fooloso4 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2017 2:28 pm
Nick, your evident lack of self-awareness renders philosophical discussion with you futile and pointless. My comments were intended for others who have read your misrepresentations of Plato and Weil on society and may have been misled. That you yourself are controlled by the very things that Weil warns against is not something you are able to see. That the images on the cave walls of your mind have been distorted by your own images of a transcendent reality you have not experienced and know nothing of is not something you are able to see, and so, you fail to understand the meaning of Socrates’ teaching about self-knowledge. Other may, if they do not already, be able to see this and thus get a measure of your sophistry and see through the rhetoric of your guise of the anti-expert expert.
Perhaps none of this is really necessary and no one mistakes your sloganeering for philosophical thought or mistakes your banner labeling and the mechanical reflex to slap on a quote, that you typically demonstrate that you really do not understand, for philosophical deliberation.
Behold the ugliness of secular intolerance. The people must be protected from the evil influence of those like me. Secular intolerance is closed to anything greater than itself and seeks to contaminate even the young with their inner spirit killing conceit. It destroys education and diminishes philosophy as the love of wisdom into meaningless intellectual jousting in quest of the egoistic satisfaction of imagined self importance. Truly nasty, ugly stuff. Kill yourself but why spiritually kill the young?
Why are many talented people capable of experiencing their nothingness in relation to higher consciousness yet the spirit killers are content with their imagined superiority?
Take C I R E T for example:
http://ciret-transdisciplinarity.org/index_en.php
Here we have an organization of talented people from all different branches of expertise ranging from intellects, artists, and mechanics all recognizing that they possess a piece of the truth existing as a whole at a higher conscious level of reality. Secularists of course deny such a level of reality and the commonality it offers so will do what it can to fight the influences of organizations like C I R E T
The International Center for Transdisciplinary Research (CIRET) is a non-profit organization, located in Paris and founded in 1987. The aim of our organization is to develop research in a new scientific and cultural approach - the transdisciplinarity - whose aim is to lay bare the nature and characteristics of the flow of information circulating between the various branches of knowledge. The CIRET is a priviledge meeting-place for specialists from the different sciences and for those from other domains of activity, especially educators. The aim of our organization is fully expressed in our moral project.
Sheer rubbish according to those like Fooloso4 and Greta. According to them the Beast already knows what is good for you so there is nothing to lay bare. The important thing is to argue over differences and demonstrate intolerance of all that questions the authority of the Beast.
CHARTER OF TRANSDISCIPLINARITY
(adopted at the First World Congress of Trandisciplinarity, Convento da Arrábida, Portugal,
November 2-6, 1994)
Preamble
Whereas, the present proliferation of academic and non-academic disciplines is leading to an exponential increase of knowledge which makes a global view of the human being impossible;
Whereas, only a form of intelligence capable of grasping the cosmic dimension of the present conflicts is able to confront the complexity of our world and the present challenge of the spiritual and material self-destruction of the human species;
Whereas, life on earth is seriously threatened by the triumph of a techno-science that obeys only the terrible logic of productivity for productivity's sake;
Whereas, the present rupture between increasingly quantitative knowledge and increasingly impoverished inner identity is leading to the rise of a new brand of obscurantism with incalculable social and personal consequences;
Whereas, an historically unprecedented growth of knowledge is increasing the inequality between those who have and those who do not, thus engendering increasing inequality within and between the different nations of our planet;
Whereas, at the same time, hope is the counterpart of all the afore-mentioned challenges, a hope that this extraordinary development of knowledge could eventually lead to an evolution not unlike the development of primates into human beings;
Therefore, in consideration of all the above, the participants of the First World Congress of Transdisciplinarity (Convento da Arrábida, Portugal, November 2-7, 1994) have adopted the present Charter, which comprises the fundamental principles of the community of transdisciplinary researchers, and constitutes a personal moral commitment, without any legal or institutional constraint, on the part of everyone who signs this Charter.
The Great Beast waves its tail in defiance and says: Fools! These idiots are helpless in the face of my influence and the fantasies I provide.
Perhaps true but at the same time the young who have yet to be killed may profit from knowing there are talented people in society attracted to eros knowing they have a piece of the truth and are willing to share with other branches of knowledge as seekers of truth without the need to tear them apart with secular intolerance in the attempt to prove their imagined superiority
