TheMadFool

The words, "expert" and "experience" share the same word root which is "experiri" whose meaning is "TRY". By that token, anyone who tries even for the...

E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G!

You forget that lies must mimic truths for them to be a force we must reckon with.

Keep it coming! :up:

If it's good, why is there an outcry against it? If it's bad how did it become a multi-billion dollar franchise?

So, no matter what we do, we lose. Wicked! I like it. This will go into my favorite quotes collection. Thanks

They mean the same thing to me. Maybe not but then you'll have to edify me on the difference.

My take on the Tao Te Ching. I offer a Hobson's choice of course but that's just me and nothing to do with what Laozi really wanted to share regarding...

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I don't know if it's true or not but all religions have that hard-to-ignore sense of desperation that characterizes a person who knows fae's doomed. N...

There are two aspects to being a real philosopher: 1. How to think? A way of thinking that includes diverse elements that begins with understanding qu...

Well, kindly show us the way then. How can we marry philosophy with math?

To be frank, the interpretation of Taoism as presented in my last few posts is definitely not the final word on the subject. It's just one of possibly...

Well, if it doesn't make sense to you then it doesn't. I, on the other hand, see opportunity where you see incompatibility. I see a very profitable sy...

I did mention, hinted perhaps, that my analysis was not meant to cover all the cases, only a small fraction of mass shooters may fit my description. :...

Well, I must've read a cheap knockoff version of the Tao Te Ching then. Sorry. But for what it's worth a few verses that prove my point that the Tao T...

A person X believing something is hardly going have practical consequences without that belief being true. For instance, you would feel empowered - co...

Yes you are but I'm not sure whether you're doing it knowingly or unwittingly. Every time I try to build a bridge between philosophy and mathematics a...

The Tao is not about words, it's about what Kant calls "ding an sich" understood in the broadest sense possible. The "ding an sich" is precisely what ...

I don't know if this makes any sense but there seems to be something about paradoxes that I feel maybe important. Remember how Laozi begins the Tao Te...

"Behavoiral template" :up: Copy cat murders! I was just wondering as to how a mass shooter gains satisfaction from killing random people. There are tw...

Simone Weil and his ilk of similar thinkers are precisely what I'm talking about. Truths about this world don't matter to them because to them truths ...

This may come across as crazy since you seem to subscribe to the notion that non-human animals are about pleasure and humans are about truth, in line,...

To be philosophical about mass shootings, I'd say there's an underlying pernicious fallacy at work in "the mind of a killer". If what I've read about ...

But then we have medicine. It looks like the case is sure to give any judge worth faer salt a pounding headache. I have a suspicion that we've deraile...

Makes sense. To ignore the practical aspects - the whole body of prescribed conduct - that accompany a belief (here religion) is to completely ignore ...

Astounding observation but then As a motif in fiction, the mad scientist may be villainous (evil genius)

Awesome! :up:

The only verse I remember is: And a horse has no udders, And a cow can't whinny, up is down, And sideways is straight ahead

That'll take me a while to process. :up: By the way, for what it's worth, I concur that it was and is a

Again you're doing what's unthinkable to the ordinary man - willingly, voluntarily, slipping into the straitjacket of logic and math; the men in white...

Tu quoque???

An interesting point. I've asked this question a couple of times in the forum and never got a satisfactory answer. What's the difference between "exis...

That's how I see it.

Firstly, I didn't claim anything at all. It was G. K. Chesterton who thought "poets do not go mad; chess players do" or something along those lines an...

Well, I was contemplating how we maybe able to both numericize and geometrize philosophy because we do to talk of philosophical "landscapes" and, for ...

I'm going against my instincts not to generalize but it seems exceptions don't imply the absence of a dependable generalization. I mean by focusing on...

To be fair though, there's a "sense" in which the great (was he great?) G. K. Chesterton is right on the money. The world, if you haven't already noti...

Well, I'm only guessing at this point but your objections seem to have its roots in a weltangschauung that, true or false, gives math a kind of privil...

I recently watched a series of videos on philosophy and it had a 30-40 minute episode on mysticism and what really caught my attention was the words, ...

I guess I went off on a tangent. I'm always distracted but generally by beauty. So, if you want to use me as a beauty-meter here you might want to giv...

Is G. K. Chesterton mad? How did he chance upon this sparkling nugget of exquisite wisdom? Poetry or Reason?

To me, yes. All the words I listed can be made precise with math and thereby hangs a tale.

Words like "congruence", "symmetry", "asymmetry", "equality", "function", and loads of other words with mathematical meaning do pop up frequently in p...

I hope that god doesn't exist but my reason is going to sound a little weird and that reason is for god's own sake. If god exists, god has a lot of ex...

I want to see something like this: AxAy(x + y = y + x) in a Godel sentence but I don't and if that's the case, the Godel sentence isn't about mathemat...

Possibilities: 1. Something Or 2. Nothing Possible worlds: Any world that doesn't entail a contradiction. Most importantly doesn't include the situati...

Except for one important difference - after death, if souls are real, we're supposed to get a fresh start as babies.

Interesting. A world in which nothing exists wouldn't be a world let alone a possible world. Perhaps we shouldn't bring up the notion of "possible wor...