What's the Point of Religion?

Discussion of the nature of Ultimate Reality and the path to Enlightenment.
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I'm enrolled in the Quinn view of nondiscrimination ultimately.

I can't see any brokenness unless my preference, aversion, prejudice turns on as judge and jury.
conditioning.

My business is the space between my ears.

I'm embodied,
like an astronaut in a space suit.

I'm encultured,
with a bunch of astronauts in their spacesuits.

I'm enactive
I'm affective
I'm extended

I'm dependent arising.

it is what it is and it isn't what it isn't.
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Well I think you can see the truth that, despite what you can see, there is delusion and attachment showing itself in many ways. Whether there is ultimately any intrinsic meaning to it or not, it's there.
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Dennis Mahar wrote:I'm embodied, like an astronaut in a space suit.

I'm dependent arising.
The moment you, your consciousness, lands on anything, there will be discrimination. You'll have to be aware, exact and move on at the right time.

It's an art, it's a way, it's a truth. Rocket science needs full attention if you want to get it up and bridge the gap, it remains a challenge. There's no easy only mastery.
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I better call an ambulance.
Diebert played a straight bat for a change.
well done.
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D to Den: It's an art, it's a way, it's a truth. Rocket science needs full attention if you want to get it up and bridge the gap, it remains a challenge. There's no easy only mastery.
Den to D: I better call an ambulance.
Diebert played a straight bat for a change.
well done.
Earlier,
Den to L: I wasn't suggesting that.

Down at a philosophy school years ago I saw Nietzsche freaks swooning maids with devastating Nietzschean rhetoric that got them laid.

Nietzsche as a means to an end.
to what end?

Philosophy and the mating game works out.
Climax. And without my knickers.
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You're a knock-out Leyla!
send me the pillow you dream on.

Diebert,
The only possibility for mastery is if dependent arising is the case.
can we have the master's thesis?
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I feel as though I should contribute to this "discussion", but I frankly don't know how. It's almost as if I'd have to have another stroke to fit in.
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That you would say that Dan was a no-brainer.
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Well, Dan, there was a brief moment I was under the impression I was discussing Nietzsche's philosophy with someone, but apparently I was just getting laid without my knowledge!
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Dennis, I was referring to your climax, silly!
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A bit of hi jinx met with a scowl.
I'd received some great news.
energetic.
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Diebert,
The moment you, your consciousness, lands on anything, there will be discrimination. You'll have to be aware, exact and move on at the right time.

It's an art, it's a way, it's a truth. Rocket science needs full attention if you want to get it up and bridge the gap, it remains a challenge. There's no easy only mastery.
Weininger suffered congenital depression and the black dog wore him down.
He assembled his people and informed them of his decision to die.
Shortly thereafter he put a pistol to his head as a means to an end and pulled the trigger.

Is that mastery?
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Dennis Mahar wrote:Shortly thereafter he put a pistol to his head as a means to an end and pulled the trigger. Is that mastery?
So why do you bring up Weiniger, fin de siècle Vienna and before that Nietzsche's knickers? Do you think mastery has something to do with living, eating, fucking, dying more successfully? In the end a great tombstone with flowers? People's faint praise: he was such a good man! Is that mastery?
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some viable logic to shoot can be constructed
some viable logic not to shoot can be constructed
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knickers
knickers was introduced by Leyla, 'knickers in a twist'.
riffing on a theme.
forget it.
water under the bridge.
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Dan,
you used to post on KIR in the spirit of hi jinx.
a talent for it.
WTF?
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The Anti-QRSt wrote:
knickers
knickers was introduced by Leyla, 'knickers in a twist'.
riffing on a theme.
forget it.
water under the bridge.

For the sake of actual record, it bloody-well was not, I was discussing Nietzsche and Marx. The knickers were introduced by you, after the suggestion"size does matter" (also not introduced by me).
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Difficult to argue with a parody though, eh!? :)
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I believe I recall you using it whilst doing a number on seeker.
It's part of your repertoire ain't it.
very familiar.
a desperate dash for the high moral ground doesn't count


does it mean anything until somebody gets on board and pumps it up?
that's the point.
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To the Anti-QRSt:
I believe I recall you using it whilst doing a number on seeker.
Then there’s something wrong with you attention to detail.
It's part of your repertoire ain't it.
Nope. Never use it.
very familiar.
So, it must've been me? Not sure how that follows.
a desperate dash for the high moral ground doesn't count
What moral high ground?
does it mean anything until somebody gets on board and pumps it up?
that's the point.
So the point now is that something isn't what it is and is what it isn't?
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So the point now is that something isn't what it is and is what it isn't?
it is what it is and isn't what it isn't.
can't be otherwise.

finding enlightenment is finding nothing
absence of meaning
you make the meaning.
meaning machine.
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Yes, just ignore the is-ness and is-not-ness of all its whilst demonstrating you have no capacity to discern what some it is and what it isn't.

Genius.

Enlightenment.

Wisdom.

Truth.
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didn't ignore anything.
nothing is everything and everything is nothing.
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Bye bye, Dennis. (:
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is that significant somehow?
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