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Oh, okay. Thank you.

Certainly unconsciou s, If cowardice is an unconscious act, as you claim, then it lacks intent, and thus moral judgement is rendered entirely mute, and your argument is completely irrelevant. We should not presume a complete understanding of all the factors that make one a coward. Why is that?

They are human qualities, one a virtue and the other a vice, and the only quality cowardice has of the will is the lacking of it.

So cowardice is a habitual and unconscious act?

Cowardice is not an endeavor, but a condition. Fear is a condition, cowardice is an act of will, intent on a particular goal, also known as an endeavor. To turn tail and run, is no different then to stand ground and do battle. Fight and flight are identical in their source, self-preservation. Coura...

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Bravery is the one human quality required for all endeavors.

That is, all except cowardice.

But we are that thing in itself. There is no division between us and “it”. We don’t do anything, it does us, and its doing of us, is indifferent. Frightful is an erroneous concept derived out of an imagined, individualistic segregation.

You're "not going to do my thinking" for me - more to the point, you're not going to do any thinking at all. No? Now why would you say that? This forum is for thinkers, not for old grannies who want to have a nice cup of tea and a chat. ...uh huh, okay then. Philosophy is dangerous and li...

Nice try, Sue. But I’m not going to do your thinking for you...Pathetic....

You aren't equating Void with Nothingness, are you, because you say that "Nothingness is casually created and dependent" and "The Void is unsupported, unconditioned and boundless" ? Correct, the Void is NOT nothing. Everything that can possibly exist is what appears now, so what...

How can the "Void" or "Nothingness" be dependent on anything, since it is everything? And why are parts (.hell, ignorance, wisdom.etc) of the Void "rendered irrelevant"? Again..."The Void is NOT a Nothingness to be stepped out into, or back from. Nothingness is ca...

KJones There is a thorn: this looks like worldliness, as if one is really taking hold of the finite as if it is gained. Does one really step off the top of the 100-foot pole, into the void, or back on it again? The Void is not a Nothingness to be stepped out into, or back from. Nothingness is casua...

What is more valuable, a gun or a ham sandwich? Well that all depends on your circumstances. Value is arbitrary and relegated to the mundane. Ultimately the ideas of progress, advancement are ignorant interpretations of impermanence. Attachments and barriers are affirmations of the illusory. There i...

I'm not pretending I'm perfect. There's absolutely no value to me in doing that. I talk about what I'm doing, and how my techniques are helping me, because I can't be the only individual who has ever encountered these difficulties. So, I'm passing on what is working for me. How is preaching the gos...

I could be in any horrible situation, and immediately fly high above the conflict, because there'd never occasion the need to fight. It would appear that you do not seek, nor value Wisdom, but worship your ego and prostitute knowledge as “wisdom”. You state that you are seeking clarity, but you...

What do you think of this approach, Nox?

What are you looking to accomplish with this method?

Why do women have so many outs at their disposal? Why is this "unhindered flowing" so good?

Why are there so many "spiritual healers" and artists among women.......Argumentum ad Nauseam

Why are you such a self-loathing egomaniac?

Ducky is a troll, that was booted off the Ponderers Guild by popular demand.

Basic determinist thinking states the view that all things in the universe are governed by causal law ("determined by"). By definition, this includes human beings and by that same definition excludes the possibility of any of human act of willing, free from these causal laws. There's a we...

But can you tell me where the subjective ends and the objective begins?

That particular question might best be directed towards the likes of NickOtani. ;)

Which purposes for these same tools would you call rational? I’ll use the example I gave to Dhodges, above. If a village goes to war to protect their families and way of life from invading hostiles, I would consider this rational reasoning, now if a nation declares war on another because they do ...

Dan wrote: Also, I don't quite understand why Nox is denying the existence of conceptual unicorns. Unicorns as a concept certainly exist, it's just that they lack any known empircal referent. A concept that exists is a contradiction, it’s like a married bachelor, or a round square. That which exis...

NickO wrote: Excuse me. You introduced the issue of contending with options presented. I was merely exploring those options. My post was relevant. And, if there are, in fact, options, even to choose or not to choose, there is, in fact, free choice. Incorrect. You stated that even not choosing is a c...

Nox23 wrote in response to Jamesh in the Neo-Objectivism thread: The amount of War, genocide, homicide, suicide, infanticide, misogyny, terror and destruction, generated by people’s blind faith in their archaic superstition and mindless rituals, is the single greatest example of man’s natural i...

DHodges wrote in the NickO thread: I don't think religion is the cause of war, homicide, etc. Religion is what people construct so that they can rationalize those things. If not for religion, they could come up with some other excuse, no doubt. There's always politics, and jealousy. I’m not implyi...

Humans by their very nature are irrational and are nothing more than subjectless objects. I disagree with the idea that humans are irrational by nature. I think they are rational by nature. . A tiger doesn’t have to try to be a tiger, nor does a whale have to practice it’s whaleness. Second onl...