John Dub

When I say Hard Problem in a Philosophical discussion everyone Should Know what I mean.

I already said that I don’t agree with this, a couple posts ago. “As I said when you started, there is more than one opinion on what the Hard Problem is, so you don’t get to treat it like your opinion is the correct one, or that you can just say “Hard Problem…[Read more]

I don’t know if it is the one truth but they make it feel like it is so.

Everyone I know feels this way. Not Buddhism for everyone, but about whatever truth they prefer to focus on. Doubt is part of belief. And if you take a strictly scientific view of the world, then you know that you can’t prove existence at all. Some people never think about i…[Read more]

Fuck trying to make me feel guilty about being pissed off about their wonton greedy self-interest and hatred for others and for setting all of humanity on this destructive path we are on.

It would be helpful if you stopped characterizing what I say. Think about how stupid of a strategy it would be to try to discuss communication styles (in a…[Read more]

You didn’t answer the question.

Is “the one truth that applies to all and everything” the “only one objective truth in the universe that applies to everyone, Buddhist or not”?

I gave it my best shot.

I must have missed that post. All the ones I read are about how whatever someone says is not thinking “deep” enough. You also said it’s a mystery, so then, what, do you know what it is? As I said when you started, there is more than one opinion on what the Hard Problem is, so you don’t get to treat it like your opinion is…[Read more]

What am I?

You sound like a human. You’re also WEIRD. Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic. As a UMC white male in america, I was more immune to any kind of power trips, so I was free to dabble in religion and not be abused by it, so I don’t have the same emotional reactions to religion that a lot of atheists have. The ability to…[Read more]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/see

I think we can dispense with “seeing with the eyes” since that’s obviously not what mean.

Forming a mental picture, well that seems to be a problem for you. That’s not the “actual” thing.

I don’t think you mean meeting a bet, as in poker.

I can’t figure out what definition of “see” you are using.…[Read more]

The obvious abuses of power are not hard to find. It would be a massive undertaking to determine where all the money in the collection plates goes. One part that bugs me is all the buildings. Community space is always an issue for non-profit work, and having kitchens sit idle most of the time is a real waste. There are charity watch groups and you…[Read more]

Do you understand that you have never seen Electromagnetic Light but just your own internal Surrogate in place of the Electromagnetic Light?

Think more Deeply about the Experience itself. You cannot ignore it by saying it is a Behavior or it is an Illusion.

So, you are acting like a bot now. Just repeating yourself. You are replacing “internal…[Read more]

The dickish have taken over,

Taken over what? Taken over the fuedal system of Europe and dismantled it? Taken over the English Empire and deposed all their monarchs that were installed by one family? That was democratic rule driven by enlightened minds.

There have been a few moments in history when the power of the people has seemed to have…[Read more]

Excellent article with an excellent author. There are several good points in there, but I’m going to respond to the stuff about obsession, near the end.

When he talks about our obsession with maintaining the self and then about his experiences of a greater self, he slips into claiming the one thing, the greater self, being better than the self…[Read more]

You never have seen any Electromagnetic Light but only the Surrogate that is generated by your Brain/Mind.

A guy on my track team explained this to me when we were on the bus to a meet. He was 15. This is just a redefinition of the word “seen”. Normally, “seeing” means whatever happens when those waves contact an eye that is connected to a brain.…[Read more]

I came across this book, from my niece who got it as part of her degree.   The title doesn’t really describe it. The author is a professor and was challenged by one of his students  on something he said, so he looked further in to Islam, and found the big difference was that it is designed to be integrated into their lives. You don’t just ac…[Read more]

So how would you suggest reaching that subset?

Those are more realistic numbers, and they don’t change what I said above. The important thing is to know what subset the person you are talking to fits in. If someone says they go to church and your first reaction is to label them a Bible literalist, you’ve already lost them. Sometimes even if you…[Read more]

Look around guys.  The dickish have taken over the country.  There must be something to it.

My point exactly.

Christians are a perfect example of people who were handed power. Romans and Greeks experimented with democracy and started to figure out the language of the universe, then it fell, leaving the countryside to the Catholics. Eventually they anointed the Kings. They shut down the Lyceum and replaced it with Bible School.

There are lots of people that I consider to be quite dickish, who actually do change minds and reinforce minds to maintain dickish beliefs.

The cases I know of where that’s true, are people who either were handed some power and authority, or developed it with a small group of people very fast then held on to whatever patent or corporate ownership…[Read more]

Yep, but those experiments are always about one of them performing some task that benefits others and how they react after seeing that, stuff like that. They can even teach each other to do things through observation. But, although they easily could, they don’t initiate a simple coordinated effort like holding something while another lifts the other end.

So, I know the “be nice” discussion is a difficult one. Another question, less personal needs to be asked if you are going to take on something like ID; Who do you want to reach? If you want to go after the people who are spending their days producing faux papers and getting paid to speak about it, I think you are banging your head against a wal…[Read more]