Philosophical Speculations

Thanks for summarizing my position so succinctly...

Anyway. Yes this forum has history...
Welcome! BTW.

So my intellect is not capable to determine whether i've had an intellect-defying experience or not? this is new.

Well if it's not that simple, then stop telling other ppl that they don't get it.

you
don't
know
that.

it's a fact.


You can't have the cake and eat it. It doesn't work that way.

... make me wonder whether in your opinion it’s urgent and crucial that others grasp these ideas or not so much so. I realize this is a peripheral and even a personal question. Still, I can't but try to figure out why these ideas are shared the way they are on this forum. If it’s urgent and crucial...

And if it’s so that you don’t have the burden to sell it, then I guess my only hope is to ask what the price is and hope I will be able to afford it?

The price is Faith. That's my subjecitve summary.

How can this thin membrane be held accountable for disconnection, and worse for being the foundation of a whole dualistic system? That would be a dualism between water inside and water outside a fish net. I agree. I don't see BK's philosophiy as being dualistic either. However, this still requires ...

Imagine that they all disappear in a snap. We put aside the fact that very soon there will be cacophony all over. Let's focus on the almost instantaneous moment after their disappearance. Do you imagine this will have any impact on the way your consciousness works, on the way you experience your th...

This is really confusing me.
Ashvin, are you stating that the fact that Eugene claims that he engages in Imaginative Thinking during work and hobby-time shows that he does not understand the nature of Imaginative Thinking?

If not, I lost you there.

A very good example of multi-layered thinking can be found in computer systems, where each layer of machine code -> programming language -> operating system -> application -> ... -> ... are layeres of higher and higher abstraction. These levels did not appear by themselves. A human being thought the...

I just hope that when/if they arrive we've gotten Wetiko under control, because if not, we'll project everything that's wrong onto the Arrivals instead of working with ourselves, and we'd be none the wiser for it.