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Is there any progress in philosophy? Or more to the point, is there any progress in humanity, or do we simply go around in repetitious circles? Or maybe it's just me going around in circles. I give up. My productive life is over as far as I'm concerned. I'm in retirement. Game over. In response to ...

People I have encountered at Church seem generally happier to me and nicer to me than most people I encounter. Of course, I'm not in their shoes but the ones that I know seem to be happy and fulfilled in their lives. I mean, I'm past having a "relationship" with Christ or whatever, but th...

To paraphrase Oliver Wendall Holmes: Simplicity on the near side of complexity is worthless. Simplicity on the far side of complexity is priceless. Most seem to hold simplistic views. They never develop the skills required to understand the vast majority of complex problem domains. Then there are th...

I've found some mix of cello or contrabass, or with a duduk flute as in this case, works best when I study. If I hear voices or uplifting, spirited music my concentration is thrown off. I mostly do this if copying a manuscript. Today I'm doing Vol. 4 of the Agni Purana, chapter 247 "The charac...

I'm pro LGBT, but anti Queer until someone proves to me Queer can exist independently of LGBT and still not be heterosexual. I think it is a fake as fuck profile. You are a sad little confused bunny. Do you think you might be a bit closeted? What? A closeted Queer? A closeted Bigfoot or Alien? I do...

PK certainly could have framed it better. Would have been better to have titled the thread as something like "Stages leading to the extermination of the LGBTQ community" and to have included something like the following. Semantics aside, whether its call "extermination", "ge...

And then there's what the word actually means. I have every reason to call it irrational. Prefer whatever you want. Doesn't change what the word actually means. Reread your post. It's nonsense. Littered with strawmen, illogical leaps, etc. You're being irrationally defensive. irrational: not based ...

The possibility of abuse of something, however, is no argument against its right use. The same could be said of all language: propagandists can abuse it. So there's really no compelling argument from that observation, I think, except that we be vigilant as to how a term is being employed. For many,...

The only difference for you is that you irrationally get the sense from some places that it emanates from "direct contact with some other, some others". But at the core, the feeling is same. If it wasn't, you would not use the word "numinous" for both. 1) you have no reason to a...

The word "evil" has become a very loaded term. It is often employed to elicit emotional reactions rather than logical ones. For that reason, it is frequently employed as demagoguery. The possibility of abuse of something, however, is no argument against its right use. The same could be sa...

If, by evil, you are only referring to a particular degree of badness, then it seems I have misunderstood your use of the word. I was under the impression you meant more than that by it.[/wuote] More? What "more"? Could you really not think of anything stronger? Genocide. See my last resp...

What evidence can you provide that the feeling in fact emanates from "direct contact with some other, some others". Is it just an irrational feeling? That's a different issue. I don't know about Maia, but for me my reactions to music and my reactions to nature, when they come to this numi...

IAM quotes AJ: "And then I like voyaging by intellectual skyhooks from one upper region to another." It seems that I must clarify what seemed obvious to me. OK, here it goes: It was an ironic statement . irony /ˈʌɪrəni/ noun the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally ...

Wasn't asking her to "compare and contrast" her feelings with mine. I was asking her to "compare and contrast" her own feelings. Ah, ok, apologies. As a tangent I can have powerful experiences with places (generally in nature) and also with music. Someone mentioned Arvo Part, so...

Dowsing is a form of detection, which you can try yourself. The force in question is not undetected. Once again, I wasn't speaking just of dowsing. Are you being intentionally obtuse? As to dowsing the following is a much more reasonable explanation: There is some evidence that dowsers can find wat...