Philosophical Speculations

This is the last time I will make this point: anyone wishing to have a discussion that is intended to remain solely focused on a specific topic, then do so in the 'topic-specific' sub-forum. If then, anyone is not respecting the guidelines of that forum, let me know. Otherwise, if it's posted under ...

I've always enjoyed your comments even though I mostly disagreed with them. I appreciate what you have been doing but I guess the time has come to decide what really the purpose of the forum is to be. When it broke off from Bernardo, I thought it would want to go in the direction of very broad rang...

The topic seems to be about what is wrong with the forum, how topics could be broadened, why so few people comment. I think too lax moderation is the problem. If almost every topic wanders off into the Steiner weeds, then there is no reason for most people to engage in discussion or post questions....

AshvinP wrote: ↑Tue Sep 06, 2022 5:36 pm ... and one can only irresistibly submit to.

And equally clear that you can't resist either

Now if you completely disagree that this is possible, that it's been done to some major extent already, and/or you think it's fantastical thinking and superiority complex run amok, then I wish you and others would just say so. There are some ideas I agree with, there are others we likely won't agre...

The former locates the lack of initiative more directly within your own sphere of personal interests (or lack of interests), while the latter implies that everyone here is destined to remain at whatever spiritual stage they are at until they are visited by Manna from Heaven, completely apart from a...

This is why I asked about what you are now doing spiritually, regardless of the 'forum phase'. I use the forum, ideally, to only point others towards an inner experiential path that I am on, and in the process of doing that pointing, exercise my imaginative thinking which feeds back into my partici...

... if we are fortunate, our next incarnation will bring us back to a forum like this one and give us the opportunity to nourish the seeds within us once again. Yeah well, get back to us after 7 years ... if you're still at it ... maybe you'll go back to the poker-playing phase ... maybe I'll go ba...

Hi all ... Apologies for being conspicuous by my absence. As the only mod, I do have to check in now and then, just in case there are any new topic approvals-- which is rare. Beyond that, this being a generally well-behaved place, the moderation role is minimal. In the case of this member, having be...

I had a chance to ask BK a couple questions this afternoon in the critical AMA. Unfortunately I couldn't transcribe his answers, but maybe a recording will be made available. For now, I will try to summarize my initial question, his response, my response, and then a follow up I wrote on the discord...