article is worthless. I’m not just saying that because I find fou...

I’ve only skimmed your posts, and from what I’ve read seem to be all over the place in a futile attempt to promote some ideology rather than seek the ...

Great minds think alike! Out of your categories it would fit as part of 'systemic analysis', I believe, assuming that minds are part of the system.

Non-intellectual would be, well, literally non-intellectual. Even saying that something does and does not exist is unmistakably intellectual. It has p...

So you work for the Koch bros, @"Isaac"?

I can easily imagine this to be real but haven't seen it myself. In any case, it would be designed for a particular audience, an audience that is incl...

At the hight of my involvement I could be found bowing before a Zen priest in the predawn twilight of an alleyway in Santa Monica. Him saying that I d...

Fixed that for ya.

??? I've never gone there. I have a lot of knowledge about Africa. Exactly. There's nothing grand about it.

Behavior to distinguish between feeling or thought and action. For instance, abortion 'feels' wrong to me yet in behavior I support it. Or conversely,...

Something of a strawman given that I think only Apollodorus takes that book seriously. I was previously unaware (until fdrake's post above) that studi...

I know a lot about Africa but have never been there and haven’t experienced it. For all I know it may not actually exist. It’s sensible to have a gran...

In a word, meaning. Now try to tell me that zen is meaningless, I haven’t had a good laugh yet today.

Touché. I was really fishing to see how far our friend Apollo has gone down the rabbit hole, if he’s a Big Lie subscriber. Studying the mind to help e...

... because you don’t subscribe to its teachings, right?

I’m far less paranoid since Trump was resoundingly rejected by the American people.

Oh to be young and innocent.

Frank is a Green Party terrorist and pelts people with fruits and vegetables, out of the psychotic belief that they need more fiber.

What you were saying is nonsensical but even if it were not I have another brother who is 10 years my senior and is very much progressive liberal, and...

I tend to think of an archetype as a recurring natural pattern. Something that may be recognized in literature but not coined by it. Baby-boomer is a ...

A baby-boomer could be prototypical or stereotypical but there's no such archetype.

Right, that's what being liberal is all about. Don't let anyone ever let you think otherwise!

Stereotypical, prototypical, and archetypal denote substantially different things.

Nonsense. Some people are more open to new experiences and change than others. Don't we all experience this ourselves? I have a brother who's two year...

Well, the alternative is apparently suggesting that we intuit some people or things as perfect. That would be a case of excellent drugs, I think, and ...

Any description of reality is necessarily dualistic. Mysticism endorses transcendence. Fixed that for ya. I've only had a rather shallow experience of...

Emptiness? The only non-faith based consensus is scientific where this is reduced to a mere brain state, though a beneficial one, in its depatterning ...

None are completely accurate so they're not all good, on that point. I was reading a book just now that talks about stereotypes and one thing pointed ...

Not entirely false, there's a tendency for government to side with capital, for obvious reasons, and the rights and power of the working class diminis...

You mentioned how a “fully enlightened person” can live a life full of suffering but not see this as good or bad, just simply the way it is. Aside fro...

It matters because there's a difference between what we actually experience and what we take on faith or intellectualize. I think thinking about thing...

Either you're fully enlightened or this is one of those theoretical or faith things, which you seem to frequently pooh-pooh.

There, did I fix that for you right?

So the fat-cats at BLM are liv'n large on the white self-haters dime? https://a9p9n2x2.stackpathcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2017/11/iStock-53...

#6 isn’t contradictory, and according to studies in social science is also untrue. Absence makes the heart grow indifferent and familiarity breeds att...

That’s a beauty of a quote.

Some believe that what we can control is quite limited so it is as though you are endorsing a happy fantasy, from that vantage point. If we have no ex...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBW5vdhr_PA

Considering that the previous line to the one you quote suggested that the NYT published a headline that read "Insurrection by orange man almost wipes...

The New York Times and their ridiculously hyperbolic headlines, whaddya gonna do. :brow: In the Trumpian value system they would be classified as lose...

False inside/outside narrative designed to make believers feel good about themselves, and that's okay.

Top left menu under 'Drafts' No, but I hear nautical is in. https://media.gq-magazine.co.uk/photos/5f11c947f2b41cd1063536a8/master/w_828%2cc_limit/202...

Alone, in pain, and miserable. I only say that because that's how I imagine it will be, and I don't want to be disappointed when the time comes.

First things first. The mods need to get their wardrobes in order before quibbling about OP length.

I think you overestimate the degree of acceptance of those things that people can do a great deal about. We tend to think that we have freewill but th...

In the realization that the love of money does not lead to well-bing. Hey! that's what I'd say on my deathbed, "the love of money does not lead to wel...

In the unimaginable event that Trump had a successful coup d'état on January 6th, I wonder if he would have made horn guy the Secretary of Agriculture...

They need motivation to achieve Bed Bath and Beyond, but even those are going out of business now. Amazon and slave labor proved to be more innovative...

Would the world really be lesser without all the wonderful efficiency, innovation, and incentive (money)? Granted there's a lot of money to be made in...

Another Kool-Aid guzzler, I guess. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/us/politics/capitol-riot-police-officer-injuries.html