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Maybe spin this topic into a different thread?
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How would you counter this hypothesis to the ‘Enlightenment’ idea?
whocoulditbe? replied to galen_burnett's topic in General Discussion
I'm not sure what kind of audience that would attract. The only appeal of such a tedious discussion as this comes from the ability to add your own take to the pile.- 568 replies
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Why study martial arts if you'd never fight back?
whocoulditbe? replied to Franky's topic in General Discussion
If you're such a pacifist, why did you have to tear this innocent guy apart?- 66 replies
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Feeling disillusioned.
whocoulditbe? replied to helpfuldemon's topic in Esoteric and Occult Discussion
I have been feeling more and more depressed since November. But I have a good feeling about this coming Northern-hemispehere autumn. -
Mistake in the Welcome section Insult reminder
whocoulditbe? replied to thelerner's topic in Forum and Tech Support
It makes a distinction between "voicing disagreements" and "insulting," but internet conversation has always promoted a habit of using the latter as a means to the former. -
I'm all for Chinese scholars using their own version of English. It's pretty cool. Sorry to stack the questions again, but: Where do "being boasted" and "tried" come from? How does 不 act before a noun such as 德? Do you think 下德 refers to actual vice, the negation of virtue, to a subdued form of virtue, or to the virtue of lowliness itself? Likewise, is 上德 a great amount of virtue, or is it the virtue of greatness? Where does "committed" come from? Thank you.
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Whistle while you work– "Hey! stop making that racket!" Red-faced noiselessness
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Eastern and Western lenses to Analytic Idealism with Bernardo Kastrup and Swami Sarvapriyananda
whocoulditbe? replied to silent thunder's topic in Hindu Discussion
What Swami Sarvapriyananda says from 24:14–27:38, when he talks about the "peculiar inversion" between the conclusions of materialism and idealism, reminds me of Plato's Parmenides: The generalisations Kastrup makes about the "western mind" seem pretty made up. It's funny that he starts off by disparaging western thought as compartmental, but at 1:00:00 he defends his denial of matter against the "conflation" and "confusion" of western philosophy, favouring eastern ideas for their ability to compartmentalise different kinds of truth. -
So would a sentences like 有有有 "existence possesses existence" or 無無無 "nothingness does not possess nothingness" be valid?
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I forgot about manioc, another candidate for a hypothetical Taoist staple. Apparantly the problem with it is that you need to cook it with care to eliminate the cyanide.
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Evening. I'd also like to know more about bigu. It seems we have an old thread about it. It's kinda crazy given how many staples around the world are grains. If you wanted to honour Pythagoras, you'd have to cut out legumes as well. I guess that would leave potatos and breadfruit.
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Where does "they go" come from? Are the 物 from the first line the implied subject of the second? From the structure, it feels more natural to treat 有 as the subject of the second line, with 生 as the verb. Can 有 ever be a noun?
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How would you counter this hypothesis to the ‘Enlightenment’ idea?
whocoulditbe? replied to galen_burnett's topic in General Discussion
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How would you counter this hypothesis to the ‘Enlightenment’ idea?
whocoulditbe? replied to galen_burnett's topic in General Discussion
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How would you counter this hypothesis to the ‘Enlightenment’ idea?
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they've come up with a method for measuring something. It helps to have something already known to test that method on.
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Everyone post some favorite quotes!
whocoulditbe? replied to GrandTrinity's topic in General Discussion
"Every portion of matter may be conceived as like a garden full of plants and like a pond full of fish. But every branch of a plant, every member of an animal, and every drop of the fluids within it, is also such a garden or such a pond. And although the ground and air which lies between the plants of the garden, and the water which is between the fish in the pond, are not themselves plants or fish, yet they nevertheless contain these, usually so small however as to be imperceptible to us. There is, therefore, nothing uncultivated, or sterile or dead in the universe, no chaos, no confusion, save in appearance; somewhat as a pond would appear at a distance when we could see in it a confused movement, and so to speak, a swarming of the fish, without however discerning the fish themselves. It is evident, then, that every living body has a dominating entelechy, which in animals is the soul. The parts, however, of this living body are full of other living beings, plants and animals, which in turn have each one its entelechy or dominating soul." – Leibniz, Monadology -
The pattern it resembles only became a symbol of Taoism within the last couple of centuries anyway. As far as I understand the image is an interference pattern created between the waves emmited by the quantum structure under consideration and an arbitrary reference wave. This video explains the non-quantum analog of the process
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Life is a table full of dice
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Or they just end up contaminated with strings of GMO through gene flow, since they have the same pollinators.
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How would you counter this hypothesis to the ‘Enlightenment’ idea?
whocoulditbe? replied to galen_burnett's topic in General Discussion
Dude, why are you speaking so loudly?- 568 replies
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It's easy to become sure that it's AI if you look closer. Elements of the background obscure the foreground in the bottom right corner, for example.
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If every view is harmful, but every view also has a mutually-neutralising opposite, then every view is sometimes beneficial.
