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- Sat Aug 25, 2018 12:49 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: E-Prime and Metaphysics
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12949
Re: E-Prime and Metaphysics
It just seems that a sense of poetry would convince someone to value overused words less. Shakespeare hit the pinnacle of meaning for the verb. A philosopher would, on top of a poet, see how much we predicate from “to be”, and the tall order I make. An academic, thirdly, would see that one loses not...
- Sat Aug 18, 2018 1:22 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: E-Prime and Metaphysics
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12949
Re: E-Prime and Metaphysics
There are several words that I have learned not to use (a teacher criticized me for using them). I don't use the verb "to say" or the adjective "nice". One can always find a better way to express one's true meaning. I classify "to be" as a word like that. People use it ...
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 11:39 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: E-Prime and Metaphysics
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12949
Re: E-Prime and Metaphysics
As I understand it, “to be” comes with conceptual luggage that only recently philosophers have addressed. Heidegger laid the groundwork in “Being and Time”, where he essentially defined the verb to be. I find it a monumental accomplishment. With no English Heidegger forthcoming (as in, someone willi...
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 9:01 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: E-Prime and Metaphysics
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12949
Re: E-Prime and Metaphysics
Robert Anton Wilson wrote a brief informative essay about the advantages of E-prime. I’ll link it here as a starting point.
https://www.nobeliefs.com/eprime.htm
https://www.nobeliefs.com/eprime.htm
- Wed Aug 15, 2018 11:16 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: E-Prime and Metaphysics
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12949
E-Prime and Metaphysics
I present to you English Prime, or E-Prime. E-Prime transforms the English language by removing every instance of the verb "to be" from discourse. This includes be, was, is, are, am, exists, becoming, et cetera. It forces one to use stronger, more precise words than "to be" (othe...
- Mon Jul 09, 2018 11:24 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Confucianism
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6858
Confucianism
I just read an article where a 19-year old girl in China jumped to her death to a cheering audience. For anyone unfamiliar with Confucianism, it is essentially a religion of perfection. One is expected to master oneself, to live harmoniously with one"s family, and thus bring about a utopia. I d...
- Wed Feb 15, 2017 1:17 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Contradiction and the Absolute
- Replies: 153
- Views: 167150
Re: Contradiction and the Absolute
I don't understand why true opposites cannot exist. Would you elaborate? All knowledge is either empirical or absolute. The only knowledge that can show true opposition is absolute. Empirical knowledge, by its very nature, does not have a logical opposite. If you think that the only knowledge that ...
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 9:21 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Contradiction and the Absolute
- Replies: 153
- Views: 167150
Contradiction and the Absolute
Enlightenment is the realization that no metaphysical beliefs are ever certain. It is best expressed in terms of the tetralemma. For any truth statement x, there are four distinct truth values: x, not-x, not x and -x, and neither x nor -x. We usually use the concept of selfhood to explain why this l...
- Mon Dec 12, 2016 1:03 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Hinduism and Psychology
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11329
Re: Hinduism and Psychology
The goal of psychiatry seems to be to show people how to be contented and productive, and I see nothing in your chakra-based view that would contradict that goal. That's a criticism by the way! The chakra-based view is not necessarily a damnation of mental illness. Anti-psychiatry failed, and even ...
- Mon Dec 05, 2016 11:18 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Hinduism and Psychology
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11329
Re: Hinduism and Psychology
Russel Parr, I like the model that starts at insanity and then ascends to enlightenment. I plan to discuss this with my aunt (a PhD in psychiatric nursing) to see how well my model stands up to the medical mythos. Both of us have been involved with psychiatry for long enough to know that there are p...
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:49 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Hinduism and Psychology
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11329
Hinduism and Psychology
Everyone has some experience with the astral plane, whether or not they are aware that such is what it is when experiencing it. It is tied to dreams and drugs, and is our capacity for an ecstatic trance. Astral projection is our first encounter with the weird, a plane separate from the raw material ...
- Fri Jul 15, 2016 11:33 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Death of Philosophy
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15802
Re: Death of Philosophy
Why does over/misuse of a word make it nonsensical to someone who has a fixed definition of it? Words are social; as I said, they work like a game. If you don't even bother to approximate the definitions of others, you have forfeited sense. If everyone calls a knife a spoon, except one person who c...
- Mon Jul 11, 2016 10:02 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Death of Philosophy
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15802
Re: Death of Philosophy
The moment you cannot see goal of purpose of something, without exception there's a losing of connection and meaning, a static situation, a mind "in rest", perhaps even paralysed, giving birth to the view. I notice that you don't refer to truth in your entire post. Is truth, to you, no lo...
- Wed Jul 06, 2016 7:31 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Death of Philosophy
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15802
Re: Death of Philosophy
Everyone needs to sleep sometimes, but that you came here with that indicates to me that you were ready to hear the alarm clock. I listened to a 19-hour audiobook of the history of philosophy (in light of epistemology), and the end left me here. The narrator attempted his own hand at a solution, bu...
- Mon Jun 27, 2016 12:44 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Death of Philosophy
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15802
Death of Philosophy
Everyone plays language games. These are the rules by which we communicate. A football player broadcasts his language game in his performance on the field. A professor entrusts his language to his students. But the most challenging language game is the Truth. Speaking of Truth in natural languages c...
- Wed Jan 20, 2016 12:05 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Was Gautama Buddha Enlightened?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8989
Re: Was Gautama Buddha Enlightened?
How would you describe the end?jupiviv wrote:However, the path *to* enlightenment has a definite end which Gautam and others have described in different ways.
- Mon Jan 18, 2016 7:14 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Was Gautama Buddha Enlightened?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8989
Re: Was Gautama Buddha Enlightened?
Why does the path need to be some actual recipe? Logically the path cannot be worldly in the sense of another method to accomplish some end game because it seems that still would mean it's causally connected to the world in terms of experiences, conditions, goals or phenomena and that would counter...
- Sun Jan 17, 2016 12:28 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Was Gautama Buddha Enlightened?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8989
Was Gautama Buddha Enlightened?
Basically, he proclaimed four truths: life is suffering (symptoms), there is a cause of the suffering (truth of causality), there is a way to stop suffering (cure), and there is a path that ends all suffering (treatment plan). The path is known as "the Noble Eightfold Path", and most of Bu...
- Tue Mar 03, 2015 7:39 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Help deciding what, if anything, to do with my life.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 32041
Re: Help deciding what, if anything, to do with my life.
Cahoot, Isn't the desire to modify natural law (sin) itself a part of natural law? Nothing that exists is outside of natural law; hence, sin is nothing. Beneath which and contradiction aside, without an "ought", there's no particular reason to sin or not to sin. What you are describing is ...
- Tue Mar 03, 2015 6:03 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Help deciding what, if anything, to do with my life.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 32041
Re: Help deciding what, if anything, to do with my life.
Cahoot, How does one find non-relative definitions of sin? I assume that if you want morality to be absolute, and you can't base it on facts without running into the is-ought problem, you are forced to create morality from thin air. You may as well be arguing about aesthetics: which set of morality ...
- Sun Mar 01, 2015 7:29 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Help deciding what, if anything, to do with my life.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 32041
Re: Help deciding what, if anything, to do with my life.
I’ve known people who have the view: hate the sin and not the sinner. This suggests that good and evil somehow exist independent of “you.” This turns opinions into facts, and I am not sure I am willing to make that mistake. Morality tells us what we should do; facts describe what is. The simple fac...
- Sat Feb 28, 2015 10:09 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Help deciding what, if anything, to do with my life.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 32041
Re: Help deciding what, if anything, to do with my life.
What good is is entirely dependent on who you are. I doubt any amount of reading will change what you already ultimately perceive as good. But revealing biases is still progress. In that vein, here's a quiz that might show you what you value.
- Fri Feb 27, 2015 12:02 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Enlightened! Really?
- Replies: 107
- Views: 74617
Re: Enlightened! Really?
Kunyab, It seems as if enlightenment is not a objective thing but a matter of opinion. Enlightenment is where opinion finally crashes against the reef of fact, the closest point to objective truth that a subjective being can get. The old "A=A". After that is an Infinite abyss. One can also...
- Fri Jul 12, 2013 3:47 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Core Dysfunction and what it does
- Replies: 230
- Views: 98316
Re: Core Dysfunction and what it does
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(logic)
Not all tautologies are A=A, though, so this still isn't the name.
Not all tautologies are A=A, though, so this still isn't the name.
- Sat Jul 06, 2013 9:42 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Core Dysfunction and what it does
- Replies: 230
- Views: 98316
Re: Core Dysfunction and what it does
Alex Jacob, Have you located in your studies or in your observation of people a, say, 'negative use' of these doctrines? I see in Buddhist doctrine the potential for misuse: I recall a "meditation club" at university which involved a bunch of people sitting around a room trying not to do a...