Philosophical Speculations

I'll be glad to comment without a risk of being chastised. Thank you! The intention of my "egoic" point was that I expect words to take their ordinary English meaning. Thus "thinking" cannot be a spiritual activity, unless egoic thinking (which you say gave rise to the post I mad...

Thanks for that summary of my character, Ashvin. I'll try harder to please you next time.

the sheer strength of that modern prejudice against Thinking as spiritual activity.

I'd suggest this is because "Machiavellian thinking" strikes nobody as spiritual. The word "spiritual" is redundant and pointless in this context.

Thanks for that, Hedge. I'll give them a go.

Well...
https://atlasmoworld.com/buddha-reincarnated-in-nepal/

You may well laugh now...

Aside from what Eugene said about the low quality of life for the poor in ancient times, and often now (overcrowding, disease, pain, backbreaking work etc), so that return to such conditions is a horrendous prospect, "checking out" also appeals because it would mean escape from the id and ...

It would be demeaning to respond to such tripe.

Mind you, I'm not convinced of the notion that it can be hastened on its way either. Nor me, Dana. Ecclesiastes comes to mind: To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a ...

If a cog then an aware one that plays its integral role in ideation's metamorphic process, so 'cog'nize accordingly

If cogs cognize, do their woes metamorphose?