GENIUS FORUMS

And I never said their society was enlightened( is that possible?) I was making a claim about their langauge. You seem to imply that their language was somehow "primitive" or rudimentary which implies simple(curiously, many thinkers and scientists have sought out the most simple language s...

"The quality of your thoughts is only as good as the quality of your language." You are really naive. How would you gauge the quality of a language. Linguistics tried that years ago and failed because there is no objective barometer. Almost any thought or concept can be expressed in any la...

Ryan, you get the ignorance award. Most tribal languages are intricately complex because language is largely a social phenomenon and "tribal" peoples tend to very social. (In other words social relations are very important) but these langauges are also immensenly abstract since they have t...

"Well so far as north Africa and the Kemites and sufis, I would attribute those to the semitic groups, more than what we call blacks." Why, Kemites were africans. The origins of some sufic concepts originate from northeast africa. The first known sufi master was a nubian. And d on't you kn...

BTW, Ryan, when the Europeans didn't have a written language, were they producing works of philosophy? O wait, when they did adapt the Latin script(based off a greek one, based off a semitic one based off an Kemitic(African) one etc.), Europeans actually didn't much talk about enlightenment much at ...

Ryan, What is enlightenment and how would you go about judging wether a particular group of people are more prone to attaing it over others? Is enlightenment not an individual endeavor. Just because the existence of writing in some societies has given you access to certain works of so-called "e...

For a bunch of so-called "thinkers" you guys makes some pretty dumb assumptions. Philosophy, thought, thinking, happens in the "mind" and is usually expressed through orality. All humans are capable of this. To say that some people don't reason or philosophize because there is a ...