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by jupiviv
Thu Sep 19, 2019 11:41 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418113

Re: Trump

Rhett wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2019 1:26 amif you value wisdom
Yes I value wisdom. That's why I'm trying to distinguish it from white nationalist agitprop conjured by the diseased brains of déclassé dingoes.
by jupiviv
Wed Sep 18, 2019 12:57 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418113

Re: Trump

JFC another 'race realist'! I believe that preventing illegal and problematic immigration is a positive thing. Excessive immigration increases the supply of labour and hence keeps wages low, which drags down the lower and middle class. Nothing is inherently a positive thing. Your argument boils down...
by jupiviv
Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:35 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Is there anyone here genuinely seeking enlightenment?
Replies: 12
Views: 25576

Re: Is there anyone here genuinely seeking enlightenment?

I havent been here for a long time. Is there anyone here genuinely seeking enlightenment? Forum population of the past year is 8 by my estimation, so your question is somewhat academic. But whatever, count me in. Seeking enlightenment is just a fancy name for trying to make sense of the world. I'd ...
by jupiviv
Sat Sep 14, 2019 12:56 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Bush did 9/11
Replies: 4
Views: 12516

Re: Bush did 9/11

Yet, further investigation has revealed that the trading had no connection with 9/11. LOL! The SEC and FBI, aided by other agencies and the securities industry, devoted enormous resources to investigating this issue, including securing the cooperation of many foreign governments. These investigator...
by jupiviv
Fri Sep 13, 2019 12:25 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Bush did 9/11
Replies: 4
Views: 12516

Bush did 9/11

University of Chicago finance professor George Constantinides said that the option market trading was “so striking that it’s hard to attribute it to chance. So something is definitely going on” (Roeder 2001). Other well-known academic experts such as Columbia University law professor John Coffee an...
by jupiviv
Mon Sep 09, 2019 6:06 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?
Replies: 23
Views: 36699

Re: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?

Principles apply to finite things no matter how abstract you make them. So the will or desire to be truthful about the nature of finite things cannot originate in them. The will to truth is also a finite thing, and like any finite thing it is created and destroyed by the All. An idea or principle l...
by jupiviv
Tue Aug 27, 2019 4:31 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?
Replies: 23
Views: 36699

Re: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?

The reason why your first sentence - only causality exists - cannot be true is because it has to conclude in your second sentence - nothing else does . What is this "nothing else"? If it refers to finite things, then it is false because finite things are how causality appears to us. Causa...
by jupiviv
Tue Aug 27, 2019 3:52 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?
Replies: 23
Views: 36699

Re: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?

If enlightenment was a fish that one is trying to spear, then not consciously appraising interdependence of identity would be trying to catch the fish with the blunt end. Of course, the conscious reflection of the 'principle' is in itself just an appearance, nothing more. Like I said, you can't get...
by jupiviv
Sun Aug 25, 2019 3:42 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?
Replies: 23
Views: 36699

Re: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?

Literally anything whatsoever points at the essence of the infinite. The idea of interdependence isn't special. Taken in itself, it isn't even particularly insightful or interesting. Don't really know what you mean by 'literally anything'. I'm talking about principles that directly and succinctly h...
by jupiviv
Sun Aug 25, 2019 1:45 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?
Replies: 23
Views: 36699

Re: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?

Causality, and as such the eternal, exists. And nothing else does, in the same sense. Only this can answer truthfully to logic. The reason why your first sentence - only causality exists - cannot be true is because it has to conclude in your second sentence - nothing else does . What is this "...
by jupiviv
Mon Aug 19, 2019 2:09 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?
Replies: 23
Views: 36699

Re: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?

I see the logical line you're attempting to employ - A is a cause of not A -> Not A is a cause of A -> therefore A is a cause of A A causes itself by causing not-A. What that means is that A is a part of what causes A, which is A + not-A or the All. What you've provided seems to detract from the id...
by jupiviv
Sun Aug 18, 2019 4:48 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?
Replies: 23
Views: 36699

Re: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?

Even logic doesn't prove causality. If X and Y cause each other because they are not each other, then both X and Y also cause themselves by not being each other. So you must presuppose causality no matter what you decide to think about. That's a bit of specious reasoning. logic and causality are bo...
by jupiviv
Sun Aug 18, 2019 3:23 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?
Replies: 23
Views: 36699

Re: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?

When people try to point out 'random' events that aren't supposedly covered by notions of causality, why jump through hoops claiming that it's imperfect modelling or mapping of previous causes that gives rise to the seeming randomness of the event or effect in question? I wouldn't call that jumping...
by jupiviv
Tue Aug 13, 2019 7:11 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The social justice wars
Replies: 254
Views: 292855

Re: The social justice wars

Firstly, Narendra Modi wishes you Eid mubarak! From a wider perspective, mass hysteria seems to be the more common phenomenon. For example, Chinese history looks like "a series of authoritarian regimes punctuated by periods of chaos triggered by episodes of mass hysteria", as the late Raim...
by jupiviv
Sun Aug 11, 2019 5:50 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The social justice wars
Replies: 254
Views: 292855

Re: The social justice wars

I don't know who calls Pelosi racist (or why) but Biden supported racialist policies and hasn't apologised for doing so, so is in fact a racist . It is possible he lied about supporting them, perhaps to further his career. In any case, are you implying democrat politicians cannot be racist? At this...
by jupiviv
Mon Jul 22, 2019 6:13 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The social justice wars
Replies: 254
Views: 292855

Re: The social justice wars

Hi Jup still there hanging on! Life is empty without moar scenes of dragongirl exchanging significant looks with her boytoys. However, Marianne Wilson has more or less filled that void. She is, to paraphrase Jung, my new Anima Woman. And also new Dragongirl, and also new Mammy. It's about whether B...
by jupiviv
Mon Jul 01, 2019 3:50 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The social justice wars
Replies: 254
Views: 292855

Re: The social justice wars

The Weiningerian criminal has no original will at all. His wills himself into things outside himself i.e. nothingness. This is about desire and belief in some origination, something of definite substance outside himself, which is then internalized as "her being". The only way to not commi...
by jupiviv
Mon Jun 24, 2019 7:28 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The social justice wars
Replies: 254
Views: 292855

Re: The social justice wars

In this case, value would be derived from the transformation: the ignorant or criminal value maximizes the eternity into the present, as some eternal now , much like the animal experience. The value for the wise would always lie in anything enabling dissolution of the present into eternity, causali...
by jupiviv
Sun Jun 16, 2019 7:10 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The social justice wars
Replies: 254
Views: 292855

Re: The social justice wars

Even in that case, there is still the assumption of an innate power-lust causing desire for the continuation of 'x'. And in that case I wouldn't say "causing" but simply being the same thing: this "will to power" and any deeper craving for continuation of a thing, which can incl...
by jupiviv
Sat Jun 15, 2019 4:35 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The oaks of ald now they lie in peat - a satori in "words":
Replies: 0
Views: 26282

The oaks of ald now they lie in peat - a satori in "words":

Yet elms leap Where ashes lay. Phall if you but will, Rise you must A hand From the cloud Emerges, Holding a chart Expanded. The eversower of the seeds of light To the cowld owld sowls that are in the domnatory of Defmut After the night of the carrying of the Word Of Nuahs And the night of making Me...
by jupiviv
Sat Jun 15, 2019 12:42 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The social justice wars
Replies: 254
Views: 292855

Re: The social justice wars

Survival is existence. If survival is also power then it makes no sense to assert any will to power, because everything is powerful/existent and the term "power" is meaningless. Thus, the assertion that the desire for rationality (or anything else) "flows from" a separate desire...
by jupiviv
Fri Jun 14, 2019 4:07 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The social justice wars
Replies: 254
Views: 292855

Re: The social justice wars

Surviving is struggle against opposite forces, overcoming, asserting: to remain fit . While the acts of valuing and strengthening are simply expressions of power . Even rational thought is a will to power, to overcome and subdue those forces opposing the rational construct, personal or shared. All ...
by jupiviv
Thu Jun 13, 2019 5:32 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The social justice wars
Replies: 254
Views: 292855

Re: The social justice wars

Renaissance thought has indubitably influenced later ages, but only as one of other numerous causes, not progenitor. You're proposing a single cultural/social consciousness linking the Renaissance, modern liberal thought, your own politics and wisdom together No. You are merely projecting an infant...
by jupiviv
Wed Jun 12, 2019 3:47 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The social justice wars
Replies: 254
Views: 292855

Re: The social justice wars

The causes of the progressive rational culture didn't pop into existence fully formed either. True, it all stretches back into the infinite past. But we have to draw lines somewhere if we want to engage meaningfully with the world and make changes. Yes and the line you have drawn is inappropriate f...
by jupiviv
Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:31 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The social justice wars
Replies: 254
Views: 292855

Re: The social justice wars

The progressive rational culture didn’t simply pop into existence fully formed. Like everything else, it had antecedent causes. It emerged from something other than itself. The causes of the progressive rational culture didn't pop into existence fully formed either. By challenging the delusions it ...