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- Sun Mar 24, 2019 6:48 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: The Power of Now - by Eckhart Tolle
- Replies: 60
- Views: 32865
Re: The Power of Now - by Eckhart Tolle
then you know what I'm talking about.
- Sun Mar 24, 2019 5:20 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: The Power of Now - by Eckhart Tolle
- Replies: 60
- Views: 32865
Re: my last word about Tolle (and you, his fans)
Ink, If an adult needs a stranger, by way of a book, to tell him he's not the slave of hs life/thoughts/etc. then that needy person is severely retarded. And Tolle: he just shovels up shit, labels it 'teaching' or 'wisdom' and those poor retarded souls just eat it up. As they (you) like. Did u know...
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 10:13 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: The Power of Now - by Eckhart Tolle
- Replies: 60
- Views: 32865
Re: The Power of Now - by Eckhart Tolle
Hating in that way on the work of this man is the same as blow him and preach his work like he's God: a thoughtless attitude. Even if things in the book could be guru enlightment shit, there are some real philosophical concept like the identification with our minds which help control our thoughts an...
- Sun Feb 24, 2019 6:46 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Mind or minds
- Replies: 209
- Views: 44235
Re: Mind or minds
The more I think, the more I think they are several minds, which each one might have been evolved for its own purpose. there is the mind " I am what i think i am" the mind " I am what others think I am" the mind " I am what I do" and I think each mind work on each other...
- Wed Aug 29, 2018 9:42 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10381
Re: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
The human jawbone can be properly understood in evolutionary terms (whether it is or not is beside the point) by virtue of surviving fossils. Well preserved relatively aubundant fossils are considered reasonably direct evidence. The human elbow can also be observed through time in this manner. Evol...
- Wed Aug 29, 2018 3:08 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10381
Re: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
If u have others examples of this kind of conditioning by society except social media and laws i'd be happy to know them. edit: and gambling of course. You can't really make laws an exception when considering society. what I meant by "except" was that I already noticed these were using co...
- Wed Aug 29, 2018 12:20 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10381
Re: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
yeah, I think you have described the situation very well. It's all stereotypes and labels on people to simplify control. the problem is that people ARE conditioned and with time, I see an inevitable increased standardization/conformisation of people, way of thinking,... On all fronts, not only polit...
- Wed Aug 29, 2018 6:14 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10381
Re: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
China’s social credit system https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4 In China your social credit score, which is your worth to the government, will display in response to the facial recognition. There are rewards and punishments involved. ...
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:59 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10381
Re: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
Do you ignore all sciences which are unable to collect enough data relatively to others ? and why ?
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:01 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10381
Re: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
The ablity to confirm and disprove are only part of the matter. If you have a burning desire for the precise expulsion of doubt, then there are no social sciences that will suit your purpose because that is entirely the province of the hard sciences. Are u saying that the human mind will never be u...
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 8:09 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10381
Re: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
FlashDangerpants: I think i get yr point, while physics use the methodology of discomfirmation to destroy a model, social science use confirmation to justify it and so are in need to create other fields to match with more complex phenomena. I agree that the first is much more effective but the point...
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 7:31 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10381
Re: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
No. I'm taking about the bias towards what is better for society than the individual. They are searching for truths and solutions though a biased lens, the bent being towards the larger group. Nothing to do with exactness or 'truths'. Think of economics for example. In itself, it's a simple science...
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 5:43 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10381
Re: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
Have you read about Szasz’s views, and what do you think of them? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz “Szasz argued throughout his career that mental illness is a metaphor for human problems in living, and that mental illnesses are not "illnesses" in the sense that physical illness...
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 2:04 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Are all social sciences bullshit ?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10381
Are all social sciences bullshit ?
Hi everyone! I'm interested in psychology and in a lot of social science but I recently read about Nassim Taleb and his point of view of them which is along with Karl popper's statements. Now I'm struggling to find the truth because I was about to start psychological studies but these guys really in...
- Tue Aug 07, 2018 4:50 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Evolution question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1790
Re: Evolution question
Hi philosophy explorer. I know that people who take some psychedelics can " see the sounds and hear the color" and this is due to synestesia like u all seems to know. but i also read that synestesia could occur while deep concentration or méditation. I once experienced a meditation when i ...