CAN STOICISM SPREAD IN THE WEST AS BUDDHISM DID IN THE EAST?
Source date (UTC): 2025-08-03 19:15:24 UTC
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CAN STOICISM SPREAD IN THE WEST AS BUDDHISM DID IN THE EAST?
Source date (UTC): 2025-08-03 19:15:24 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2025-08-03 15:27:26 UTC
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I disagree with Mcgilchrist’s oversimplification, the mysticism he tries to defend with it, and the nonsense that people expound because of it . So I can’t really answer on those terms. I might say instead that the predatory response(hunt/fight)) is more activating when engaged, just as is the prey(flight) response is more activating when engaged. But it might take more stimuli override active predation(attack) then active prey ( flee ). And this asymmetry might apply to reasoning vs intuiting as well. I suspect my formulation is correct and i assume it describes what mcgilchrist meant despite his pseudoscience.
Source date (UTC): 2025-08-01 05:46:08 UTC
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Quote of the day
–“So you built a metaphysical cathedral to house iron age fairy tales.”–
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Source date (UTC): 2025-07-31 05:48:03 UTC
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SEDE VACANTE
The phrase you’re referring to is “sede vacante” (Latin for “the seat being vacant”), which refers to the period when the Papal See is without a pope. The associated theological or ideological position, especially post-Vatican II, is called “sedevacantism”.
Operational Breakdown:
– “Sede” = seat (refers to the Holy See, the papal throne).
– “Vacante” = being vacant.
– Sedevacantism = the belief that the current occupant of the papal office is not a valid pope due to heresy, particularly stemming from Vatican II reforms (e.g., ecumenism, religious liberty, collegiality).
From a Natural Law perspective:
– Sedevacantism is a claim of void authority due to breach of doctrinal reciprocity—i.e., that the Vatican II popes have defected from operational Catholicism and thus cannot lawfully occupy the seat.
– It’s an instance of juridical nullification grounded in claims of deviation from inherited institutional law (doctrinal apostasy = breach of institutional contract).
Source date (UTC): 2025-07-30 23:49:11 UTC
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that simply isn’t true. Spirit is our word for intuition, which we can easily replicate, and there is no reason a machine needs to ‘feel’ as we do only understand why and how we feel. And all feelings are in fact explicable and reducible to processes that are objectively understandable.
For example, if you lost your sense of touch, or smell, or hearing or sight, you would still be conscious. Consciousness is simply the effect of enough recursive memory. It will emerge in any life form that has sufficient brain scale and depends upon social cooperation.
Source date (UTC): 2025-07-27 01:07:54 UTC
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–“The man who refuses the laurel crown when it is his by merit is not modest, but disloyal to his gods.”–
Source date (UTC): 2025-07-26 17:27:22 UTC
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(Eli. Evangelical. Not worth your time.)
Source date (UTC): 2025-07-20 01:03:30 UTC
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That’s nuts. lol. One would have to be as obsessed wiith naziism as one is obsessed with christianity in order to apply the method of christian capture of causality in everything to national socialism. And worse, to confuse anglo classical liberalism (hayekian libertarianism) with national socialism. The Nazis hated classical liberalism. Classical liberals distributed rather than centralized economics and finance. They tolerated rather than outcast. They constructed a government that served as a market rather than as a means of rule. They sought weak government rather than strong. They sought due process over authoritarianism. But most of all they practiced rule of law by the natural law.
The national socialists tried to develop an alternative between anglo liberalism, french socialism, jewish communism. So they adopted Italian Fascism – basically the strategy of the roman empire in times of war. (or any modern state conducting total war).
I deal with sex, class, cultural, and racial realism, and I favor universal nationalism – for the simple reason that it creates a competitive market for distributed evolutionary experimentation and allows governments o produce commons that are most specialized for the needs of each group of people.
That’s libertarianism. At least, that’s hayekian, classical liberal, libertarianism if not jewish rothbardian libertarianism.
Source date (UTC): 2025-07-11 04:16:50 UTC
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Anti-Abrahamism is a critique of a sequence of moral grammars (Judaism → Christianity → Islam → Marxism → Postmodernism → Wokeism) that replace reciprocity with deceit, emotional coercion, and universalist false promises.
To respond effectively and truthfully to an accusation of anti-Semitism when the actual critique is anti-Abrahamism, you must:
Source date (UTC): 2025-07-08 22:26:54 UTC
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