GENIUS FORUMS

How do mate, I don't want to destroy the understanding we seem to have come to by going on but I just wanted to make clear my overarching point - certainty versus contingency and their relative contextually relevant epistemological status. As a geoscientist, I'd be pretty hamstrung without contingen...

That's nowhere near true. By the textbook definition, sexually reproductive species (with a very few exceptions, like Irish Wolf Hound with Pomeranian) must be able to breed naturally and produce viable and fertile offspring of both sexes. By your definition, all of the Panthera genus (big cats), fo...

DT: Nature, by definition, is without objective meaning. broken: By definition? Which? Whose? Sorry, I thought you might have read my definition of the word objective from a few days ago. It's fairly bog standard, conventional and uncontroversial: Objective - being, independent of mind. And as you ...

I made no claim to be " summing up an entire philosphy ." belief "that the physical world is an illusion" is a belief central to the philosophy of solipsism Kevin, personally is a solipsist . Moron. Come on now, don't hold back, you can react more than you did in your last post.

mikiel wrote:Kevin, personally is a solipsist.

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Moron.

broken: Well, then we'll have to agree to disagree. I see it as remarkably not arbitrary. That is, knowing what a cynic I, myself, am. I was trained in the sciences and believe in the scientific method as an ideal, but I feel I would be doing myself an enormous disservice if I were to voluntarily d...

The 17 and 19 thing has led to conjecture that these are the least random of all numbers. Who'd have thunk it eh.

That's numberwang! You won't get that btw but other Brits will.

From the link about the 8th row: "None of these elements has yet been created..." I'll concede the point when one has been. Ooh, shall we have one of those clever scientist type wagers? Shall we say 25 years? The point is mate that there is no denying the seeming significance of the numbe...

And I won't be doing so either mate. But I can tell you that 17 is the most frequently chosen number when people are asked for a random from 1-20, followed by 19.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period_8_element

Solar tech is evolving rapidly, more and more so, but not Moore so. 12 years seems a little optimistic for solar to take over for the entire world, if that's what he's saying. And there are competitors/compliments like fusion and wind for us places with imaginative weather. There's loads of differen...

Hey, get back to your own thread! I didn't miss the point broken, how could I when you'd already written "your lists are arbitrary and mine was not" ? The haiku thing was thrown in there because it's eastern-pseudo-mystic-sounding. The bible coz it's God'z wordz innit. Thing is, there's pl...

17 - The 7th prime. Sum of first 4 primes. Maximum possible number of symmetry types in 2 dimensions. The number of syllables in a haiku. 7 (the number of spiritual perfection) + 10 (the number of ordinal perfection) = 17 (the number of the perfection of spiritual order) [see ROMANS 8:35-39].

Yes indeed. And his every word does not drip with ego but merely projects your own back at you, radically!

Read the first sentence again. Think what appearance entails.

If the boundary between myself and nature is objectively real, how do I get in there?

Hi Sap, welcome back: DT: I was really looking to see how you understand the word 'quality' and whether you think the conjunction 'objective quality' is an oxymoron? Sap: Well, yes it is, but [only] as long as you believe things exist inherently, DT: Isn't it, rather, the other way around? That is, ...

Yes indeed, understanding the nature of causality as opposed to simply understanding cause and effect. The debate on causation should already be well past this important point. But then I can't understand debating someone so brazenly and intentionally slippery that they deny universal truth, whether...

he is conflating the meaning of the words 'independent' and 'inherent'. What definition of "inherent" are you using? A conventional dictionary one? I'm referring to the term as it is used in the philosophy of Dan, Kevin and David. Yep, and strict definitions are of crucial importance, whe...

"Inherent existence" means essentially "independent existence" since it means that the causes of existence are not external to the self. Then you are digging your own grave as far as Jason's objections to your definitions and conclusions go. The fact that people experience their...

Indeed, and Jason's main point: "Is it true that the average person believes that their self exists independently of the non-self? Using Kevin's terminology, does the average person believe that their self "inherently exists"? Kevin and others apparently believe this to be the case.&q...

Don't get me wrong Sue, I was illustrating the fallacy of the suggestion that belief in an inherent self is mutually exclusive to the realisation that said self is subject to and in relation to certain particular causes. To be more clear, the belief in an inherent self is not undermined in the sligh...

Perhaps your universal consciousness self is less literate than your exceptionally gifted IQ self?

Perhaps you would like to re-write my sentence to correct my grammatical lack of clarity also.

Perhaps you would also like to rewrite my sentence to correct my lack of grammatical clarity?

Inherent doesn't mean independent, it means in and of itself. A belief in one's existence in relation to other things is not mutually exclusive with a belief in one's inherent existence. In fact the question is begged, how could one exist in relation to things if one didn't believe in the inherent s...

I think pj's awareness is the Anthony De Mello awareness David.

Here's a quick(ish) Precis from the book's intro:

http://www.geocities.com/~spiritwalk/de ... reness.htm