Tom Storm

Thanks for the clarification.

I get that. I was curious what you got out of it. What difference does it make to you? We spend a lot of time here talking about abstractions and the ...

Plenty of psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists draw from Buddhism or are Buddhists. Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein springs to mind.

This may well all be the case. What however... and I ask this genuinely... is the point of this kind of frame? Can you share how this might be of use ...

I see an antique chiffonnière stuffed full of high quality hootch.

Always struck me that the God of the Bible is a fascist prick who behaves like a mob boss, so he most definitely could have created evil. He's on the ...

Usually they scream 'free will' at you like so many overwrought Randian neophytes.

Thanks. I have no sensus divinitatis, so it's mostly just word games to me. :wink:

I enjoy reading you, it'd be easier for this old fart. :wink:

Hard to follow your posts. Why not highlight the sentences you wish to quote? The word "Quote" appears and you click on that word. The quote will appe...

Priests spring to mind. How do you feel about Catholic priests who are also psychiatrists?

Interesting. Are you a practicing Buddhist?

Yes, that's what I was referring to. Not QM. Also I was thinking about Bitbol's connection with phenomenology, not his QM work. But I hear you. I prob...

This seems to be a lengthy way of stating 'you can't put this into words' - which is one of the standard message of ineffability inherent in most reli...

Interesting. I can't help feeling that religions, when practiced from a certain perspective - are often about overcoming or transcendence - perhaps as...

I have often pondered Buddhism and emptiness and how this sits with nihilism - perhaps passive nihilism. Nietzsche (admittedly with an inadequate unde...

You make that sounds like a bad thing. :wink: But no, I was responding to what you said about emptiness - it was just a quip and isn't really germane ...

And the core of nihilism. Or at least some expressions thereof.

Yeah I am but I've seen this some of this stuff already. I was thinking more about Buddhism specifically. Mediation doesn't care if you are Sam Harris...

The world is a vast supermarket of ideas and lifestyle options. I need a good reason to pursue neuroscience which is not a subject of much interest to...

Isn't it the fetishizers who have a Jones for evidence based everything these days? I think it's the denigrators and vandals like me who doubt evidenc...

OK. What on earth is that?

Do you think this can be demonstrated?

I know middle class Westerners seem to fetishize Buddhism but is there any good reason we should care what it (in any of its fecund forms) says? Askin...

:up: Sorry, I was referring to philosophical idealism (all that exists is consciousness and materialism is just mind when viewed from a particular per...

Perhaps they should take advice from British statesman, Arthur Balfour who said - "Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle ...

Cheers. Dyspeptic? I prefer bemused. Nice writing by SJG.

Probably because I'm failing to make sense. I was just saying something superfluous about the use of the word real in certain contexts. When I worked ...

I hear you.

So a useful example of this in action might be a 'real' 5th century BCE attic vase versus a fake one. How would this fare - the real god versus the fa...

Yes it seems so to me too. Nicely worded.

Indeed and so we might arrive back at idealism - what criteria do we use to demonstrate that the physical world is real other than intersubjective agr...

I think there were very fine people on both sides, Baden. Is it the case that this kind of political discussion hinges mostly on a judgement made abou...

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Never thought you didn't, I was pointing to a consistent use of real/authentic as a hallmark of superiority in many contemporary sub-cultures. Somethi...

Probably right. I suspect part of this strand is even less defined - 'real' as somehow pure or good; it's opposite being not just artificial, but insa...

Indeed. I also sometimes think of this tale as the 'awakening' of someone with autism.

Just 4 real ingredients. This marketing of the 'real' is to me related to authenticity culture which for some years has been a defining quality in mar...

Don't confuse a different perspective with lack of participation. :wink: I kind of determined this. My point is simply that the paradigm shift would b...

Good question and one we never quite get past even if we ignore it or sweep it aside.

I understand your point - I was referring to the energetic pursuit of novelty or 'the new' for its own sake. Whatever novelty I appreciate is generall...

Thanks. Really interesting. His 'slow cancellation of the future' seems to fit. Can't say much more as I have never deliberately listened to music fro...

Me too, but only if it was written between the 17th and early 20th century. :razz:

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Especially extravagant curlicues of CGI, orgiastically dancing in onanistic production design.

Totally where I was heading with this. I find myself thinking about movies too.

I guess that would make both false if sushi is AI, then there is no 'I' writing on the forum to begin with. :wink:

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It's interesting you say this. I would say I do not 'know' these things to be true although I have reasonable confidence in some of them. I don't take...

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