Philosophical Speculations

Mark, I fully agree with that

(mainly about your not fully agreeing with me)
cheers

Mark, I can't post it right now. Did I say 'defending'? Maybe, but if i said 'defending' I certainly didn't mean 'arguing for idealism.' I wish I hadn't said 'defend' but I'll look back and see if I did. But what I meant to say is that Sam has shown great respect for idealism by interviewing Donald ...

You don't know what 'psychoanalysis' means. Or you are using it colloquially and then, yes, you constantly are psychoanalyzing. Either way, I stand by my request and my claim that he of course can justify ignoring it. That's how the world works. It can be nice and fun and frustrating, especially if ...

Thanks Mark. Yeah, I had read that originally. Personally, I don't see anything in it that leads me to think that Harris had been engaging with Bernardo directly and then started just ignoring him. Even if they had been engaging, we all know that there can be reasons to suddenly stop. Bernardo does ...

Mark, sorry if this is a nerdy question which misses the point, but what specifically do you mean by 'ignoring' when you say that Sam Harris is ignoring Bernardo? Thanks!

"Blanks, this is painful to witness :) You've once again taken a sentence in isolation and try asking questions about it in a way which the whole quote especially warns against. RS speak precisely about entering into living, experienced thinking and not about making mental pictures - exactly wh...

For clarity to those who haven't memorized the various epochs: The age of the Consciousness Soul (5th PA Epoch), began when the spring equinox entered Pisces in 1413 and will end when it enters Aquarius in 3573 . In the lecture mentioned above Steiner states that it is not until the end of the 5th e...

Ashvin: "If Steiner erroneously claimed people with white skin could only embody the Christ-impulse because of..." No, you've reversed it perfectly. Steiner does NOT say that it is because of what skin that only white people can, at this time, integrate with the Christ. He says and explain...

"Anthroposophia is a being, yes, but she must be embraced as a moral force in the continual unfolding of your living thinking..." If an atheist were having this insight, I wonder what kinds of concepts it would clothe itself within.... I'm not dogmatically declaring that it would need to b...

My goal with this thread is to hear (outloud and not privately!) from three new people. My hunch is that if I'm lucky, I'll hear from two. But if one new person drops in, I'll write you a poem. And if anybody plays in here, I'll be super happy. Okay.... Think of three instances in your life where yo...