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2017-07-10 at 7:27 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
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2017-07-10 at 6:25 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefsI didn't.
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2017-07-10 at 6:10 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefsWhy do you stalk me?
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2017-07-10 at 6 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
Originally posted by RisiR † I think I understand, but there's nothing remotely useful in here other than the fact that you are trying to use nonsense as tool for understanding objective reality, which is contradictory. Is this like the old Watts idea that you can't have the one without the other? You are basically articulating that there is nothing objectively coherent in the text, which by the way is contradictory but also true at the same time. This is still a mathematical error, or only useful on the basis that it is not useful as a way to make people think and re-examine their own interpretations of reality. You write like a sophisticated Postmodernist jester like Cubronzo.
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2017-07-10 at 4:43 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefsThe difference between science and religion is the difference between the quantified equations of mathematics and the unquantified equations of metaphor. Those who cannot focus their mental scope with sufficient precision to count must guesstimate relationships by comparing superficial attributes to derive meanings from their experiences. The errors of both science and religion are produced by logical deductions made from inherently faulty language, but the errors cannot be perceived by people who mistake their words for real things and their language for a real map. Philosophic disputes are word wars; those who live by their words also die by their words.
Conscious mind is a creation of words. Therefore, no one in his socially defined, right-thinking, right-handed mind can perceive anything not previously defined by words. Experiments have found that people lacking the words to describe subtle colours are also unable to distinguish fine differences in hues, but as soon as they are given the words to define the differences between crimson, scarlet, and vermillion, for example, they no longer see all reds as red. Poets expand the common Consciousness by giving new meanings to old words and by coining new words.
Words referring to abstract concepts are projections of spiritual structures from hyperspace into our mental space. We are unable to know the higher dimensions of the hyperspacial universe we live in because our culture lacks the verbal concepts for our minds to perceive what our eyes plainly see.
Scientific knowledge is nothing but verbal knowledge, and knowledge is the key to power; humanity is ruled by words. Words are ultraspacial structures created by abstracting common features of significance while ignoring unique features. Words amplify similarities and eliminate differences by wave interference. Words are the product of fusing all the unique images of several structures into an ultraspacial gestalt.
The gestalt represented by its abstract noun is not visible to the material eye because it is a ultratridimensional physical structure that is manifest to our Consciousness only as a form of what we conceive to be mental energy, more rarified than electromagnetic substance.
Abstract verbal concepts are understood only as they can be comprehended within the temporal dimensions of one's mind; a mind is perceived to grow to the extent that it perceives precedents and consequences. Athena is merely the god of intellect; the ruler of consciousness is Kronus, the Overlord of Time and Change.
The nemesis of abstraction is that the symbol becomes the reality, and the individual differences in the real world are occulted behind the Veils of Maja. As the focus of the mind shifts from the immediately tangible world to verbal concepts, the mind becomes separated from the body and both lose their health. Paradise is a myth about a preverbal Consciousness, before men created words and subsequently mistook the symbol (idol) for reality (God); the Fall of Man and his Expulsion is the consequence of worshipping verbally fashioned images. Philosophers pretend to lead us back to reality on ways paved with more words of higher abstraction, like devils promising to lead us to Heaven. If the devil is the Father of Lies, words are surely the Mother. -
2017-07-09 at 6:52 PM UTC in Buying a new bike: suggestions? Considerations?How about a chopper?
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2017-07-09 at 5:12 PM UTC in Buying a new bike: suggestions? Considerations?Yeah this is more my style:
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2017-07-09 at 4:39 PM UTC in Buying a new bike: suggestions? Considerations?
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2017-07-09 at 2:55 PM UTC in Buying a new bike: suggestions? Considerations?
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2017-07-08 at 2:37 AM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
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2017-07-08 at 2:11 AM UTC in I have the best wasps
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2017-07-08 at 2:02 AM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
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2017-07-08 at 1:30 AM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
Originally posted by 霍比特人 I think philosophy is mostly useless.
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2017-07-07 at 10:02 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
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2017-07-07 at 10 PM UTC in I have the best wasps
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2017-07-07 at 9:59 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
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2017-07-07 at 9:53 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
Originally posted by 霍比特人 Science is there whether you know its there or not. It is the objective reality of the universe. You can't manipulate science like you can manipulate a chainsaw to build a house, cut a tree, or sculpt ice. You have to follow the rules of science. There is literally no other option, no manipulation involved. You can choose which rules to follow but you can't manipulate the rules.
If you want to make this a semantics game you can fuck off. Call it reality or whatever. And if you don't believe in objective reality you can also fuck off. You guys know just as well as I do that science is more than just 'the study of.' I'd like to see you give more than a semantics argument on how it is a tool, if that's what you believe.
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2017-07-07 at 9:41 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
Originally posted by 霍比特人 How can you say science is a tool though? Science is the most objective reality we have. It isn't a tool any more than you would say oxygen is a tool for breathing. It's so inherent that to call it a tool implies its something to be manipulated. You can't manipulate objective reality.
Science is a method or tool used for measuring objective reality. It is not reality itself, it is a method or tool of learning and discovery. -
2017-07-07 at 9:40 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
Originally posted by greenplastic Yea…I know those statistics would be extremely difficult or impossible to get, I was just saying it would be interesting if we could hypothetically see them
It would be. What do you imagine the results would look like? I imagine it would pretty even, but slightly higher on the death toll. -
2017-07-07 at 9:21 PM UTC in bias and magical beliefs
