Joseph Maynor

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  1. The problem here is it ties true to the social or to the imaginary reasonable person (third person).
  2. I guess it kinda depends on what we're calling free will.
  3. One question is who is the judger?
  4. I feel like we have limited free will.
  5. It depends on how we parse you, but yes on some level.
  6. An epistemological question that I see underlying the theme of this question is: How do we know when our imagination has gotten ahead of us? This is a key question in epistemology. What are the boundaries of the imagination vs. direct experience?
  7. Got it. So you feel like you're reporting reality, not engaging in philosophy per se.
  8. This is the empiricist side to your philosophy. Interesting.
  9. Do you feel like your finite presentation as a human is also being imagined, and how is this sectioned off from what you take God to be?
  10. In your view, Is the One Consciousness which is imagining everything also imagining all the finite perspectives including the small you (the finite you or me) that appear to exist?
  11. Is rationality a sense of bringing order to experience?
  12. It's ok to make a profit from your business. Be careful of becoming so puritanical that you work for free. This is a trap.
  13. Is there a way to Love both conservatives and liberals?
  14. The Internet has made it harder to communicate about spiritual enlightenment.
  15. I had durian one and only one time! Anyone who eats this a second time I give props to.
  16. I would say it's way more nuanced than this.
  17. I'm not saying judgment is wrong, but it can be overstated in a way that is not conducive to relation.
  18. I'm sensing an undertone of judging people and trying to hierarchize people from a certain perspective. I tend not to do this. I think when you make people feel judged, they tend to want to prove you right -- how you see them to you. It's a mirror effect. It's good for pitting people against each other to create drama, but not so good for relation IMO. This is a judgment call and is hard to teach anyone. You have to choose, is your role to create drama or to create relation, these are sometimes at odds, maybe. If you're surviving by creating drama, then you have to look at that. That has pros and cons.