Sexuality, language and society.

[panic in paradise]

What does Abrahamic religions have against sex? ( and by extension, affection and love and good will towards another human?)

Think further, what happens when people don't have sex, especially men whos libido and body almost has a need for it.

How could this alone be used to manipulate? Nevermind the psychological hold of fear of sin or damnation. Staying stuck at the same questions blaming the most popular cause allows the real effect to continue.

 

[P A]

you mean, experience to know the truth of what is you actually want, using deductive reasoning...Staying stuck at the same questions blaming the most popular cause allows the real effect to continue.

 

[panic in paradise]

Like I said, staying stuck at the same questions blaming the most popular cause allows the real effect to continue.

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this doesnt involve my ego.

 

[Nymphette]

Even stranger is the suggestion that metaphysics and epistemology have had little or no role to play in the intellectual and social history of 'the East,' which is so unbelievably, fundamentally wrong that I'm not even sure of where to begin.

I mean, come one, the Orient itself is chiefly characterized and built around its predominate religions - many of which are literally composed of a handful of metaphysical propositions along with the applications and implications of said propositions. Such smash hits as Buddhism and Taoism come immediately to mind.

Well just from your reply it's clear you know nothing..I mean nothing really about Buddhism or Taoism. Or for that matter the history regarding metaphysics or Empiracism, here the lesson for you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics

Also trying to compare Taoism to Metaphysics is apples to oranges.

 

[Mu-ham-mad]

the only thing I know is that I know nothing

 

[rangrz]

Well just from your reply it's clear you know nothing..I mean nothing really about Buddhism or Taoism. Or for that matter the history regarding metaphysics or Empiracism, here the lesson for you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics

Also trying to compare Taoism to Metaphysics is apples to oranges.

Whats wrong with comparing apple's to oranges? That general concept of comparing two "different" things is called dimensional analysis and is a FUNDAMENTAL aspect of physical sciences.

Also a NASA scientist compared apples and oranges by FTIR spectroscopy and concluded that not only was such a comparison possible, that it was both easy and the apple and orange where nearly identical. You can find the paper with the spectrograph in the annals of improbable research. Google it, I'm serious.

My point: You can empirically compare two different types of things easily and it's valid.

 

[!!4iV4HF9R34g]

Lololol, P A, I voted for that answer. Probably the funniest shiv ever seen on yahoo.

 

[AlphaMethylPhenyl]

this was insufferable to read

 

[KamMoye]

At OP, I think most people are still ashamed of sex. That means they feel awkward when confronted with a situation that doesn't conform to their expectations of it. The fact is that we're societally conditioned (regardless of the root cause) to feel guilt about our desires. And when you feel shame, you hide, like Adam and Eve realizing they're naked (allegory of course).

Stupid? Yeah. But that's the way people at large think.

So far this is the best post in the thread.

I do not think it is "stupid," though. It is a result of conditioning. Brilliantly subversive conditioning targeted at our subconscious. Without awareness -- and as a child awareness is all but impossible in practical terms -- we succumb.

 

[P A]

Well just from your reply it's clear you know nothing..I mean nothing really about Buddhism or Taoism

A link to a Wikipedia article and accusations of ignorance, do not, where I'm from, constitute an argument for anything. The basic tenets of Buddhism are constructed with metaphysics (namely its own brand of solipsism, but this varies from denomination to denomination) and a vaguely utilitarian pragmatic/ethical system of philosophy.

Taoism propounds quite a few interesting metaphysical structures (or, non-structures?), the Tao being the one that comes immediately to mind. Just to demonstrate how utterly, fantastically, stupendously wrong you are, I will post an excerpt from the Wikipedia article on the Tao:

Within the context of traditional Chinese philosophy and religion, Tao is a metaphysical concept originating with Laozi that gave rise to a religion...and philosophy...referred to in English with the single term Taoism.