Do freepers generally approach issues with unbiased awareness? My opinion is, generally no! Decentralization of the ego at freerepublic.com - no way, big time!

At least you don't have to pay the EGO Tax!

Begs the question.

How does one recognize "the strange" if not in reference to past experiences?

Hey! The Sun just came up! Is this a strange event? Let me fragment my consciousness to determine its strangeness index.

Wow! The leftists just increased taxes, the size of government, and reduced liberty. Boy, am **I** surprised! Who would have guessed?!?!

--Boris

You can't be serious, what your saying is that you refuse to learn from your experience, or history, the dumbest move anyone can make. Waking up in a new world everyday means your going to burn your hand on the same strange stove again and again, this is part of the Liberal mental illness.

More phsycobabble from some guru of the "self". These people are so stuck in a 60's time warp. The only place this junk plays is in CA, Taos,AZ, and CO. Really, isn't it so that life's experiences make one what one becomes, and that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger? If he would only try a little harder to rid himself of self, he might just float away into the ether and shut up!

I think you have missed the point. It's not the everyday things. e.g., primal,safety, etc., it unbiased awareness goes to the more cognitive issues, such as knowledge, symmetry, truth, justice, etc.

Also, it's not republican or democrat, it's just being open about people and issues so that new knowledge can be taken in.

You seem really stuck in the biased awareness category!

Any people that says that they have no ego unusually has a huge ego.

"Any people that says that they have no ego unusually has a huge ego."

And a tiny--microsopic--sense of grammar, too.

--Boris

Well, if you think about it once again, things that you've already experienced may be strange.

I will agree with on the tax issue, in that every time I hear of an increase it strikes me as strange, given the fact that no one seems to be looking at reducing expenses as is the case in the business world.

But its a tax on taxed money that is really strange to me, e.g., we all tax federal and state tax and with the net we all pay sales tax, use tax, gas tax, home owner tax, etc.

No, it's actually a very straightforward statement. It goes beyond, possibly, the level that you are living your life. Perhaps me is living his life somewhere above you, in that while you are concerned with what doesn't kill you will make you stronger, he is more into the esthetics of life, versus safety and physiological issues.

Wake up!

I hardly consider it my fault that Liberals attached the PC label "bias" to one of the things they hate most, knowledge gained through experience and/or history.

There is nothing new under the Sun, each "strange" new idea, is never new, only a remake of something that has already been posed and peddled and pandered to. Therefore each "new doctrine or ideal" can be measured against the past to see how it fared, then it can be discarded or promoted. It is my opinion that this is the critical failure of Liberals, they wake up in a whole new world every day, forever condemned to repeat the same errors over and over through out history, telling themselves that this time the outcome will be different because they are so much more capable and enlightened, when in reality they are merely vain.

And a tiny--microsopic--sense of grammar, too.

Thanks for pointing out that error, Boris.

Perhaps you have something useful to contribute, versus the possible strangeness of the sun coming up each day.

By the way, I believe that it’s microscopic, or are you now making up new words to spew across freerepublic.com?

Healthy is good - I'm glad to hear that.

I think that you basically have it right, but I'm wondering if a person with your clear bias gives, let's say, new ideas that are not fully recognized within your experience, a reasoned look. Or, do you simply dismiss new input on old ideas as liberal garbage that is not worth the effort involved in the thinking process?

By the way, what’s this liberal obsession that you clearly have RE: new ideas? Conservatives are also coming up with new ways to look a old issues, so why be an attack dog on this thread to put down liberals?

Your postings sound like you are mad at something or someone, or perhaps whole groups of people, or people in general. Perhaps you should consider taking another look at some old ideas, like compassion and a little more equanimity. We are all going to the same place, so let’s all go slowly with compassion and equanimity.

Do you always accuse someone of anger when they apply logic to your basic premise? It's fine to look at new ideas, I have yet to see a new idea, but should I ever run into one I would be happy to look at it with an open mind. The next step however would be to examine the idea to assure yourself that it really is new, then apply the logic that comes from experience and bias, to explore the new ideas weakness and failures if there are any. I can't stress enough that this is a most important step to take.

If logic from experience/history, which is the real test of mature awareness, is written off as the wrong thing to apply, then failure will surely follow, like night follows day. I wouldn't be so quick to cast aside your bias gleaned from experience, but that's just my opinion.

I have yet to see a new idea

Anyone that can honestly make the noted statement is someone that I do not want to deal with, even over the web.

I will give you the last word.