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Fairy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 04, 2025 1:36 pm Perfection is already present when one lacks the seeking of perfection.

Homo viator, bonam fortunam

A question (to Veritas Aequitas): Are you a human being? Is also a question to all of us. Ignorance is the root cause of suffering at least as long as you feel real as a body and mind. As pure seer or light or awareness, a whole different perspective is going on. The unbearable lightness of being. ...

It’s an idea.. what is an idea? I’ve no idea. A human being is an idea just as a tree is. Can more be said? Hard to say. There’s nothing outside the text, that again, is just an idea, empty at it’s fundamental core. I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. Is what thinks in my p...

The statement to the right is true. The statement to the left is false.
The sentences above are not statements.

Prayers 1. Propitiatory prayer [seeking mercy/forgiveness] 2. Petitionary prayer [I don't know] 3. Confessional prayer [Catholic?] 4. Intercessory prayer [seeking healing. help] 5. Adoration prayer [expressing love for God] 6. Meditative prayer [for deep contemplation of God] 7. Thanksgiving prayer...

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Mon Dec 01, 2025 11:41 pm

Hudjefa wrote: ↑Mon Dec 01, 2025 11:23 am How's the "Dean paradox" different from Zeno's paradox (solved using limits)?

It isn't.

Merci beaucoup

Total Global Happiness!

If you read utilitarianism you might find a good chapter on happiness. Utilitarianism is a hedonistic moral system.

I believe our dear friend Einstein was also quite enthusiastic about Jung's and Pauli's ideas.

How's the "Dean paradox" different from Zeno's paradox (solved using limits)?

1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ... = 1. The distance of 1 is traversed though there are an infinite number of steps.

Is it ja-ne-pra-sanga or jane-prasanga?

Any info on who/what Dean is? janeprasanga is an alias used by one Colin Leslie Dean, an advanced schizophrenic who has been trying to interest the internet in his silly nonsense for decades. He also markets himself as Australia's Leading Erotic Poet. I am not even making that up. He is so persiste...

Comparing abortion to murder doesn't help the pro-life cause.

As for why a prostatectomy doesn't constitute murder I'd say that a prostate is vastly different from an embryo/fetus.

So religion not a comfort blanket?

Me too.

Any info on who/what Dean is?

The OP is correct but we're all familiar with LEM. What do we call the "imposter"? I wish it, doe it ... have a name?