Philosophical Speculations

Cleric, There is interest, even from those who have been advised they're not interested. Your posts are not too long. Please don't stop for that reason. It takes me a while to read them. That is not a complaint. It's because at least some "processing" needs to accompany the reading, otherw...

Justin, Thanks for the reference. I'll check it out. Ashvin, Your last post made a very salient point. I do not know whether there is a "metamorphical progression" of consciousness or not. I will, as stated, read more from Cleric. In my own time. Now I'm out. In spite of promising what I a...

Ashvin, Ok, we're being candid, yet polite. I can do that. The bulk of your last post is lawyerly sophistry, in my opinion. You are again reading things that are just not there. Here's why I think that. 99% of my postings are about socioeconomic or environmental issues and you're making a huge infer...

Ashvin, Crikey, I am now the very embodiment of the modern age. Feel free to add more. I meant it when I said I'm not taking it personally. Just as I meant it when I said I'd read more of Cleric's postings. Just as I meant it when I said in the previous post (posted before I saw your recent offering...

Shu, Thank you for your gracious response. As for addressing the deeper factors - well, you've just answered your own question as to what brings me to this forum. I don't know precisely what the deeper factors are, but I am perfectly willing to put in the effort to attempt to find out. Hence, here I...

Shu, Sure, I get the "what's up with that" reference, as I got the previous reference when I stretched your patience. Enough said. What was wrong with my previous post? Did you think, as Ashvin seems to, that it was "about" politics? I thought it was the opposite. My bad. If you ...

Ashvin, Don't worry about arbitrarily criticising me, these things are not taken personally here, at least not now. I've read Cleric's post, quoted above by you, and I find myself nodding at much of it. The rest, I need to work on by re-reading some more of his stuff. I am giving it a chance. But th...

Ashvin, I've been reading this thread with great interest. I hope it's not considered churlish to point out that Justin asked a very direct question and you have responded, while seemingly failing to answer his question. This is fair comment, I believe, as in other threads you have asked direct ques...

Hi Eric - I'll bite. You were blown away by Bernardo's ideas and we're going to order some of his books - but then you checked his Twitter thread. So are you now not blown away by those ideas? How does that work? "More importantly, it's not in any way conducive to philosophical inquiry and it a...

Hi Sophie, "I would say that with point number 4, this wasn't necessarily the case for me. Without having read about Solipsism, it came about "naturally" for me during times of extreme and rather constant synchronicities, while in the midst of spiritual breakthroughs (or shall I say b...