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Denying God's loving nature and claiming such a nature would be a weakness is, I argue, the real hostile act to wards God. Well I would like to kindly request you argue it. Because to sustain a charge that someone is "denying God's loving nature" presupposes that God has a loving nature. ...

On the contrary, we are like gods not because we are persons, but because our true nature is infinite. We are literally made in God's image. Christians, bless them, always manage to invert that saying to the complete opposite of its true meaning. - Right on, well put. I recently re read Nietzsche's...

It seems really a bit too much - something is stressed , exaggerated here while the NLP crowd is looking right away for signs of inducing hypnosis induction of course, thereby perhaps forgetting a more obvious reason. Then Darren moves to the right and during the whole word game not moves inside th...

That Derren Brown is incredible. I saw one show where he managed to convince a group of very ordinary and law abiding citizens to literally rob a bank. Another-- similar show to the one Kevin posted-- where he is at the race track and manages to repeatedly collect the winnings on losing tickets. Bro...

To me, evil is so poorly defined that I find it prudent to consign the term/concept to the same category as the Abrahamic God--I am ignostic on both. There are perfectly good words that better explain what people are referring here, rather than the term evil; "Ignorance" , "Obstacles ...

Great song, Tomas, my favourite Black Sabbath.

I see you've quickly become aquainted with that Jerome wanker, Trevor. He is the grand pooh-bah of preening noobz. Enjoy.

And the fact that Foucault believed that, makes his views true -- how? I used Foucault--even thought I think him a dud myself-- because he is fairly representative of current social/cultural/philsophical thinking. All my liberal arts lecturers worship him. If even he can see it, anyone should be ab...

Sue Hindmarsh wrote: If something is true, you don’t need belief in it being true – it’s just true.

Jed MCkenna hits the nail on the head here.

Or maybe your desire to feel superior. Maybe you just need to believe that most people wish for a police state so that you can feel like a freedom-lover, standing out of the crowd in your intellectual and moral superiority. That's pretty harsh. Carl is really just drawing attention to what is prett...

Sue Hindmarsh wrote: Belief is caused by the irrational urge to pad out one’s existence.

This is a fantastic sentence. Aphorism-worthy.

.... tends to attact the mentally ill. It all becomes so neurotic. It is the neurosis that defines the place, not the sanity of self-realization. Well it manages to elicit a 1500 word flowery polemic from you day-in, day-out; so perhaps that's something you may want to look into. Methinks the lady ...

I find it humorous and kind of sad that when Libet's results came out people were rushing to reproduce them and find ways around the 300ms. Some even postulated that quantum events allowed consciousness to reach backwards in time 300ms. . Hehe. I seem to remember there was a guy at that 'Enlightenm...

Animus wrote:[

Yea, I usually refer to it as John Dylan-Haynes et. al. as the other names are difficult to remember. Check my previous post, I posted a lengthy video lecture on the experiments by Haynes.

Oh, good man, I hadn't noticed.


thumbs up to you sir, I'll watch it now.

There's some interesting stuff in that doco Animus, thanks for posting it.

Are you familiar with this recent study? It is an extension of the Libet one.

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v11 ... .2112.html

Man, skip, that game is and was so not worth playing, for me. I rue the time I've wasted participating. And now that you have elucidated the dynamic in detail, I'm doubly glad. What a colossal tedium. Glad you are learning something, whatever it may be. Right on, Carl. Being a player is a soul dest...

I'm not particularly tech-savvy- but I believe this is a well regarded codec pack. Seems to have a help forum attached too.

http://www.cccp-project.net/

Jason wrote:
Your shtick would work so much better without the puritanical Christianity bit tacked on at the end; such a disconnect. The shamanism fit so much better.

I thought he had it pretty well covered when he represented himself as the squawking Tucan.

It's not quite the patriarchal, phallic edifice that feminists would have you think it is; indeed, it's not remotely like that. . This semester I made the mistake of enrolling in a class called 'Text and Culture'; as you may have guessed, it is basically post-structuralism/post-modernism 101. It is...

Shahrazad wrote:Dan,

For such women, a loser type effectively validates her womanhoodishness (hey, if Alex can do it, so can I).

Are you saying you don't mind stooping to Alex's level?

I believe he was referring to Alex's penchant for creating neologisms.

You may find this essay interesting. It has some good and not so good analysis of Nietzche's concept. http://www.ul.ie/~philos/vol8/nietzsche.html Thanks Ataraxia, I will check that out. Your recommendation to check out the "ubermensch" concept was what got me reading Nietzsche to begin w...

It's not quite the patriarchal, phallic edifice that feminists would have you think it is; indeed, it's not remotely like that. . This semester I made the mistake of enrolling in a class called 'Text and Culture'; as you may have guessed, it is basically post-structuralism/post-modernism 101. It is...

The way I thought you were using it, "Will to Power" leaves Woman in the dust. Sure, it attracts her, because it's something she doesn't have. It's something to fill the void. But I don't think it only exists in the context of relationship. I think Sue is equating Will to Power with mascu...