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Empiricism is knowledge derived, in part , from sense experience. The dictionary says that it is knowledge derived from sense experience, which to me is not a satisfactory definition, because all knowledge is to some degree an invention, a definition, and yet, to some degree derived through the sens...

It seems to me that all humans naturally operate on an assumption of what the truth is. Just watch and listen to people carrying on with their worries and aspirations. Everyone, on some level, knows that the truth is that which happened, is happening or will happen. In other words, truth is invariab...

don't think one could call Sylvester Stallone, or a male rabbit, masculine, unless one's standards are very low. Jack Nicholson, Bob Dylan, Dan Dennett, Sam Harris, Ludwig van Beethoven, Samuel Butler, Thomas Merton, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Celia Green, and Camille Paglia, are examples of masculinity ...

I heard the term "emotional pornography" thrown around a few times toward these media figures, as if what they do is some kind of exploitation, an immoral kind of public service. In my view, Oprah isn't as bad because she seems to focus on helping celebrities find closure and resolution in...

Jup, I find you neither funny, nor insightful. You are a presumptuous douche, in fact.

Tom, fyi, every time you've posted in this thread, my respect for you has diminished. :(

Seriously, someone lock this inane thread.

It's a scientific endeavor and hence always an uncertain one. You'll never know if you're egoless, because there may be some experiences that make you upset. To find out if you're really egoless, you'd have to endure more and more terrible or elating things, which seems silly to do. Know what I mea...

You can only end the false ego, or self. The true ego doesn't need to be ended. The True self, from my understanding, is identification with everything. The problem is that I don't find I am living this way, I find myself living as if I am separate from people, in competition with them or vulnerabl...

It's a scientific endeavor and hence always an uncertain one. You'll never know if you're egoless, because there may be some experiences that make you upset. To find out if you're really egoless, you'd have to endure more and more terrible or elating things, which seems silly to do. Know what I mean...

Kelly Jones wrote:Repulsion from big-herd can often go with tolerance of little-herd. Most people prefer a little select group of friends to act as a sharper foil for the ego, while the crowd is usually too bland.
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Ok, Kelly, so what do you do when invited to family gatherings? Or what's your advice to me?

Good observations, Loki. Your family, nearly any family really, values the togetherness in itself, the vocal chords being exchanged becoming as significant as the mooing of cows. True to an extent, but unlike mooing, you just can't say anything. You have to be, at least in my family, rather specifi...

What I find so distasteful about them... These people, my larger family, seem to want nothing to do with me one on one. None of them ever call me, they don't come visit me, they don't share my interests. They only want me to join them in a crowd, never to actually face me as I am. At a family gather...

Emotionally I have brought people to their knees, entirely upset their mind state. I agree that everyone can be vile, it is certainly something humanity is capable of. However It has come to be something which I enjoy, something I thrive on. Do you find the internet a satisfactory arena for your ha...

More than a few times, I've encountered men who think that women are, in some significant way, more imaginative than men. Why do they think that? Where does this belief come from? Perhaps we should consider the character of the man who states women are more imaginative than men. I think you'll find ...

With my first thread here I believe I should allow a glimpse of my mind to you, for I am in fact a psychopath. Now it may seem unlikely to many of you that I should wish to reveal my guise but the intellectual and the philosopher within me have tempted me to do so. Originally I assured myself that ...

You guys need to define your terms, otherwise you are just pretending you know what the other person is talking about. If we are going to say life has no purpose, then we better know what we mean by the term life. Also, living is not necessarily the equivalent to life.

What IS robotic is the idea of eradicating all signs of ego. Ego, aggression, the will to power is the human element. And while it can be pragmatized, there's no reason for me to think it can be erased. Then this is the same as saying that no one can become truly free within the Infinite. Are you r...

His approach in talking about it, however, is very different to Kevin's or my approach, in that he rarely spoke about it directly. If SK meant what you guys mean, then I find his approach utterly foolish, pretentious and emotional in nature. 99% of his readers are going to think he's referring to a...

Belief is the consciousness of time, and through belief we determine truth and falsity. Buh, it's all just petty semantics with you! Petty word games! I once told you that it's through acceptance of appearances that we determine Truth, and I don't see how my use of the word acceptance is any differ...

A=A is an example knowing truth, and based on my definition of logic, it is a statement about "A". A=A is not knowledge itself. Rather, it is the belief that there is knowledge. You can never prove A=A, only believe in it. That depends on how you define belief, and how belief is different...

So A=A is an example knowing truth, and based on my definition of logic, it is a statement about "A". Logic, by definition, creates duality. "A" in contrast to "not-A" According to your other thread , duality can only happen in the mind and so this should imply that A=...

Ok, I get all that now. In fact I already knew that, but I had a lapse of confusion. I'm back on track. So an experience is partly a memory, experience has a conceptual aspect. An experience always has the components of meaning and meaninglessness, because even if you see nothing but clearly identif...

Neither True or False Is there an experience that has no meaning, no relative or absolute truth content? Is this logically possible? You are asking if you can experience meaninglessness? Our experiences, although they can be forgotten, are happenings we remember. So it helps to reflect on the natur...

Identifying "A" is not knowing Truth. Identification of A=A is knowing Truth. Identifying what A=A means , is knowing truth. Ok, I agree with that. That's really what I meant. Knowing implies that the meaning is discerned. My latest reflections on Meaning & Truth My dog seems to make ...

The Nature of Knowing Truth Not too long ago I seen the significance of A=A, and one characteristic I noticed about the piece of knowledge is that it is a logical statement about a thing. For instance, when we say blue is blue (and not red, green, orange, etc) we are making a statement about blue t...