GENIUS FORUMS

Intrinsic really only means that something is not nothing. It means it is distinguishable from something else, it has a pattern that retains form for a period - it does not mean that something is a permanent thing. Intrinsic is the same as inherent: both implying the existence of an essential natur...

A logical God cannot be omniscient? What do you think? It's perfectly logical to say that God is omni, "the totality of all things that exist" or being itself. The contradictions come when adding omni to something that is limited by definition like knowledge or power, only temporary tiny ...

... the ideas I explained were arrived at by reasoning (at least partly) and certainly aren't purely due to "mere experience" in the way that you seem to be using that word. Okay, could you then show some of the reasoning that made you arrive at the idea expressed in your first post? But ...

What are you talking about your senses and feelings, impressions? I am talking about everything. Everything that I experience, everything that makes up existence and reality to me, nothing at all excluded. Experience, all experience "an sich" is the domain of our imagination. In this sens...

Welcome back then, Jason.

What are you talking about your senses and feelings, impressions? My dog has the same philosophy.

Why worrying about the impression you make on your entrance? Sounds you're not interested in philosophy as truth seeking but you're seeing it purely as style?

these geometrical forms are the "real life things" Just another more primitive level of interpreting our sensory. Bert, not sure how to be more clear at this moment and as LooF correctly observes, it's dragging out way too long to be of interest for either of us to continue here. Thanks f...

It's illusions all the way and the deepest secret is always hidden. O, but you did gave here your description of 'what really exists' for you: illusions and a secret lurking somewhere out of sight. How certain are you? Can you be more descriptive in how you came to this conclusion, especially about...

Entirely right, it's an accidental phenomenon. Sapius's statement has no logic to it. We can just as easily say that bananas evolved from real matter and display yellowness, but that doesn't mean that yellowness is ingrained in the fabric of the universe! Nothing is ingrained in the fabric of the U...

The lie. The unconscious lie. Every ruling instinct has all the other ones available as tools, royal household, bootlickers: it doesn't let itself be called by its ugly names: and it doesn't allow to be described by any negative terms: and it doesn't allow any other praise, which doesn't indirectly...

Hi Bert, Interpretations are caused by many factors inside and outside what you perceive to be 'man'. Why this demarkation? interpretations are the software of the mind and they are caused by man.The software being oftentimes dependent on the hardware;the sensing man.The hardware,for example :eyes,d...

An interpretation is caused by man and does not exists outside of him(except that they can come to appearance to other minds to via emotional content to recognition),though it may explain things to him that appear as outside. Interpretations are caused by many factors inside and outside what you pe...

Bert, I completely agree in the way you tell it,and are convinced of it. But it doesn't help me. Were you in need of help then? :) My example has nothing to do with yours.It was to let you see how things get very complex when you use the same words for other meanings. Indeed it doesn't and they do. ...

Dag Bert, As long as you see the '0' as a value that represents something that is bound it is impossible to put it against my concept of infinity.It is your very thought that makes boundaries. Or, by stripping '0' of bounds you force it into an infinite jacket. There are good reasons in my opinion t...

Not unlike the computer's microprocessor with its registers and stacks to perform binary calculations, there must be some use of memory in the brain to make any rational thought possible. Therefore questioning the inablity to determine the reliability of memory is the same as questioning if reason c...

Hello Bert, infinity=0 a word vs(versus) a number.In a way this gives more freedom,the interpretation is not bound to math. It was never math to begin with. In mathematics they are certainly never equal. But for clarity we could rephrase the statement into "infinity equals zero", "inf...

Another bit from the Nachlass. This one has been quoted often enough but I found the English translation lacking in power so I submit hereby my own as well as the original German. What I recount, is the story of the coming two centuries. I describe, what comes, what no longer can come in any other w...

analog57 wrote:A thing does not have the freedom to be anything else. It can only be itself. The law of identity is therefore a limitation on a thing.

To use analog's analogy:

The higher symmetry of both freedom and limitation is pure existance.

<insertion of some relativity and humor> One could wonder if the models and interpretations of quantum physics are perhaps revealing more of our own thought processes or faith in our 'objectivity' than it's really helping describing Reality. The following article might describe one of the consequenc...

Beingof1 wrote:

diebert wrote:I've no problem with the Universe starting and ending with Christ.

Of course that would mean it starts and ends with you if ya know what I mean. ;)

Not really, since i am not Christ...

analog57, I'll try it for the last time, very slow this time and using other words. 1=1 1+1 = 2 1=1 (here the equal sign denotes a logical and reflexive relation on a set containing the number '1') 1+1 = 2 (here the equal signs denotes a relation between the function '1+1' and the counting number '2...

Oh, Diebert. That's because the universe has only been around for some 2000ish years. There was nothing, really, before Christ. That's why it's all in the negative, so to speak. The truth began in the year zero. All else prior is fairy tale. Oh I don't know. I've no problem with the Universe starti...

Infinity is not finite. Why? Because infinity = infinity. That is to say, A=A. You can't see this? A+A = 2A This formula is invalid, since you can't add a thing to itself. To which I'll add ( again! ) A is here not a mathematical variable which can be multiplied or cloned. So only A + A' is possibl...

How bizarre, someone mentions Jesus and they are pigeon holed as clueless. This is the attitude I am talking about, open your mind and heart and let some light in. Be clear in your expressions. Mentioning Jesus is fine but giving such importance to a literal historical dimension makes no sense in p...

To me it seems mostly a playing with words. Symmetry is a fancy way to talk about invariances (constants, absolutes) in physics. Or perhaps a way to talk about objectivity . So when Analog states that "symmetry subsumes absolutism", he is really stating that "absolutism subsumes abso...

Does anyone have any idea what he is talking about? Why not bring this back into the real world and provide some concrete examples. To me it seems mostly a playing with words. Symmetry is a fancy way to talk about invariances (constants, absolutes) in physics. Or perhaps a way to talk about objecti...