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I'm just trying to get some clarity on how the term is being used. The way I use the term is to have it mean seamless causation. The thing we always talk about here! I pretty much love it. Try to get me to boot camp, though, and you WILL experience some irrepressible aggression. ;-) Hahaha! Awesome.

What exactly is it that you think I'm mistaken about? It's not my position that emotions should run so rampant that they interfere with one's ability to live a sane life. And you yourself don't seek to eliminate all emotions. So, what, then? I don't think you understand the significant of the infin...

Oh, and Skip: my philosophy is implicit in the way that I approach the philosophy of others, and I don't think that my approach is fairly described as nitpicking. "Real philosophy": I think I do that already, it's possibly just that I take more consideration of the world of empirical phen...

Laird, until you start looking at yourself and your own beliefs instead of other people and theirs, you'll miss 100% of the entire point. When will you stop spending time trying to nitpick other's words? When will you be interested in real philosophy?

I'll answer your poll if you tell my why you are capitalizing "You".

I'm trying to imagine Laird in shape, with super short hair, wearing fatigues and cockily holding an automatic rifle.

Skip, I won't respond to your post point by point this time - instead I want to comment on something that I noticed in it. In response to my question as to whether there is anything that you can know absolutely and positively, you wrote, "The only thing I positively know is that I'm not guessi...

mensa-maniac wrote:I am not envious, I am yearning for discipline, education, and truth.

Wow. You are a treasure.

If the interconnectedness of all things is the Totality, as you seem to be defining it, then every time I see a thing, I'm seeing (a part of) the Totality. That depends on which totality you're talking about. If you're talking about the intellectual one, then yes. You can see yourself and your awar...

Wait a sec, we're talking about the Totality itself, not the things within it. According to the house philosophy, the Totality itself has no external cause, and hence no particular reason for being the way that it is. There is no totality itself, so there is nothing within it. There are only things...

The only thing I'd add is that this whole "uncaused Totality that just happens to be the way that it is for no particular reason" business is very suspect, so I'm not sure that it can be classed as "absolute knowledge". First of all, everything that happens happens because of in...

I'm focussing on one aspect of the house philosophy's view of reality for the purpose of pointing out that that philosophy doesn't answer all meaningful questions (and thereby introducing some skepticism as to its true qualification as "Ultimate Truth"); Yeah, I gotcha. You're right, it's...

Let me put it another way, being sane is desirable, and seeking wisdom is necessary for full sanity To me, wisdom and sanity mean exactly the same thing, so you can't seek one to get the other. But I think I know what you mean anyway. and most would agree that to be fully sane is more meaningful of...

I agree with some of the attitudes within this quote, meaning one shouldn't be emotionally invested in future outcomes, but should work towards things anyway. Interesting, I didn't interpret it that way. You were probably thinking of something I mentioned, because when it says, "Choose what yo...

Laird, sup. Please excuse me while I talk as if you're not here for a moment. I'm sure you understand. Ok, so a simple way of looking at all this is seeing the difference between the heart and the mind. Use your imagination and pretend that reality is like looking at an infinitely large map that goe...

I generally like as natural as possible. Yet, that's the whole thing about good makeup, to have it look as if it's totally natural. Gasp! Maybe she's born with it...maybe it's Maybelline. ::does a gig:: I'm always a sucker for good eye makeup. Lipstick to me looks terrible...clown-like. I am not int...

You think that there is always a "you" that thinks thoughts, or that all thoughts have their source in a self-image? Based on my memory and experience I'd say this is incorrect. It's just as easy to experience "thoughts just occurring". Unless a person is ALWAYS thinking about th...

There is no telling what other people really meant.

And as if it meant something if there was.

Then why did you say that "Saying nothing about [emptiness] and focusing on opening up pockets of unconsciousness is the way." ? Evidently, you realise words are effective in communication, as well as in letting one's own mind speak with itself. ... When you name the philosophical matrix ...

Kelly Jones wrote:So it's not speech, or the use of words that anyone should be concerned about.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get. If you are looking to elicit a particular response, words do in fact matter.

.... The zone of consciousness and the mystery about it you mentioned. . . I personally might make a distinction between Life/Experience and consciousness, and by that I mean that consciousness is that particular depth and space a person gets specifically with more comprehensive understandings of s...

No, there is much more to it than that. Opening up to your true nature, which is neither subjective nor objective, is what it's all about. The booster stage melts away into nothingness in the face of this. Describing emptiness gives people new age spirituality. Saying nothing about it and focusing ...

As far as the rocket analogy goes, I've said it before and I'll say it again, it is ALL ABOUT the booster stage. That is the meat and the everything. Any talk of the end, whether it be a free flying freedom, unthinking heaven, or anything that objectifies the understanding will lead minds astray int...

Thank you, Skip, for being the only person so far to acknowledge that I have raised a legitimate problem, and for acknowledging what I consider to be - given the absence of a comprehensive one - the only sane answer to that problem: "I have no idea". You're welcome. Though I personally do...

It's possible that we hallucinate everything, and that what we experience as A is actually B. Um, no, that's not possible. You seem to be having a similar issue with A=A that Laird has always had. That things are hallucinations is actually totally irrelevant. That sentence of mine was referring to ...