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Cahoot wrote:Larry cracks me up.

Larry, you say...?

Dan Rowden wrote:It's good that you've found somewhere else to write, Donna. Please stay there.

I thought it was GodsDaughter:

but tough luck to late!

Anyway, at that time I remember hearing on the radio something about a Cousin Basil who was a senatorial nominee from South Carolina, I think it was. Does your name reference that fellow? If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve... No, Diebert had it right a while back with his mo...

This is a different matter. Things like falling in love, experiencing intuitions and altered states, or sublime forms of happiness, can happen "incidentally", without our intending to experience them. But enlightenment is not like this. Enlightenment can only come about after a long and s...

Thanks for the links. Now before anyone remarks this is no proper way of measuring it, let me tell you this is exactly how academic activity and excellence is measured around the world especially in these disciplines, as long as it's somewhat reputable of course. You are of course correct about that...

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

I had not heard that one. Thanks for that.

Very good. But Iran is known to be unmatched worldwide for the amount of philosophy in their schools, book publishing and communities. But which kinds and how broad one might wonder? Perhaps any kind is better than no kind and crass entertainment instead. Perhaps you could back that up with a link ...

I will add that there are two types of duplicity. There is the duplicity of a man who intentionally wants to pull you (and himself) away from God, and then there is the duplicity of God. If you're serious about your spirituality, you already know the enemy is God I would argue that I am serious abo...

We can say that reigned-in logic - i.e. logic kept on a short leash, confined to tightly sealed compartments within the mind, reduced to the harmless and the academic - is neither good nor evil. It becomes evil, to our good selves, when it is unleashed and allowed to roam free. I think I see the po...

I assume by patronizing you mean "treating others in a condescending manner". Are you saying, then, that you think these two truths - that logic is evil and that love is the source of suffering - are so obvious that I am only treating everyone here as idiots by even mentioning them? Patro...

If absolute truths are that which is true in all worlds. And if you are saying that in this world a square circle is impossible in all worlds, make it clear. It's like saying Absolute (I define) ((square and circle)) now prove me wrong. Absolute truths must be true in all possible worlds - I will a...

David, stop with your nonsense about logic being evil and therefore a man who embraces, and lives by, logic is an evil man. This is patronizing - the same way the common pronouncement by GF sages that love is the true source of man's suffering is patronizing. If I get Cory right, there is a measure ...

Evil is not the opposite of good, as imperfection is not the opposite of perfection. The end of all imperfections is perfection. "Be perfect, as your heavenly father is perfect!" - Jesus Christ. What is done by Nature that is not perfect? An earthquake? A great flood? They are perfectly p...

True, but then again most of the posts at GF are not relevant to thread they're in.

[the earth is by far mostly empty space...] Nope. It is all empty space, as it is space. ... and the other name for space, its causal name, instead of its effect name, is Time. What makes space seem to not be empty is that space-time twists and overlaps, but it is actually empty of any other thing....

Be Afraid: Russia and China Seek To Put In Place Top-Down Regulation Of The Internet It's a bunch of countries who are seeking to use the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to create a top-down regulatory scheme for the internet. This issue is going to pick up steam pretty quickly in the n...

The latter have their place, of course, because it takes theorizing to move forward, but the fact is physics has been mired in the purely theoretical for more than 50 years. The last 50 years the development of the information age and computing would not have been possible without the essentials of...

The solid earth beneath us is as empty as a vacuum. A vacuum is as full as the insides of the human brain. Even though you are using the terms empty and full in a philosophical sense, it is interesting to note that in physical terms as well, the "solid" earth is anything but. Due to atomi...

Using this in a proper example, let’s take the concepts of male and female. I’m male not female, until I try and define and fit that maleness into some form of absolute nature, as when I do I find that No, I’m only male to X degree and female to Y degree. If you are addressing this to David in part...

The latter have their place, of course, because it takes theorising to move forward, but the fact is physics has been mired in the purely theoretical for more than 50 years. Much of modern QM, Astrophysics and Cosmology is totally theoretical. Cosmology yes. QM, not so much. In fact the QM nature o...

That sounds logical in our 3 dimensional world....but what if someday we discover there's a 4th dimension, etc. ? Would our 3rd dimensional logic necessarily apply in other dimensions ? But this has already happened. Einstein has described time as the fourth dimension and has demonstrated that the ...

To think that any perspective - or any amount of genius or insight - can make a square circle a possibility is delusional if not borderline insane. I agree...but it has been stimulating my brain and teaching me a lesson in logic. I was just having fun with this playing the devils advocate....but th...

A square circle is a two dimensional object that simultaneously meets the definitions of "square" and "circle". i.e., an impossibility. Why this example always draws debate when it crops up is beyond me. It is merely an example of a logical contradiction. It is not some kind of ...

Dennis says to be yourself, warts and all, implying that to do otherwise is some kind of facade - or some other undesirable phoniness. Kunga said I was phony for persitently mentioning emptiness, hiding behind a facade. Who am I talking to, basil or brokie? If you look over to the side of the post,...

What you is there? What self? What if this supposed self did not like a behavior, and stopped that behavior when and where that person could. Maybe at first it was only on the internet that the person could stop having temper tantrums - or maybe it was only offline. Then later the person was able t...