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- Fri Jul 01, 2005 11:09 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Thread recovery
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14152
Re: Thread recovery
That's too bad, Dan. I consider your posts to among the best offered here. Ah well, I'm not one to talk - I've been losing interest for a long time, and I now post rarely. I got locked out of my own board by a profile error about a month back, and I didn't even care.
- Wed Jun 29, 2005 11:31 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Reality
- Replies: 129
- Views: 91305
Re: blah
If your mouth is moving or your fingers are typing, you are validating A=A. It isn't possible to think, express, or argue any concept without acknowledging it, unconsciously or otherwise.
- Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:41 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Non Plus Ultra thingy
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9310
Re: Non Plus Ultra thingy
IQ is of little importance, except that is perhaps a prerequiste to true insight. In order to understand anything deeply, you need the raw intelligence to face the task - but it is simply a foot in the door and nothing more. IQ in and of itself has little (if anything) to do with quality of thought....
- Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:31 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: A=A
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13731
Re: A=A
<r>Here are some thoughts I offered on another forum:<br/> <br/> For me, one helpful interpretation is "Awareness = Awareness," consistent with the implications of monism, as discussed here:<br/> <br/> <a href="<URL url="http://factbased.proboards37.com/index.cgi?board=ontology&action=display&am...
- Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:04 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
- Replies: 160
- Views: 155055
Re: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
<t>Personally, I am thinking about doing a 'play-by-play' commentary, if I can find the time, and I can assure you that I will award my own points to whomever I feel has legitimately earned them. I think you'll find that most of us are capable of judging a debate objectively regardless of who we fav...
- Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:26 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
- Replies: 160
- Views: 155055
Re: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
It ought to be good reading. If I had the time, I'd like to debate one of the QRS myself. I may have to find the time, assuming that one of them wished to participate.
Re: Ooops
<t>Yeah, I read those a while back during a visit to Kevin's site. I'll grant that they are rather funny at times. They are a bit mean-spirited, but I suppose that I can't really complain about that after picking on you in the Lyrutan posts. I do appreciate the humor. Kevin's 'Society for the Elimin...
Re: Ooops
Oh, and by the way, "playfulness" is one of the cornerstones of philosophical Taoism. Just thought you should know.
Re: Ooops
<t>Yep, Lyrutan is me, and whether or not you wish to be concerned for my mental health is not my concern. I have been informed by several sources that what I posted as Lyrutan was in fact rather funny, which was of course the aim of it. It is also instructive to observe how people react to humor, a...
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You don't have a clue.
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But do they not add their own?
- Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:02 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: Girl shortage in China?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 26247
Re: Yin-Yang-Meiosis-Alleles
Well, you need to understand the actual yin/yang concept before dismissing it, wouldn't you think?
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<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Good point, but let us just say wisdom, not QRS wisdom. They think they are different, but I rather think of their wisdom as being somewhat like the medical wisdom that slowly bled President George Washington to death. One more dose of what they have got and we could be finished o...
- Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:28 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: Girl shortage in China?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 26247
Re: I don't feel China have girl shortage.
<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>No, you've already agreed that there is no relationship between the universal principle of yin/yang and particular instances of yin and yang.<hr>No, I agreed that the relationship is subject to change. Why would I claim that there is 'no relationship' between the universal princip...
- Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:05 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: Modifying significant concepts to suit women
- Replies: 40
- Views: 52129
Re: Modifying significant concepts to suit women
Bollocks. If anything, it shows that the society is historically male-oriented in its perceptions. This is not a feminist statement, it is a simple historical fact.
- Wed Jan 28, 2004 12:18 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: Girl shortage in China?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 26247
Re: I don't feel China have girl shortage.
<t>Quote:Quote:<hr> think the proportion of men to women will always keep 1:1, even people want to born boy. The biological theory make the proportion keep 1:1.<hr>That pesky yin/yang thing again.<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>The only way to change the proportion is by kill female infant, but this sel...
- Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:26 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: Modifying significant concepts to suit women
- Replies: 40
- Views: 52129
Re: Modifying significant concepts to suit women
<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>That is a typical feminist question, imo. 'I have drawn something that is rubbish, but I don't want to be rubbish, therefore I shall redefine greatness to suit my creation.' Which is followed by: 'if society doesn't redefine greatness around women, it is mysogynous, because it fai...
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Agreed. Philosophical Taoism envisions such a civilization.
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<t>Jimhaz,<br/> <br/> I don't know. It may be too late, as you suggest. However, even if it is, dwelling on the fact will accomplish nothing. When in doubt, we must assume that it is not too late - but in so doing, we must also avoid the pitfall of complancency which whispers "if it's not too late, ...
- Wed Jan 28, 2004 9:27 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: Modifying significant concepts to suit women
- Replies: 40
- Views: 52129
Re: Modifying significant concepts to suit women
That's what you (and he) want us to believe, I'm sure.
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<t>Well, in the animal kingdom, such things are the way of survival. As we are animals, it is understandable that we would carry with us these tendencies to overrun others and destroy competition for resources. However, I am not excusing such behavior by explaining it, for to consider excusable base...
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Bird, No, you're not in any trouble. :-) You're obviously a very spiritual person by nature. The left-brain or 'feminine' penchant for direct intuitive experience has served you well, it seems. As regards the only marginally-important issue of classification, it looks to me like you are in some sort...
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<t>I am a dialectical monist.<br/> <br/> Bird, why would you feel that you are an animist? Do you believe that every object has its own 'spirit,' 'soul,' or 'intelligence?' If so, in what sense? It is very rare to run into anyone who understands what animism is and refers to themselves as such. Sinc...
- Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:40 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: Modifying significant concepts to suit women
- Replies: 40
- Views: 52129
Re: Modifying significant concepts to suit women
<t>Greatness, greatness, greatness. What is it with the fixation on superiority and supremacy? Why must everything be 'deep,' 'lofty,' and 'grand' with you? If the greatest artists happen to be men, does it mean that female artists can only produce rubbish? Have you no appreciation for diversity and...
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Basically, I'd agree, but ideally, pantheism would never be called 'pantheism,' because without the fall into religion, the term 'theism' would never have been meaningful to begin with. Nature would be Nature, and that would be spiritually sufficient.