praxis

I suppose the difference is that they were violent protests with the aim of making a statement or venting frustrations, whereas those who stormed the ...

Looks violent to me. https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/01/08/19/37776378-0-image-a-5_1610132643783.jpg And they sought to overturn the election, so no...

You are arguing that it was not violent and not against the government?

I don't see an argument, naturally.

"Condemned mostly by Republicans" but "No outrage." Hmmm.

The actions of those who stormed the capital and the meaning of insurrection. So if you can think for yourself, how was it not an insurrection?

You can't think for yourself?

Forcibly entering the chambers of congress with the intent of overturning the results of a free and fair election. That’s not insurrection?

I wish he had led the nutters in because then he would now be where he belongs, behind bars with horn guy. https://media.winnipegfreepress.com/images/...

Trump launched his own cute little four page website: https://www.45office.com/ Oh how the mighty have fallen. :fear:

The whole point of socialism is to protect the working class from corporations and the like.

Try a bonnie getup like this next time. They couldn't refuse ya. https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0234/5963/products/20200121_St.Paddy_s_IMG_5442-Edi...

How do you reconcile the fact that the US is about the only developed nation without socialized healthcare and yet the US government pays far more tha...

Your thinking is that if healthcare providers were somehow (magically?) untouchable by government and corporations that people would for some inexplic...

In theory it's possible to generate energy as cheaply and efficiently as oil, but I don't think anyone has developed it in reality yet. Cheap energy i...

You seemed to be concerned with sustainability initially and have now switched to corruption. I was interesting in knowing if you could back up the cl...

If you simply mean that capitalism and the global banking system is unsustainable then yeah, no-shit Sherlock, but if you mean anything more specific ...

I just made an appointment at a CVS pharmacy and got vaccinated yesterday. They're not allowed to ask if you qualify.

Is it impossible to save stupid people from smart people? There, I fixed it for you.

This is bad, if there's much truth to it, but the problem is not the virus. Something really messed up with the lives of these kids that a lockdown ir...

Few seem to understand freedom requires responsibility.

According to evolution theory we’re all 100% evolved from pond scum, I believe.

There is no remainder to prosecute.

He 100% debunked your debunking?

That's nonsensical because you would have to have a clue in order judge.

No clue about how to properly do the laundry, how the human mind works, or no clue about the nature of reality? Can you be clear about what you mean?

The process is based in prediction, it’s generally believed. For example: The rain in Spain falls mainly on the ________. Jake and Jill went up the __...

Starlight is lazy?

I realize impermanence in just about every moment. It is made real with every change. I know what you're trying to say. To me it seems like you're foc...

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What is so difficult about observing or understanding impermanence? It seems extraordinarily simple to me. It is also * * * dare I say it * * * an int...

Doesn’t it feel wrong to contrive the duality of Relative/Absolute? It may be the goal of spirituality but it’s certainty not the goal of religion. If...

Couldn’t really afford to be an individualist in 99.9% of human evolution, I’ve heard.

A meaningful story can woven out of anything, even mere garbage. Truth isn’t necessary and rather beside the point.

I think that they’d need a lot of convincing that they weren’t.

Atman

The illusion is permanence. The truth, allegedly, is emptiness. I would ask for no other kind, and it is kind of you to offer.

It is a quote from the Buddha that you presented yourself.

Yeah, whatever, there’s no such animal (eternal atman) in Buddhism, only emptiness. Does the passage that you quote suggest that the Blessed One wants...

He apparently wants to keep with the arising of knowledge that all phenomena are not-self. Hmm... why would he want to do that???

Weird. Buddhism teaches that suffering arises from ignorance of our true nature, which is emptiness, and that everything (including formless realms) a...

But Hindu's talk about atman. Atman is all the rage in Hinduism.

If you see your original face, slap it for me. That's a famous zen koan.

It's obviously a teaching about avoiding the extreme views of eternalism and annihilationism. Try again.

??? If that's how you're interpreting it, he also denies teaching atman.

The moral of the story is that secular scholars lack faith or, in other words, don't rely on religious authorities.

The illustrious secular scholars claim that nothing can be said with authority in what the historical Buddha said. So secular of them to claim such a ...

What are you babbling about?

Atman is impermanent, so Buddha was right about anatman. :grin:

Where?