James Riley

Apology accepted. Read posts 1, 3 and 5.

Indeed. STEM should follow Liberal Arts like school should follow free range play.

In the old days, we used to call the Soviet Union "Communist" not "Socialist." Also, back in the 80's, my poly sci class used to distinguish between t...

:100: To me, it's a tool. Like logic. Like a hammer. Like a gun. It's not perfect and a lot depends on who's wielding it and what their motivations ar...

I did need to look him up. :blush: But you are correct. In this day and age, he will suffer the likes of Tucker Carlson though. No one is above smeari...

:up: Oh, I never took issue with the idea that words have meaning. My point was, your quote referenced Sufism. It seemed you were painting all gnosis ...

I pray that doesn't happen. He'll then be a martyr and you know damn well it will have been a secret deep state doctor that slipped something into his...

:100: :up: Another chink in the armor of pretension. When I first mistakenly said "repeatability" (when I really meant reproducibility), that was just...

Thank you, cast iron skillet.

Likewise the "in Sufism." And the "of" preceding the "by." We could also nit pic the definition of "God" by which the knowledge comes. I suppose that ...

:100: :up: Thanks for catching that. I meant reproducible. P.S. This discloses another example of where science is forced to bow down to nature. If on...

Please follow the consistent thread running through the following: Unfortunately for them, they fail. Thus, it is not mandatory. And that is where you...

I do not have a monopoly on how one arrives at that which I know-but-cannot-articulate. I have met very few people in my life who I knew knew. We know...

:100: :lol: I've take the view that I take with so many other issues: I can't know it all, and while I will not surrender my right to critically and a...

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Or financing a stooge for Congress. :grin:

And that is how I read the OP. The continuation of my post which you did not include: And in my second post: I perceive, not just in your post but in ...

Mongo just pawn in game of life.

Sending in a proxy to do some work that you did not want done. CIA.

"Ofillimebonibodi . . .etc."

Ah, my Padawan, you must go into the wilderness and sit before a turd for a month and experience it. Then you will no longer consider it for use as an...

Indeed. Everyone who has something that others want, gnostic or non, will have a following. Look to the leaders who don't say "Follow me." And if you ...

:up: Before I knew that philosophy was a thing, I read people that made me think. Turns out, some folks smarter than me called them "philosophers." Ed...

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I tried to confine my consideration to the limitations/definitions specifically outlined in the OP; steering away from other, broader, general, or mor...

Heaven forbid anything should be beyond man's ability to describe. After all, next to the brain housing group, we think our tongue is all that. Maybe ...

It's a gnostic thing. You wouldn't understand. :wink:

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or easy to frustrate, and impatient. :cool:

:up: I agree with that. It is, however, for the likes of me, very hard to do. I found the 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness hard, but easier tha...

I'd be more concerned with their diseases. Sorry for the digression, because I probably agree with your main point. It's just the unintended can be a ...

We both know that I did. My turn: Fuck off, and don't mention me again. You aren't worthy.

Lay person: I'd like to know what you know; Gnostic: Try this . . .. Lay person: Just tell me. I don't want to put in the work. Gnostic: :smile:

Yes. Wisdom, unlike science, does not need to be repeatable, shared or reviewed. The most useful and authoritative and insightful wisdom I have was/is...

There's a saying that "You don't have a soul; you are a soul. You have a body." In agreement with that, I would add to it, saying that soul = life; li...

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:up: True, but only because no one brings doubt into their lives. That can be done, but one has to first quit doubting, and then make them doubt. If t...

Doubt does not preclude action. Embrace the doubt, then ignore it. You just have to know when and where to subordinate it to the point where it does n...

:up: My ideas should work for everyone. But they don't. :cry:

You just made my point. But the better way would be to avoid, altogether, use of the word "things", singularly or as suffix. Likewise, "object." So I'...

That'll do. :smile:

Yeah, when my son was little he came home from school and told me about the Mantis Shrimp. I don't know how we know about what they can see since we c...

I don't know, but whatever you do, please don't illustrate it. Right now, based upon your description, I get the feeling she is hot. Really hot. I'd h...

I know what you mean by "object". And, while you may include non-objects within the category of objects, I try to refrain from using object" or "thing...

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That which is, was not always, before it came to be. Was it necessity that it came to be, or just easy, lazy or chosen? Was there another way? I'm not...

Sometime later, alien Mary learned that humans had found out about what she had done. She read what they said about her, and discerned they had anthro...

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The government should round up all the anti-tax people, steel all their property, sell it to those who don't whine like little puppies, put them on tr...

I see logic as a simple tool that can be used to accomplish certain things. Like a gun. But, like a gun, it can give a false sense of security, and it...