GENIUS FORUMS

A=A is not a truth. A=A is a distinguishing tool. This is a potential truth: Chair=Chair. A=A is just a way to distinguish between a truth and a non-truth. If I say "This is a chair" then all others around me are left with a choice. They must look at said chair and decide, "is that re...

Great signature by the way. Let's not bring that debate over here but I'm sure that somewhere somehow the Ass=/=Ass

Yes. If you really think about it, if it did anything else it would be magic. Some of the only things we know how to do with electricity are making it flow, storing it, and giving off light and heat. That's all that electricity is really good for honestly. So software simply tells what circuits to t...

Is there a word for it? For a purpose that has been chosen from the soul instead of fear? I admit my speech was slightly...depressing. I think I just got caught up in the moment. I do, however, believe that purpose almost always a fear reaction. But I guess I would say that it is simply...necessary....

Because believing that you will "enter into a purpose" is religious in itself.

What?

You speak of entering into a purpose. Like the purpose is already there. Purpose is just a human concept as far as we know. Do you separate humans from any other beings out there in the universe? Does God have a purpose? Could something eternal have a purpose? I think a purpose is created. It is a c...

People don't even have to be altruistic for humanity to be happy. Classical economic theory is a bunch of crap. People don't need to be good people, just logical.

Insert bar scene from A Beautiful Mind.


If we all go for the blond, no one gets laid.

Maybe I'm just unintelligent but I don't understand you Steven. Explain as to a 15 year old just in case I'm to dull.

If every single person was involved and motivated, communism would rock would it not?

Ah, so your point is to never give that which is your power, to another? Because in all reality, I see no issue with giving power to another's source of power who will use it well. Delilah was just a greedy bitch.

Read the Hitchhikers Guide. He says that in an infinite universe, everything happens.

Okay while I do agree with what your saying, for the sake of obstinacy, if anything anywhere is infinite, it includes all possible forms of itself at all possible time periods. Basically, assuming the infinite, there MUST be a time when A=/=A.

Assuming the infinite, everything must happen in every possible way. So there must me multiple times and places where my chair is not a chair. There must be a place where A does not equal A. Assuming the infinite, that is inescapable.

Yes Samson should have kept his mouth shut. But he never gave power to anyone else's source of power. I still don't see how it relates.

I don't see how Samson relates to the discussion. Samson's hair was part of the Nazarite oath he took not to shave it. No man gave power to his hair, or his oath. It was a symbolic representation of how man can inadvertently disobey god. It is basically a Nazarite fable. Watch out who you trust kids...

In Between The sky calls, to my grounded feet, as the sea calls, to my dry eyes, But still I'm bound here, in the land of nothing, of in between. How my shoulders yearn, to stretch and unfold, to let the wings and feathers free, and soar, And my legs yearn, to come together, to form thick chords an...

I slapped myself, Dan.

I thought it was funny because it was clever. And I do my best to use the words my forebears invented, because I have a nagging suspicion that they were smarter than me. I leave the neologizing to other cleverer souls. I wonder if I could get a job as a neologist? Who would pay for people to study n...

Very funny very funny.

Well you say it is a word and I say it isn't. Next poster gets to decide I guess. Majority rules.

But I don't think either that strict scientism will give us the only good answers possible. I agree. But as Loki pointed out, a debate is pointless if we don't have clear definitions of words. And scientism isn't a word. Is it just me or does self-awareness and consciousness seem to arise simply fr...

Stop assigning teleology to things. It's irrational. A thing that lives just lives. It does not seek to do that which it is already doing. True. Life is the act of living according to science. I did not choose to live before I lived. If you said that life's purpose is to continue living I think you...

The totality is by simple definition, referring to everything . This is infinite and cannot be, in the words of Heinlein, "grokked" (understood in its entirety) as, by definition it includes all things, the corresponding negations, and every possible existence, nonexistence, contradiction...

Dan Rowden wrote:

Talking Ass wrote: Dan: Can a purpose choose us?

Please slap yourself, hard.

I shouldn't laugh. But it's hard. :)

There is no predestined purpose. One chooses their purpose. Life's purpose is to live. Life's purpose is not to live. Life's purpose is to have a purpose. It might seem a trivial thing to say but it is not. Consciousness is the ability to choose that purpose. To change that purpose from something th...