Noble Dust

You're the mayor of whatever you say you are. Meow! M Yet they're not about The Mayor Of Simpleton, right? To begin with answers is incrediblly simple...

Posty, you're not an idiot. I'm an idiot, if anything. You are very pure in your philosophical enquiry, whereas my own enquiry has a perverse color to...

"who decides these things after all" is a corollary to this thread, isn't it? I don't know who decides these things, other than idiots like us.

It can also be interpreted as the wisdom of STLX. Who knows?

I don't believe you either. Or, rather, I do.

Strange quote to choose out of our exchange so far! Again, I'm an idiot. Ask @"TimeLine" or @"StreetlightX" for evidence.

Greg is @"Mayor of Simpleton", yeah? Accumulation of knowledge... that's definitely something. What is knowledge? Accumulation seems obvious.

As long as the emotional/intuitive precedes the rational, then we're in agreement.

You seem to be covering all your bases, so I don't know. What do you think wisdom is?

Yes, because I asked "What is wisdom?"

Same here! I find that when I open my mouth, un-wise things come out. I've made a fool of myself here more than once. So you don't know what wisdom is...

I don't think you can. But maturity is often misunderstood. What do you think, Posty?

"I don't know" is my performative utterance. That's an emotional statement, not a reasonable one.

Philosophy, "the love of wisdom", has strong religious connotations? Now I'm starting to agree with you...

If "wisdom" = "thought redused to platitudes and ready-made issuances", then I agree. But, you're defining wisdom in this way, by degrees. That's a bi...

Because philosophy means "the love of wisdom"? Seem's lamely prosaic.

Idk. Are you bringing up God because I mentioned Sunday school?

:roll: Right, Witty said language is use, so now we don't know who is saying what in what way, because we don't know how people are using language. Th...

:up: But too bad this isn't the general zeitgeist of philosophy/politics, etc. As posty mentions, Thankfully, everyone here, regardless of whether the...

Reading back through your post...I don't mean to say that I don't think it's possible to "like" or have a pleasing aesthetic experience without a deep...

I envy the fact that music and architecture seem close to you. Music is a world to me; architecture is a foreign entity that I like, but don't underst...

Eh, sounds like you're romanticizing us. We're not all that. Midwesterners just have a chip on their shoulder. That's the legitimate stereotype.

Noted. I'm not sure anyone's ideas will or wont' "get me closer to getting it" (getting what?), but I'll look into it.

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Eh it's really not, I'm just genuinely interested in other people's aesthetic interests; I'm a terrible person otherwise.

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I think I feel the same thing, maybe, at least to some extent. I'm working on the finishing touches of an album that uses some architectural aspects o...

Yet she's the only one that will tell you just how level-headed she is.

I lol'ed

All y'alls love for architecture is strange to me. I like certain structures, but the ones I like are more connected to personal experiences and speci...

They work together; yin and yang.

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It's always metaphysics time. That's why PKD's likeness is emblazoned so on TPF; to remind the metaphysically small-minded of their lack! :rofl:

I'd be curious for any thoughts from @"Wayfarer" as well.

The dichotomy of exoteric vs. esoteric is pretty central to my view on this. Again, it's a mystical view.

I don't think I try to identify with Jesus, for instance. You could say that he strived for spiritual nourishment, sure; to the extent that I want to ...

From what I know of your philosophy, I wasn't expecting us to gel much here. But I'm not sure what your reference to those religious leaders is suppos...

My concept of a change in the human condition is hard to properly describe, and I'm conflicted about the concept itself. My view of it is based in a J...

I don't know what else to say. Maybe I haven't presented my arguments that well or something. Tech is a neutral tool; we use it for good and ill. The ...

I agree, but I haven't seen you taking that view; you seem to be taking a more optimistic view of tech. No?

*inserts smug, scathing political comment that does nothing other than make me feel better about myself and my views (assumptions)*

Why is the middle better? Because it's less brutal?

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Hmmm, that's rather disquieting. The human condition is a condition in which humans do many things; they create fascinating art, they create beautiful...

I don't like "to each his own". It's too soft. The world isn't soft; the human condition isn't soft. I'd rather talk about the human condition first, ...

I'm both honored, and also a moron. Actually, I tend to be a moron more often than I receive honor. Thanks for both?

Maybe the shoddy wording was incoherent, but the idea is coherent in my mind. "The Good" (I don't really like that phrase) is incompatible with the hu...

Not sure if I agree with the ban, but all good in the hood. Apologies for this thread, really; I was in a bad mood last night, slightly tipsy, and was...

Once a moronic sheep, always a moronic sheep.

'Sup, ya morons?