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28 Feb 2015, 10:45 pm
kraftiekortie wrote:
Have you been to the Outback much, David? I wonder if trekking there wouldn't clear your head. Then cone back to PPR all wide eyed and bushy-tailed, ready for Socratic debate.
I just came back from outback a couple of days ago.
I guess the above would suggest that a gallon of home brew does not significantly improve my tact, diplomacy, political correctness or patience.
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01 Mar 2015, 12:10 am
techstepgenr8tion wrote:
When you die you'll get a big wet kiss from the One Thing.
Not sure whether my panentheism is out of place in this topic but it felt worth mentioning.
Yes, truly, panentheism probably describes my outlook more fully than pantheism.. as reality is much much stranger than fiction.. per the usual quote from Mark Twain that it 'ain't gotta make sense...
i think i'm already getting that wet kiss too.. in usual and unusual ecstasy ways beyond any substance produced experience i can imagine generated NOW by 'FREE VERSE DANCE'.. SO FAR beyond what words can do alone..ALLONE..
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01 Mar 2015, 12:23 am
I think that religion is a outcome of evolution of the human tribes. Almost everyone has necessity of it, but there are some that don't need it. I don't need it, but I understand that many people need it (and I don't know why the f**k is that, but well, the world is how it is and not in any other way).
I didn't read the entire post, so this coment will be a little out of ehm... "Fuera de lugar" I mean, but this topic is both interesting and the typical coments are frustrating and go to nowhere. I simply say "Well, I think there is no god/spirits/flying spagheti monster/Grob Gob Glob Grod, there are good reasons for people that believe in it, but I don't know what they are and I am not interested because I am not a biologist"
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01 Mar 2015, 1:26 am
kraftiekortie wrote:
Three out of the four would be great! Political Correctness: mostly bs.
I think all four are ingredients in a recipe to get locked in a political merry-go-round of spurious and irrelevant nonsense.
Somewhere back someone said that there is no "s" in PPR. I can only suspect that the "s" is for science.
I will contend that philosophy is not just science but that she is the mother and queen of all natural sciences.
That much of what is sold as "philosophy" these days is nothing but the day dreams of egomaniacs who think they can create reality by just imagining it to their narcissistic convenience does not alter the fact that it is the investigation of reality using a scientific instrument known as logic.
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01 Mar 2015, 1:43 am
Oldavid wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
Three out of the four would be great! Political Correctness: mostly bs.
I think all four are ingredients in a recipe to get locked in a political merry-go-round of spurious and irrelevant nonsense.
Somewhere back someone said that there is no "s" in PPR. I can only suspect that the "s" is for science.
I will contend that philosophy is not just science but that she is the mother and queen of all natural sciences.
That much of what is sold as "philosophy" these days is nothing but the day dreams of egomaniacs who think they can create reality by just imagining it to their narcissistic convenience does not alter the fact that it is the investigation of reality using a scientific instrument known as logic.
Oh yeah, like so-called Jesus who clearly 'states' if you can believe AND can imagine YOU are healed by FAITH, AND you WILL BE well..
WELL, I FOR ONE LISTEN TO THE HUMBLE philosopher/teacher, per so-called JESUS, AND I for one, HAVE THE IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE THAT IT WORKS.
SORRY IF YOU ARE NOT A BELIEVER.
BUT THAT'S about WHAT ALL YOGI LIKE DUDES teach, including so-called Jesus.
To imagine reality in dreams of humans is to POTENTIALLY make 'magicK' miracles, per greater human potential happen, BY 'JUST DOIN' IT'..
And science just sh**'s its britches watching the RESULT OF THAT, at least per the results NOW that are ME.
BUT truly I am not sure if folks who are limited in visual thinking CAN EVEN DO THIS, AND IF SO, perhaps in a way they are living in human hell for whatever reason or no reason at all, as no one says GOD has to be fair or proves that to be so, at least not, yet.
And philosophy is about the human condition that is based on emotion as science now shows.
However, HUMAN Emotion is ART and NOT science, and that is why SCIENCE WILL NEVER EVER BE ENOUGH FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN BEING, IRONICALLY, BY the 'tongue' of science ITSELF.
AND THE IRONY of life's great mysteries go on..
But not as much for awakened and enlightened folks WHO HAVE THE ABILTY TO SEE THE DEEPER MEANING OF BEING HUMAN IN GOD'S GREAT MOTHER NATURE TRUE, AND USE the GOD OF NATURE to their advantage in simply having at least one OUT standing life!..
Like me, for 'example'....
Documented, sealed, AND ALL DELIVERED, NOW. ..
per K 'letter' and 11 number of AND FOR Unconditional LOVE..
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01 Mar 2015, 6:14 am
trollcatman wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
It's tragic that one who played the Paradigm of Logic smoked. That's was why he passed away.
I don't know when he started smoking, but considering his age it might very well have been before there was awareness that smoking was unhealthy.
Interesting you posted that image. I saw a video online somewhere, his last ever interview. He talked about how they didn't know smoking was dangerous. And he even described the very image from the above picture, of the doctor smoking.
What's noteworthy though is that he stopped smoking 30 years before it claimed his life.
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01 Mar 2015, 8:11 am
Narrator wrote:
trollcatman wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
It's tragic that one who played the Paradigm of Logic smoked. That's was why he passed away.
I don't know when he started smoking, but considering his age it might very well have been before there was awareness that smoking was unhealthy.
Interesting you posted that image. I saw a video online somewhere, his last ever interview. He talked about how they didn't know smoking was dangerous. And he even described the very image from the above picture, of the doctor smoking.
What's noteworthy though is that he stopped smoking 30 years before it claimed his life.
The image is not unique btw, there were dozens of marketing campaigns like this, all with that 40s/50s style. And there are also Victorian posters where they sell cigarettes that cure asthma and bronchitus and stuff. I think before the 70s or so they really didn't know, certainly not the general public. If you google "doctor smokes" or "your doctor recommends" and go to the images tab you'll see lots of different posters with the same nonsense.
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01 Mar 2015, 10:36 am
Oldavid wrote:
Anyhow, is there anyone out there who will acknowledge that there is a reality that can be, and is to be investigated?
Of course there isA REALITY THAT CAN BE AND IS TO BE INVESTIGATED but the scientific method, ALONE, is very limited in scope AND METHOD, WHEN it comes to the greaTEST ART experiment of all, as certainly evidenced in the expression of human abstract language, collective intelligence and the byproductS of ART and SCIENCE IN OUR EXTREMELY COMPLEX MODERN CULTURES.
TO RECOGNIZE there is MORE THAN ONE WAY OF DOING THINGS..
IS AT CORE OF HUMAN CREATIVITY
AND EVEN
SCIENCE ITSELF, IRONICALLY ENOUGH..
but since science itself cannot talk..
i will talk for it instead
and suggest Mr. Oldavid that
you consider the merits
if you can or will..
of COMMON
INNATELY INSTINCTUALLY
DRIVEN HUMAN SPICES OF
EMOTIONS AND MANY SENSES
SYNERGISTICALLY DRIVEN TOGETHER
TO UNDERSTAND THE NATURE
INSIDE YOU ABOVE YOU
BELOW YOU OUTSIDE YOU
ALL
AROUND..
and that certainly does not come by symbolic verbal and math language
all alone..
ALLONE IS PRACTICALLY LIMITLESS.. AS there are literally hundreds of other human intelligences when fully explored mapped and charted with other senses and EMOTIONS.. OF HUMAN PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCES AS WELL..
to realize in
the more fully awakened and or enlightened mind.. WhERE
Science can be described as the bones of that too..
And the flesh and blood
can be described as
ART
AS
WELL..
To use your Christian language..
The body and blood of Christ is certainly not
science
alone..
IT IS
ALLONE..
IN FLESH AND BLOOD
AND BONES
TOO..
EVEN SPOCK COULD TELL YA
that.
If he was alive
or truly existed..
but perhaps
he will come one day AGAIN
IN FULL EXPRESSION AS the signature
of human myths
often precede the reality of humans..
in SCI-FI 'scriptures'
or
NOT.
And here's a song in recognition of the life of
Spock whether he
exists
OR NOT.
Hello Spock or NOT
by Sting..
FORGET ABOUT THE FUTURE BABY..
AND THE PAST
well..
ITS GONE..
LET'S GET ON
WITH THE PAST
AS "I" for one KNOW WHAT
PEACE OF MIND
IS WORTH..
And since i've spoken for science.. with a mouth that does not exist..
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02 Mar 2015, 6:30 am
There have been many very clever and astute observers and thinkers over several thousand years who have established a very firm base for philosophical (scientific) investigation of reality. The science of logic being the most fundamental for any appreciation of any possibility of an objective reality that can be known and understood (even if by degrees) as opposed to an entirely subjective version that is dependent on fashion and convenience.
All such investigation must have a secure and certain base from which to work and some certain premises by which to judge or evaluate possible conclusions. Absurdity is not an answer to anything. The Law of Non Contradiction will always and everywhere reign supreme. The wheel has already been invented... triangular and square wheels have already been dumped for being of no practical use.
An edifice built on a puff of hot air can only ever be a cloud in an air-head.