occams' posts are a most welcome clarity amongst a chaotic universe, thank you, you will be sorely missed. Maybe you would like to take some...
if a person believes that they will sprout wings and fly away after jumping off a cliff, does that mean it will happen? Can we willingly change...
If we use scientific methodology in studying ethics, then we should come to conclusions as to the validity of certain propositions. If a person...
I speak with years of experience of aid work in Africa and would like to say that most of the missionary work is helping the people here. Across...
if everything is an illusion, then why not end suffering with a bullet through your brain. The problem is that you might wake up to find yourself...
Art Kleps, author of "Millbrook, the true story of the early years of the psychedelic revolution" online at http://www.okneoac.com Kleps is a...
I refer you to Art Kleps book "Millbrook" where he has the idea to create a "Disneyland" of the mind. Visitors would take rides where they would...
from what I hear they are maybe 20 times more powerful than regular morning glories. I have been trying to grow them in more temperate climates...
1. I am God 2. Burn your draft card, flag, and kill your television. 3. call a spade a spade 4. don't poop parties 5. tune in and drop out 6....
It may be possible that the experience can be subjective and spiritual as well. They are not mutually exclusive. The experience puts into...
to see where I am
for a sceptic...no proposition can be beleived or held to be true, even this proposition itself. it is not doubt but rather equipollence of...
I think it would be appropriate to distinguish religion from organized religion. One is set of beliefs and the other is an institution. Also it...
[+++QUOTE=Waking Life]Allan Bloom on the intellectual difficulty with Freud, so that takes care of the catholic priests and some of those...
Look at america where Bush has the gun and the bible and we need no better reason to ban both from political society.
coincidence(synchronicity) interpretation does not have to impute a "higher" power controlling life. There are thousands of interpretations. Why...
nothing by nature is morally wrong or right. It is only through the conventions of society that a sense of approbation or disapproval is...
pride is feeling pleasure concerning ones' accomplishments and is not something that can or should be repressed.
[+++QUOTE=Varuna]So is every conceivable meaning of every one of your words. Should I deny the existence of "the associations of ideas based on...
these things you mention are associations of ideas based on impressions. For me, figments of the imagination do not merit philiosophical...
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