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Potential

I find the idea of substance as form and matter very interesting (form being actualized potential, matter being potential form). Even further, I find the idea of potential, itself, interesting. Clay does not have the potential to be a live cat, so a live cat could never be clay. But are we not also the [...]

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Academia Sucks

In ostensibly—but not really—trying to get to truth, instead of breaking down and dissolving illusions, academia is all about constructing more illusions. The logic here is the simple logic that two wrongs don’t make a right. It is the dark forest of technical terms and jargon that run rampant in academia—and the enormous amount of [...]

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These days, maybe because of the influence of the PC movement, many people have the belief that everyone’s ideas and opinions are on equal footing and have equal validity. I simply do not think this is true. In fact, if pressed, most people who have the belief that all opinions are equal would have to [...]

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The Truth is On My Side

The beautiful thing about reality and truth is that once a person summons the courage to open his or her mind to reality, and rescind his ego’s all-access pass, and sees desire and self-regard not as the bringer of happiness, but as the exact cause of suffering, then there is absolutely nothing ‘the system’ can [...]

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Our Societies Are Run By Bullies

Is there any figure more ignorant, self-involved, brutish, arrogant, and ultimately pathetic than the historical Western White Male? The values, ideas, assumptions, and prejudices of this figure are, to put it simply, abhorrent. It is ironic that an ideology whose nature is weakness and fear could spread so widely over the world, infect so many [...]

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What about killing for food?

I think that seekers of enlightenment recognize that humans have evolved beyond the overwhelmingly deterministic instinctual realm of most other animals, and that, as sentient beings, we have the capacity for compassion, and reflection, and self-control, in ways that less evolved living things do not. (Again, this does not mean that we are “better” than [...]

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Is It “Natural” to Kill?

Let’s get back to the question of whether or not it is wrong to kill. One of the reasons this is such a confusing question is this idea of “nature,” and what is “natural.” We need only look out at nature to see what we would consider to be violence and murder galore. It is [...]

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One of the questions I have had when it comes to enlightenment, and the Buddhist philosophy, is in regards to the idea that it is wrong to kill another living being, an idea which strikes me as so similar to the Christian commandment: “Thou Shalt Not Kill.” The problem that I have with dogmas, and [...]

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