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Cheers Pam. Great Spirit.

Hi Pam. I have serious reservations about ‘conversing’ with you on equal terms. I will, but … Here’s my summary: you do not do research, you do not know what valid inference means, you do not know and respect the power of words and you do not have your feet on the ground. On any ordinary metaphysica...

Hi Pam. You have not been as explicit as I think you intended to be. "Seduction" is not analysed. I think you are saying one must see past the beatific splendour of the mystical event to find the intellectual content of what has been revealed. The "logic of transcendence" is not ...

Hi Diebert. Thanks for the reply. I think we have a procedural matter to deal with in a friendly way. Of course you can make any intelligent comment you wish, and you have made intelligent comment, but there is a bigger issue on the table: a change to the definition of logic. As a private individual...

Preamble: This essay is 3003 words. The length of previous essays was generally 1300 words. For coherence it is necessary to presented this overview of teleology in toto rather than in two Parts. Dialectics and Determinism This essay is ambitious. It is an abridgment of my teleology. With a minimum ...

Okay-dokky. Let’s go to work Pam on your experience. The ‘drugs’ suggestion was due to your not opening up about your number One experience, from which you issued edicts about the void being the ultimate Truth and reasoning is circular. Mine was a reasonable proposition [no prejudice] in the circums...

Dear Pam. You need serious cajoling. For someone who had a wonderful light and life experience like you did, you are not measuring up to the gift. There is Truth and logic in light, just as there is Truth and logic in life. You will find Truth in light in the later part of my Chapter Two. It is norm...

Religion and Absolute Truth The advent of Absolute Truth means the intellectual end for exoteric religion. Exoteric religion is ‘ordinary religion’ for ordinary believers who have faith and accept what they are told to believe. Exoteric is in contrast with esoteric which concerns mysticism. The inte...

Pam. Pam. I have criticised you before for being intellectually lazy, and there is still some of that, but you have opened up about your experience and your query about absolute language is highly relevant so I’ll hanging in there. I am not going to analysis consciousness like other people enjoy doi...

Cheers Pam. Let us start with Absolute Truth and absolutely true. I follow you but capitalisation would clearly state your meaning. "... consciousness is caused, it cannot find its cause." That statement is a truth about a phenomenon. Consciousness is not a Truth. It may be an aspect of a ...

the whole system of the existence, arrangement, forces and events of all physical life that are not controlled by man. [Collins Concise]

Diebert asked me, What example would you suggest as being "in harmony with nature" so that we can shed some light on your concept of harmony and nature "in action"? And restated the question as: … your statement "objectivity is not in harmony with nature", … how to appr...

As you know, I consider dualistic thought to be a disaster [just about everyone does], but I also consider it an unavoidable disaster. I even suspect Christ was aware of this [as per my next essay]. I know duality is capable of providing the opportunity for its transcendence via determinism. The con...

Diebert, I see you have asked a good question and I will try to answer. I have come on-line to ask you if you would care to write a 1000 word essay [2 pages], please, on religious influences from the East that could have had a bearing on religion in the Roman world. I am curious about whether they w...

Yes Diebert I am not well versed on the old Greeks and Romans. Heraclitus did not concern himself with the physical. You look to have a good grasp of the development of early philosophy. I read the text books looking for interesting leads. For example, Stoic metaphysics are non-existence / have not ...

jufa [sorry not jupa]. I am not going to indulge you.

Hi Diebert. The ancient Greeks were influenced by mystics like Heraclitus. I assume they wanted to use ‘thought and reason’ to connect with their world view. About ‘Persians, Hindu school and Egyptian thought’ I know nothing, but I guess their thinking was theological – straight off they accepted th...

Beyond Human Reasoning In a reply to Diebert I said duality was human reasoning and we had reality wrong. In this essay duality is subjected to critical analysis. The analysis finishes with brief comments on non-human Reasoning. Human reasoning; dualistic reasoning, is invented reasoning. The ancien...

At my request Diebert has removed the off topic posts that were made by Beingof1 and Russell Parr. Thank you Diebert.

In this essay I will recount how I made progress in metaphysics. It has a theme: finishing unfinished business. The following completes the outline of the systematising begun in the last essay. Finding ‘material’ for Individual Mind is the focus of the story. This is not the place for detail, but I ...

Diebert. Thank you firstly for intervening in the matter of ‘off Topic’ intrusions. My initial impression is that you are carefully combing thru the Introduction of my book, trying to find your feet and are having a load of past knowledge pressing in on your reading. There may be an edge of exciteme...

Preamble: I capitalise the “I” of Idealism to avoid confusion with moral idealism. Similarly I capitalise “T” for absolute Truth to avoid confusion with objective truth, and “I” for transcendent Idea. “R” for the Reason of the creation cause and “M” for the Mind behind appearances. For definitions o...

Russell and Being

These posts are off Topic.

Go away.

Hi Gustav. “A bear of little brain” is a quote from Winnie the Pooh. I believe Winnie says it of himself. In the spirit of A. A. Milne it should be said with affection. In the circumstances you got rough affection. Your congenial nature lead to the shit-storm that broke over your head. Because you c...

Being, I see that you have drawn me onto your favoured ground for argument: Maths. My preferred grounds are politics, which are far more complex. Consequently I see you can pay lip service to my points without having to enter into the complications of real logic. Throw in a rant or two. Add a misquo...