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by Diebert van Rhijn
Tue Oct 22, 2019 4:26 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
Replies: 20
Views: 39502

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?

Lol Pam, I've combed through this forum (or in other parlance, rtff) pretty extensively and you'd be kidding yourself if you think what has been 'hashed' out (I did mention there has been a lot of discussion) translates to the complexities of individual and societal behaviour in any other way besid...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Tue Oct 22, 2019 3:59 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
Replies: 20
Views: 39502

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?

Now if we would agree that truth functions as a measure of correspondence with reality, two important questions rise together: can we get to know the real and how to get there, which path or method would apply? The question "what is ultimately real" is important but what most people look ...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:56 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
Replies: 20
Views: 39502

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?

Truth is the measure of correspondence with reality. Which leads to the question of "what is real"? That's to a large degree the discussion topic as stated in the forum banner: what is ultimately real and therefore significant? But since *everything* is real That doesn't help anyone with t...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:48 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
Replies: 20
Views: 39502

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?

@Avolith I turned my response to you into a series of articles, only the first of which is currently visible due to a glitch caused by Diebert's administrative incompetence. Not sure what you are on about. Do you mean a board glitch? It's not my board nor am I administrator of it. So please direct ...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:45 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The Real Climate Debate
Replies: 25
Views: 44945

The Real Climate Debate

The real rebate is between two groups: 1. A confident, non-political group that believes technology, informed investments, rational decision making, and the use of the best scientific information will lead to a solution of the global warming issue. An optimistic group that sees global warming as a ...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Oct 21, 2019 12:38 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Totally predicted Diebert catching onto that. I'm not sure why you're so fixated with nuclear holocaust, Diebert. Or are you just trying to make the point that there are other issues besides climate change that need to be dealt with, and that one ought not to demonize an entire political faction be...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Oct 20, 2019 11:27 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Ok, now onto Diebert. There is no question that Diebert is .. Hello? I'm here, trying to dialogue with grownups. Of course you are free to jump on a table and pretend you never were. To tune the participant out like that seems a bit of passive-aggressive move and somewhat self-aggrandizing. But I'l...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Oct 20, 2019 9:57 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: on the notion of beginless past and endless future
Replies: 15
Views: 27295

Re: on the notion of beginless past and endless future

Rhett: The Totality is happening, its a brute fact. Concepts .... can be added... Diebert: We're not there to know. Who is not where? The Totality is all encompassing. To claim a thing or location to be outside of the Totality would be to contradict the definition of the Totality. Your definition o...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Oct 20, 2019 8:21 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51163

Re: Defining Racism

Also @Diebert why did you remove my image bro? It was obviously making a point directly relevant to the discussion. So if I upload like an image from a non-OCR'd pdf you'd delete that too? Is this bot-like modding policy really called for? Nothing was removed, the large image was turned into a nice...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Wed Oct 16, 2019 8:20 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

So, quoting Yang, it's better to see Trump as a symptom and not the core problem (and clutch at whatever straws one can grasp to drive a powerful counter narrative to the one Trump uses, as Yang is doing). Sure, he feeds the pathos the way it fed him, which makes him problematic, but it can hardly ...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Wed Oct 16, 2019 8:16 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Of course, I have no way of knowing if Diebert is unconsciously or consciously alluding to philosophical (conscious/temporary) suicide when he refers to nuclear annihilation or if his apparent desire to eliminate all ethical boundaries is related to the experience of the eternally restless spirit o...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Wed Oct 16, 2019 8:07 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

G'day David! Any update on geniusrealms or your new chapter of the Wisdom of the Infinite? I'm asking about the first because I think, as some people have commented on as well, that some good source disappeared overnight. In a world where everything already is so dispensable and throw-away, I'd have...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:17 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

As predictable, yet another discussion unfolds in a pretty cringe worthy fashion. I thought I'd throw in my two cents, swim around in the cesspool for a bit, then excuse myself of the generic inanity involved here. It's nice to see you diving in! You have a lot to say actually and it's sometimes go...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Tue Oct 15, 2019 2:57 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

In fact most your posts on these issues feature it ever since Trump won. You have nothing much to say about them but feel compelled to say something out of a sense of duty as forum elder, etc.? Kind of like David! Understanding and accepting the fact, reported across the Western world, that decepti...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Tue Oct 15, 2019 2:51 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Good to see you’re still alive. What has happened to Kelly Jones, do you know? I haven’t heard a peep from her in a long time. Kelly had this amazing project of building her own ecohouse which seems to have been finalized. What a great endeavor of will and determination to follow a plan through! An...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:07 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

There were matches of Futsal, which is a modified version of soccer. ... So, have we now created spaces where Australians no longer feel comfortable or participate? Is this multiculturalism, one nation, or is this multiple nations in one? For the sake of a counter argument: statistically it's perha...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Fri Oct 11, 2019 8:19 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

The “extreme left” also opposes pedophilia. Does my own opposition to pedophilia make me a member of the “extreme left”? What a nonsense. Pedophilia has little to do with any political affiliation. While strong opposition to the right or fighting fascism does. Logically, the most extreme opposition...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:44 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51163

Re: Defining Racism

Jupiviv, you might have missed the implication of your own views. That's why I rephrased it a bit more correctly for you. Googling will not help you understand meanings, it helps you just replicate some endlessly, without effect. Let me explain again, slowly this time. Genetic variance is no good ar...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:23 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: on the notion of beginless past and endless future
Replies: 15
Views: 27295

Re: on the notion of beginless past and endless future

The Totality is happening, its a brute fact. Concepts .... can be added... We're not there to know. Whatever one senses "happening" is not naked. Any happening is depending on a sense of time, some short memory and association, a lot right there. We can of course surrender to any experien...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Thu Oct 10, 2019 3:41 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: New theories on consciousness
Replies: 6
Views: 15323

Re: New theories on consciousness

Hi Skip nice to see you pop in. Not sure if I can follow your colorful musings on lizards. You might want to organize a bit your inner world? Do you think you might have lost some "grip" there? Yes "wandering around the world soul-searching". In many ways a superior position, to ...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Tue Oct 08, 2019 3:47 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

I wouldn’t describe myself as left. I’m not sure how to describe myself politically. All I know for sure is that I am anti-right. That's one of the main definitions and characteristics of the "extreme left" :-) little more than a cesspool that trades exclusively in deception, paranoia and...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Tue Oct 08, 2019 3:33 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

But after decades of excessive immigration and other policies, Australia has a lessened sense of identity. It has less of a culture. It no longer has a vision for the future, how we are going to make it better. People arent as invested in it anymore. If it goes bad or gets worse people will just mo...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Sep 28, 2019 6:46 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: on the notion of beginless past and endless future
Replies: 15
Views: 27295

Re: on the notion of beginless past and endless future

Even our "present" is a construct created with the sense of passing time. It's more like a special case of the past, one that is in such a recent memory that we cannot tell exactly how far back it is or which element of the experience is formed how long ago exactly. Think of losing perspec...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:21 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?
Replies: 23
Views: 36699

Re: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?

Does my gratitude for hard determinism's logic cause me to 'jump through hoops to defend it' as was suggested in the original post? Since I didn't pick those terms, I can only suggest the context was the way causality is sometimes being framed in some of modern physics like quantum mechanics or per...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Sep 22, 2019 11:30 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51163

Re: Defining Racism

No, racism ought not to relate to "generalised DNA groupings" because there is no reason why something like that should be applied to humans, in which vastly more genetic variance occurs within so-called human races than out. But 85% of genetic variations exists within local populations ....