god must be atheist

Thanks, that's great.

This is your point of view. However, I don't see it justified by only reading the quote by Wittgenstein (W). He makes no allusion whatsoever to what y...

I beg to differ, but that's already known, so why keep stating the obvious over and over again, eh? If I say "Humans are all atomic bombs shaped like ...

Dear @"J0e", I totally agree with you in interpreting what a language is, and what it does. It is said that language is purely a product of society, n...

W simply can't get over the hurdle that language is a symbolic representation of thought, which is a complex system of experiences linked to symbolic ...

I hope this is a quote by Wittgenstein. (W.) 1. He uses the obvious concept that words are part of a language. 2. He uses the obvious concept that mea...

I am reeling in the bewilderment how they can miss that in any and all of W's utterances. This is absolutely agreeable. I ask you to give me any of Wi...

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It's in the "Republic". We discussed this argument in class at great length. I would be hard forced to quote it as my rote memory is not good. I'll tr...

No. My opinion of Wittgenstein could not be aimed at pretty much anyone. This is a complete misrepresentation of what I am saying, and a complete misi...

This puts socialism in the same category of political arrangement in society as Naziism, totalitarianism, Monarchy, military despotism, martial law, a...

Th...us claims what IS. Socrates describes what should be. The two are not on the same page ... while he couldn't create an argument against the sophi...

Yes, the invention was genius. Or an accident. Either way. But to rename the wheel, after it had been invented thousands of years ago, and has been in...

Yeah. I so totally agree. I may add that there are some extremely well-read minds around here, who hide behind jargon and throwing about big names but...

I wonder why most people read instead of figuring these things out for themselves. I mean, I don't wonder, it's obvious why. I just wanted to make oth...

... or not read at all, but use the arguments others make about this or that as your source material. The outcome is the same. This is both poetry and...

Wittgenstein again very cleverly discovered the obviousity of the common wheel. You can't get out of your own mind obviously, whatever you study. This...

Yes, perhaps you are right (I am not a judge of that), but WHICH of the two, soul or mind, is more redolent according to Descartes?

This quote almost makes me want to read more Plato. I skimmed through the "Republic", and I found Socrates nothing but a clever arguer, with a sharp m...

Yes, for instance, the immediate past POTUS today. Or Putin. Or Netanyahu. Or Csontvary Koska Tivadar from the Jozsefvaros. Basically anyone who is no...

The little I know about Nietzsche tells me (not me, I ain't telling this to myself) that it's the opposite of the slave spirit. The slave spirit is th...

I agree with you. But the poor are not getting poorer. On the long run anyhow. People in highly capitalist countries enjoy a better lifestyle than in ...

Absolutely right. So... how does the meditation connect to the need stuff then? Any connection? I mean, if it is not connected to needs, then why medi...

I think you are comparing apples to oranges with this stance. Buddhism is not a religion. It invokes no deity, it uses no supernatural elements to gui...

I think meditation IS the path, you are absolutely right about that. But what every Buddhist believes (if they actually follow The Buddha) is that hum...

I think Buddhism allows different degrees of adherence to its own tenets, because it (the ideology) recognizes that full-blown compliance would lead t...

My understanding of Buddhism is completely different. It prescribes a certain ideolgy, that must be the shaper of the conduct of a Buddhist's life. Th...

It was hard to decide which power had the authority: Judea, or Roma. If Jesus had a clear knowledge which, he would have sided to obey that one. But h...

What you leave behind is of no concern to you after you have left it behind. If you believe in Heaven and Hell, then you're in eternal bliss, so nothi...

fair enough

That's why we had the revolutions. To show the world, that rulers can be broken. "We avenged the suffering of millions. They did not have to die in va...

Back in post-feudal Hungary (and I suppose in all other post-feudal European countries; and would not be surprised to hear it is / was / has been the ...

This statement is in strong contradiction to the fact that schools of Buddhism exist. Buddhism DOES want to tell to others (at least to those who ask ...

This previous post of mine was made in good humour, but not in jest or disrespect. It is very apropos to the conversation.

"We are the knights of ik. Bring us more... SHRUBBERY!!"

Yes, yes. And also note please: Arbitrary decisions are the easiest to make. If we were forced to make a decision on knowledge which is well-thought o...

I am a skeptic, and I choose things to believe, while choosing other things to not believe. Ultimately, I appreciate that the real world (things that ...

Have you read Rilkmund? According to him, being and trying to be "useful" is a waste of life, a waste of time. Much like the useful people can denigra...

Absolutely, absolutely. Provided for that person philosophy is to serve as a support agent. For me philosophy is compelling, inasmuch as I can't divor...

"You Are What You Do" I am what I eat. As for the moral character and internal self, I am what I think. Not what I do. I do not do much. I eat, basica...

If you did not direct your message at me, but to show like-minded people where I went wrong, which I am (perhaps allegedly) unable to comprehend anywa...

How did you arrive at "obviously he did not think God had died"? Nietzsche painstakingly described precisely what he meant by this, but you just slide...

Could you describe SENSIBLY what you mean to say? You are a bit mystical in your style. I don't do mysticism well-- it's a bunch of lies if you ask me...

God's death was a multi-step process. Several generations of assassins were needed to complete the job from start to finish. It was not an easy or tri...

But his spirit survives.

Ouch. You know how to shut a person up: just pile on a whole bunch of totally unrelated negative charges, state conclusions that are damaging but have...

I must have said something in the middle of the first page that people here think it's incredibly stupid, or incredibly smart, because nobody referred...

I agree, and wish to add that other divisions also create credibility (and the opposite): level of smarts, level of religiosity, level of physical str...

Well, yes, how about them?

There is a difference between comprehension and interpretation. "I calls them as I sees them" is an interpretation on the level of sensing (seeing, he...