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by ZenMuadDib
Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:25 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Postmodernity and Buddhism
Replies: 62
Views: 6874

Re: Postmodernity and Buddhism

Ok let's see how many times we can say verbal wankery... seriously is that a technical term that I don't know about or what? Yah. They teach it to every major except the social studies and lit-crit weenies. While you guys engage in verbal wankery, the engineers and philosophers and computer scienti...
by ZenMuadDib
Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:33 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Social Theory
Replies: 5
Views: 988

Re: Social Theory

Dan Rowden wrote:What are you scared of?
I guess I'm "scared" of some kind of flavorless world that we've created and don't even realize it and that we'll come to a point where it will be impossible to get out of that.
by ZenMuadDib
Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:29 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Postmodernity and Buddhism
Replies: 62
Views: 6874

Re: Postmodernity and Buddhism

There are many. Bauman, Foucault, and Derrida. What is this verbal wankery you're talking about? Verbal wankery is what Derrida does. Heck, even some of his supporters admit that (in different words). See Rorty on Derrida... Ok let's see how many times we can say verbal wankery... seriously is that...
by ZenMuadDib
Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:26 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Postmodernity and Buddhism
Replies: 62
Views: 6874

Re: Postmodernity and Buddhism

Dude, physics is pretty simple. Force this, velocity that, gravity etc. Oh man... OK, you are beyond hope. Why do you think that you can get a degree in physics in four years and go off to some cozy job, while it takes a lifetime to maybe come close to understanding one aspect of social theory. it ...
by ZenMuadDib
Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:10 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Postmodernity and Buddhism
Replies: 62
Views: 6874

Re: Postmodernity and Buddhism

Sounds pretty humorous. A little bit of comic relief you could say. I guess social theory is far more complex than physics. hahahahahaha. Whew! haven't heard anything this ridiculous in a few minutes... since hsandman's posting of atomic expansion theory of gravity, in fact. ETA: Try taking a physi...
by ZenMuadDib
Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:34 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Social Theory
Replies: 5
Views: 988

Social Theory

Is social theory merely an attempt to hone old Orwellian techniques of repression and dominations, thus further entrenching the status quo?
by ZenMuadDib
Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:31 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Postmodernity and Buddhism
Replies: 62
Views: 6874

Re: Postmodernity and Buddhism

vicdan wrote:
ZenMuadDib wrote:There are many. Bauman, Foucault, and Derrida. What is this verbal wankery you're talking about?
Ever heard of the Sokal Affair? If not, check it out.
Sounds pretty humorous. A little bit of comic relief you could say. I guess social theory is far more complex than physics.
by ZenMuadDib
Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:23 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Postmodernity and Buddhism
Replies: 62
Views: 6874

Re: Postmodernity and Buddhism

As much as I can see now, the reason that there seems to be no "products" of postmodernism is that, first, it is not about creating products or commodities, and second, the work is gargantuan to begin with. It seems that it has to deal with the whole of history and philosophy among other things.
by ZenMuadDib
Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:20 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Postmodernity and Buddhism
Replies: 62
Views: 6874

Re: Postmodernity and Buddhism

You're assumption is that post-modernism is over No, my assumption is merely that it's going nowhere fast. There's a whole lot more of pretentious sophomoric verbal wankery yet to come, but I see no indications of anything constructive coming out of it. It seems to be just all gratuitous idiocy, al...
by ZenMuadDib
Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:56 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Postmodernity and Buddhism
Replies: 62
Views: 6874

Re: Postmodernity and Buddhism


You're assumption is that post-modernism is over, I don't see that at all.
I guess I should say my work with it is just beginning.
by ZenMuadDib
Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:55 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Postmodernity and Buddhism
Replies: 62
Views: 6874

Re: Postmodernity and Buddhism

A part of postmodern program was a laudable goal: the dismantling of the delusions of modernity (yes, there are a few) -- the grand meta-narratives, the objectivist presumptions, etc. However, we were supposed to create something better in its place... and instead, we just got pretentious sophomori...
by ZenMuadDib
Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:16 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: I feel like I have Evolved... Vote CRAZY or SANE
Replies: 23
Views: 1466

Re: I feel like I have Evolved... Vote CRAZY or SANE

I can only say person is crazy when I know exactly what they are talking about, and know it to be false and the person to think genuinely that it is true. By this definition 1/2 of the people I meet are crazy. People are goofy. =) Honestly? I think you are a little autistic, and your posts are simi...
by ZenMuadDib
Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:13 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Postmodernity and Buddhism
Replies: 62
Views: 6874

Postmodernity and Buddhism

Does postmodernism resemble Buddhism in any way? From what little understanding of postmodernism what I do know is that it seems like a breaking up of modernity and all that came with that. It can even be said to be a breaking up of reality, but in a very negative way. Quoted in Zygmunt Bauman's Int...
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:57 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Core propositions of your belief-system.
Replies: 14
Views: 1290

Re: Core propositions of your belief-system.

vicdan wrote:I have only one core precept.

Experiences are systematic and predictable.

That's all.
Or that you have systematic constructions of experiences?
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:08 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

I was reading a Spansih author, writing about some of the possible origins of Nietzsche's ideas, and he mentioned these: Max Stirner Machiavelli's Discourses on the Ten Books of Livy Book Two, Chapter Two: "In thinking, therefore, of whence it should happen that in those ancient times the people we...
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:24 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

Here's an interesting post on true satanism and how it relates to Nietzsche, written by, it seems, an advanced satanist. ''A big misconception about Satanism is that Anton LaVey created it. This is not true. LaVey did popularize it in the sixties, but he did not create it. For me, Satanism begins w...
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:46 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

Ok, so you want to be an ubermensch or something? Can't there be more than one type Neil? It would depend on your values as I believe someone mentioned. I beieve that Nietzsche saw Christian morals as nihilistic, they denied life. You can be, say, a philosopher-king ubermensch or some kind of satan-...
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:45 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

Victor has been pretty impressive in this thread Personally I think Victor's delusions are the equal, if not worse than Neil's. Victor is unable to think in terms of context , such that things have different meanings in different contexts, and he therefore mistakenly tries to apply his own narrow c...
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:24 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

Do you see your place in that story? Discouraging the untamed man -- "ohs noes, disease and suffering are bad we must eliminate them!! peace for all, long lives and science!!" That's your problem, kiddo -- you see the 'untamed man' as foisting it upon others! You can be untamed all you want. You ca...
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:20 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

Alex, I will pick up Brave New World, it looks interesting, and maybe the other too, though I have way too much on my to-read list right now, I could sit for a year doing nothing else. Ayn Rand was pretty ridiculous. Victor, Do you see your place in that story? Discouraging the untamed man -- "ohs ...
by ZenMuadDib
Sun Nov 25, 2007 7:23 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

I haven't had access to the internet for the past four days so I'll try to catch up on this.
by ZenMuadDib
Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:47 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

"Oh wearisome condition of humanity, Born under one law to another bound, Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to be sound. What meaneth nature by these diverse laws, Passion and reason, self-division’s cause? Is it the mark or majesty of power To make offences that it m...
by ZenMuadDib
Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:40 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

Nietzsche is vastly complex and probably requires reading and re-reading. I've about Nietzsche and know that he was very ironic, sarcastic, used a lot of hyperbole, and probably satirical in the process.
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:49 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

The point though is not simply to be better than other people and show that you are better. If you're a Buddhist, it is to enlighten yourself as well as others. While you can't do this for other people directly, you can steer them in the right direction, I guess there are infinite directions though...
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:15 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

I don't think, really, that the point is to create disasters per se. That is a little like creating a rollercoaster to experience something thrilling. However, this is not a real experience, for two reasons. First of all, you created it, secondly, you know what the outcome is going to be. Staged di...