It depends a lot which book you have in your hands — javi2541997

I'm not basing my statement on any book, but reality.

Either Tao is just the old world for consciousness or the book is nothing but nonsense.

indistinguishable from magic — Jacob-B

Anything beyond the mind is "magic".

Anything beyond the senses is "spiritual".

what do they stand for, — Xtrix

Freedom.

Are you a bot, Hope? — Wayfarer

No. I'm just a sociopath. So i appear robotic.

See, now you wish I was a bot.

Suggestion for avoiding war: — DrOlsnesLea

To avoid conflict is to avoid reality and also yourself, and to avoid reality and also yourself is to harm yourself.

We must know how to determine better. — TheMadFool

Better = That which gives more pleasure overall, taking into account space and time.

You don't write like you know very much. Start with this: — Gregory

I never said those theories were invalid. I only said there is no actual evidence of matter or light. But only colors, sounds, feelings, etc...

Nietzsche's attack on the virtues of kindness and compassion seems to me an unfortunate flaw in his thinking. — Ross Campbell

Cooperation and competition both each have benefits and costs.

'Absolutely NOTHING' as Edwin Starr sings ? — Amity

The good of war is it allows us to express and live the desire for war inside of us.

You need to study more — Gregory

You need to study less and look more.

My definition of Evil — Trey

Evil is basically just narcissistic behavior.

Good is basically just fair and cooperative behavior.

Wrong = unfair

Right = fair

We can see light — Gregory

We see colors changing color, and explain it with the idea that light shined on it and changed the color (hue)

oderate amount of work at your twenties, you can still enjoy the same goods as the plutocrat — Shawn

A guy on welfare today not only lives better than a king did 5000 years ago, but he also has things the king would consider magic.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic." -Clarke

If it hits you you really think it will only be colors hitting you? — Gregory

Certain patterns of color are associated to certain other patterns and also certain feelings like pain.

This is no way proves matter or light exists outside of our ideas.

for he does not know the very subject about which he is to enquire.

Firstly: Logic is limited and it's limitations are not the limitations of actual reality.

Secondly: Man can ask an open ended question for more information from other beings he sees as similar to himself that are accomplishing something he cannot. The new information can simply connect dots he already contains in his mind, which were derived causally and automatically from his senses.

The mind is nothing but a map of the territory. We don't really "know" anything.

'enquiry' doesn't really exist.

philosophy as a way of life — Shawn

The human intellect is limited. And there is more dimensions to us then rationality.

The more you try and reduce all of life to the intellect the more you will fail to succeed at it.

Will/Should the descendants of slaves (basically all of us) use robots? — TheMadFool

If robots become too human then we will be forced to treat them morally for our own sakes.

So light is a color? — Gregory

No.

Light does not exist. We only have evidence of colors, patterns of colors, and changing colors. When a color changes you claim it was because some mysterious "light" shined on it.

Utilitarian ethics is supposed to be the greatest amount of good for the largest amount of people — Gitonga

Morality leads to a greater utility then utilitarianism.

Recently I've been thinking about why we live in a world with stable laws of physics — litewave

Balance

Two equally opposing forces in perfect eternal balance.

Nothingness and somethingness,

Light and dark,

Up and down,

Reality is a paradox.

How have you arrived at your belief that God exists? — Corvus

Because I am god. So I know of my existence directly the same way you know of yours.

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Any coupling between unrelated partners can produce a deformed baby. Does that make all sex unethical?

What evidence do you have that we have "natural feelings" against incest? What is this "built in mechanism" which helps us avoid it? — Bitter Crank

Incest can produce genetic problems at a much greater level then normal sex.

What percentage of the population desires to sex their siblings? Not many.

Tao is just the old word for consciousness.

Once you realize that consciousness is different from the mind, and that consciousness is the substrate of all evidence/experience/reality.

Can we, has anyone, conceived of nonexistence/death? — TheMadFool

It's impossible to conceive of death, nothingness, or unconsciousness. The mind tends to visualize them as total blackness or total whiteness. Neither of which are them.

he finally realizes that his co-workers had been constantly making fun of him and all his memories come to the forefront and it’s almost like he is “waking up” and reliving his life — Maximum7

This is how psychotherapy works. You re-interpret all your old trauma memories according to your new adult self. Causing it to update your beliefs and loose its traumatic influence. Now you can forgive and forget.

any meaningful difference between homosexuality and incest — TheHedoMinimalist

Incest can produce a deformed baby. Therefore it is unethical. Also incest tends to contradict our natural feelings. Meaning we tend not to desire it. We have a built in mechanism to guide us against it.

should I go buy it and not think of the big credit card bill I will be getting in the future? After all, that's living in the moment. — HardWorker

If you truly 'lived in the moment' you would not be able to do anything but breathe and observe. A tree would out-live you.

God is creating and expanding infinitely — Transcending

Infinity cannot expand.

Not because it has that limitation but because the idea is non existent. It's just two words put together that mean nothing.

Can we explain the mystery of existence? — Jack Cummins

Reality is eternal, omnipresent, infinite, and beyond the mind.

You can't explain it, you can only be it.

The more "progressive" we try and make society the more primitive it will become.

Because we are primitive, and we are not in control.

Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body — Sam26

The body does not survive consciousness.

And the properties of light are electricity and magnetism — Gregory

That is all just words that stands for maps in the mind that represent patterns of sense data which is patterns of colors.

I am a heterosexual male and find the female form to be amazing. — Maximum7

Beauty is in the eye of the bone holder.

The ego is the minds projection of itself into the afterlife. From that point of view the ego mind is then ashamed of body death which creates fear of death which is actually just fear of shame. By creating "fear of death" the ego increases desire for survival thus justifying it's evolutionary existence.

Humans are nothing but a complex pattern and complexity is very fragile. So we better be very malleable if we're going to continue to exist. Glass shatters easily.

Is it already too late? — Xtrix

Life thrives in warm water. Which is going to increase with climate change.

The fish shall inherit the earth. Dolphins will evolve thumbs and be the dominant intelligent lifeform in the future on waterworld.

The USSR had the second-fastest growing economy at the time — Oppyfan

The real power of the conservative party is not in their economic growth, but in their superior alignment to the desires of the natural human being within us all.

How limiting is it if it's constantly changing? — Cheshire

Your real power is in your ability to adapt to the change.

Reality is eternally changing and if you were not also you would be soon dead.

If you do already engage in self-cultivation — Shawn

I thought: "self improvement is masturbation" ?

Try self acceptance instead. aka: surrender to god.

degree of interpretation. — Cheshire

The mind is limited by point of view and it's constantly changing.

"A man can never step in the same river twice for he's not the same man and and it's not the same water."