Age wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 5:27 am
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 3:44 am
I find most of your counter views very stupid.
I KNOW. You said this previously, and previously when you said the same thing, I said the same, I KNOW.
You do NOT have to keep repeating it, unless of course it makes you feel just that little bit better about yourself in some way. If it does, then go right ahead and keep doing it.
As I had stated 'repetition is one of the most useful element/feature in ensuring efficient communication."
You can always put it is aside if you are already aware of it.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 3:44 ame.g.
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Reality' is NOT ALL-there-IS.
ALL-THERE-IS is 'ALL-THERE-IS', or more commonly known as the Universe.
'Reality' is completely different to ALL-THERE-IS.
The above is one good example of nonsense you are spouting.
I am not going to waste time dealing with all those stupid points you presented.
Okay do not do that. But since you presented this "stupid" point of mine up.
Explain to the readers and listeners WHY you BELIEVE that this is a good example of nonsense I am sprouting. Just saying this is nonsense does NOT show in any way whatsoever why you believe it is nonsense.
You are an expert and pointing out what is stupid and nonsense to you, (which by the way we ALL KNOW what is stupid and nonsense to you), but you are very inept as actually explaining WHY it is stupid and nonsense to you. ONLY when you do that is it possible to for me to show the readers and listeners WHERE and HOW you are distorting what I am actually writing and saying.
Isn't your this,
ALL-THERE-IS is 'ALL-THERE-IS'
something that is stupid relative the level of philosophy we are engaged in?
I have stated, you are stupid because your desperate existential psychology has blinded you to discuss issues rationally.
You are stupid because if anyone were to discuss about 'one's self' and your own psychological state, you will dismiss it as nonsense and not objective.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 3:44 amHere are a few stupid points I will address.
Age wrote: ↑Sat Oct 20, 2018 12:19 pm
I am NOT arguing for that at ALL. I do NOT participate in the ridiculousness, stupid and general waste of time that is "debating".
Then why are you participating in this forum.
ONLY to learn how to communicate better. I have already proven that so called "philosophy" in the past couple of hundred years has NOT produced any beneficial outcome of any real purpose.
This is what I meant by stupidity i.e. the wholesale dismissal of the mentioned database of human knowledge.
Fact is the philosophy propounded by Kant, Hume, Heidegger and many others has been useful to many fields of knowledge that has benefited humanity.
Debating and philosophizing in the terms you use the words is a completely closed way of looking and seeing the world and thus a complete waste of time. But a philosophy forum, where people generally of the same ilk hang out, is a great place to learn how to communicate better. If I can get just one person in a philosophy forum to OPEN up, in order to be able to discover and see answers for and by them self, then I KNOW I would have succeeded in what I have set out all along.
'Birds of feather' and their agreement do not absolutely mean there is something positive. Note the consensus between believers of theistic religions.
I believe your ideas will lead to something like radical advaita and the belief in the impersonal Absolute independent of everything that is taken to be objective real by rational and wise people.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 3:44 am
It is only true in your la la land since nothing in the humanity's collective database of knowledge matter to you.
You are RIGHT in that nothing in human being's collective database of knowledge, which is obviously false, wrong, and incorrect, matters.
I have already explained, but again you probably over-looked it completely, is the fact that
WHAT DOES ACTUALLY MATTER is what ALL human being's collectively AGREE UPON. ALL the rest that is in disagreement does NOT matter one iota. If some thing can be argued, then it is not worth arguing about.
That is only an ideal, but whatever is an ideal when reified is an illusion.
What you are saying is 'WHAT DOES ACTUALLY MATTER' is the illusion within the minds of the ideal person.
My point is absolute agreement [illusory] must be complemented with disagreements in certain perspectives, e.g. morality and others.
So what if they are contentious issue? That is the main issue with reason and logic. Only when what is in contention comes into agreement, then the rest all falls into place naturally.
If the words 'existence', 'is', and 'absolute perfection' are without any basis of 'reality', then WHY are the words in 'existence'? WHY do you use those words, and WHY do you appear to insist they are all very contentious issues without any basis of reality? Let us start by waiting your response to WHAT does 'reality' mean first, before I ask you to reveal WHAT do the other four words mean, and before I will ask you if YOUR definition is a subjective one or an objective one.
Existence is not a predicate.
e.g. "An apple exists"
Exists in this case is not a predicate, but there is an implied predicate in that statement.
The fact is 'an apple exists as a fruit, etc."
The fact "an apple exists as a fruit, etc." can be objectively proven with Science or common sense [lesser degree].
In this case "exist" or "IS" is merely a copula that connect the subject with its predicate to express an object. To establish the reality of the object, it must be objectively justified with the appropriate proofs.
Thus in the case of 'God exists' there is also an implied predicate, e.g.
- God exists as a bearded man in the sky.
God exists as an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent entity.
God exists an an ontological being or entity.
God exists as blah, blah, blah
For all the above claims, God must be proven and justified to be real & objective based on valid and sound proofs, empirical or otherwise.
Surely you are not going to accept a theist who claim "my God is real and it has commanded me to kill you." A judge will definitely ask for evidence to such a claim.
Since Science is the most reliable knowledge, then the one who claim "God exists as ...." need to prove at least basing on the Scientific Method.
What you are insisting is the rejecting all basis of human knowledge and depending on illusory basis that cannot be justified at all. This is what most schizos would do, they claim their experience is real while the rest of the world who questioned the schizo's claim is deemed to be unreal.
Is not the whole point of each different word and term so that it has a different meaning or definition from another word and term so that is COULD BE easier to better understand the 'world', Universe, we live in, and, be able to better communicate that understanding with each other? Does not the different terms and words with their different definitions and meanings allows us more easily better understand the many different things that there are within the Universe?
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 3:44 amThe terms by themselves are groundless.
How many terms, by themselves, are NOT groundless?
Feel free to list as many as you like here for all of us to see.
There are no absolute grounds.
That apple existing on the table is not groundless as it can be proven empirically via Science and rational arguments plus even common sense.
Your claims are groundless.
The only ground to your claim is your psychological state from your empirical-I and these can be proven and inferred empirically.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 3:44 am"Existence" is not a predicate.
"is" is merely a copula
Absolute perfection is an illusion.
If that is what you BELIEVE, then so be it. I am NOT here to convince you of any thing different.
I am just here to learn how to show you how to OPEN up so that you can see that actual and real truth of things, for and by your self.
What is there to OPEN up?
I believe I have covered sufficient grounds to understand more realistic openness than you.
I am suggesting you should do an OPEN-UP of what is within your brain and understand the desperate existential psychology within that is compelling you to think [constipated] the way you do.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 3:44 amIf you exist, then that is because of the Universe, Itself.
If the Universe did NOT exist, then neither would you.
You are existing.
Note there are counter arguments to the above.
One point is 'humans exist because of the Universe' and 'the Universe exists because of humans.'
BUT, they are NOT counter arguments to the EXACT SAME thing. They are just two different ways of looking, at the same ONE and ONLY thing. There is ONLY ONE objective Truth, but, there are just as many different subjective truths as there are subjective ones looking.
I repeat again.
What is objective is merely intersubjective, i.e. consensus among subjects not merely on words and meaning but based on a spontaneous emergent reality.
The is no "ONLY ONE objective Truth."
Whatever is objectively true [intersubjectively true] is conditioned by the various Framework and System relied upon.
There are the scientific truths which are conditioned by the Scientific Framework, System and Method.
There are legal, social, political, economics, mathematics, geometry, sports, etc. truths which are conditioned by their specific Framework and System.
Your "ONLY ONE objective Truth" truth is conditioned by your own brain/mind and the desperate psychology within and this area of philosophy is dealt within Metaphysics and psychiatry.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 3:44 amThe points you made surely cannot appear from nowhere without "you" as a subject within all-there-is.
WHAT exactly is the thing that lead you to even think otherwise?
A subject with the object, the Universe, does NOT HAVE TO look at things subjectively.
In saying that, of course a newly born subject will look subjectively at things, that is; UNTIL they either discover a way to look at things completely objectively, OR, they are taught a way to look at things objectively.
It only takes one 'subject',
subjective person, to discover some thing more or anew, in order for other subjects to learn, some thing more or anew as well. How long that can take to happen depends on how subjective a person IS, or people ARE.
There is NOT just one way to look at many things, there is ALSO many ways to look at one thing. For example that thing I just wrote.
As I had argued 'you' the subject is part and parcel of all-there-is.
How can you isolate your physical body and mind to generate an independent view of all-there-is?
You cannot, that is why subjectivity,i.e. inter-subjectivity is the fundamental of objectivity.