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uglypeoplefucking wrote:It appears as though you've created some meaning for yourself, and are annoyed that not everyone shares it...
i feel that way a lot, too - i think we all do from time to time.
3. A foolish individual thinks he has more power than he does, and does not seek power where he can actually obtain it.
Nobody creates meaning out of a void. All meanings are derived from interpretations of reality except in the case of mentally ill individuals.Those who say that one can create their own meaning to existence independent of these realities are in fact, and will remain, as nothing more than ineffectual eunuchs.
phyllo wrote:3. A foolish individual thinks he has more power than he does, and does not seek power where he can actually obtain it.
If we knew where the line is then most of our problems would be solved. We don't know and so we stumble around. That does not necessarily make us foolish.Nobody creates meaning out of a void. All meanings are derived from interpretations of reality except in the case of mentally ill individuals.Those who say that one can create their own meaning to existence independent of these realities are in fact, and will remain, as nothing more than ineffectual eunuchs.
Experiments only work if you can control all variables except the one of interest. In real life, such control is not possible. When you experience something, you are usually uncertain about which factor caused the specific result. That produces different interpretations and different philosophies."As the true method of knowledge is experiment the true faculty of knowing must be the faculty which experiences, This faculty I treat of."
All die.Your philosophy leads only to weakness, death and impotence. Please try again.
phyllo wrote:Experiments only work if you can control all variables except the one of interest. In real life, such control is not possible. When you experience something, you are usually uncertain about which factor caused the specific result. That produces different interpretations and different philosophies."As the true method of knowledge is experiment the true faculty of knowing must be the faculty which experiences, This faculty I treat of."All die.Your philosophy leads only to weakness, death and impotence. Please try again.
I'm not sure what leads to weakness in what I said.
phyllo wrote:All meanings are derived from interpretations of reality except in the case of mentally ill individuals.
A schizophrenic who hears voices and hallucinates is not reacting to the real world.In what way are the mentally ill exceptional here, phyllo?
phyllo wrote:A schizophrenic who hears voices and hallucinates is not reacting to the real world.In what way are the mentally ill exceptional here, phyllo?
What you are saying just sounds like dogma.Thanks for delineating my point perfectly. All you possess is the brick wall of nothingness that you keep banging yourself into. Please enjoy the rest of your futile philosophical inconsequentiality. I am a pragmatist, not a mortician.
You are suggesting that 'hearing voices' is a 'real world' experience? I would say that it is entirely fabricated in the brain and is merely a thought.He's not?
Duality wrote:The whole point of this thread is that I am basically scrapping materialism, empiricism and blind dogma as impotent and ineffective limitations (at best, and destructive entities at worst) to the individual's experience of life.
“Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.” - Bruce Lee
phyllo wrote:You are suggesting that 'hearing voices' is a 'real world' experience? I would say that it is entirely fabricated in the brain and is merely a thought.He's not?
anon wrote:Duality wrote:The whole point of this thread is that I am basically scrapping materialism, empiricism and blind dogma as impotent and ineffective limitations (at best, and destructive entities at worst) to the individual's experience of life.
“Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.” - Bruce Lee
Empiricism is pretty useful, no? Are you lumping empiricism together with blind dogma?
anon wrote:Duality wrote:The whole point of this thread is that I am basically scrapping materialism, empiricism and blind dogma as impotent and ineffective limitations (at best, and destructive entities at worst) to the individual's experience of life.
“Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.” - Bruce Lee
Empiricism is pretty useful, no? Are you lumping empiricism together with blind dogma?
Duality wrote:anon wrote:Duality wrote:The whole point of this thread is that I am basically scrapping materialism, empiricism and blind dogma as impotent and ineffective limitations (at best, and destructive entities at worst) to the individual's experience of life.
“Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.” - Bruce Lee
Empiricism is pretty useful, no? Are you lumping empiricism together with blind dogma?
Please read the whole entire sentence to understand it's context. Thanks.
anon wrote:phyllo wrote:You are suggesting that 'hearing voices' is a 'real world' experience? I would say that it is entirely fabricated in the brain and is merely a thought.He's not?
Yes, I am. It happens in time and space, it has a primary cause and it has supporting conditions. Are you suggesting there is a clear line differentiating the sane from the insane? "Sane" people function in precisely the same way.
It's unclear to me what you propose as a replacement. Perhaps you could go into more detail.The whole point of this thread is that I am basically scrapping materialism, empiricism and blind dogma as impotent and ineffective limitations (at best, and destructive entities at worst) to the individual's experience of life.
Duality wrote:One understands themselves as a manifestation of the universe, and therefore born of it’s very own will. It is from these essences that one develops true meaning and purpose. Not from the inept ramblings of the eunuch logician or materialist atheist, or the scientist who cannot comprehend the reason he concocts his potions.
anon wrote:I did. Please explain.
phyllo wrote:It's unclear to me what you propose as a replacement. Perhaps you could go into more detail.The whole point of this thread is that I am basically scrapping materialism, empiricism and blind dogma as impotent and ineffective limitations (at best, and destructive entities at worst) to the individual's experience of life.
Dglgmut wrote:Duality wrote:One understands themselves as a manifestation of the universe, and therefore born of it’s very own will. It is from these essences that one develops true meaning and purpose. Not from the inept ramblings of the eunuch logician or materialist atheist, or the scientist who cannot comprehend the reason he concocts his potions.
Good point, here.
However, is the meaning one creates for himself not a manifestation of a universal meaning then? Or is it the attempt to manipulate one's own existence that you find so wrong?
Duality wrote:anon wrote:I did. Please explain.
What did you not understand about the content of the sentence? If I said it like: limiting your life to materialism, empiricism and blind dogma is basically a castration of life and individual experience would it make more sense?
Yes, I am. It happens in time and space, it has a primary cause and it has supporting conditions. Are you suggesting there is a clear line differentiating the sane from the insane? "Sane" people function in precisely the same way.
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