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- Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:27 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Wisdom of the Infinite Regress
- Replies: 250
- Views: 73452
Re: Wisdom of the Infinite Regress
guest_of_logic: Do you agree that duration can be quantified? David: Yes, it is a convenient tool for practical purposes, keeping in mind that it is a conceptual contrivance which doesn't reflect the reality of Nature's seamlessness. Ataraxia: I just felt that first line summed up the issue. I get ...
- Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:00 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: On David Quinns' WOMAN EXPOSITION....
- Replies: 511
- Views: 170827
Re: On David Quinns' WOMAN EXPOSITION....
I've spent a lot of my life being very disappointed. Disappointed in my fellow humans. Disappointed in much that they have created and believed - large parts of culture, religion, belief. Because of this, I have developed a tendency to be extremely skeptical and often downright aggressively dismiss...
- Sat Jan 09, 2010 6:35 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Feelings v Reason and the Mind-Body Problem
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8806
Re: Feelings v Reason and the Mind-Body Problem
Put down the Thomas Metzinger, mate. It's doing you no good. ;) You may have a point there, but I don't limit myself to neurophilosophy, I study a lot of different lines of reasoning, and my reasoning here is not exclusively derived from Metzinger. However, Metzinger's conceptual models are some of...
- Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:52 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Feelings v Reason and the Mind-Body Problem
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8806
Re: Feelings v Reason and the Mind-Body Problem
Put down the Thomas Metzinger, mate. It's doing you no good. ;)
- Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:30 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Rollings Stones - Dead Flowers (live 1971)
- Replies: 296
- Views: 140627
Re: Poetry ~ Sitting
Oh I'm on my way, I know I am, somewhere not so far from here All I know is all I feel right now, I feel the power growing in my hair Sitting on my own not by myself, everybody's here with me I don't need to touch your face to know, and I don't need to use my eyes to see I keep on wondering if I sle...
- Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:52 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Wisdom of the Infinite Regress
- Replies: 250
- Views: 73452
Re: Wisdom of the Infinite Regress
Not at all. Laird was asking questions, so they required separate answers.
I just felt that first line summed up the issue. I get the impression Laird sees time as a "thing-itself" rather than what it really is: an arbitrary measuring tool used by man to (hopefully) make predictions.
I just felt that first line summed up the issue. I get the impression Laird sees time as a "thing-itself" rather than what it really is: an arbitrary measuring tool used by man to (hopefully) make predictions.
- Thu Jan 07, 2010 12:57 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Wisdom of the Infinite Regress
- Replies: 250
- Views: 73452
Re: Wisdom of the Infinite Regress
I'll ask you a few more specific questions to see if we can get to the heart of things: 1. Do you agree that duration can be quantified? 2. If so, do you agree that duration can be quantified without theoretical problem? 3. If not, please describe all problems of which you are aware. 4. Do you agre...
- Thu Jan 07, 2010 9:16 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: On David Quinns' WOMAN EXPOSITION....
- Replies: 511
- Views: 170827
Re: On David Quinns' WOMAN EXPOSITION....
Unfortunately, both the Churchlands are sending philosophy of mind in exactly the wrong direction, IMHO. Can you elaborate on that? They are attempting to turn Philosophy of Mind into a evolutionary and/or neuroscience. Rather than doing philosophy, they spend most of their time 'special pleading' ...
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:43 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: On David Quinns' WOMAN EXPOSITION....
- Replies: 511
- Views: 170827
Re: On David Quinns' WOMAN EXPOSITION....
Unfortunately, both the Churchlands are sending philosophy of mind in exactly the wrong direction, IMHO.Animus wrote:If I had to name a woman whom I thought was most masculine.... it would be Patricia S. Churchland.
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:52 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: I'm no Liar...Are you?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 8682
Re: I'm no Liar...Are you?
"I always tell the truth. Even when I lie." - Tony Montanna
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:44 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Evolution/creation: the underlying dilemma; explaining order
- Replies: 92
- Views: 13092
Re: Evolution/creation: the underlying dilemma; explaining order
Haha, well put, David.
A natural New Year to you, sir.
A natural New Year to you, sir.
- Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:22 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Prince's Evangelical Obsession
- Replies: 218
- Views: 28505
Re: Prince's Evangelical Obsession
For me too, brother.Tomas wrote:For me, eternal life is this life. No beginning, no end. This is it. Wallah.Ataraxia wrote:Because the meek shall inherit the earth, apparently.
- Tue Dec 15, 2009 4:50 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Prince's Evangelical Obsession
- Replies: 218
- Views: 28505
Re: Prince's Evangelical Obsession
Because the meek shall inherit the earth, apparently.
- Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:39 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: There is no logic for existence
- Replies: 294
- Views: 39980
Re: There is no logic for existence
They would both be true statements, wouldn't you say, Laird?
- Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:41 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Jesus by Deepak Chopra
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1382
Re: Jesus by Deepak Chopra
Ten or so years ago Deepak was the hottest thing. I guess, like many 'wisdom' authors, he said all he knew in the books he wrote (and on Oprah), and now he's just about obscure. A lot of the hot wisdom books do not become classics, I guess. I'm thinking Ekhart Tolle is on top of that heap at the mo...
- Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:38 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6501
Re: If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that
Cycling back, it seems I'm here again. "Behold," I continued, "this moment! From this gateway, Moment, along, eternal lane leads backward: behind us lies an eternity. Must not whatever can walk have walked on this lane before? Must not whatever can happen have happened, have been don...
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:23 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: beyond the infinite
- Replies: 143
- Views: 35849
Re: beyond the infinite
Well put.Diebert van Rhijn wrote:A definition defines something but there's nothing "there" outside or inside that definition, nothing "in itself".jupiviv wrote:A container is that which contains something. There is no specification about whether it must itself be bounded or not.
- Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:13 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: Kevin's "Insanity in Buddhism" videos
- Replies: 17
- Views: 36409
Re: Kevin's "Insanity in Buddhism" videos
HahaDan Rowden wrote:Rafael T.M wrote:I've not heard of them - though their acronym is oddly familiar :) TUhm.. any of you know the "American nihilist underground society"? What do you think of their thoughts and texts?
One hopes it was intentional. Kinda witty for Nihilists, actually.
- Sun Oct 11, 2009 1:30 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: beyond the infinite
- Replies: 143
- Views: 35849
Re: beyond the infinite
Take colours – they actually occur as a result of different speeds of light reaching our eyes. Our eyes transfer these speed differences into linear data streams using the same basic dots and dashes method as Morse code, but a million times more detailed. Via the various combinations of “short amou...
- Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:37 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Passion And Ambition.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4689
Re: Passion And Ambition.
The free man is not enslaved because he cannot feel himself to be other than what he is. He is neither free nor bound. Interesting notion. But as would be helpful with alot of the discussion here, could you cite some real-life examples (either living or dead)? Or is it just a theoretical ideal? It ...
- Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:45 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: I believe in God. Taking qs
- Replies: 68
- Views: 20148
Re: I believe in God. Taking qs
Good questions. I can think of two possible responses that a believer in divinely maintained perfect justice and mercy might give: firstly, that God is the final individual arbiter, who is uniquely qualified for setting the standards being that He created everything that is not Himself, and that &q...
- Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:30 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Palestine: from the fall of the Ottomans to Today
- Replies: 576
- Views: 119798
Re: Palestine: from the fall of the Ottomans to Today
by applying slave morality.Diebert van Rhijn wrote: How did Israel secure this power? .
- Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:43 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Neverlution
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7718
Re: Neverlution
Not sure about the idea that evolution would somehow work towards order in a chaotic world. A crystal is rather ordered compared to an organic cell. Some mathematical formulas can create amazing patterns as well as total chaos. There seems no way of knowing if life's evolving is just a lark, an odd...
- Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:41 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: I believe in God. Taking qs
- Replies: 68
- Views: 20148
Re: I believe in God. Taking qs
Hi Turambar, I have two questions for you. Firstly, how do you reconcile perfect justice (which entails always applying the deserved penalty) with perfect mercy (which entails applying a penalty less than that which was deserved)? The concept of perfect Justice, or perfect mercy, seems unfathomable...
- Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:35 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Have we got Buddhism right?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2016
Re: Have we got Buddhism right?
Hi ataraxia, You are surely not saying that no follower of Theravada has ever become enlightened? Well I wonder if these hypothetical people didn't become enlightened despite following a particular religion rather than because of it.That is not to say there are no useful concepts in Theravada, or f...