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On Weininger's regard for jews; another philosopher mentioned that OW made a distinction between Zionism and Judaism, implicating that Zionism was the cloistering together as a homogeneous unit that he viewed as unspiritual and cowardly, whereas the instinct of Judaism was dispersion, which he seen...

Undeveloped in the sense that he wrote Sex and Character and pursued his thought during the first wave of his philosophical career. He unleashed a tsunami of brilliance, if you like, but didn't hang around long enough to assess that first wave with an older, wiser head and make the necessary correc...

An interesting thread, but I'm not sure about Alex's recent habit of placing of full-stops in the middle of sentences. Has he developed Tourette's Syndrome or something? It's his fucking iPhone or Android, who cares. It's not the real thing. I would pay to see Alex with Tourette's! It would be the ...

Pretty cool video. Also liked the music quite a bit. Tell me, is Sex and Character a book that should be read straight through or is it the sort of book that can be read in parts? And if so, what is a good chapter to read? I have it but I haven't done much more than read random pages. Nice video. S...

Hi Gary You seem to be using the term offset for both sides of (presumably) the same coin. In many ways, despite the human's basic needs, so much of the human endeavor is an offset. Think about the example you give of the astronaut compensating for lack of gravity. It seems really easy to say that e...

jupiviv: That's the definition I'm using. There is only one true essence in a person, and that is the essence shared by all other things except that person as well. GoL: I'm not sure what you mean by "except" in "shared by all other things except that person" jupiviv is referrin...

I will state openly that in no way would I consider the rapist/torturer in the above scenario to be "evil". I don't even consider Hitler and the entire Nazi system to be evil, any more than I consider their victims to be good. So why would I consider a solitary rapist/torturer to be evil?...

In the above, it is not hard to imagine a very, very strange ethic that would arise from your beliefs if practiced universally. If it was practiced universally, there wouldn't be any women. Nor any torturers. - You are being redundant, David. You do slay me with this type of pithy pronouncement. Pr...

Laird: The "Golden Rule" world-view is a non-zero-sum game: it increases the sum of pleasure without limit. Liberty: Yet a lion cannot have any pleasure if it is not at the expense of a deer's pleasure. In what way does that have to do with what Laird is talking about here? Obviously a ma...

DQ wrote:Or to summarize, you can only enter authentic being when you have nothing to lose.

Then what? Can one then proceed to acquire things without losing the authentic being...?

Easy does it, Mr Liberty Sea. Google translate does a perfectly horrible job of translating! But it is funny what comes out of it. Actually what is funny is to.put back in what it has badly translated to see what then comes out. A few times I did this for amusement at BabelFish. The key is to take ...

DQ wrote:I'm reminded of a quote I read recently:

You can remove all the words from a brilliant thought.

That reminds me of a quote:

Dennis Mahar wrote:How does when and where one shows up alter the fact that one is irrevocably alone?
Try again.

OK. If I am so fucking alone, what are you doing here?

Here are a few possible answers: Let's look at them one by one to see why they fail to be "answers." 1. Good and evil are intrinsic polarised forces in reality that have always existed. The struggle between good and evil is the basis of the evolution of reality, just as the Cold War was t...

Dennis Mahar wrote:The only worthwhile experience you can have,
is to realise with earth shattering clarity.

You are absolutely, metaphysically, unutterably
ALONE.

There is no fudging it.

But somehow you keep showing up...

I just wrote:Evil is not necessary for good.

IOW, what if the question was never, what is the lesser of two evils? But rather always, what is the greater of two goods...?

Perhaps, then, at core yours is a free will defence of evil. And yet, you believe in the ultimate triumph of good - for consistency then do you maintain that this ultimate triumph involves the eradication of free will? It's more like I'm asking, why did He choose to allow it from the very beginning...

Yes, we would rather have the choice of picking and choosing what is the truth, because some fringe theories do not fit into whats logical in our comfortable world of normallacy. That is not what I meant. I mentioned the ring of truth. No matter how carefully worded an untruth is, it will not have ...

Will we ever know THE TRUTH ? http://www.montalk.net/alien If one applies a measure of discernement, perhaps one might eliminate the fringe theories... Come on Kunga, seriously! Have you never heard the ring of truth? The WWW is replete with pages spewing ignorance, and this is just the start. With...

I'm glad you wrote that, because I'm having a fiendishly difficult time understanding your explanation. Here's what I've got so far: heaven, which might be a spiritual state in which, neither being born nor dying, beings live on etheric spheres, might expand out from the centre of the cosmos; in an...

I am The Ass Who Talks® and represent 'the forward movement of eschatological faith, so radical and so new and so goddammed wOnDeRfUl that the world has seen nothing like it'. I am also God's own Voice coming to you...from the Future!

Almost needless to say, is that most faith is scatological...

What about the tsunami in Japan? Do you see that as having.been engineered or conjured by evil.forces? Again, evil only occurs in the human world and among beings who can make choices. In the determined world around us, 'choices, in that sense are never made. But our consciousness occurs in or aris...

"Is the 100 k diameter meteor flying toward Earth right now, having been on that collision course since the Beginning, 'evil'?" --Talking Ass Does that not depend, good donkey friend - if some conscious Source had settled that course, with no higher goal than destruction, might not our de...

OK, so that's two votes against the notion of evil as force for evolution of good. What would you guys suggest, then, is the answer to the question of why and how evil exists and is permitted to exist? This is really the question, is it not? If the answer were readily forthcoming, as easily obtaina...