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- Sun Jul 25, 2010 1:46 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: the underground man
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Re: the underground man
All this discussion of Kierkegaard. I've actually only read Either/Or, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, and something I usually never do but for some ungodly reason I read some type of greatest hits compilation. Will someone please recommend what they feel to be one of his strongest books? Or at ...
- Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:52 am
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- Topic: the underground man
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I might add that my previous statement sounded incredibly selfish in comparison to what you were implying about altruism. But I am talking about spirituality not the physical and emotional qualities of service to humanity (in which regards I agree with you).
- Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:45 am
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- Topic: the underground man
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Ass=Ass: To cut to the chase: here, it seems, the predominating definition of spiritual life---'Ultimate Reality and the path to Enlightenment'---is a very peculiar and (I think) quite non-rational path of harsh rationality, and all that pushed through a mill of neo-Buddhism where Buddhist personage...
- Sat Jul 24, 2010 8:12 am
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- Topic: the underground man
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First to David. DQ: and can actually provide a challenge A challenge to what? This sort of validates my suspicions. Just as a jock likes to be challenged in athletics to show off his muscles, so does a philosopher like to be challenged in endless philosophical debates to show off his brain-muscle. T...
- Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:54 pm
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- Topic: the underground man
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- Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:45 pm
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- Topic: the underground man
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To try to put it more simply, when you are at the absolute peak of the mountaintop, touching the infinite heavens and the earth simultaneously, and you look down at all the various angles, sides, directions, and methods in which people are trying to climb up, you realize that scaling the East face o...
- Tue Jul 20, 2010 10:59 am
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- Topic: the underground man
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I don't really know anyone here, but I would imagine that "guest of logic" made a valid statement in regards to talking ass. The only problem with talking ass is that he allows himself to get defensive and swept up in the sometimes valid but mostly blind and narrow-minded attacks against him. The TR...
- Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:34 am
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- Topic: the underground man
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I wrote a more eloquent reply last night, but I was doing too many things simultaneously on my computer and I accidentally deleted it :( (Despite the fact that eloquence is merely an aesthetic, and despite the fact that aesthetics are merely on the surface of things, I value aesthetics on the basis ...
- Sun Jul 11, 2010 12:14 pm
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- Topic: the underground man
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Alyosha, do you accept 'enlightenment' as a category? Use of the word 'enlightenment' is similar to using the word 'God'. It is a vast, vague, and often subjective term - intellectualizing it and debating it usually devolves into mere semantics and opens an endless can of worms. Hence the exchange ...
- Sat Jul 10, 2010 3:44 pm
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- Topic: the underground man
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Oh and yeah and D.) There is not only one path to enlightenment and there are no logical reasons to indicate that masculine is better than feminine.
- Sat Jul 10, 2010 3:29 pm
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- Topic: the underground man
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"I suppose you'd prefer any such misunderstandings to be cleared up as soon as possible, so..." Yes thank you I will sleep more comfortably the sooner my misunderstandings are addressed :) "it is feminine psychology that's being dismissed" Ohhhh... Feminine Psychology. Well my friend if you can expl...
- Sat Jul 10, 2010 11:45 am
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- Topic: the underground man
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"I am leary of 'poisons for the heart'. (But read everything and anything myself)."
I couldn't agree more :)
I couldn't agree more :)
- Sat Jul 10, 2010 11:26 am
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- Topic: the underground man
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Well I'm not sure it would be worth my efforts to start in on this again as I wrote at lengths with him in the past primarily regarding my disagreements with his dismissal of the usefulness of femininity in the Tao, contradicting the very philosopher he used to champion - Kierkegaard. But actually w...
- Sat Jul 10, 2010 10:24 am
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- Topic: the underground man
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The Olympic athlete should like to do cart wheels in the grass from time to time. Likewise, the philosopher should like to toy with those who think they’ve solved it all.
- Sat Jul 10, 2010 10:01 am
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- Topic: the underground man
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"Unlike Cioran, who was born in a certain darkness and finds only pessimism and randomness, I was born merely 'disoriented' and have regularly encountered 'jinns' of extraordinary beauty and the sort of awe Skip has spoken of. I am still, fudamentally, 'a believer'." I wasn't suggesting that you wer...
- Sat Jul 10, 2010 5:14 am
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- Topic: the underground man
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"It is 100% possible to reach the top of the mountain of delusion-free axioms." Well I am not denying that it is possible to reach the top of that mountain, I am only denying that Quinn or anyone I have read on this forum has reached that pinnacle. That is as clear as a delusion-free day. "Anyone wh...
- Sat Jul 10, 2010 4:22 am
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- Topic: the underground man
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Granted, I do not know you talking ass, but I have some talents at reading people. If you are already not familiar with his work, I think I know the perfect writer for you - are you familiar with the work of Emil Cioran? If not, please start with "The Temptation To Exist" it's only 200 odd pages lon...
- Sat Jul 10, 2010 4:15 am
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- Topic: the underground man
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I agree with you, but I was actually referring to average people, not the literary and philosophical greats. I tend to encounter many Americans and Europeans (I am an American citizen of German decent) who are so arrogant about everything they preach. They are itching to jump the gun and call themse...
- Sat Jul 10, 2010 2:50 am
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- Topic: the underground man
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Well there is a glaring flaw often displayed here and everywhere. I am even guilty of it from time to time. When listening to some episodes of the reasoning show it appears more clearly. I respect David Quinn and Kevin Solway (and others who write on this forum) for trying to climb the mountain of d...
- Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:17 am
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- Topic: the underground man
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I would like to apologetically retract everything negative or accusatory I wrote in my previous post. I am new to this forum, in that it has changed dramatically since last I visited. I am still stubbornly hung up on certain unresolved disagreements with a predominant theory that flourishes on this ...
- Thu Jul 08, 2010 1:04 pm
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- Topic: the underground man
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It’s been about 4 years since last I visited this forum. I’m glad I did. I visited this thread and read the new posts. It was actually Alex T Jacob's translation of Violetta Parra that inspired me to write. So I will write to you Alex as the fictional representation I see in my imagination as I read...
- Wed Dec 19, 2007 7:00 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Forget about Enlightenment
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Re: Forget about Enlightenment
I just got a shiny new credit card in the mail. I love it! I am curious about spirituality but my Presbyterian Church down the street just ain't cuttin' it. I'm stressed out. I'm in debt. So I decided to give this spirituality thing a try. I got online with my shiny new credit card and ordered: True...
- Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:53 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: How to PROVE GOD EXISTS?
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Re: How to PROVE GOD EXISTS?
The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manif...
- Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:35 am
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- Topic: How to PROVE GOD EXISTS?
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Matthew 25:14-30 14"Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his property to them. 15 To one he gave five talents [a] of money, to another two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. 16 The man who ...
- Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:19 am
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- Topic: How to PROVE GOD EXISTS?
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Re: How to PROVE GOD EXISTS?
Good luck with your approach. I hope that you continue to learn.