I suppose it depends on how tathāgata is interpreted. — 180 Proof

That would be one way of looking at it! :up:

Am I introducing new constraints? Working until retirement is a massive constraint, the expenditure of the bulk of life, and is predicated on having a livable retirement to work for. This presumption is at least called into question now. My state of mind is that I have only a few goodish years left, which is, as ↪Agent Smith points out, the mental state of a terminal cancer patient. The feeling that I am squandering these few precious good years has become overwhelming. — hypericin

It's impossible, life, but do note that what we take to be life isn't actually life.

Concerned father: Is he dead?
Teacher (who administered the fatal beating): Deadish, yes!

Nirvana is not heaven! Or so they tell me!
— Agent Smith
They told you right. :up: — 180 Proof

I was suspended, hence the late reply.

Postmortem, does the tathāgata ...

1. Exist?

2. Not exist?

3. Both exist and not exist?

4. Neither exist nor not exist?

Nice point of view! :up:

assess whether JTB is an acceptable definition for the notion of “knowledge — neomac

Let's ...

I hear it's a 2.5k year old definition attributed to Socrates, no less. :chin:

Thank you Agent Smith. — Benj96

You're welcome. We still have a long way to go!

This is interesting - how does, as per you, Bartricks perform/fail to perform this amazing feat? I mean why does Bartricks want to sin ... so badly?

What do so-called game worlds (@schopenhauer1) have to contribute to this thread?

I believe he was. He does seem to have developed that sense of mischief that some logicians have. But there is some fun to be had, as well as the irritation. — Ludwig V

Then in all likelihood he knew what he was talking about. Gettier problems are real! Does Gettier's observation extend to mathematics as well? That would be interesting to say the least.

Don't want to get schopenhauer1 banned but their posts helped encourage me to join. I was already familiar with the literature but didn't know the topic was so widely discussed. — Down The Rabbit Hole

Quite the opposite for me - I know the topic's widely discussed (at least on this forum) but I didn't know so much work had been done on it!

Just so you're not flippant about it! — Vera Mont

Ok!

Down the lagomorphian hole it is! Isn't there a 1% rule?

Gettier, bless his soul! :death: :flower:

Perhaps Gettier doesn't understand what logic is. Was he a logician too?

...potentially rational? — Pantagruel

Well, ok, but actually as well!

Beautiful how they show their brightness to us. Isn't it? :sparkle: — javi2541997

Yep! The birghtness, it's compelling, for some reason.

As far as I can tell, from the little that I know, we're rational creatures and inshallah we shall remain so for as long as possible ... for our own sake!

Mighty intersting ... the light from these stars, I simply can't believe, are from billions and billions of light years away!

I feel you're right on the money.

@schopenhauer1, do you really think it's the pain/the anguish/the suffering/the agony (dukkha) that's our enemy #1?

Hats off to you for yer brief but well-considered post mon ami! Vegans, despite their honorable intentions, aren't really out of the woods, oui?

Just a question, and I am sure there is a ready answer; and then, I will be on my way, satisfied that the world is the world. Would someone please tell my why, when I greet my uncle Sidney, I am not "greeting" exclusively (!) systems of neuronal activity?
Troubled sleep over this. — Constance

Most perceptive! How shall we resolve your little predicament, monsieur/mademoiselle? Do we havta do what you feel we can't/shouldn't do?

Ima listenin' to $\downarrow$

Hobby! :snicker:

I’m dancing in the dark — Deus

Ati sundar! There's another way to do that, but il est facile de voir que ... and so, :nerd:

:cool:

Taking the/a piss? — Nils Loc

And then ... PRN.

It's just a humble prescription. Sing to yourself, hypnotize yourself, to try and be at ease. One of many possibilities to start the morning with — Nils Loc

Good advice; if only I knew how. Let's explore you if that's not too bold of me to ask. How do you start off yer day? As Sir2u half-jokingly recommended - by waking up :snicker: . And then ...

What would Agent Smith listen to? Trains?

But then he died. — Sir2u

How truly tragic! We really havta do something about Eros.

Not bad, not bad at all for a ___?

It's that obvious, eh? Can you elaborate further or is this THE END?

To all

I googled the question and wikiHow has some suggestions: How to Start a New Day

Nirvana or Heaven — Gregory

Nirvana is not heaven! Or so they tell me!

I believe we can resign from life, but mind you, not in the way we think.

Potential?

0 — Srap Tasmaner

There's something odd about 0. It's a mudblood!

That sounds gnostic, as if the physical self is reincarnated bodies while this false self has not awaken to its true relation to reality — Gregory

The so-called self may not be what we think it is. It may just be a temporary entity, there only to, well, complicate our already miserable lives.

tolerate — ToothyMaw

Interesting word choice! Would you like to reconsider it?

The 'metaphysical concept' at the heart of Buddhism (and other dharmic traditions) is "reincarnation" which when interpreted literally makes no sense (re: if "no self", then "rebirth" of "no self") but can be interpreted figuratively as suggested in this old post:
"Reincarnation" represents merely waking up again each day – but religiously(?) generalized into a metaphor about 'birth-awareness-death' – the arc of daily living from sleep to sleep again (Sisyphus-like "wheel") with each yesterday (like) a different "past life" ...
— 180 Proof
... an attempt at a pragmatic deflation of 'the supernatural' to the existential. — 180 Proof

My take is rather simple, perhaps simplistic, too simplistic: It's not the self (re anatta) that reincarnates, it's something else that does! What that something else is is anybody's guess.

A lot to unpack there is. — Master Yoda

Do you consider yourself evil? — universeness

A good question. What do you think? I've written many posts on this forum on a wide variety of topics, enough data to form a reasonable opinion on my moral character. So ... ?

If hunches are being accepted, here's one of mine: 60% of the US population, including philosophers, are under some kind of psychiatric medication for disorders ranging from insomnia to schizophrenia. With so many mad people, it's amazing how we can get anything done at all!