05 Jul 18
Originally posted by @philokaliaWho is "Fred"?
Thinking about the root of anything is difficult, Fred.
05 Jul 18
Originally posted by @vivifyIntrospection is the awareness of thought process. Metacognition uses introspection to help reach conclusions about how thought processes work.
Metacognition (awareness of thought process) isn't difficult but it is work; just like doing chores around the house. A house gets messy not because the work is too hard, but because you'd rather be doing something else. "Thinking about thinking" is similar.
I like your point that housework is easy to do, and is also easy to put on a back burner. So the question is how important is a clean house to you?
How important is it to recognize when we aren't thinking good?
05 Jul 18
Originally posted by @fmfYou legitimize that poster? I assume you did not intend to do so. Scrape the dog sht off of your shoes and keep walking. Where are you going?
Just curious about the kind of 'banter' I am getting from a poster who claims incessantly to be "deep".
(did pulling off an i satisfy the robot controller?)
Originally posted by @apathistPhilokalia is just as legitimate a poster as I am. I don't see him as "dog sht" on my show, but rather as a kind of far-right male ingenue regurgitating the smattering of nostrums that he's internalized and doing so earnestly and haughtily ~ lubricated with a bit of teenage-style exasperation and risible 'banter'. He doesn't seem to have walked even half a mile in any of the shoes of the kind of ordinary people he has such pretentious disdain for. 🙂
You legitimize that poster? I assume you did not intend to do so. Scrape the dog sht off of your shoes and keep walking. Where are you going?
Originally posted by @philokaliaNo one is named not fred. Maybe that should change. It's kinda cool and stupid at once.
... I believe that your name is not Fred, ...
06 Jul 18
Originally posted by @apathistAs long as you know where everything is it shouldn't matter how clean your house looks to others.
Introspection is the awareness of thought process. Metacognition uses introspection to help reach conclusions about how thought processes work.
I like your point that housework is easy to do, and is also easy to put on a back burner. So the question is how important is a clean house to you?
How important is it to recognize when we aren't thinking good?
However if you live with others one should be ready to compromise
12 Jul 18
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Originally posted by @fmfWhat I find hard is to stop thinking, but it's the key to many forms of meditation. I've been practicing at meditating again in recent weeks, after dabbling in it for awhile about 2 years ago. Now I'm mixing in occasionally meditating with a wee bit o' cannabis, and have taken some interest in certain Eastern philosophies. Life is steering me to strange places...
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"When you think about it, thinking about thinking is the hardest sort of thinking there is. Which makes you think."
Is there a grain of truth in this?
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12 Jul 18
Originally posted by @divegeesterArrgh, Ive been singing it wrong all these years!!!!
I believe the lyric is actually:
Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box
Religion is the smile on a dog