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I remember field trips to other forums. I got banned from Dawkins' official atheist circle-jerk.

Alex Jacob, Effectively there is no man alive for whom his 'religion' is not his very interpretive structure, or lens if you wish, of his existing in this plane of reality. I say that every person has one. So, someone who transcends his local religion is merely (necessarily) creating a new one? Espe...

I personally think we should all be willing to allow 'to the man' argumentation but that we need always to keep it under control. The 'hominem' for me is essentially the psychological, and I cannot dismiss that. It is part and parcel of who we are, or how we operate. Essentially, ad hominem is a pr...

SeekerOfWisdom wrote:As far as I can tell philosophy (including any related to enlightenment) hasn't been spoken about in years.

Can you see any solutions to this?

If an alien came to our planet looking for redeeming qualities of our societies, would religion be one? Is a religious society further advanced than a pre-religious one? Does religion have a point? If so, is that point still relevant? If we lost all religion, would humankind suffer? Is a post-religi...

The best way I can describe the mental health institution is that it is waging an all-out war on eccentricity. Don't psychiatrists have something better to do with their time?

What people qualify as geniuses, in your assessment?

Our culture's reaction to wisdom is to lock up anyone with a lick of it. If you avoided the trap of academia, be wary of mental hospitals. New Age is not nearly as big of a trap as you think it is, not compared to the very real threat of imprisonment you can encounter by giving any of its propositio...

It would be useful for space colonization. A doorway to Mars, instead of a rocketship.

Diebert, knowing that it is an assumption is key. I have far too little information to believe it, let alone to have any real knowledge. Evidence is critical. If I took it as fact and believed it to be fact, it would be insanity. As it stands, it's something beyond my capacity to prove.

Making the assumption that astral projection (Out of Body Experiences) is valid fact, and not mere hallucination, I came to the conclusion that there are more planes of existence than the material one. Namely the Prime Ethereal Plane, or astral plane. If we can build a machine that can punch holds i...

World War 3 began when the WTC fell. It's still going strong. Can you manufacture a peaceful solution?

Try reddit. Go to the subreddit "UnitedNations" and give them some pointers. They stopped listening to me.

-Ghyuoid

Go out into the wilderness and apply your philosophy. Can Alex survive on a desert island?

Simultaneously a personality test and Applied Evolution. I want dragons to be made, damnit.

You read too much. Go out into the world and figure out what each o those words means. Try the psychiatric system. They will bleed you dry. They try me, but I'm an overflowing goblet.

Great work so far! I can't assist because I've other things to do, but keep it up.

Nature can be spoken of, but is not unchanging. Names can be named, but is not constant. The Name of the Void is Heaven and Earth. Its origin is existence. The name of all things is the Mother. Now, ever free of deep-seated desire, then we may truly see the mind. The mind's mystery ever possesses de...

Kunga wrote:A Shaman would be experienced with the Spiritual World, unlike someone raised in Western Society. Native American Indians take Spiritual things of this nature seriously...unlike Western educated people that have to "see it to believe it."

Seen it. Believed it. Transcended it.

I am substance. We are in substance. It seems to me this is an irrefutable, common-sense truth. The theologians raped the word "substance" and impregnated it with more bizarre connotations than the word "God". Honestly, you'd be better off saying "the world is made up of st...

So how can anyone know what enlightenment really is? Ultimately, you will have to decide what enlightenment means in the first place. Is it clear recollection of past lives, a drunken epiphany, or a series of logical discoveries? I bought the book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nie...

I don't join forums without checking them out first. Well then I'm stumped. If you've read all the introductory material and lurked for a reasonable length of time, I have no idea what your problem is. You should probably reread that section on etiquette. "Talking Ass" is a username. You'...