My apologies, I was so focused on exchanging with apokrisis I didn't quite pick up on the objection in your reply. I guess I didn't consider it releva...
That it means more than saying that something was merely asserted. Evidence matters, if you don't believe that avoid going to a doctor if you break a ...
Best to begin at the beginning. As a matter of fact, if you had no eyes, no ears, no hands to feel, only your mind to think, you could not arrive at a...
The fact that it bolsters corporate hierarchies to the detriment of human potential. Privatizing economic sectors of public service to the disenfranch...
Point of mediation sustained. Directly refuting your false metaphysical nature model of humans, which is left over from the dark ages: "...the maturat...
Yes, if social hierarchies are inevitable in what sense are they inevitable, in the sense of centralized government, in the sense of dictators? In any...
Concretely, it is belief in delusion, fake being that is projected for reasons of comfort and control. You are free to project your own fake ideals ab...
I fancy your expression here. The question you are asking me is negated by your metaphysics: "If tyrannies can persist, then hierarchy theory would de...
I agree with this, so I will just say, I agree with you. This is also a serious objection against Hierarchy Theory, which so far as I know, has not be...
No. You asked loaded questions: that tells us everything. "A loaded question or complex question is a question that contains a controversial assumptio...
??? Not following here. Some of the objections I have raised in the course of this thread have been validated, your response was simply to minimize th...
This depends on what you mean by God? It also depends on how you go about trying to deduce him. Suppose you want to claim that something had to cause ...
This is properly known as gaslighting, it's a technique of manipulation that is employed by abusers. And since you're a zealot of the Jesus cult this ...
How do you know that it's not the other way around? If you simply read over this thread you will see admissions from apokrisis that go exactly in this...
If I have a lack of belief in God it will be based most of all on a lack of evidence in relation to the projection of the idea. You have already said ...
Indeed. I am upset when people attempt to indoctrinate my species with error and lies. You come at me with authoritarian assertions regarding your tyr...
Hey dingbat. Encourage more supernatural abstractors like Mutakalem will you, so we can have more important threads like this. Know your enemy friend,...
It could be more dangerous depending on how the natural order is interpreted. It seems to me the latter premise is here conditioned by the first. This...
There were two astronauts in a shuttle hurling to earth. It is was inevitable they would die. One of them looked at the other and pulled a piece of pa...
'The question I have for hierarchy theorists is how the structuring of such a system avoids the arbitrary negation or deprivation of potentially valua...
This is exactly what I was getting it. I don't see how my criticisms of Hierarchy Theory fall flat when the whole point was that people like yourself ...
- It seems to me that your reply is made up of many reductions and mischaracterizations, but it also contains substance. I have learned from reading y...
No. I agree with you. Denial is not just confined to religion, it is the normative process of human psychology. I should simply be able to say to a pe...
Hard to see how it could be any other way, though I suppose in social terms the relationship here is dialectical, one accounts for the quality of the ...
I just love the picture of this. Athenians: "Did you just say faith makes you right?" Paul: "yes, that's right, I said the righteous live by faith." :...
Why do I say this? Because religion is based on the denial of reality. Let me repeat: religion is based on the denial of reality. One cannot rightly d...
Serious questions are thrust on the table in the probability of civilization's twilight. What happens to intellectual responsibility? Of course, it is...
Interesting that rational and empirical analysis of the situation brings us to a state of resignation. Like Adorno I am a kind of rational romantic, w...
One of my favorite quotes by Adorno. "If there is any way out of this hellish circle—and I would not wish to exaggerate that possibility, being well a...
It is my goal not to get caught up in anything personal here. I would not have started a thread on Hierarchy Theory if I didn't have a basic understan...
(imagine this in a high, English style dialect, framed in a tone of up and down expression): Monstrous, you say, because I drew out the implications o...
But my dear man, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is far superior (and more specific) to anything that was ever produced by Christianity. You...
This question is exactly direct to the issue. Tragic that the class structure makes it so we have to petition those in power in one form or another. T...
My questions are meant to probe Hierarchy Theory in terms of its general framework, not the specific findings of any one theorist. While I agree with ...
There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) Michael Gaddi...
Tyranny could possibly look like a hierarchy systems model that organizes society in such a way that it ends up negating value. A so-called scientific...
Right, which makes the question a waste of life. There are things within this Matrix that intelligence must come to terms with and will only suffer fr...
I thought it was about organizing complexity into hierarchical structures? The notion of "complement" could be problematic here. "The right kind of pa...
Here here, "Knowledge unconditionally presupposes that the reality known exists independently of the knowledge of it, and that we know it as it exists...
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