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Returned to this discussion and surprised to find it still in full venomous mode, strident and fanatical. What hope is there for humanity in this Tower of Babel.

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 1:14 am Context is contigent on context thus context self-references leading to a singularity. This singularity is obscure and unable to be sensed given there is nothing to compare it too.

Would a singularity be a singularity if there was anything to compare it to?

In his essay ‘The Ancestry of Fascism’ Bertrand Russell had this to say about Kant: “The philosophy which has been distinctive of Germany begins with Kant, and begins as a reaction against Hume. Kant was determined to believe in causality, God, immortality, the moral law, and so on, but perceived th...

For some it is all about belief because that is all they know. There is a vast difference between belief and perception. Humans are capable of both. Perception, a blend of reason and feeling, has a validity that leaves all else alone. In contrast, belief is in the head and is always defending what i...

A formal education can lay a foundation but today lifelong learning is necessary. An education should provide a grounding in the classics. In the past, when that was the case, people emerged with a culture, a sense of universal verities, and an erudition that made a contribution to society. A well-f...

Sculpture wrote: The purpose of an education; higher or lower, in addition to imparting information, should be to evolve the student past the various stages of development to mature adulthood. If the purpose of this forum is an exchange of ideas, it is met only by participants who adhere to that st...

This looks like the words of a person that was never educated. Are you saying only the uneducated are closed-minded and subject to control and manipulation. The educated are uniformly open-minded and beyond influence of any kind? Is that uniformly the case in your opinion? Are you saying... No. I a...

The educational system is similar to the internet. It has content and supplies information without regard to values or encouraging an open-minded stance while being immune to control or manipulation. This looks like the words of a person that was never educated. It does not impart a how-to-live int...

The educational system is similar to the internet. It has content and supplies information without regard to values or encouraging an open-minded stance while being immune to control or manipulation. It does not impart a how-to-live intelligence or how to fast forward past a developmental stage a st...

It is my view that you misremembered this phantom lecture where someone tells you bollocks about dark ages. Whatever. What I said above still stands. No need to add to it. No it does not stand at all. You cannot polish a turd True. It all depends on what your definition of a turd is. Yours would be...

There is a difference between learing convnetions. and challenging them and just being confused and making up your own shit. And you still do not know what a dark age is. Rambling assertions with no evidence Making up nothing, just choosing from the information that is available and making an educa...

You do not know what a dark age is. THis is the last post on the subject Topic resolved, sort of. The point of higher education should be to awaken discriminative intelligence in each individual. Not feed them ‘this is the way it was, or is’ dogma. There is a difference between learing convnetions....

You missed the key point about a dark age, in that writing stops. You are talking bollocks about this lecture. No such lecture ever happened. From 100bce to the fall of Rome circa 400ce in Britain, and later elsewhere was not in any sense a dark age. And many areas never experienced a dark age, thr...

One account has them extending from 700 B.C. to 1700 A.D. Please cite your source. And what do you think "Dark Age" means? My source was a lecture I attended as a guest, I do not recall the name of the person who was versed in oriental astronomy, and addressed the topic as a mistake that ...

The Dark Ages were a problem. One account has them extending from 700 B.C. to 1700 A.D., during which all that was perceived was matter. The Greeks, ancient and classical, up to 700 B.C. had one perspective on reality. Logos as intelligence ruled all and Nous human reason was one in perception unti...