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<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Sapius: My point is, only logic does not do the trick, "emotions", for the lack of a better word, or one can say dedicated conviction, which has all to do with intense "feelings"...<hr><br/> <br/> There is nothing inappropriate nor insufficient in the term "emotions." Its only fai...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Indeed, having thoughts and moving them around so that they fit the circumstances where they have to be uttered, is not the thinking we're thinking of. A good carpenter can make furniture out of any chunk of wood you give him, but others can only simulate to a certain degree by or...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>1. Well, I've heard that enlightened people have different brain waves, more amplitude and power, and can influence you positively when in their vicinity.<hr><br/> <br/> You mean the kind that receive unsolicited long and curious stares, friendly smiles and salutations from comple...

<r>Quote:Quote:<hr>David tries to do away with mysticism but he loves God.<hr><br/> <br/> I don't think there's anything mystical about David's God. Have you read Wisdom of the Infinite?<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>A beautiful mind is a pleasure but the thing you have to be careful of with men is tha...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Why don't you go see him, then?<hr><br/> <br/> Well, I can only respond in one way to this: in what way do you think this would be of use to me?<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>Why is conventional truth so hard to pin down? <hr><br/> <br/> I don't think it's hard to pin it down so much...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>The question is more why should you or I make any difference at all? Creating clarity for starters.<hr><br/> <br/> Man, I reckon if I can't even ask the right question, I've got no hope of creating clarity.<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>The relationship between them is a related but ...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Leyla, do you think any QRS are enlightened?<hr> <br/> <br/> I reckon David is. I’ve not read much of Kevin’s stuff -- and even less of Dan’s (?). However, I must ask you what your notion of enlightenment is? To you, how does such a state manifest in a being and why? Is it p...

Oi! That was a bit below the belt, David Quinn. Although, I must admit, it can be difficult to tell the difference at times.

For all the latest, one should frequent The Brothel, Greg.

Quote:Quote:<hr>"Why has not this worthless topic been moved to the brothel?"<hr>

David, are you going to bring back The Brothel, or what? I feel like I'm missing a body part.

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>You so blindly and religiously adhere to some dogmatic mantra "A=A is the absolute" that ya can't even see the forest fer the trees. <hr><br/> <br/> Aw, now, see what you've gone and done? I reckon you've completely blown it with that one.<br/> <br/> I can't wait to see the purely...

<t>Courtesy of Pink Floyd, and my sound system.<br/> <br/> I've got a little black book with my poems in<br/> I've got a bag with a toothbrush and a comb<br/> When I'm a good dog they sometimes throw me a bone in.<br/> <br/> I got elastic bands keeping my shoes on<br/> Got those -- swollen hand blue...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>A cat is a cat; I am myself; you are you; human nature is human nature; things are as they are. The emptiness of such assertions stands out in all its uncouthness. It is the consummate expression of one-sided, formalistic, dogmatic thinking.<hr><br/> <br/> More irony. I can't cope...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Is there some difference between the infinite and the fundamentals of reality? Are you now introducing another kind of reality in the discussion, a limited or personal one? <hr><br/> <br/> Um, don't think so. Really, all I'm trying to say is that it wouldn't make a any difference ...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>This entails a qualitative understanding and acceptance of our obvious human limitations. <hr><br/> <br/> And this coming from one who would identify themselves with a picture of an alien, and who is yet to learn the fine art of plain English.<br/> <br/> Yes, I would most definite...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>KJ210: Because my name Kelly Jones is very common, i chose to add some numbers to differentiate it. You can either leave the numbers 210 off, or not. They remind me of the process of understanding the infinite.<br/> <br/> DvR: On the topic of number theory in philosophical sense I...

Hiya, Diebert.

OK. I'll have to give this some more attention at home tonight. I'm sitting here at work in hysterics over the ABCs, at the moment.

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>If we assign what Analog stated with an A, and what David stated with a D, then we'd arrive at A = D. Thus, proving that X could be equivalent to a Z in another universe - if the other universe possessed the same fundamentals, but a foreign configuration. <hr><br/> <br/> OMFG, LOL...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>A sheer absence of thought, and even more, a complete absence of respect for the thought of others, becomes the highly paid craft of the Professor.<hr><br/> <br/> Yes. Not just the thought of others, though. Others, period. The one thing you cannot be in academia is "original."<br...

<t>Diebert, our conversation seems to be speeding off the rails at a dangerous rate.<br/> <br/> :) <br/> <br/> Somewhere in a galaxy not too far away...<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>Leyla: why is the one factor permeating them all not worthy of any representation? <br/> <br/> Diebert: Did I imply some...

<t>And, on the other hand, we have the linguistic tautology -- the superlative; for example:<br/> <br/> 1. any particular absolute<br/> 2. contingently true conditional<br/> 3. resulting consequent conclusion<br/> 4. statistical enumeration<br/> <br/> Course, it could just be me.<br/> <br/> I have n...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Anselm: But, by definition, God is the being greater than which cannot be conceived!<br/> <br/> Leyla: That is an argument for Buddahood. <br/> <br/> David: Is Buddahood greater than Nature?<hr><br/> <br/> From the perspective of non-inherent existence, of course not. But neither ...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Anselm was one of the so-called "Schoolmen" of the early Xian (Catholic) Church - along with people like Aquinas. His Ontological Argument was explicitly an argument for the existence of the Xian God.<hr><br/> <br/> Wait a minute. We are talking about the Holy Babble God, right? I...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>Well, Anselm was a Christian theologian and he certainly intended this argument to be a proof for the existence of the Christian God. <hr><br/> <br/> Really? Well, his intentions might have been pure, I suppose...<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>Is Buddahood greater than Nature? <hr><b...

No, David, I don't think that's an argument for the proof of the Christian God at all.

Quote:Quote:<hr>5) But, by definition, God is the being greater than which cannot be conceived!<hr>

That is an argument for Buddahood.