It’s less to do with mental illness and more to do with belief and propaganda. — NOS4A2

He will say anything to get ahead - as we all do and must - in a culture which increasingly demands and rewards compliance. — yebiga

Trump finally announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election. — NOS4A2

Always? Or do you mean the powers that you disagree with? — GLEN willows

It is something that can lead to an existential crisis. — Andrew4Handel

the original prana wisdom would be the understanding realization of annatta or the non-selfness emptiness of all things. — Janus

Language is certainly more fundamental than culture. Knowledge does not require language, however, so the fundamental attachment must go deeper than culture or language.
— praxis

I don't think language is historically more fundamental than culture — Constance

Does chess even exercise useful parts of the brain? — TiredThinker

Buddhism can tend to gloss over, in a way different from distracting thoughts, what is really going on also. — Bylaw

Language itself is just this: a body of tools, "scientifically acquired" meaning we, as infants and children were faced with models of language behavior and internalized these to the delight of others, and therefore, to our delight as well. We "tested" our knowledge with primitive utterances, and found successes in the way these became useful, and this was all imprinted in our young psyches. Now that is a fundamental attachment. — Constance

In any case it wasn't really absent-mindedness I has in mind when I spoke of becoming blind to lived experience, it was more being stuck in certain conventional patterns of dealing with 'the world'. — Janus

Do you thinks it's possible that, in being enamored with one's discursive knowledge of the world, one might become blind to lived experience? — Janus

Can you explain this simply? What's an example of metaphysical intuition? — Tom Storm

To conceive in a way that puts the concept of God outside of the prejudices of narratives, of history and its groundless meta-thinking, requires a step beyond these. This is both difficult and easy: difficult because one has to step out of something firmly fixed in our culture; easy because the solution lies with the Buddhists, which a kind of apophatic existential approach, a "simple" dropping of the illusions of knowledge suppositions by practical negation: ignoring desires and attachments. The most fundamental attachment is knowledge of the world. — Constance

I meant discursive knowledge; the point is that such knowledge is always in the form of subjects knowing objects, or knowers knowing what is known, or objects analyzed in terms of their predicates, Lived experience is prior to that and not given or apprehended in such terms. — Janus

This is a very important point, and it should also be emphasized that knowledge of the world is not lived experience. — Janus

Emotivity is reckless? — Constance

God is not a person, a creator, a judgment, a principle, a kind old man, and should not be conceived in the traditional way as something impossible remote. — Constance

if you take that rotten apple and rub it in someone's face, is this not by default (defeasibly) wrong? — Constance

Careful about the connotative value of words. You say evil and we think we are in a dramatic moral conflict between God and Satan, and this is precisely what bad metaphysics does, the kind of thing that sends women to a fiery death and the spiritual sanitization of social rules. ... God is love. — Constance

Someone extracts your tooth without analgesic: not a fantasy. In fact, far more ethically emphatic than any rule can possible be. — Constance

No, not literally. — Constance

There are an infinite number of facts. — Constance

With value, there is something else, once the facts are exhausted for their content. there is the "non natural" property of good and bad. — Constance

This finds its justification in the pain or joy itself--these serve as their own presupposition, as I have said. — Constance

They are not things that defer to other things for their meaning; — Constance

... the expressed principle issues from the world, not just some arbitrarily conceived bit of pragmatic systematizing of our affairs called jurisprudence. — Constance

Does that burn "say" with undeniable clarity, "don't do that"? — Constance

Any example will do: place your hand in a fire, and ask what is this pain? It is not a construct of language; it is the world itself "speaking" so to speak. It says, don't do this, to yourself, anyone, just keep this out of existence. — Constance

This is the foundational indeterminacy of our existence: take any concept about the world, any at all knowledge claim, and it can be demonstrated readily that there is no "center" no "final vocabulary" no "metanarrative" no stone tablets or anything at all that will intimate what is truly and really what the world IS. — Constance

The claim is not that a metavalue account of ethics is everything there is to ethical decision making. It is just that other questions are suspended here simply because they are not relevant to the inquiry.

Talk about God is why this metaethical line of inquiry is taken, and questioning about God is metaphysical inquiry. — Constance

So, what is exemplary moral character about? It has to do with right choices, motivations and intentions, but intention to do what? Treat others as one should. Why is this a concern at all? Because all people are vulnerable to suffering. If a person cannot be hurt at all, then this is not a person for whom others can have a moral obligation. — Constance

… value desperation … — Constance

Any thoughts so far? — Constance