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by Matt Gregory
Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:20 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Definitions, Significance and Goedel
Replies: 10
Views: 3492

Re: Definitions, Significance and Goedel

Well, you have identified two aspects of definitions, significance and context, but I don't think that's a complete description. What made me think of it is the idea of conceptualizing a physical object. Logic operates independently of what the senses give us, or at least it can. So when the senses...
by Matt Gregory
Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:22 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Definitions, Significance and Goedel
Replies: 10
Views: 3492

Definitions, Significance and Goedel

I've been stuck for a long time on what a definition actually is, but I think I've finally figured it out. I apologize ahead of time if this post is unclear; it's the best I can do at the moment. Most of you are familiar with these kinds of definitions; I'm just trying to put a different spin on the...
by Matt Gregory
Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:45 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie
Replies: 114
Views: 20427

Re: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie

Well I mean why can't you call an effort to communicate with someone an "honest effort"? Oh, I can, and do call an honest effort to communicate with someone an honest effort to communicate with them. But doesn't this seem to imply, insofar as imparting truth goes, that perhaps your own em...
by Matt Gregory
Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:14 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie
Replies: 114
Views: 20427

Re: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie

MG: L: Well, I’m not sure exactly what you mean by an honest effort. To my way of thinking, an honest effort occurs when one is uncertain of a truth themselves rather than when one is involved in some sort of conundrum over imparting it. M: Why do you separate the two? Fair question. In order to di...
by Matt Gregory
Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:36 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie
Replies: 114
Views: 20427

Re: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie

Your ideas about empathy and morality are stupid and solve nothing. You're the kind of person who would rather let his children run out in the street because he feels too guilty to punish them. And then, when one of them gets killed, you would weep, "Oh why did this happen? I'm so confused!&qu...
by Matt Gregory
Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:37 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie
Replies: 114
Views: 20427

Re: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie

I did impart a truth, though. It was just a little, subtle truth. And yeah, I do admit I was looking at how she felt, not because I valued her feelings more than her understanding of truth, but because a person's feelings determine what they're able to take in. Feelings act like mental blocks. If I...
by Matt Gregory
Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:14 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie
Replies: 114
Views: 20427

Re: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie

Leyla, …but I think the effort was honest. Well, I’m not sure exactly what you mean by an honest effort. To my way of thinking, an honest effort occurs when one is uncertain of a truth themselves rather than when one is involved in some sort of conundrum over imparting it. Why do you separate the tw...
by Matt Gregory
Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:01 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Announcing "TheAbsolute TV"
Replies: 206
Views: 153029

Re: Announcing "TheAbsolute TV"

Here's a video on the mentality of morality that's pretty good:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jona ... _mind.html
by Matt Gregory
Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:29 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie
Replies: 114
Views: 20427

Re: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie

I assume that you mean to say your "you just gotta have faith that God knows best" says something about the Totality and/or causality to a theist, implying that if they don't get what you mean, it's because they're "not prepared" (how do you mean that, exactly?) to understand. N...
by Matt Gregory
Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:48 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie
Replies: 114
Views: 20427

Re: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie

Let me frame this a little differently. If I have an understanding of something and someone else has a different understanding of it, which I think is wrong, and I want to say something to direct them towards the understanding that I have, then I don't think that's lying. Now if they are simply not ...
by Matt Gregory
Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:37 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie
Replies: 114
Views: 20427

Re: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie

I do think that what I said to that waitress was true in the sense that I was suggesting to her that there's something higher than animal instinct, but the aspect about God was false. On the other hand, when I think about this, it occurs to me that there will always be some aspect of a spoken statem...
by Matt Gregory
Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:26 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie
Replies: 114
Views: 20427

Re: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie

Of course. I guess I need to explicitly phrase this in a philosophical context to get my question across. I think it will work better. One time I was talking to a waitress who was older, like 60-65, and she was babbling on quite a bit and she mentioned that her son died at 18 years of age and that s...
by Matt Gregory
Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:54 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie
Replies: 114
Views: 20427

Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie

Does persuasion and salesmanship count as lying? Where can you draw the line? If instead of a car salesman saying, "We got a new blue Cadillac in today", he said "We got a beautiful new blue Cadillac in today", did he turn that statement into a lie? Would it be different if the s...
by Matt Gregory
Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:39 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The Oneness Experience
Replies: 75
Views: 8028

Re: The Oneness Experience

I found an interesting tidbit on the absolute.net. This is from a radio transcript of a show titled THE NATURE OF REALITY William: Well, I'm of the view that there are boundaries that exist in the world - natural divisions in the way reality is structured that are quite independent of the way we th...
by Matt Gregory
Sat Sep 13, 2008 12:52 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why Value Absolute Truth?
Replies: 17
Views: 2726

Why Value Absolute Truth?

From the "To QSR: Is There Peace in Enlightenment?" thread: Dave Hodges wrote: Forget about enlightenment. Seek after truth - not for what you will get out of it - but simply because it is truth. It's the right thing to do. It may not bring you happiness. There are no guarantees. But the r...
by Matt Gregory
Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:53 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Announcing "TheAbsolute TV"
Replies: 206
Views: 153029

Re: Announcing "TheAbsolute TV"

Yeah but I mean something more explicit that explains what the idea of karma is good for and what it's not good for. A lot of people think that if someone wins the lottery, then, according to their karma, they must have helped lots of people in the past or whatever (maybe it's puppies?). They turn a...
by Matt Gregory
Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:07 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Announcing "TheAbsolute TV"
Replies: 206
Views: 153029

Re: Announcing "TheAbsolute TV"

How about one on karma (if you guys haven't done one already)?
by Matt Gregory
Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:25 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: FOOTHOLDS
Replies: 527
Views: 43804

Re: FOOTHOLDS

'Hey, Alex!' 'Yeah? Whaddayou want?' 'Got a question for you!' [Sotto voce: 'Oh Jaysus!'] Okay, what's the fucking question? 'If the whole universe were to disappear, would Heaven still be there?' 'What have you got planned, you shmuck!?' 'It's a theoretical question Alex' 'I don't think it is, I t...
by Matt Gregory
Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:19 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: FOOTHOLDS
Replies: 527
Views: 43804

Re: FOOTHOLDS

I so am not, Matt Gregory! :) I said, earlier: However, I think it should also be conceded that such an observation is not made by the Christian. He doesn’t stop to think deeply about what it means for the self to exist inherently---in fact, he is precluded from it. I'm "projecting" logic...
by Matt Gregory
Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:25 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: FOOTHOLDS
Replies: 527
Views: 43804

Re: FOOTHOLDS

Jason and Leyla, you're trying to project logical thought onto Christians, but it doesn't work that way. If, for example, you were to ask them, "What would happen to heaven if everything else in the universe disappeared?", they would assuredly say that heaven would still exist. They don't ...
by Matt Gregory
Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:55 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Can you ever be certain that you are reasoning correctly?
Replies: 623
Views: 86254

Re: Can you ever be certain that you are reasoning correctly?

I think people for the most part are stuck on the idea that absolute truth is about belief rather than logic. They reason that religions have used the concept of absolute truth to justify ridiculous beliefs and undermine individual thinking, therefore absolute truth is false. But that's not correct....
by Matt Gregory
Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:58 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What stupidity is
Replies: 27
Views: 5103

Re: What stupidity is

No I think it's more like behave like a retard and still get laid.
by Matt Gregory
Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:42 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What stupidity is
Replies: 27
Views: 5103

Re: What stupidity is

Aw, c'mon you guys. The answer is obviously "stupid is as stupid does."
by Matt Gregory
Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:41 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Can you ever be certain that you are reasoning correctly?
Replies: 623
Views: 86254

Re: Can you ever be certain that you are reasoning correctly?

David or Kevin: How can A=A hold in the physical world independently of consciousness? I do not know such a world. Not even through deduction? After all, the things we perceive have to be caused by something . . . something aside from what is in our minds because our minds don't encompass the whole...
by Matt Gregory
Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:41 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Can you ever be certain that you are reasoning correctly?
Replies: 623
Views: 86254

Re: Can you ever be certain that you are reasoning correctly?

David or Kevin: How can A=A hold in the physical world independently of consciousness?