No, what he calls for is people to become more rational in their thinking and more conscious in their everyday lives. To have genuine passion for truth. To stop being insane.Alex Jacob wrote: What David calls for is the installation of an absolutist religious program.
This forum is about intensifying passion for truth. Your intent is to dilute it.
Kevin Solway's Poison for the Heart has probably had a greater influence on most of those here, which is only right since it is a far greater work than Wisdom of the Infinite. And these two works form only a small part of the larger body of truthful writings that the human race has produced so far, a body that includes the Tao Te Ching, the Vedas, the Diamond Sutra, the Gospels, Kierkegaard's writings, the Ancedotes of Diogenes, the Teachings of Chuang Tzu, Meister Eckhart's sermons, the writings of Nietzsche, etc.Alex Jacob wrote: I am suggesting a closer examination of the core thinking system outlined in a specific document the influence of which is 'felt' throughout the forum. It is the core and defining document of a House Philosophy.
If you want to delineate the "house document" (an absurd aim, of course, one that completely misses the point), then you will have to consider all of these works together. But even that won't be of any use unless you uncover the truth for yourself.
Alex Jacob wrote: I am also suggesting the inclusion of a great deal of material, 'possibilities' I have called them, that is excised by a radical-absolutist religious program.
I think Dennis answered this best:
Yes, this really does seem to be the main factor that drives Alex's "campaign" against this forum. It certainly explains his persistent desire to belittle everyone here - a desire that he can't seem to let go of, even after many years.Dennis Mahar wrote: That's you talking to your parents concerning an old wound.
Your war on the East is your war on your parents.
Growing up, he no doubt found an escape from his parent's restrictive regime through books, which in turn caused him to become many-sided and postmodernist in outlook. In this way, he felt that he was becoming larger and less restricted than his parents.
But then, lo and behold, he comes to this forum and he finds that his box of tricks does not work here. Far from being considered a virtue, his many-sidedness is quickly laughed at. It does not receive the validation that he feels he deserves. And so he reacts by belittling and belittling and belittling.....
He is actually paying a compliment towards the forum when he does this. It indicates that he recognizes something genuine here, something that can't be overcome by mere trickery - although this does not stop him from continuing to try!