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by xerosaburu
Fri Jan 13, 2017 12:27 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: How does one go about "proving" one isn't a racist?
Replies: 2
Views: 14680

How does one go about "proving" one isn't a racist?

It strikes me that being accused of racism is one of the worst things a non-racist has to deal with.
by xerosaburu
Fri Apr 02, 2010 1:01 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Life cannot have a purpose, because life is a property
Replies: 4
Views: 1371

Life cannot have a purpose, because life is a property

of an entity, not the entity itself.

That said, I'll plug my vid.

:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpH9rKZ-Q8E
by xerosaburu
Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:44 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that
Replies: 35
Views: 6494

Re: If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that

Existence is meaningless without boundary conditions. Boundary conditions are bound up with existence. Anything lacking boundary conditions cannot properly be said to exist.
by xerosaburu
Tue Nov 24, 2009 2:04 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that
Replies: 35
Views: 6494

Re: If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that

Cycling back, it seems I'm here again.
by xerosaburu
Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:14 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that
Replies: 35
Views: 6494

Re: If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that

Trevor Salyzyn wrote:I'm confused about a word choice.

How can something be finite and unbound? What do you mean by finite, if not bounded?

It means that you have only so much stuff in a box whose edges you can't feel
by xerosaburu
Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:43 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that
Replies: 35
Views: 6494

If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that

the same thing would be true for time as well. If you think of the time-space continuum's borders as the inside of a balloon whose edges cannot be felt, and if it is likewise true that traveling in an imagined "straight line" outward would cause one to arrive again at the point where one l...
by xerosaburu
Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:41 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Language Mavens, your assistance is requested
Replies: 1
Views: 1124

Language Mavens, your assistance is requested

Is it true to say that two things may be the same without being identical? I say yes for a number of reasons. First, same is a like comparison such that thing A being compared to thing B in the manner of evaluative content so that one may say the same thing, such as "No" in more than one w...
by xerosaburu
Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:53 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What does it mean to "understand"?
Replies: 14
Views: 2411

What does it mean to "understand"?

Please use words that have precise definitions. I hate soft-headed new-age thinking.
by xerosaburu
Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:29 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On organ harvesting - how would an enlightened person rule
Replies: 144
Views: 18139

On organ harvesting - how would an enlightened person rule

Would an enlightened person have any difficulty with the idea of scientists developing a breed of homo sapiens (actually sapien-less) sans cerebral cortex or midbrain for the use of organ harvesting?

Why or why not?
by xerosaburu
Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:48 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Would a TEP be concerned about the enlightenment of others?
Replies: 107
Views: 17579

Would a TEP be concerned about the enlightenment of others?

TEP - Truly Enlightened Person

Why?

Why not?
by xerosaburu
Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:38 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Would a truly enlightened person decide to have children?
Replies: 11
Views: 2670

Would a truly enlightened person decide to have children?

I can't think of any reason.

Having said that it would seem that the genes which lend themselves to the pursuit of enlightenment would be weeded out of the genetic pool.

The future > blithefully unaware and inept people deevolving into the chimps from whence they sprang.
by xerosaburu
Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:52 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Fallacies of Complex Questions
Replies: 7
Views: 2824

Well now you have given it a context, and here it is deduction, not presumption. All arguments are only artificially deductive as all is inductive. Inductive reasoning is for the future, and deductive reasoning is for past events. If you are postulating that there is no past, then induction would b...
by xerosaburu
Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:51 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Paradox of transcendence
Replies: 67
Views: 14868

Trevor Salyzyn wrote:Eliza, nice guess. :)

xero: does non-existence exist or not?
For us it exists as a substitutionary mental construct.
by xerosaburu
Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:24 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Paradox of transcendence
Replies: 67
Views: 14868

Trevor Salyzyn wrote:xero, then what are the boundaries of non-existence?
existence

Therefore everything is bound and transcendence is only a relative construct.
by xerosaburu
Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:22 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Fallacies of Complex Questions
Replies: 7
Views: 2824

Elizabeth Isabelle wrote:Well now you have given it a context, and here it is deduction, not presumption.
All arguments are only artificially deductive as all is inductive.
by xerosaburu
Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:59 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Fallacies of Complex Questions
Replies: 7
Views: 2824

Actually it is.

It presumes that the answer to this question is "Yes".

"Does every effect have an antecedent cause?"

Perhaps it's a necessary and inevitable presumption, but it is still a presumption.
by xerosaburu
Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:30 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Fallacies of Complex Questions
Replies: 7
Views: 2824

Fallacies of Complex Questions

They seem to invade like a stealthy virus.

For example asking the question:

"Why?"

Is itself a complex question.
by xerosaburu
Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:26 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Paradox of transcendence
Replies: 67
Views: 14868

Trevor Salyzyn wrote:xero, what are the boundaries of Existence?
nonexistence
by xerosaburu
Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:40 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Paradox of transcendence
Replies: 67
Views: 14868

Trevor Salyzyn wrote:xero, Existence (another word for "Reality") is not a thing.
Actually it is. Anything which has boundaries is a thing.

Existence has boundaries, therefore existence is a thing.
by xerosaburu
Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:08 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Paradox of transcendence
Replies: 67
Views: 14868

Only thing to transcend is your thoughts on transcendence, then you will always be where you have been, seeing things for what they are. Declaring something to be transcendence or redefining it for convenience is not at all the same thing. As for seeing things as they are, that's as impossible as a...
by xerosaburu
Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:47 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Paradox of transcendence
Replies: 67
Views: 14868

Image

My thoughts on transcendence.
by xerosaburu
Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:29 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Paradox of transcendence
Replies: 67
Views: 14868

Dan Rowden wrote:Um, yeah, but what is there to storm in this instance?
I'm thinking through this.

It seems that people often imagine something non-transcendent and then complain that it IS non-transcendent.
by xerosaburu
Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:19 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Paradox of transcendence
Replies: 67
Views: 14868

Dan Rowden wrote:Your offered definition of "transcendent" has no meaning (other than as a synonym for Reality) therefore there's no reason for this thread to even exist.
Ever heard of brainstorming?
by xerosaburu
Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:54 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Paradox of transcendence
Replies: 67
Views: 14868

For me to think of a transcendent being, I have to imagine a being that both is and is not, for if this being is not both simultaneously then it cannot be transcendent. But, this being would cease to be fully transcendent upon doing anything besides existing and not existing simultaneously. transcen...
by xerosaburu
Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:49 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Paradox of transcendence
Replies: 67
Views: 14868

Trevor Salyzyn wrote:Well, excuse the grammar. A concept is a thing, but what the concept points to is not.

However, considering what you just said, you should be well aware that transcendence is not a lie. It's just difficult to explain.
Not at all. The fact that you and I exist give the lie to transcendence.