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Oh, Dennis. "People do things for reasons". Is this really the level your philosophising has reached?

Beingof1, I don't see any point to the questions you asked me. I'd like to refer you simply to one sense of the definition of "thing", #15 on the first entry on dictionary.com: "something signified or represented, as distinguished from a word, symbol, or idea representing it". An...

Deebs, the pretending was on both sides. As for a "living" understanding versus a "dead" one, I think you flatter David too much, and denigrate Robert too much with that. I wouldn't choose those terms myself. I would probably choose terms more like "over-confident" vers...

It's cool, Deebs - I took an uncalled-for shot at you in another thread, so I'll cop this one from you in this thread. In hindsight, my other post in that other thread was unnecessary and unhelpful - spur of the moment posting.

Anyone who hangs around GF for any period of time will inevitably encounter The Larkin Debate . I've read it several times myself. The last time I read it, I felt motivated to analyse it, and to post that analysis. I went ahead and analysed it some time back, but I didn't post anything after all bec...

What the hell are you talking about, Diebert? Oh, man, Leyla, how many times have I wanted to ask that question? Sorry, Deebs. Disclaimer: at best I've been skim-reading GF of late. To be honest, I've wanted to ask this question of many current contributors. It's peculiar to find that a forum you u...

Diebert, It's interesting though that you distill this all from Samadhi's point of view because you are one of the few as far as I know who has some information about the potential implication of his rather serious confusion with regard to Sam's very own life [and his long history of schizophrenic p...

I'm glad it had that affect on you, Dennis. I first saw it when I was just a little younger than Danny was in the movie, and living in rural Australia, so it struck home.

are these dependent origination, conditional. And here we come back to value. You seem to suggest that "dependently originated" experiences are not valuable, and yet is not your "experience of emptiness" in the same boat? Is it not, too, dependent on the right circumstances aris...

Do you really expect me to accept a reduction of this forum to a single experience (of "dependent origination")? Is that ALL or even predominantly what this forum is about? Whole books have been written by its founders covering not just "an experience" but, quoting from WOTI's by...

Dennis, I didn't say that "all" your "crap" is semantics, I meant specifically what you wrote in that post. "Have" versus "are", I don't see the point in arguing with you over - I'll keep my wording and leave you to yours, knowing that we're talking about much...

For example in the US: Mormonism, Pentecostalism, Seventh Day Adventism and Christian Science are all 'radical Christian projects' in the sense that they arise from that structure within culture, and yet they do not fit your list of bulleted items and may deviate even 'radically' from them And yet ...

"Just said it isn't an idea, it's about how ideas arise." --John Which makes it an idea (concept) about how ideas (concepts) arise. Wouldn't you say, John? "You can't live without emptiness Laird even if you fail to recognise it. It means 'play of causality'." -- Dennis We can't...

It's not a matter of value Laird, value doesn't affect that there are appearances the end. Well, value doesn't affect the content of an idea/experience, but it does affect the significance and meaningfulness you give to that idea/experience, and the consequences it has on your life. For example, yo...

That's fine Dennis - to suggest that emptiness is an experience as much as a truth - but do you see that it doesn't change my point, which is that, whatever it is, it is valued differently by different people? That it is sought by some and not by others? That some, after experiencing it, might say, ...

"Conservatism as I meant it is to be concerned with First Principals and to be grounded in this reality through adherence to them" . --Alex I think, then, that the better word is the one that you broached in your later post - and it's been used before in this context: "fundamentalism...

It is only in generalities, I think, that the QRS worldview can be likened to the Elizabethan worldview, in that the adherents of both consider them to be "absolute truth" (in the sense of incontestability), and complete/sufficient explanations of reality. In specifics, though, I struggle ...

Hi Diebert, Thanks for your comments. It's interesting that you've done something similar already - that suggests a real need for a tool like this. I'll think about your suggestion of open-sourcing the project, and whether or not it would be better to open-source the web or command-line version of t...

As Alex revealed not long ago, I had written a few years back at his request (and expense) a little script to extract and retrieve a user's posts from a phpBB-powered board such as Genius Forum, and as I explained in that thread , it's basically a web scraper. The problem was, it was a command line ...

It seems to me that you-all try to evade the force of the arguments by denying that it is "real" or "possible" or "interesting" to visualise the past as a collection of discrete time intervals. Here are your actual words: Dan: "The Past" is a concept of conven...

Dennis, you can purchase a mail-order copy here . As for commentary on The Piano, I'm not in any place for that, having seen it only once and 20 years ago, but I would simply affirm the quotations of Roger Ebert on the Wikipedia page: " The Piano is as peculiar and haunting as any film I've see...

OK, so, you might not use that exact phrase, you might instead refer to it as a "beginningless" past, but what alternative implication of the quotes from PFTH in that post is there than "the past is infinite"? Seriously, I'd like to know.

I like to take a 20k bike ride and listen to this on an Ipod. sublime. Nice taste, Dennis. That's my favourite classical music piece, as discovered in [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_My_Voice_Broke]my favourite movie . It manages to be haunting, bittersweet and soaring all at once. I fee...

Expectations not being met, huh Dennis? Perhaps you could see it as an opportunity to practice non-attachment... OK, that's a little cheeky, but really, the thread's perfectly topical, the forum founders all promote an infinite past - why should you object to me challenging this notion? If you think...

Thanks, Leyla, for your answer.