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Isn't "dealing with it" one of the hallmarks of good Buddhist practice? Seems to me when you're able to "deal with it" happiness naturally follows.

To be fair this isn't all on the boyfriend. I see the woman as being "at fault" here too. She doesn't want the children to be "tricked" into Catholicism? That's a pretty harsh judgement if you ask me. And she totally discounts her daily influence vs. a Sunday visit to church. I agree that...

How is that different from every other day? Each day changes society, mankind and the world a little bit. You'll simply point to an event that happens on that day and assign significance to it, even though to any person not aware of your "dawning new age" that event would seem just like any...

$100 says that on the 265th day life goes on as normal (or as normal as life ever goes on). Bet?

The first one. It is the greater ego that thinks their existence and being is separate from God. It would be akin to the droplet of water in the ocean that says, "There is me, and then there is all that water," as if the two aren't one in the same. Denying the interconnectedness is the...

While you'd have to ask him specifically for clarification, he did not deny inspiration or influence in his post. Hang on then. You yourself fall into this category and it's demonstrated in this very thread. When I said this about your favorite psychologist, Iain McGilchrist... You...

Here is why I described this as a leap. You responded to wil as if reality did not include our natural world. He said these books were written by men. That would imply a very natural origin. When you then asked, "No contact with reality at all?" You're not acknowledging that the natural...

Re: religions are man-made? What do you mean by "no contact with reality at all?" Our natural world surely influences us. But I don't see how one makes the leap from being influenced by our environment to being influenced by the invisible man in the sky. Regardless of my psychological...

Spiritual fascism may be overstating it a tad bit. However, one of the best books that I've read is Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa. I do think that spiritual materialism is a pitfall any devotee to religion faces. Seems to me that in the world today there are plenty...

If God exists in reality, we could imagine Him to be greater by having His own TV show. And yet he doesn't. Therefore, God doesn't exist. He isn't great enough to even have His own TV show.

I think it's always a good idea to be a little agnostic about any specific scientific theory, especially one as new as McGilchrists. Mind you, I'm not saying he's wrong, I'm simply saying just that I'm not ready to jump on that bandwagon quite yet. I've seen too many theories come and go to...

From what I've seen so far McGilchrist sounds like a fine writer and respected psychologist. We will however, have to see how his theories stand the test of time and experimentation. If I were to hazard a guess as to why there appears to be an increased number of schizophrenics, I'd have to...

I think one of the issues involves the word "non-magnetic". You wouldn't normally think about a mouse or frog being magnetic, yet scientists have levitated both using magnetic fields... Scientists have now levitated mice using magnetic fields. Other researchers have made live frogs and...

By all means then, present the evidence.

Please explain, oh wise one, how I am ignorant in the following conversation?

Your belligerence is showing.

So how satisfied were you with the answers?

From wikipedia... Gravitation is by far the weakest of the four interactions. Hence it is always ignored when doing particle physics. The weakness of gravity can easily be demonstrated by suspending a pin using a simple magnet (such as a refrigerator magnet). The magnet is able to hold the pin...

Because gravity is a relatively weak force and can be overcome over short distances by other forces.

The leap between these two sentences is an astoundingly large one. Is there anything the OP (or anybody else) could provide to tie that gap... or more accurately gaping chasm... together? Even if you don't accept that people are born that way, even if they consciously chose homosexuality over...