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I wanted to bring forward in the discussion of selfishness, there has to be a concept of the self , and the divide between the Christian and Buddhist viewpoints is the biggest one I can think of. Then you come into Western culture and give it a big ol' slug of materialism, and there's another spew ...

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You should look at the case of George Price (above). Let me know where he went wrong. I doubt anyone will ever really know. George Price likely had many of his own demons that we will never know that compelled him to sever his carotid with a pair of nail scissors. However, David Hume was correct wh...

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Heracleum Persicum wrote:.China and India back Russia

Sino-Russian relations are more nuanced than that.

China to Russia: You're putting us in a tight spot

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all of the arguments on these forums are around that central prevailing issue with some of us thinking the solution is to bust things up into smaller groupings that do have a coherant shared view and others wishing the authorities get more aggresive forcing a unified viewpoint through with law. the...

I like David Bohm's toy model in his book Wholeness and the Implicate order . Participation is indeed a good term. But is is easy to dream away when there are so many unknowns and cognitive limitations. Maybe just poetry is the best we can produce here. Parodite, we can speak metaphorically, which ...

Banned in Bangalore - Wendy Doniger CHICAGO — LAST month a retired Hindu schoolteacher named Dinanath Batra, who had brought a lawsuit against me and Penguin Books, India, succeeded in getting my book, “The Hindus: An Alternative History,” withdrawn from publication in India. The book, the court ag...

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I think that nature itself is more to blame for this conundrum of how subjective experience emerged from insentient matter than materialists. Science actually discovered how nature is creating this problem for us; materialists just don't recognize nor understand the discovery. The standard scientif...

Ethics and principles often overheat and fail. Laws remain a bulwark against a complete collapse of ethics, and a foundation of society. There is a reason judges, prophets, kings and priests were separate castes in the OT. Ethics and principles fail as do governments and rule of law. Laws are the a...

Thanks for your perspective, Yeremiya "Oh God, Almighty and Only for us our Ukraine, please, keep with rays of freedom and light may You set her in light. "With the light of science and knowledge keep us, Your children, enlightened. In pure love to the land May You, oh Lord, bring us up. &...

If we are to live past the Enlightenment and not collapse into organic conservative pockets here- we got a real problem but what we mean by responsibility because I can't help but notice how shopworn and saggy it has become. Who is responsible; who gets to decide that stuff, and what do we mean byt...

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In reply to manolo and SM above: Ethics and principles demand coherence and conviction. If they conflict or contradict with each other, they become weak and incoherent and prone to rationalizations and corruption. Such ethical grounding forms the decency or the indecency of each of us. On the other ...

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Avoid War, Cold Or Hot, With Russia Over Ukraine: Finding A Way Back From The Catastrophic Brink - Doug Bandow Ukrainians won an important political battle by ousting the corrupt Viktor Yanukovich as president. But replacing Yanukovich with another dubious politico, such as opposition leader Yulia ...

I agree with you, Kmich. And two impressive videos, kudos to the people doing this with and for the dying. Incidentally, this conversation helps me since I'm considering a new career path as "Casemanager dementia" where you help patients with dementia and their family to get the professio...

Same question. What would constitute a strong and decisive response? It's pretty clear that Putin won't give up on Russia's access to the Black Sea without a fight. Are you ready for WWIII? A strong decisive response? At this point in time nothing short of warming up the ICBMs and letting them fly ...

I believe though (and hope) that we don't need to suffer and be on the brink of physical death first.. for the present to become so precious and meaningful, to make us open. Would be kind of sad. How does it help the bulk of us, the living? That really is the major question, and I suppose that is t...

Another view on the situation from Pepe Escobar: Carnival in Crimea Time waits for no one, but apparently will wait for Crimea. The speaker of the Crimean parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, has confirmed there will be a referendum on greater autonomy from Ukraine on May 25. Until then, Crimea will b...