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  1. Rainbow Mage

    What For You is the Single Biggest Political Issue of the 2016 Election?

    We can rely on Clinton to give is someone like Ginsburg, its a pretty safe bet. I'm blue all the way in this. I don't know what considerations some think I ought to consider that would make me choose Republican, but I will never choose GOP until they cease their unconstitutional theocratic...
  2. Rainbow Mage

    I am, thank you

    I am, thank you
  3. Rainbow Mage

    How can one know they have a soul or spirit?

    I would consider it with evidence. Note: not conjecture.
  4. Rainbow Mage

    How can one know they have a soul or spirit?

    That is what I'm saying. If it were not so, nothing would ever change, which would give an idea of a unchanging, unceasing self. The opposite is true. If one were going to posit an unchanging, unceasing self- is the people we are now, or the people we will be twenty years from now the true...
  5. Rainbow Mage

    I think the reason I'm not Buddhist is areas I differ. I'm more favorable to Epicurus in ways. I...

    I think the reason I'm not Buddhist is areas I differ. I'm more favorable to Epicurus in ways. I think he cut more to the root than Buddha. For instance: I ponder why Buddha didn't outright call death final cessation? No one would cling to Samsara or continuance. Why not denounce afterlife as...
  6. Rainbow Mage

    Are there any good arguments for God?

    That was part of my point yes. When I said it really is just an argument. One can make an argument for anything. I think its probably the best theism has going for it, not because of any truth, but because its aesthetically pleasing. It makes people feel like the universe has something solid...
  7. Rainbow Mage

    How can one know they have a soul or spirit?

    How would we set about proving that people's experiences are stored in a soul/spirit?
  8. Rainbow Mage

    How can one know they have a soul or spirit?

    I mean that it is empty in itself, because it only appears to be through other processes and factors.
  9. Rainbow Mage

    Very good thanks

    Very good thanks
  10. Rainbow Mage

    How can one know they have a soul or spirit?

    There is another question to be had here too. Well played sir.
  11. Rainbow Mage

    South Dakota governor vetoes anti-transgender bathroom bill.

    It is an interesting process trying to move Americans into anything, because anytime we do, a large number of people feel like the government is forcing something.
  12. Rainbow Mage

    How can one know they have a soul or spirit?

    You don't say ;)
  13. Rainbow Mage

    How can one know they have a soul or spirit?

    I believe I experienced it, or at least the insight myself in understanding that we are not some fixed state of being at anytime in our lives. In each moment, day, and year we are actually a compound of many factors. I am not the person I was ten years ago, so which of those can we call this...
  14. Rainbow Mage

    How can one know they have a soul or spirit?

    I do not say that anyone really observes it, and it only appears so. I hold that the sense of being is entirely void.
  15. Rainbow Mage

    How can one know they have a soul or spirit?

    The brain still keeps generating a sense of self, far as I can tell, and the brain can't be made to stop this, anymore than the leg can stop moving unless it 'dies'- is broken. That doesn't mean there's a seated observer. Turn the lights out and the perception changes. Carry that to any number...
  16. Rainbow Mage

    Suppose Hillary Becomes Top Commisar.....Who Will Emigrate?

    If she's the nominee I'm with her, even though I feel the Bern. She was who I would have voted for, had Bernie never entered the race. I voted for her in the primary in 2008.
  17. Rainbow Mage

    South Dakota governor vetoes anti-transgender bathroom bill.

    This is why I sometimes think we should just make all restrooms unisex. Solve the problem, and not treat something as basic as going to the washroom as a way to discriminate against people.
  18. Rainbow Mage

    How can one know they have a soul or spirit?

    The soul is usually defined as the seat of the self, or that sense of 'I' that would remain if the body with its functions shut down. Some define spirit in this way, and yet others call it the Atman. How is it that one can posit the self has a seat or permanence to it, when the sense of being...
  19. Rainbow Mage

    An Interesting Question About the Mind

    By the way, I voted we use our minds in your poll, because ideally the wise man masters their senses, and is not mastered by them.
  20. Rainbow Mage

    An Interesting Question About the Mind

    Certainly, if you define mind as the sense that one has a self. Lesser lifeforms do not have our sense of self, or even any sense. How do you define alive, may I ask?
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