If my memory serves, I seem to recall that you believed Trump didn’t condemn white supremacy and neo-Nazis after Charlottesville. — NOS4A2

I can’t think of any specific example off the top of my head. — DingoJones

I would guess its pretty close but who knows. — DingoJones

Its not though — DingoJones

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