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Don't know what Nietzsche has said or not, but on reality vs. no reality: There can only be order in the world if there is a reality.... Therefore, this leads me to conclude that there is a reality. One which you can call the absolute (or really, the only) truth. Nietzsche wanted to go beyond this ...

there's no such thing as "objective" truth and no-one here advocates such a thing as any kind of ultimate reality.As for Nietzsche, meta-logic, dude, meta-logic. You cannot assert a lack of an ultimate reality without contradicting yourself. Neither of those men did so. For example David ...

It's clear he thought that ultimately deeper understandings about life were to be found intuitively and existentially. This is completely in line with whatever I've understood at this forum and the work of its founders Except when Nietzsche got to that point he would revaluate the position, and hav...

Why are Nietzsche and Nagarjuna held as paragons of wisdom here when they both argue against the existence of objective Truth? Because they both argue for being wise about it? Nietzsche does not address any absolute, objective truths anywhere. 'On Truth and Lies in an Extramoral Sense' Nietzsche su...

Why are Nietzsche and Nagarjuna held as paragons of wisdom here when they both argue against the existence of objective Truth? Nagarjuna negates the separate existence of Truth. He shows that concepts such as causality, time, dharma, and substance are inconsistent and contradictory when subjected to...

I've been reading some Locke and he argues against the notion that there are innate ideas. It's easy to understand that many of our ideas are drawn from experience, but do you think there are any ideas that inherently can't be drawn from experience and could be innate? He argues against the idea tha...

I'm a biological female.

By "the voice of woman", I meant the voice of the unconscious ego.

I wrote the above using "a man's voice" (a conscience).

Hilarious, keep it coming sweet cheeks.

david caused to think x

sam caused to think not-x

sam and david caused to argue with each other

Woman's tears are all about being consoled. People know this and respond accordingly. Even when she is all alone, her tears are just for that purpose. But when faced by a man's tears, people often are at a loss to know how to deal with them. They are not a request for consolation from others, and e...

maestro wrote:Come on guys nobody has ever read one paradigm shifting book?

when I was 10 i flipped through a playboy...that gave me a huge paradigm shift.

Carl G wrote:You are two deep, brother.

Better than just being one deep.

It is a necessary fabrication, though, until such time that our minds are no longer fooled by the existence of things. For example, to experience any kind of fear, or to be scared of death, is a form of being taken in by the existence of things - which would indicate that the fabrication of causati...

It is a correction to the illusion that reality has discrete parts. Thinking in terms of causality is why discrete parts are imagined. Discrete parts are illusions. Thus the causality is an illusion. An illusion is not the correction of anything. The illusion of causality must be corrected itself. ...

That is for the mind to discover after its surrender to the truth of causation. Causation is the illusion that reality has discrete parts. Cause and effect make up the very body of Reality. An idea regarding the imagined separation of reality into parts makes the body of Reality? Causation's main s...

I'm amazed by long-winded book series' that manage to dextrously avoid saying anything of substance, and suspect that there's a relationship between that and their widespread appeal. I'm looking at you Marcel Proust, J.K. Rowlings, R.A. Salvatore, Robert Jordan, Piers Anthony, and whatever committe...

samadhi wins.

Ideas can be descriptions of regularities, as can bowel movements, and be themselves, too. Yep, you can describe an idea, or just have it. Just like you can describe a dream, or just perceive it. Outside your perception of a bowel movement, there is no bowel movement. Before I opened a watermelon, ...

While I think books can change your point of view and give you neat things to think about, I don't think there are any secrets to be revealed...anymore than there are secrets to the rules of chess. How can you say there are no secrets to be revealed. For example in physics, the laws of motions are ...

It has been my experience that some books reveal hidden aspects of the world/mind so that it makes much more sense after reading them. Two such books I have read recently are "Thought as a system" and "In search of the miraculous". I therefore request members to suggest any book...

Hmmm...but certainty is just a state of mind, one that lacks doubt. I don't think it's as complicated as we think, I don't think we need foundations or a reasoning process to reach certainty...because we could always doubt the foundation or the process itself. All you have to do to be certain is to ...

Science has no methodology. The methods used by biologists studying cells are different than the methods used by zoologists studying packs of wolves. And the methods of physics change from year to year etc... Experimentation and verification is theory dependent. For example the meaning of mass chang...

Ok, check this: You can be certain of what you perceive. (a pain that is felt is a pain that is felt A=A) You can be certain of what you define. (a bachelor is someone who is unmarried - again A=A) Neither of these are true or false though, they just are. ^ So you can't be certain of any truth? To e...

It seems to me that the only thing you can be certain of, is that you perceive. You see an appearance, or feel something, and thats that, there is no doubt about it, there is no true or false there, it just is. What you can be deceived about is your interpretation of that appearance, your judgment o...

It's funny to read about Kierkegaard and his schemes to win Regine Olsen.


And the effects she had on him after he broke off the engagement are even sillier.

average, What are absolute truths? I read David saying that the problem doesn't matter if you are enlightened since you are in a mental state beyond true and false, sane and insane. I can imagine this, it would be similar to someone who just doesn't care about true and false at all, and just watche...