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You'll need to read more thoroughly, Seeker.

Superficial reading is a bane of the age we live in.

Reading right: it's a matter of 'life' and 'death' (metaphysically speaking).

Intellect has always been dysfunctional: falsification of its own errors and knowing its own limitation is a feature of it, not a bug! Religiosity has always been skewed, perverted even. Naturally this will be expressed by every modern child looking for "truth". It's very good you recogni...

I admit it, I was deeply hurt. Thanks for the healing salve of good Christmas wishes.

Reason discards both. Again, all of this, or in any case a good deal of it, has a relationship to the dysfunctional intellectualism, the skewed religiosity, that is so wonderfully expressed by the Brotherhood of the Absolute. Remember: I regard these declarative stances as the corollary of and corr...

And what did you catch in that net?

"Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch." (Novalis) __________________________________________ Another quote from Nabokov ('Speak, Memory'): "You can get nearer and nearer, so to speak, to reality; but you can never get near enough because reality is an infinite succession...

"Enjoy the game, it's all we have". _________________________________________ Ridiculously enough, I pulled this out of an opinion/article in this morning's NY Times in a section called ' The Stone '. The writer is Roy Scranton, a product of the New School of Social Research which fits, I...

But it isn't placed or applied anywhere else but with these contemplations around existence, reality and what's ultimately important or not. One could even say that reality itself is found to be this explosion. And what's then left to apply? http://m.uploadedit.com/ba3n/1450661698152/my.gif Waldo F...

Crawling and walking - or flying - is still movement. Suckling and drinking are still nourishment or, to follow Vaishnava philosophy, the very root of desire (satisfactions of the tongue). One knowing or another knowing is still desire to know or exploration, isn't it? But if I am reading you correc...

"Of course first it has to be realized what's really important! " __________________________________________ Then again, all your efforts have revealed a cultural reactionism and even soft-fascism at times. You have nothing but some conservative revisionism. All because you are rejecting ...

From an interesting study called 'Nabokov in America' by Robert Roper that sketches Nabokov's years in America as he wrote numerous of his American novels such as Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire and his autobiography. This selection begins with "Reality showed itself to be ambiguous, self-undermining a...

If that is true, then untruth, unreality and obfuscation are intimately connected to a sense of what is *felt* not to be true. I am not one of them, but there are plenty of people on this forum itself who would *feel* dissatisfied and even angry at your explanation, and who would *feel* satisfied o...

"The life-giving hope of the soul is contrary to the hope of the reason". Kierkegaard's faith . From a secondary source, of course. Nevertheless it establishes, in my view at least, an utterly contrary and oppositional perspective about Kierkegaard's spirituality. It is from Regis Jolivet...

In other words, you don't have a valid counterargument and are compensating for this by ceasing to make even the bare civilised minimum of sense. 'Truth', 'reality', 'explanation': these are intimately connected to a sense of what is true: what is felt to be true. 'To explain', we understand, means...

As to good books on Christian apologetics I first want to say that I was not much impressed with 'Mere Christianity'. I have found Christopher Dawson to be more interesting - more vital if you will - philosopher of Christian religion from a believer's perspective. A Catholic theologian, he has writt...

If that statement is true, then according to its own premise it must be dependent upon a sentiment which in some way favours the state of its being true. If the positive influence of that (or any) sentiment upon the truth of that statement is considered valid, then it follows that the negative infl...

Most atheists *are* irrational atheists, since their disbelief in God is based on emotions rather than reasoned thought. The author of that article says as much. What he doesn't mention is that he himself was an irrational atheist, which is why he converted to Christianity. I see any atheism (yet t...

No, 'Quinn' is just a symbol really! In any case, this is only a bit of where we left off. One always has to cover a bit of that ground. There are other fish to fry as the saying goes. And I really think there is something quite crucial which you are failing - definitely failing - to take into enoug...

There is no doubt that a contemplative life, a contemplative relationship, to ideas, to existing, can and will lead to self-knowledge. No argument there. Yet the question which Jupi seems to pose, or the problem in which he lands, with a contemptful splat, has to do with - but what does it have to d...

You cannot merely 'whisper' his name though: it has to be intoned with intentionality. The brown rat-killer virgin from India - a worshippable saint - quite definitely has such intentionality. That is his most notable feature I think: the focus of the mind as if he is crushing the Cosmic Cockroach. ...

Logorhea did you say? I'd suggest that that was a heroically long post which, likely, could be summed up with a sentance of 5 or maybe 6 words. Both Jesus and Alex tend to find their way deep into people's lower layers. I am beinning to wonder what connection Alex has to the Aion and the world's des...

Under that condition I cannot participate.

Nobody ever complained it was not clear what was meant by it or that it needed something more. It's not something exact just like life, love, god, etc. But also not completely obscure either. That is too bad. That is perhaps a mistake? A new examination, in a new 'temporal modality', may lead to ne...

What degree might any one of us have gotten here were it not for our service to man kind here on GF? The purpose, you ask? The purpose?! The purpose is---or did I get this wrong?---the discovery of or the approximation to Truth. Why not take life and Reality at a surface level? It is not true that '...

Yes, but you and I both know that what I mean is the following: The various terms used by our friends QR and S have meaning of which they are unconscious. In other words, they have to be 'unpacked' in the sense of 'exposed'. What they are---what they *mean*---is in fact somewhat different from what ...