GENIUS FORUMS

You and Pam are definitely related.

Omfg

Truly, it’s magical! How the heck do you get a “therefore” from: P1: Consciousness and things are inseparable and arise together; or P1(a): Mental fabrications and the body are consciousness; and P1(b): Consciousness is the body and mental fabrications; therefore C: Consciousness of body and mental ...

Oh, come on, Pam. Don't, to put it kindly, play coy now. You are trying (badly) to argue for the possibility of a permanent world after body death.

I didn't refer to your use of the term "revealed". I didn't need to to understand what you were saying.

Causality allows for the understanding that being does not cease when one no longer identifies with human being (or any other of the six planes of existence/views of form fabrication). Ok, so how is that an argument for the possibility of a permanent world/a world where "we no longer identify ...

No, no sarcasm. I'm essentially asking you to explain why your use of causality is appropriate as an analogy. Do me a favour though; keep your answer as succinct as possible.

Are you asking me if, for example, I'd like to deliberately drive head on into an oncoming truck, or if I'm trying to unify the concept Consciousness of Form with the concept Non-conceptual?

You are quite obviously stating something about the causal connection known to you. What else can "it" be but what it is—something else?

That made sense, I think, right up until you contradicted yourself and said this:

however, what this casual connection "is" remains unknown to consciousness of form.

• Ears like the dumb, eyes like the blind.
  In the empty sky in the dead of night, the whole body is lost.
  Even Shariputra can't get a close look.
  The clubfooted Persian has crossed at another ford.

Oh, absolutely impeccable.

To your first paragraph, yes indeed.

To the second, yes—for justice.

Unless, of course, your approach to a genuine haunting is in the G rated realm of being slimed. Then, well, it's anyone's guess as to who the dark overlord is, eh?

:)

Not for Nietzsche!

Ever wondered what makes ghosts so hungry? They have no organs, much less a predatory nature.

And now it's my turn to laugh. This is a fantasy I certainly do not share with either of you. This terrible personage, a great Internet-winged eagle, terrorising pitiable 'online Communities' from the air, snatching up the lambkins from their green pastures of plenty, feasting on them in my rocky he...

Yes, of course, lineages —and “philosophical” ones, no less; thoroughly as they are divorced from a commensurate worldly life . How predictable is this practical Jew, co-opting the term "semite" to mean Jew for the sake of turning it against semites of all sorts in the name of Judaism! Wha...

Psst Pam, he isn't Catholic like he isn't a Jew or Christian or conservative even. Alex just fits on some stuff once in a year which then appears as something he's attached to. But he's more attached to the conversation and the shopping around than anything else. His dream is to belong! He knows th...

The man who lacks the inner life, values culture above all. Only through that can he forge some semblance of meaning for his own existence; as a servant of a greater God. The essence of slave morality. “The very word 'Christianity' is a misunderstanding. At bottom, there was only one Christian—and h...

I could state the same thing like this, too:

“Objective reality” is that utility in the cosmos. If a model of the cosmos is “good”, it’s objective to that degree. If it’s “bad” it’s subjective to that degree.

Maximiliano Vignaga quoted: Certainty and uncertainty are no more applicable to empirical models than the terms true and false are applicable to the definitions we create. Like definitions, the empirical models we create are either useful or not; they either have utility for some purpose or other o...

Thanks for the proofs in support of my claims.

My commiserations to you, Ghostav.

Gustav : At times I have thought Reality can be whatever it wants to be, Reality itself has choices, now? ...and it likely has infinite levels, and infinite possibilities. What establishes both reality and possibility in the first place is the very difference between the two. The absolute, by defin...

Gustav : All circumstances are, essentially, and according to the view I am exploring or suggesting, imaginary circumstances: a view of circumstance held in the mind. That is exactly where all of the difficulty here is found. Yes, it is exactly where all of the difficulty in that view (“here”) is f...

And next up on Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances, Gustav ditches Nietzsche in favour of Weininger in pursuit of the ever elusive Universal Man.

Oh, I get it now! God's history is the history of eternal inconsistency.

"Literacy will get you through times of skewed philosophy
better than skewed philosophy will get you through times of no literacy".

Insight penetrates both.

Well, if you're not going to take yourself and your thinking seriously I don't see why you think anyone who takes their own thinking seriously will bother with you. Ego is a human conception, thought up by thinking men, not an all-encompassing absolute truth. What is your point? Everyone is wise? Wi...