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the human life in a nutshell is nothing but a doomed to fail helpless attempt to freeze formlessness into form and to avoid dissolving into infinity

Seems to me it's a systemic issue, in that a system which results so much inequality that it gives a minority of individuals disproportionate power to maintain that system, we have an inbuilt problem. In democracies this means we have to be persuaded that this is is best system, via culture, media education etc. Not as some conspiracy, just an alignment of interests which dominate public discourse and become accepted norms. So the challenge is how does a Sanders (or Corbyn in the UK) get elected, to go about making systemic change? I'd suggest that in those two cases it's the centrists and some parts of the Left which colluded with the powerful interests which their election would have challenged. Either by having accepted the norms we're fed, or being too timid about the chance of change. The Right has shown that by being bold they can take power, and the Left as usual will be left to pick up the pieces from the wreckage, and try to re-establish a status quo which originally drove disaffected people to vote for change. It's a mugs' game of damage limitation the Left has settled for. After the failure of Sanders in America and Corbyn in Europe, it will be a long time before we get another chance for anything better.

believe your line of thinking here is quite interesting. Of course it seems ridiculous that nothing outside you would truly exist (and that therefore anything that does exist would be part of you), but then you basically quint like the guy in an action movie and say "that's just what I want me to think!" I find this line of thought interesting because it opens up the question of the psychology of God. The way I'm hearing you, and something I think about too, is that God would get bored, or worse, incredibly anxious about just constantly existing and not being able to stop. So therefore, God would want to come up with some semblance of difference in order to have some form of escapism, ecstasy- instead of just sitting around in perfect timelessness all the time. As for whether you would know better, my thoughts on solipsism focus on the paradox of absolute unity. For example, our idea of language only makes sense when I am here talking to you, and every word means something different. But if "I" am the only thing, then there are no different words, different people, or different things- only me. Anything in particular that we would say exists really doesn't, since it isn't really what we normally think of it as being. Therefore you could as easily say that I (God) am nothing as that I am everything, since nothing that we typically think exists really exists as we think it does (as a discrete object).

just want to add, that though solipsism and radical skepticism are logically difficult if not impossible to refute, I myself am not willing to test whether they are practical. I'll eat my breakfast and assume that my friends and family exist outside my imagination. Until I can alter the laws of physics, and prove that I am the source if reality, I will make the intuitive presumptions that we all make every day we wake up.

I jus watched leos recent episode on solipsism and I have some questions for y'all about solipsism and I hope you guys can answer them. I feel like im getting a misinterpretation about the idea and it would be great if you guys could clear everything up. To begin, i am wondering if what if as a god I created the idea of solipsism to be less probable to comfort myself into the world? and the second one being why would "I" create my own suffering if "I" am a god, wouldn't I know better? Lastly, is there any concrete agrument against solipsism? Like if I were to transfer into another body or somehow and then come back to mine, would that help disprove it? Adding on to the topic of solipsism, I wrote down some discussion about solipsism and am wondering if you guys could confirm the accuracy of the statements I am about to make about solipsism. Against the idea of solipsism I have written down Occam's Razor does not support it and secondly it creates an extremist version of the first cause dilemma (where did I come from) this wouldn't matter if only solipsism wasn't based on its ability to answer the hard problem of epistemology. Therefore the belief system as a whole fails. Finally, there would be infinite possibilities of the world that could be taken as true; I could be actually a dragon dreaming on mars right now.

No ! It was very deep and I enjoyed. Respect your decision tho?

I guess it basically stems from the fact that there is no way to know for certain anything beyond your experience and that what you experience does not necessarily imply the existence of an exterior. For all you know, you could be projecting/imagining/creating "exterior" reality instead of receiving or observing it.

Schopenhauer once said that solipsism "could only be found in a madhouse: as such it would then need not so much a refutation as a cure." Yet, if you take yourself into the madhouse and think about it, you cannot disprove solipsism in any way. It's ok to find it distasteful and disparage the idea as ridiculous, but it still won't go away. Why not? Why can't you connect to another mind and see the world through another's sensibilities and mind and thoughts? Is it and will it always be impossible, or is it something that may reasonably be seen as technologically possible in a far flung future?

Despite the warning. I have the balls to watch .

Supposedly the Taliban, now apparently in charge of the nation of Afghanistan, do not treat women as equals - In fact they are accused of treating women as lesser entities that are there to do Man's bidding - They say they have changed and as long as it fits their concepts of what is known as Sharia Law, women can have relative rights. Now in many ways Texas and the 'Christian right wing South' have similar rules - Women are equal except when it comes to reproductive rights which are owned by the state - A women's reproductive organs have been confiscated by the State of Texas so even if she is raped if she becomes pregnant she must have the child who is protected by the State of Texas - Who, in spite of the Constitution of the United States functions under Christian Fundamentalist law. Now I have two questions: 1. Is Texas part of the United States of America and functioning under the laws and Constitution of The United States of America, or is Texas an independent country functioning under Fundamentalist Christian law {America's Christian version of Moslem Sharia law} 2. Is a woman today better off in Texas or Afghanistan - Or does it really matter

I find it tragically humorous that folks who don't want the state to regulate their bodies when it comes to Covid vaccines, feel perfectly comfortable with the state regulating pregnant women's bodies. Let's not miss the deep philosophical questions, besides women's right to own their own body, this so-called 'right to life' issue raises They claim murder of poor defenseless babies who never asked to be born or conceived in the first place. And then in their same mindless agendas swear before their magical god that they must defend these unwanted babies to preserve the rights of the unborn. God {if there is one} save us from these excuses for Human intelligence - These baboons {I apologize to baboons} have become politicians, governors of some states {Texas, et al, and until 2020, one was even President of the US}. I stretch my imagination in an attempt to believe these so called 'right to lifers' really believe the crap they are trying to bury the world in. The Catholic Church has a long, long history of this and we can understand - But others, whether Christian or otherwise - Do they really believe in a divine right to bring unwanted life into the world

Yes .that's the cover-lie. Women are seen as a threat. They're smart, co-operative, organized and far-seeing. Once you stop subjugating them by physical force and legal sanction (barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen), they gain power, and if they gain power, the whole system will change. As it did in developed nations: the birth rate declines; tolerant, inclusive laws are introduced - next thing you know, they're coming for your guns, SUV's and cattle. Which is why the right wing resurgence of white-supremacist, Islamist, fundamentalist factions are so keen to subjugate them again

I was just listening to an interview on NPR {National Public Radio} of a woman who wrote a book on the history of abortion in the US. According to her the new Conservative Supreme Court may hold up the Texas law and a bunch of other state anti-abortion laws which would not only overturn Roe vs. Wade but might even lead to abortion becoming illegal on a nationwide bassis

@Nahm is there any specific breathing exercises or anything that can help me get grounded when I experience the anxiety attacks ?

Yes. He prescribed them for my anxiety.

The new Texas anti-abortion laws are, apart from anything else, apparently cynically designed to promote "bounty hunting" against anyone who even drives a woman to the Texas border. But I don't think they're motivated primarily by misogyny or the desire to subjugate women as such. I think they're motivated by a pathological fixation on the concept of the sanctity of human life in the abstract, without any thought for what it means in the real world, or for the quality of that life in the real world. In restricting abortion to before most women know they are pregnant, even in cases of incest or rape, they clearly don't pay much heed to the welfare of women. But it's not the welfare of living things they care about. It's simply this fetishizing of "human life" which leads to the idea that a single fertilized human cell ought to be afforded more rights than a fully formed, thinking, living, breathing non-human. It's interesting to wonder if they would feel the same way if the recent extinction of our nearest hominid relatives (homo erectus etc) hadn't created such a relatively large evolutionary divide between us and our nearest extant relatives. If birds had brains that were sufficiently developed to have moral opinions about abortion similar to ours, I wonder if stage blue would regard single-celled blue tit embryos as deserving more rights than fully formed great Keep in mind that, in both places, women profess the same religion as the men. A great many right-to-lifers are female, just as a great many advocates of women's reproductive rights are male. The divide is between the sexes; it's between political factions. In Afghanistan, there is no effective government or law-enforcement, now that the US puppets have gone the way of their imperial predecessors. The militant fundamentalists constitute federal authority, army, police, court and church. When all the warlords are defeated or assimilated, the Taliban will have absolute control.

I don't want to glorify Texas, and I don't agree with their religious-based anti-abortion law, which I think will be struck down eventually. However, nobody is being held against their will there. Women are allowed to go to school, they don't have to hide their faces, they can drive a car and enjoy every other right that a man would enjoy, like owning guns or whatever. This is actually quite a contrast between what Taliban rule was in the past and presumably will be going forward. They've as much as said so. But let's go forward with this same 'right to life' ideology and see where it can lead. Under this Texas abortion law a woman would theoretically lose the right to her own body once pregnant, no matter how she got pregnant including rape and incest - She is now committed by law to defend the unborn baby inside her, no matter how the baby got there until it is born. Like some dystopian science fiction future ['The Handmaid's Tale' - "..... following a Second American Civil War wherein a totalitarian society subjects fertile women, called "Handmaids", to child-bearing slavery."] Isn't this what this Texas 'right to life' abortion law is all about The argument can be made that bringing children into a World run by such meat-heads is child abuse to begin with Why would anyone want to have children in a world that encourages them to have children they never wanted in the first place . Let me put it this way: the new laws in Texas have pushed its citizens a little more than half a century back in history. Afghanistan with the Talibans are going backwards several centuries and are a bit closer to the Middle Ages

I see what you are saying - So let me clarify what I am saying: I see it as much, much worse than a cultural anomaly where we can compare Moslem vs. Christian ideology and and its enforcement. I see it as a left over remnant of the 'Inquisition' and the 'witch hunts' of the middle ages where women where systematically tortured and burned alive by a sick bunch of Devils supposedly doing the work of God. - These evil and ill conceived anti abortion laws to supposedly protect the unborn from the evils of the living are sick - And the people trying to push the agenda are at least sick, if not insane. I saw a proponent of the anti-abortion agenda on TV a few years ago trying to explain himself - He grew teary eyed as he started to cry about those poor unborn babies, as if he felt personally responsible to be sure he they all get born. And how many doctors have been attacked, and in some cases even murdered by these crazy devils supposedly doing the work of god In my opinion we are not dealing with politics or philosophy - These anti abortion laws, more than anything are based upon mental illness, the same type of sick minds that gave the World the Inquisition and Witch hunts of the past. So go ahead accuse me over exaggerating - But I say it will never stop with just abortions, when you let the mentally ill take over politics and law the worst is yet to come

I'm all for women's rights, including the right to abortion. I'm all for the separation of church and state in Texas and Afghanistan, and I'm all against fundamentalists imposing their regressive beliefs in both places, but I must say that comparing Texas laws with Sharia law, even as reproductive rights have lost protection in many parts of USA, is a bit overstated

I agree: the Christian right is in many ways not so much different than the Taliban and their vision of society is very similar. Yet, I don't think one can compare the grip the Muslim fundamentalists have on their country with the one Christian fundamentalists have on theirs, which is not to say one should not keep an eye on them. The fact is, answering my second question in the OP, a woman today is still better off in Texas than in Afghanistan.

@PurpleTree for a year at least or until I show improvement.

Thanks for the advice though easier said than done .

@Preety_India like what ?

Why ?does it have bad side effects? Thanks for the information. May I ask what medications you suggest for panic attacks? I'm a uni student.

Sorry I don't understand what you mean by that . Thanks for sharing. So should I simply use affirmations to ground myself