UnbornTao

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  1. I see you're a man of culture.
  2. @kavaris What distro do you use?
  3. How do you see success?
  4. Perhaps. Then again, he appears to be candid and straightforward. If he was lying or misguided, which we don't know, then not many people are sincere at a deep level. And I'd agree with you on this sentiment. We can agree that people (us) are gullible and like to make believe - in very basic, subtle ways, not just the gross ways we go about this. Just moving towards removing one's so-called knowledge or conclusions, in this context, is a beneficial undertaking. So let's do that.
  5. Thanks, I'll have to take a look at it later today.
  6. "A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it." — Dune
  7. Watching TV, movies, shows - entertainment.
  8. @integral This is not to say that one can't sometimes rightly establish some correlations between things (and also downright invent them out of thin, clean air), but this can easily become an extremely sloppy process in so many ways. This is why science exists. I'm sure you know of people who make self-assessments of their condition. How many times do they get it right? Often, it's a way to soothe oneself by having some plausible cause to attribute to what ails them.
  9. https://linuxiac.com/france-launches-government-linux-desktop-plan-as-windows-exit-begins/ Oh la lá
  10. I get it. Personally it's not my cup of tea. The good thing about valid studies is that they are often less subject to distortion than our subjective assessments and "feelings" about seeming correlations.
  11. What significance do our notions have regarding this subject? Treat them as notions and as inherently misleading - due to their nature as notions. As you allude to, it seems that some people might believe that mental conditions are the same as this business. Why would one think that? By the way, I am from Uranus, too!
  12. I removed the picture as there could be some validity to what you say, even though sometimes you seem to take it a bit too far with this stuff, in my opinion. Where do you draw the line between functional concern and paranoia? Isn't using a smartphone messing up your brain, sight, etc? It's likely, too, that something less than ideal could be found out about the clothes we use. Etc, etc.
  13. "To find pleasing, to love, to have faith in." Consider: What is your criterion for choosing to believe one thing over another?
  14. Heresy. I'm sure there are, even if they aren't strictly or formally framed as 'epistemological' works. Gotta take a look at Being and Time and The Critique of Pure Reason.
  15. Why do so many people pay attention to this kind of stuff?