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by MGregory
Thu Feb 26, 2004 6:51 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: What is the self?
Replies: 20
Views: 28695

Re: Biological explanation

Quote:Quote:<hr>Weluvducsoha: Let's be annoying and define self as thus: . . .<hr>
Welcome to the forum, Weluvducsoha. I feel compelled to reply to this, but I don't think I can handle another conversation, so I'm going to have to leave it.
by MGregory
Thu Feb 26, 2004 6:45 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: What is the self?
Replies: 20
Views: 28695

Re: self

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>peter: Real unselfishness is not aware of itself, but is offered out of love or concern for others, don't you think?<hr><br/> I don't know, it sounds kinda fishy to me. Let me try to break this down. What would it take for unselfishness to become unaware of itself? We would either...
by MGregory
Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:25 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Biggier - Human (inter)action and meaning
Replies: 20
Views: 28116

Re: ---

<t>Pedantic precision (American Heritage Dictionary):<br/> <br/> egoism - (funny letters) n 1. The belief that self-interest is the just and proper motive force. 2. <span style="text-decoration:underline">Egotism.</span> --e'go*ist n. --e'go*is'tic or --e'go*is'ti*cal adj. --e'go*is'ti*cal*ly adv.</t>
by MGregory
Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:53 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: What is the self?
Replies: 20
Views: 28695

Re: self

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>peter: I really think the more self-centred we are the more we suffer from inner conflicts.<hr><br/> I agree with the qualification that until we suffer through these inner conflicts and resolve them, non-self-centeredness is not really possible. Most "unselfish" behavior is just ...
by MGregory
Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:53 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: What am I?
Replies: 6
Views: 12555

Re: What am I?

I don't know. For the hell of it, I guess.
by MGregory
Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:06 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: What am I?
Replies: 6
Views: 12555

Re: What am I?

You will have to make yourself more clear. Who could possibly decipher that besides yourself? Why are you turning ordinary things into proper nouns as if we will know what that means?
by MGregory
Mon Feb 09, 2004 8:19 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: When NO means YES and she's not lying
Replies: 20
Views: 28227

Re: When NO means YES and she's not lying

Oh, except for my college roommate who claimed to lost his virginity to three girls that raped him when he was 15 or 16, but I'll have to chalk that up as an exception :-)
by MGregory
Mon Feb 09, 2004 8:14 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: When NO means YES and she's not lying
Replies: 20
Views: 28227

Re: When NO means YES and she's not lying

I don't know, that doesn't very productive to me either. We'll have to wait and see what Voce has to say about it. But from what I can tell by talking to a few people who have been raped/molested it's very difficult to deal with and they end up hating a lot of things.
by MGregory
Mon Feb 09, 2004 7:54 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: When NO means YES and she's not lying
Replies: 20
Views: 28227

Re: When NO means YES and she's not lying

<t>Well, I think it's debatable whether or not it's possible to hate children. Did you hear about the woman in North Carolina or wherever who a couple of years ago drowned her two children in her car because her boyfriend used them as an excuse to break up with her? I think it's probably likely that...
by MGregory
Mon Feb 09, 2004 7:37 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: When NO means YES and she's not lying
Replies: 20
Views: 28227

Re: When NO means YES and she's not lying

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>silentsal, speaking of rape: -- what other products are there?<hr><br/> The victim and/or rapist may have sustained injuries in the rape, which could be considered products of the rape. Their clothes may have gotten torn in the rape, which could also be considered a product. They ...
by MGregory
Mon Feb 09, 2004 10:56 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: The motivation of the enlightened
Replies: 12
Views: 17382

Re: The motivation of the enlightened

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Kevin: I agree that our traditional bodies feel more obviously "us". But we have other bodies, that are less obviously "us".<hr><br/> How do we make these other bodies more obvious to ourselves?<br/> <br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>Matt: Ok, everyone knows that wisdom is intelligence ...
by MGregory
Sun Feb 08, 2004 6:33 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: The motivation of the enlightened
Replies: 12
Views: 17382

Re: The motivation of the enlightened

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Matt: I can see why someone would try to enlighten himself. But why does he think everyone else in the Universe is his larger self?<br/> <br/> Kevin: Your hand is part of you, because it is connected to you. Other people are also part of you, because they too are connected to you....
by MGregory
Sat Feb 07, 2004 11:31 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: The motivation of the enlightened
Replies: 12
Views: 17382

Re: The motivation of the enlightened

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Kevin: -- The enlightened person is motivated only by the wish to enlighten himself. This means himself first, and then everyone else in the Universe (his larger self).<hr><br/> Enlightenment, as I understand it, is an escape from suffering and some sort of bliss or something, so ...
by MGregory
Thu Feb 05, 2004 8:53 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
Replies: 160
Views: 154284

Re: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>suergaz:--Nature/reality cannot be ultimate, ie. final. Only parts of it can be so.<br/> <br/> MGregory:--Why?<br/> <br/> suergaz: Because it is infinite.<hr><br/> So Nature is infinite, but the ultimate is finite?<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>suergaz:--It is as ridiculous as arguin...
by MGregory
Thu Feb 05, 2004 8:26 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
Replies: 160
Views: 154284

Re: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality

<t>Suergaz:<br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>No, it is reality. Nature/reality cannot be ultimate, ie. final. Only parts of it can be so.<hr><br/> Why?<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>It is as ridiculous as arguing that time is a dimension.<hr><br/> Why is that ridiculous? Isn't a dimension something that is measure...
by MGregory
Thu Feb 05, 2004 8:17 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Quantum mechanics and David's Ultimate Reality
Replies: 160
Views: 154284

Re: to mr Larkin, your enlightenment

Let's say you are Robert. How would you try to defeat David and prove that his authority is groundless?

Edit: I was replying to Dan, I didn't see Suergaz's post. Edited by: MGregory at: 2/4/04 2:19 pm
by MGregory
Thu Dec 04, 2003 10:51 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Wisdom of the Infinite - Part One by David Quinn
Replies: 160
Views: 319147

Re: Clarification

<t>David wrote:<br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>A quark arising at a particular location, for example, is dependent on there not being any forces at that location to prevent its arisal.<hr><br/> The lack of a presence of a preventative force is a negative thing, a nothing. I don't see how an existence can logi...
by MGregory
Thu Dec 04, 2003 1:19 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Wisdom of the Infinite - Part One by David Quinn
Replies: 160
Views: 319147

Clarification

<t>What I'm really objecting to is the act of refuting uncausation by virtue of some property that it has. But is it really possible for uncausation to have any properties at all? It seems to me that in a sense no object can be directly perceived, only perceived via its properties, or its causes. Bu...
by MGregory
Wed Dec 03, 2003 6:49 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Wisdom of the Infinite - Part One by David Quinn
Replies: 160
Views: 319147

Re: Regularities

<t>Well it was stated that the statisticians are studying populations, so presumably their results would be constricted by the populations they are studying, but what if there was some uncaused component of human behavior? Couldn't the restrictions of human abilities create regularities in a chain o...
by MGregory
Wed Dec 03, 2003 10:24 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Wisdom of the Infinite - Part One by David Quinn
Replies: 160
Views: 319147

Regularities

<t>Hey David, in the first chapter under the heading "The Theory of Everything", first paragraph, you wrote:<br/> <br/> "Even statistical-based theories which do not have to assume causality for their functioning, but merely map regularities of behaviour in large populations, are ultimately dependen...
by MGregory
Sun Sep 14, 2003 6:29 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: What are your thoughts on Nietzsche?
Replies: 40
Views: 40294

Nietzsche

<t>I've read a few Nietzsche books and parts of a couple of them. I've never read "Ecce Homo". I think "Human All Too Human" is the easiest. That's the most systematic book I've read from him. I find all his books difficult though. I can understand his stanzas, but I can't figure out why he wrote an...
by MGregory
Tue Jul 22, 2003 5:28 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Wisdom of the Infinite - Part One by David Quinn
Replies: 160
Views: 319147

Re: DQ Book

I am not a jackal.
by MGregory
Fri Jul 18, 2003 4:04 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Geniuses, Criminals Do Best Work in Their 30s ?
Replies: 13
Views: 17381

Re: The will to...you know...

<t>I was kind of the opposite. I was never athletic, so fighting never appealed to me. Never really had any enemies anyway. Not sure why, though, given some of the comments I would make about people sometimes. I was a musician/computer geek, so I had the artistic/individualistic mentality going on. ...
by MGregory
Thu Jul 17, 2003 1:31 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Geniuses, Criminals Do Best Work in Their 30s ?
Replies: 13
Views: 17381

The will to...you know...

<t>Tharan wrote:<br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>I don't think the point is to supress sexual feelings, but rather to see them and understand them for what they really are. This understanding changes the feelings. I will still catch myself noticing a pretty girl while standing in line at the grocery store, but...
by MGregory
Wed Jul 09, 2003 12:59 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Wisdom of the Infinite - Part One by David Quinn
Replies: 160
Views: 319147

Hidden void

Got it. Nevermind.