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Yeah, but the market is rigged by those who have the most power and money. So, it is the market, but the market is not this pie in the sky thing. It's...
March 08, 2021 at 18:02
No, I am a follower of Sanatana Dharma, or Hinduism. I merely have the Buddhist avatar because it looks nice. Buddha himself was not a Buddh-ist, he w...
March 08, 2021 at 18:00
Absolutely. Everyone is wrong. It used to be that all civilizations followed Dharma, Dao, Logos, natural law. Now nobody does. Yes, they're absolutely...
March 08, 2021 at 18:00
So, you believe everything is here merely on an accident? There's no order that keeps things in check, and puts them into the manner and way that they...
March 08, 2021 at 17:59
No, it wouldn't have. The Adharmic nature of Abrahamism is particular to Abrahamism and Abrahamism alone. The rest of civilization would've continued ...
March 08, 2021 at 17:55
Well, I think that's false. I think we can know this inherent meaning, Dao, Logos, Dharma and I think we can live our lives in accord with it. If we d...
March 08, 2021 at 17:47
Inherent in the nature of the universe, in the Cosmos. In the Omniverse. It's not something humans made up. What is called the Dao in Chinese philosop...
March 08, 2021 at 17:38
What particularly? That death will come? I don't think so. That's a fact.
March 08, 2021 at 17:36
Inherent meaning. Not contrived. Not made up. Not artificial.
March 08, 2021 at 17:36
That's not totally false. God is death. But death is not God. God is the creator of death. Also, creator of life. He is the Lord of all, and he is all...
March 08, 2021 at 17:33
Just because meaning is utilized in this way doesn't mean there is no meaning. In the same way that just because everybody claims to have the truth, a...
March 08, 2021 at 17:25
That's just your prejudice and bias. Death is the ultimate elephant in the room for people who yak on about their liberty and life. You cant escape Go...
March 08, 2021 at 17:24
Animals are what humans become when they don't use their reasoning faculty. However, they, unlike Modern/Postmodern people, follow natural law. That's...
March 08, 2021 at 17:21
No, I don't think I ever will. I've read his books, I've watched every lecture he's ever done. He's just Slavoj Zizek's alterego. He yaps about things...
March 08, 2021 at 17:20
Jordan Peterson is a living joke. He is a anti-Postmodernist Postmodernist. He has no credibility at all. He literally just mystifies people with word...
March 08, 2021 at 17:11
I understand that, I'm just disputing your claim that religion is a story. It's not a story. The gods are real, God is real. From my perspective, obvi...
March 08, 2021 at 17:08
Happiness is impossible, unless you know God. Nothing can make you happy.
March 08, 2021 at 17:01
Yes, but that religion is "just a story" is a very Modernist type of thing claim. Premodern religion, pagan religions, were not stories. They were the...
March 08, 2021 at 16:52
Yes, so am I. "Neoliberalism" comes out of classical liberalism, classical liberalism comes from British empiricism, and British empiricism comes out ...
March 08, 2021 at 16:26
I don't think so. I think that experiment has decisively debunked the idea that consciousness is located in the brain. If there's no brain, how could ...
March 08, 2021 at 16:24
How so?
March 08, 2021 at 16:21
Somewhat. Racism is based on the idea that I am what I'm told I am. I'm told "my name is x" "I am x" "I come from x family" "I am x race" "I come from...
March 08, 2021 at 16:17
It's decisive proof against the idea that brain creates consciousness. Since the folks involved had no brain hemispheres, or were missing massive volu...
March 08, 2021 at 16:09
Well, neoliberalism is just recasting liberal economics, hence "neoliberalism." That liberal economics was created during the British Empiricist perio...
March 08, 2021 at 15:53
That's right. America was originally one node within the larger Anglosphere, the British Empire. So actually, yes. Then of course, the British Empire ...
March 08, 2021 at 15:45
There are. The whole of WWII was their doing. And the Cold War. Google "Wall Street Trilogy" it goes in depth on this. All three sides in WWII and the...
March 08, 2021 at 15:06
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying there is true meaning in life. It's just hard to pin down. It's not all made up from our tail end. Yes. As Sart...
March 08, 2021 at 14:46
They've been doing this for hundreds of years. Profit and power is their objective, and if they can ruin people's lives to get it, they will.
March 08, 2021 at 14:43
Are you familiar with the study that John Lorber conducted?
March 08, 2021 at 14:17
Philosophers invented science and philosophy. Isaac Newton was a philosopher, he didn't call himself a scientist. Neither did Galileo. Plenty of other...
March 08, 2021 at 14:06
That's not what I said. What my position is, is very clear: whether we come to know the meaning/purpose/nature etc. of existence or not, we shouldn't ...
March 08, 2021 at 14:04
Yeah, I know you're a Derridean and a Wittgensteinian you're just going to talk about the imprecision of words and how knowledge is impossible. And I ...
March 08, 2021 at 13:59
It is nihilism, no doubt. All of Modernity and Postmodernity rests on nihilism. It's the foundation of Modernity and Postmodernity, it's why everyone ...
March 08, 2021 at 13:53
I'd say you should doubt everything, like what Descartes said. Once we do that, I think we come up with only a few basic things that remain. The probl...
March 08, 2021 at 13:48
I was never a Roman Catholic, or a Thomist, so I never took to him and never will. I think Thomism is just crypto-atheism. Which is not necessarily ba...
March 08, 2021 at 01:19
I know. Thomism and Hegelianism are extremely dry and boring. Our philosophy is very natural, ancient societies were filled with God-consciousness. Th...
March 08, 2021 at 01:17
Do you know who Manly P. Hall is? He did a lecture on the relationship between Platonism, Hermeticism and Gnosticism.
March 08, 2021 at 01:06
Since this world "partakes" of the realm of Forms, the realm of Forms is "more real" than this world. It's not that this world is false per se, but th...
March 08, 2021 at 01:05
Thomism is pure evil in my mind. Because it says God is Pure Act. This views leads straight to atheism. In order to protect God's simplicity, you eith...
March 08, 2021 at 01:03
No, this is a common notion in Hermetic philosophy. Macrocosm-microcosm. It's simply extrapolating the small to the large.
March 08, 2021 at 00:53
I didn't actually read it in the dialogue, I heard it in a lecture on the dialogue. So I sadly cannot remember. I could reread all of the dialogues to...
March 08, 2021 at 00:51
No, it's not quite sun worship. We do have a god of the sun, Surya. But we have a "spiritual sun" which analogical to the sun. In the microcosm, the s...
March 08, 2021 at 00:49
Yes. It's in his dialogue somewhere. He does say that. The soul originated in the realm of the Forms and returns there. This follows the allegory of t...
March 08, 2021 at 00:43
Vedic philosophy and religion is the same ultimately as Greek. The culture is different, the understanding is the same. Zeus may have been their name ...
March 08, 2021 at 00:41
Yes, it's a very common allegory I bring up. Our understanding of God is similar to the allegory of the Sun. The same way the sun emanates the energy ...
March 08, 2021 at 00:40
Those are neo-Scholastics correct? I absolutely despise medieval Christian, Jewish and Islamic philosophy. I think it's utter sophistry and nonsense. ...
March 08, 2021 at 00:38
Emergentism is just dishonest Panpsychism, and Panpsychism is just dishonest Idealism. So I'm just being honest. No. We are connected as individuals t...
March 08, 2021 at 00:36
Sadly. I think there is. I think the ruling classes like to pit people against each other for their own schemes, and there are so many people easily d...
March 08, 2021 at 00:28
There is no "neo" Platonism, that's something Western scholars who don't know anything about anything at all whatsoever, because they have infinite ba...
March 08, 2021 at 00:19
The body breaks down. This is the natural cycle: Creation, preservation, deterioration, destruction. The body breaks down and dies. It's a machine, li...
March 08, 2021 at 00:10