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Agustino

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Okay Johnny, you're next. Wayfarer apparently couldn't handle it, so it seems he has decided to leave the forums. Let's see if your philosophy is weak...
January 16, 2017 at 23:31
It would suddenly dawn on him that there really is a God? >:O
January 16, 2017 at 23:25
Tell that to these Buddhists: http://www.buddhanet.net/nutshell09.htm http://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/1891/what-is-the-precise-meaning-of-...
January 16, 2017 at 23:22
I actually agree ;) ;) ;) - but if I said that to Willow I'd get blasted to a different planet.
January 16, 2017 at 23:16
Can I be a person of significance if someone doesn't give me that significance (or I don't give it to myself)? In what sense is it even possible to ta...
January 16, 2017 at 22:49
Why does it seem so to you? The rest of your comment honestly seems like nonsense to me. I don't even understand what you're trying to say. You're def...
January 16, 2017 at 22:33
Capitalism is like the man who at night goes and throes stones breaking the windows of his neighbours' houses, and in the morning comes in to repair t...
January 16, 2017 at 21:09
This is the same point I've made before that there is a tension between the individual and society (or the family) which has to be maintained for the ...
January 16, 2017 at 17:55
Where is such a premise? Where do you see a premise, in the single premise argument, which states that the "number 2" is a a subset of "numbers divisi...
January 16, 2017 at 16:50
Well I think I missed you too :P There's few on these boards like you with insight to talk to about really significant matters (I love that your philo...
January 16, 2017 at 13:15
No it's tautologous because you're saying that: A Therefore if X is subset of A, then X is true It's a tautology because A already affirms the truth o...
January 16, 2017 at 13:09
I agree. Life is a mixture of pragmatism and love. A family without love is at best an army - that is if it hasn't also lost the other pillar holding ...
January 16, 2017 at 12:24
Then I certainly don't have a "perfect life" nor a "beautiful wife", for physical beauty would not be sufficient to make her a beautiful wife. Well I'...
January 16, 2017 at 11:49
If you have all that and still feel that something is missing, then something is indeed missing - it is your own head and reason ;)
January 16, 2017 at 11:33
If you form an argument like: All numbers divisible by 2 are even Therefore if 2 is divisible by 2, then 2 is even You're saying a little bit of tauto...
January 16, 2017 at 11:13
I haven't claimed it was. I merely claimed that "all numbers divisible by 2" includes 2 - I don't understand what the hell you're going on about. Not ...
January 16, 2017 at 11:08
Except that 2 isn't a subset of 1 *facepalm*
January 16, 2017 at 10:27
If you want the truth, I actually view your own transcendentalism as nihilistic as it evacuates any and all meaning from this world, and transports it...
January 15, 2017 at 23:07
It was clear from my second reply to you. A motive is grounded in something - in the relationship of the person with reality - hence why I said that I...
January 15, 2017 at 23:02
They are almost nonsense to the person in question because they don't have access to their first person relationship with reality, not because they ca...
January 15, 2017 at 22:58
Not only our own motive, the motive of others too are knowable. The source of our own motive is not knowable because it cannot be put into concepts. T...
January 15, 2017 at 22:52
It is the same: The path as to how these persons arrive at having such fundamental motivations is not known. Why? Because their motives emerge from th...
January 15, 2017 at 22:50
We don't share fundamental motives with others. However, them reaching their goal may help me to reach mine and conversely, in which case we'll both w...
January 15, 2017 at 22:44
This motive is entirely knowable to the more self-conscious amongst us, at least our own is. It's our own individual purpose for being here, bestowed ...
January 15, 2017 at 22:42
No I'm not saying it is unknowable. I'm saying that its source is unknowable - it's not known why Steve Jobs has that motive.
January 15, 2017 at 22:30
I disagree because some motives are primary. It's simply what it means to be Noble Dust that you have such a driving motive. Without it, you lose your...
January 15, 2017 at 22:05
Knowing what his motives are is different than understanding why they are his motives. It's part of his freedom, having chosen those motives (or being...
January 15, 2017 at 21:56
Because one's motives reveal themselves to them, and to no one else. I do not know how, for example, the guy wanting to become Chinese Emperor, how he...
January 15, 2017 at 21:37
I can imagine being in their situation but I cannot imagine arriving there.
January 15, 2017 at 21:21
So the transcendent is a state within reality then. If so, how is it transcendent? But why are they practically and pragmatically needed? What is ther...
January 15, 2017 at 21:06
The motive is strictly personal - one could want to live in Hawaii because they were born in very poor conditions, where life was very difficult and a...
January 15, 2017 at 20:31
I've read the article, it's more or less of what I've read before. Again it doesn't convince me for the simple reason that there are serious difficult...
January 15, 2017 at 20:27
Still there is no concept of it for probably more than half of the world's population - Muslims + Christians. That is a serious problem for any sort o...
January 15, 2017 at 20:21
Ahh this old Nietzschean has also joined us here :P
January 15, 2017 at 20:10
Sure Either that, or there could be something useful in their lunatic practices of relating with the transcendent that could be useful to me. Mostly.
January 15, 2017 at 19:55
I'm not saying they should stop - I am not concerned about what they're doing. I'm merely indicating that I think their activity is pointless - "it is...
January 15, 2017 at 19:31
Groups are formed by people who share similar purposes. In addition they are formed by those who can "sell" their large purpose unto others.
January 15, 2017 at 19:07
Of course so? My reality and your reality are not the same, for the simple reason that we live in different communities, we have different backgrounds...
January 15, 2017 at 19:06
No :D
January 15, 2017 at 18:41
:-O I notice you said some blasphemy towards the Great One there... They can ask why till they're blue in the face, the only thing is that I cannot ev...
January 15, 2017 at 18:40
Yes yes, but how did he end up in such dire straits?
January 15, 2017 at 17:16
Did he get there because a woman manipulated him since he's a brute who can only think with his lower head, and thus was helpless to her actions? :D
January 15, 2017 at 17:08
If that's what you need in order to leave this discussion with your head high and sleep well tonight, sure :D
January 15, 2017 at 17:05
Yeah I have used it - in this case the word - to make a moral claim. So? Only in your mind. I refused to admit that I used steak as a means of being m...
January 15, 2017 at 17:02
Yeees, yeeees that's exactly what I've said >:O
January 15, 2017 at 16:57
So we go from using steak as a means to the end of not eating steak to using steak to make a moral claim >:O Not riding unicorns is moral Unicorns don...
January 15, 2017 at 16:56
*facepalm* okay redefine terms as you will (because I wasn't using abstinence in that sense). Then I will state: Not eating steak is moral I do not ea...
January 15, 2017 at 16:47
So the definition of abstaining from steak is not eating steak correct? If so, then this assertion of yours is false. I am using my abstinence, not th...
January 15, 2017 at 16:38