GENIUS FORUMS

Jamesh: What the difference between a thing and a process? Is Exists a verb or a noun? They seem to work in concert to me.I must confess I've haven't satisfactorarly come to a conclusion about your question however. Heiddegger puts it like this: Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but...

You do seem like a nice fella Alex,but Jebus you can waffle.That treatise reads like a man trying to rationalise the irrational in his own mind. If you get nothing else from your time on GF at least try and understand the importance of clear thinking and ordering your thoughts succinctly. It is my a...

Pretty stock standard Christian when push comes to shove. He doesn't believe God is the 'everything/totality' at all. In fact.... Bowes : God is more than everything because God is deeper than matter and more rarified than the most tenuous ether. God is a Spirit and those who know God, worship God i...

Yes,i thought he was all over the shop too.In the end I got the impression he was a pretty standard Christian who'd dabbled in a bit in Buddhism and was trying to make it all somehow work. It is in fact entirely possible that the contents of our consciousness are somehow transferred to another body ...

I found Kevin a little dissapointing in that discussion in that not only did he let him 'off the hook' a couple of times he even seemed to start apologising for him. Firstly it occured on the discussion on evolution-Clearly Father Bowes is a believer in intelligent design .I don't see why this had t...

His use of the term "approximation-knowledge" would indicate that he was talking about empirical knowledge, but I have a feeling that he was talking about conceptual knowledge as a whole, which would include math, academic concepts, philosophic logic, etc, as well as empirical knowledge ....

I'm pretty new to Kierkegaard, so I'd be interested in comments on this piece. When K. uses the term 'historical knowledge' is he refering to merely empirical knowledge,or all knowledge? Kierkegaard; The positiveness of historical knowledge is illusory, since it is approximation-knowledge; the specu...

Jebus,if that's the highlights I'd hate to see the filler.

He didn't say anything.

G'day Robert Searle.

On cursory glance it looks much the same as C.H Douglas' Social Credit idea.To quote Milton Freidman by way of reply-"Theres no such thing as a free lunch"

Henry George had some goood ideas on this subject,in my view.But he doesn't seem fashionable these days.

I'll try another guess then give up.It relates to time and knowledge.Although the 'Venus' alludes me.

Future, Past and Present.

A priori,A posteriori and Actual.

'Venus' could be so many things in VicDans riddle.I'm thing it may represent 'clarity' or 'purity'

My guess is "Clear thinking middle"

Leyla.

You've posed some pretty hairy questions.Ones that I would've be inclined to debate with you 10 years ago but these days have lost the urge.

A bit woosy on my part, I know.

Yes, thats fair enough.One can favour less stark version of the American system like the Swedish one but it still doesn't solve the problems that Dan Rowden has outlined. I've lived in Sweden,for a short time.In my experience they were still every bit the materialist(generally speaking) that the Ame...

The theme of this reminds me of Churchills quote on democracy. It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. The same can be applied American egalitarianism. At least that can be said of the American system is that one has options.At the ...

Yes,that is a nice and reasoned explaination of Dialetical Monism.I'm with naturyl all the way until he gets to 'future' To me it seems a non sequitar from his previous logic. Based on an examination of human history, a dialectical viewpoint suggests that the future, over long time scales, will be c...

It is indeed the creative principle of all things, but it is infinitely dumb. - It is all rather simple.I don't see why man has strived so hard throughout history in attempt to demonstrate 'intelligence'.It creates many more questions than it solves. If ever there was an application of Occams Razor...

I was just having a peruse of Kevin's Dictionary.

Optimist: ....(3) a bridegroom who thinks he has no bad habits.

Simply splendid.

Where the rubber hits the road is what a religion does to a culture. We have Pol Pot, Mao, and Stalin to show us what atheism can do. I would argue Mao,Stalin and Pol Pol were every bit the theist-Communism was their God,Marx their prophet.One doesn't attempt to acheive 'year zero' unless he has a ...

Gospel of Buddha -Paul Carus.

it's on David's website.

To rephrase this such that someone doesn't pretend that this is a belief system that can be avoided: "a pantheist has admitted that he, including his consciousness, is a part of the Totality. He understands that the only access he will ever have to the world is through his consciousness (Heide...

Yes,cognitive dissonance does seem to explain quite alot.

I recall your "hidden void", whatever is beyond our consciousness. I would like to stop at the "hidden void", however you go one step beyond and do some metaphysics to reach conclusions that identify things that fall into the "hidden void". I don't need to deny that th...

It just seems kind of sad to hear an old and beaten man conceding that, yes, rationality might indeed count for something. His rationality seems very fleeting though. He spends most of the video declaring we must not personify God yet still cant resist declaring we must spend our time thinking abou...

I'm not so sure that Wittgenstein had a "conclusion" as such. But he did present ideas that he thought were true, and those ideas tended to change throughout his life. Poor phrasing on my part(ironically).What i should've said is that I reached a similar conclusion to the one you expresse...

Words are only symbols which point to other symbols. It seems to me that written words began as simple drawings of things we saw in our minds - a written form of a word that already existed in our minds. Without the symbols in our mind (and the boundaries that create them), reasoning would be impos...