GENIUS FORUMS

But your insistance on the importance of combatting "the urge of many people to be illogical" isn't logical in and of itself. It's a matter of personal preference and thus out of the scope og logic altogether, Likewise, I have explained why the uttering that there's no absolute truth isn't...

I've been thinking about what seems to be a common trend at this board. Namely, the tendency to counter claims that there is no such thing as "absolute truth" by pointing out that this claim in itself is a claim that purports to be absolutely true. And I'm considering the idea that this ki...

Please.

Andreas wrote: Let's not forget to keep in mind that this identity-maintenance propelled, uh, 'wisdom', has the world to do with sucking golf balls through garden hoses, though. If this is what you believe, why don’t you actually finish the post with a well-thought out argument? Instead of just j...

Lots of genuinely interesting perspectives there.

Let's not forget to keep in mind that this identity-maintenance propelled, uh, 'wisdom', has the world to do with sucking golf balls through garden hoses, though.

'cram it', one might add to that.

I don't see how A=A is profound, or trivial for that matter. It's just A=A. What follows from A=A, that is to say, the Law of Non-Contradiction (A cannot equal not-A), is very helpful. Find a single contradiction in someone's writing, and you have destroyed their argument. The worst fallacy of all ...

The same could be said for "I am", or "there is experience so there is at least one certainty". The idea functions more like a drilling tool or a support that can take you deeper when inquiring into other very slippery matters. There's nothing profound about a hammer but it's no...

Is A=A not just another way of saying 'it is what it is'?

I don't see how A=A is profound, or trivial for that matter. It's just A=A.

what are those different brain circuits whose existence conventional psychology agree upon? I know people, whom I have a significant degree of respect for, who are involved with Gurdjieff's teachings, but from I've been able to gather his writings are a bit of a mishmash of new agey concepts (enneag...

Hello, Are any of you familiar with the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff? I've tried to familiarize myself with him via the internet, but I find it very hard to distinguish between the various (hopelessly conflicting) renditions of his ideas. I've been a regular visitor to this forum for a while and wou...