Metaphysician Undercover

So there's only one ground rule then, and this is respect for the divinity, what you called subduing the ego. That's what I described as a need, which...

I'd call it a video loop. What does it have to do with a number line, or counting? A loop is not a line, and if it's counting anything it's counting t...

I guess I was a bit bored so I thought I'd spice up the conversation a bit by down talking religious rituals. I've never been very interested in these...

It's quite boring, if that's what you mean.

Right, the clock measures time, so time cannot be abstracted away from the clock. You do not agree with this? Then what does the clock do? There are t...

A number line is an irrational conflation of two incompatible terms, discrete numbers, and a continuous line, that's why the idea creates so many prob...

OK, if I understand, you are saying that the physical body is an expression of the underlying being. So if the physical body is more complex, so is th...

Where is time in any world? It's not something we perceive with our senses, but we know it's everywhere. And, since we can perceive things which stay ...

And what I am saying is that it is very clearly not merely a conceptual abstract. Look at it this way. Change is real, and all changes involve time. S...

Yes, so the point is why does one choose this action. What is the purpose? You are doing the same thing now, which you accused me of earlier. You are ...

This is actually the opposite of what is true. The passing of time is required for change. So without time there would be no change. Otherwise time be...

You're missing my first premise. I said that no one really understands any purpose, not even when the purpose appears to be one's own. So there is not...

I see that we disagree on the roll of necessity, in the sense of need. I like to think of a purposeful action as being carried out through a sense of ...

I agree, it's not a requirement. It's clearly not necessary. Your example portrays this well. And that's why I said, when we first started talking abo...

Yes the problem is semantic, that's what I said. If you give "counting" whatever meaning you want, you can do whatever you want with it. So Cantor is ...

You seem to be in the loop, perhaps you can answer this question. Why are the tides turning against Trump? Is it because what the Russians really want...

That's not counting though. Anyone can make up a new definition of "counting", and use that definition to make whatever conclusion one wants to make a...

I don't see how a lower being could get to the point of understanding the procedures which one is involved in, without conceiving the purpose of the h...

Of course. I just thought I'd add my two cents worth.

And how is this not fake news? We've been seeing this type of report for years. Has it taken you this long to notice?

Sure, but we were talking about counting, not pure maths. The contested statement was:

Counting is a temporal process. Two comes after one. Three comes after two. You cannot remove the temporal aspect of counting, to claim that time is i...

They went there with the intent of killing him. He apprehended that and so he was desperate. His only hope was to disarm. There was no crime committed...

Understanding is not the same thing as counting.

This is questionable. If a lower being can conceive the purpose of the next higher being in a hierarchy of being, then there would only be an inconcei...

It requires an infinity of time to count an infinity of numbers, so "counting infinity" does have something to do with time.

I believe that purpose, due to its vague and general nature, cannot even be known by the person who has the purpose. Within us, the reason for doing s...

A proposed excuse for premeditated murder, I think.

I saw a clip of that video, the person doesn't even look like the runner, not wearing the same clothes. But I believe it was from a different day, and...

I would say that facts are forced by time. As time passes, whatever has occurred, has occurred, and those are the facts which cannot be changed, set i...

There is no evidence that Arbery was even on the referenced construction site, just a mysterious, unidentified 911 caller speaking about a black man r...

There was no law being enforced, the man killed was an innocent runner. It's not a crime to run.

They're not vigilantes. Arbery was a regular runner, training I believe, he was obviously targeted for some reason.

Nice post Rania, I'm happy to welcome you here on the forum.

However, within the Trump administration, anyone disloyal to the president is fired. So, this creates the illusion that all government agencies are di...

You do realize that the reason why the death toll remains so low is that the distancing measures have curbed the spread of the disease, don't you?

I agree that Christian mysticism, in any organized form, is pretty much gone, and I believe it is because of the reasons I described. The mysticism is...

Right, that's my point. In the sensible world, there is nothing sensed that is without duration. So to perceive anything as a sensed thing, or even fo...

We need to consider the word "tradition" here. The academic tradition in the western world is a tradition of change. Knowledge is changing and evolvin...

The problem is that he really doesn't say anything else, other than the ridiculous statements which get sensationalized by the media. That's all they ...

This is clearly not true, due to the nature of time. And that's why I brought up the importance of time. As each moment passes the world changes, some...

I see here two distinct meanings of "being". To say my cat "has being" is to use "being" to refer to a property attributed to your cat. To say my cat ...

I don't see your point here. Being is a concept. If you are thinking of something other than a concept, you are not thinking about "being", but "a bei...

I think he knows that he hates Obama. At least we know he does.

You have mine.

I agree, "being" is the starting point, the point of interest. But for me, "being" leads straight to temporality. It's a temporal concept, and there's...

It's a deadly virus, highly contagious, with no cure or vaccine. Nothing works except isolation.

The rule "an opinion must be chosen", does not provide the premises required to make a logical determination of why any particular opinion was chosen ...

Seems Banno is inclined to ignore that critical word "Constructive", in the title of the thread.

I would argue the opposite of this. You cannot work from a chosen decision, backward through free choice, to understand the choosing of any particular...