GENIUS FORUMS

Well, having long given up the hope of Mr. Quinn and Mr. Solway say anything containing just a tiny bit of wisdom, I didn't bother with the clearity of my statement as it wasn't meant for anyone else. The truth of it is; Stupidity is what bore me. So it is the fact(!) that they are stupid which is t...

Mr. Solway, it is not that you and Mr. Quinn are stupid and that your psyche is blocking every possibility for you to achieve wisdom, both facts which your every statement seem to confirm, it's just that you bore me. You are so hopelessly boring.

Mr. Hodges: But conscious, rational thought, it seems to me, must deal with premises and ideas - and how can those ideas be thought about, without expressing them in some language? Therein lies the challenge as the saying goes. I don't know how successful this line ultimately can be, but I believe i...

Mr. Solway:

Are you certain that you don't have such a knowledge

Mr. Quinn:

you can't even bring yourself to admit you are certain that you don't have complete knowledge of the world. That is insane

Do you make the claim that Mr. Solway is insane?

Mr. Quinn:

The beginninglessness of Nature is itself a sure foundation from which other truths can be deduced. This foundation is perfectly consistent and real.

How can you be sure that nature has no beginning?

Indeed, Mr. Knoll. I'm also starting to tire of this.

Mr. Solway: without a definition, communication is impossible. This goes for both the communication between individuals, and for the individual communicating with himself (ie, thinking). Both are impossible The first part of this statement is obvious, as if language is to make sense at all, these de...

It's obvious in the problems you raise that what he said to you is totally applicable, because if you had concrete definitions for the words you use, you would see the answers to your philosophical dilemmas as clearly as day. Yes, and if I had complete knowledge of all things I would also see the a...

wonder if there isn't something slightly Freudian in the fact that every time he types the word "believe" he misspells it I like that, I like that alot! But, please, not another one of those objections. I'm getting really tired of this. As both you and me pointed out Mr. Rowden, my explan...

Ah, but that is the question isn't it?

I agree with that assessment of Kant, he get's a bit too wrapped up in his own theories for my taste, but the statement in itself underlines the point that it's not easy to grasp these concepts with either our reason or imagination. The same goes for the problem with finite/infinite.

Mr. Quinn: we can know for certain that Reality is not nothing whatsoever It's not that I want to be difficult here, but for this statement to make sense you must define "reality". Does it mean; something (as an unspecified concept) is not nothing, or do does it mean something else? Does i...

Kant said the idea that the universe has a beginning is just as inconceivable as the idea that it is eternal.

If "Universe" means "everything", as the name would imply

Universe is from the latin Universus, which means something like: in its entirety, the whole of the thing. Don't think it implies "everything", but I'm not 100% sure about this.

Yes, Prince, when I claim not to know anything, I'm trying to make the impression that I do know something. If you are not willing to accept what I'm saying, why do you put meaning into my words at all? As for the more serious arguments, I said I'm fully aware that I didn't make things very clear in...

I'm sorry if I seem not to give others opinions due attention, but this has mostly to to with my growing impatience with Mr. Quinn's antics. I have met far too many ignorants through the years, so when somebody shows total unwillingness to at least try to understand, I tend to abandon a constructive...

Slippery little bugger aren't you? Ok, Mr. Quinn, I'll give it one more shot just because I sometimes enjoy an exercise in futility. Does anyone else understand it? So you suddenly decided to modify your statement I see, that's nice. it's obvious Again you go with all that is obvious . You take this...

Just another funny thing:

no one else is in a position to appreciate your insight.

Obviously, what Mr. Quinn doesn't understand, no one understands.

Fear of not-knowing does not lead towards knowing.

Mr. Quinn:

What mistakes are these? Please point them out

And after I've pointed out one:

I'm trying to prod you into an actual discussion.

I think this speaks for itself.

so that I can learn from your guiding wisdom You are not getting a bit defensive here? please consider the many others on this forum who could benefit from your input. Do you think they learn something simply by me pointing out your mistakes? But if you feel that way, I can take the first one in yo...

Reading Mr. Quinn's posting, is kinda like that picture puzzle they have in magazines; find 10 mistakes here. Unfortunately Mr. Quinn doesn't make that very hard for us. So, I'm sitting here thinking (yes, I actually do that sometimes), am I going to sit here and carefully go through the list one by...

You're both fools. There is no such thing as evil.

Predictable answers from predictable minds. You try to channel the discussion into areas where you feel more comfortable, i.e. where your ignorance is more easily disguiesed as wisdom. It's not difficult to see that Mr. Solway is not unfamiliar with retorics, but instead of using it to make things c...

To you who claim that science and logic is bullshit, have you actually tried it? Example: One of the most controversial, and containg the least amount of final truth of all sciences may be psychology. Still I say that if you are ignoring it because of this, you are making a great mistake. What psych...