“If you don’t change direction, you may end up where your heading” - Lao TzuYet another wrong-way driver!
There’s only one direction, follow your own lead - Fairy
“If you don’t change direction, you may end up where your heading” - Lao TzuYet another wrong-way driver!
Tell that to Age, for it was him I was paraphrasing there. He seems to regard everyone who is not going in his direction—which I doubt is following his own lead, by the way—as a wrong-way driver.
Age is only wanting people to see a certain way, namely, the right way. The true way, the I am the truth and the light, and the life way. Most people get distracted and steer off course.Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 12:11 amTell that to Age, for it was him I was paraphrasing there. He seems to regard everyone who is not going in his direction—which I doubt is following his own lead, by the way—as a wrong-way driver.
Why is this even a question, to you?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amI didn't say I believed it absolutely. It's just that, as Neumann says there, "[n]othing is easier to perceive". In fact, as he exclaims in the same book,Age wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 6:33 amWhy do 'you', the one known here as "self-lightening", believe, absolutely, that this is the only Truth?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 1:19 am
Well, the only such "Truth" is the following, though I'm quite sure it's not what you mean:
"Nothing is easier to perceive than reality's emptiness.
"What is clearer than the impossibility of experiencing anything but experiences!" (Neumann, Liberalism, page 35.)
The question, then, is whether those experiences are experiences of something (and by someone) or not. They may be, or they may not.
So,.there is,.at least, One Thing, which is known here as, again, (the) 'I'.Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amWhat perceived things? All "I" know are "perceptions", impressions, experiences.
you seem to have some.sort of disillusionment here that if some particular so or so said some particular thing, then what 'that one' said must be absolutely true and/or right.Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 am"Heidegger's 'Age of the World-View' rightly notes that 'world view' understood scientifically 'does not mean a view of the world, but the world understood as a view (or picture).[']" (op.cit., page 3.)Age wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 6:33 amSo, if any other 'view', besides the one/s "self-lightening" has, then 'those views' are not so-called 'genuine philosophy nor science', right?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 1:19 amGenuine philosophy or science is the realization that nothing, no divine or natural order, endows anything with a non-arbitrary being, an identity not subject to radical change at any moment.
What for? There is nothing 'above' that clarifies what you mean here, exactly.Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amSee above.Age wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 6:33 amIf 'you' say and believe so, then this is the one and Only, real and true, view, here, right?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 1:19 amThere is nothing in (or behind or above) things to make them more than empty experiences, impressions as Hume called them. Reality and everything in it is nothing but empty impressions, experiences, bigotries, dreams whose dreamer is himself a dream." (Harry Neumann, "What is Bigotry?")
LOLSelf-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amYes.
Okay, so who and/what am 'I', exactly?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amI do tend to believe that, yes. "I" am one mind, "you" are another, and there is no overarching one.
But, there is no question, as far as 'I' am concerned. See, once what the actual Truth has been seen, and thus is fully understood, and known, then there are no more questions. Well relating to 'that' anyway.Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amYes. "I" know that the mind "I" am—'am', not 'have', hence the scare quotes—exists. The question is whether other minds exist.Age wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 6:33 am
I thought that when I asked you to clarify what you actually meant when you said and wrote, 'any of us', above here, and that when you replied that it meant; 'that 'the One' is perceiving, (guessing, or concocting), that there is more than just 'this One'.
But, I must of been mistaken, right?
Why did you presume, and then believe, that this is what I mean?
How could there may be no 'I' if there is known to be something, certainly, existing?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 am Well, what I meant there is that there may be no I, no thing, no substance. "Something" certainly exists, even if it's just a—single—hallucination.
Because the word 'my' implies ownership. And, who or what, exactly, could 'own' a 'self'?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amSo the terms "my" and "self" contradict each other? Please explain.
Supposedly, 'typical of a believer' of 'what' exactly?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amNo, that's just your circular reasoning—typical of a believer.
1. What do you mean by, 'you of all people', here, exactly?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amBecause then someone, and in fact you of all people, would have to have had a divine revelation.
So, what is 'revelation', to 'you', exactly?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 am I do believe people have had experiences that they—and/or their followers—have interpreted that way, but that's just interpretation, not revelation.
An 'ideal' by who and/or what, exactly?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amBack where it's reasoned that, because a predicate requires a subject, an experience requires an experiencer. It doesn't. It merely requires the idea of an experiencer (and an experienced, for that matter).
Here 'we' have another one who will just not clarify.
Or, because it is just an absolute impossibility to explain Accurately and Correctly how some thing that is both theoretically and empirically impossible to exist could exist.Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amNo, because there's no need to explain that whatsoever.
What are you even on about, here now?
Well have you human beings ended up where you want and desire to be and/or ended up with 'the answers' that you have been searching and looking for?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 12:11 amTell that to Age, for it was him I was paraphrasing there. He seems to regard everyone who is not going in his direction—which I doubt is following his own lead, by the way—as a wrong-way driver.
You keep telling yourself that.Age wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:25 amWhy is this even a question, to you?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amI didn't say I believed it absolutely. It's just that, as Neumann says there, "[n]othing is easier to perceive". In fact, as he exclaims in the same book,
"What is clearer than the impossibility of experiencing anything but experiences!" (Neumann, Liberalism, page 35.)
The question, then, is whether those experiences are experiences of something (and by someone) or not. They may be, or they may not.
Of course, and irrefutably, if there is an experience, then there is some thing/some one.
No, not the "I" (hence the quotes), but so-called perceptions, i.e. impressions, experiences.Age wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:25 amSo,.there is,.at least, One Thing, which is known here as, again, (the) 'I'.Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amWhat perceived things? All "I" know are "perceptions", impressions, experiences.
Nope, they just said it before me and probably as well as I could say it myself.Age wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:25 amyou seem to have some.sort of disillusionment here that if some particular so or so said some particular thing, then what 'that one' said must be absolutely true and/or right.Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 am"Heidegger's 'Age of the World-View' rightly notes that 'world view' understood scientifically 'does not mean a view of the world, but the world understood as a view (or picture).[']" (op.cit., page 3.)
Really? The world is not just earth, though. But are you sure a view must not be a view of something?..
Not to you, apparently.Age wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:25 amWhat for? There is nothing 'above' that clarifies what you mean here, exactly.
One body among an enormous—and changing—number of other bodies.Age wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:25 amLOL
This was a very common response among the adult population, back in those very, very 'olden days' when this was being written. That is; I would ask them an 'or' question, and they would would respond presuming or believing that I knew which part of the 'or' that they were responding to, exactly.
Or, they just did not know what they were doing.
Or, they were just, purposely, being misleading and/or deceptive.
Okay, so who and/what am 'I', exactly?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amI do tend to believe that, yes. "I" am one mind, "you" are another, and there is no overarching one.
If you say so (grammatical errors notwithstanding).Age wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:25 amBut, there is no question, as far as 'I' am concerned. See, once what the actual Truth has been seen, and thus is fully understood, and known, then there are no more questions. Well relating to 'that' anyway.Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amYes. "I" know that the mind "I" am—'am', not 'have', hence the scare quotes—exists. The question is whether other minds exist.Age wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 6:33 amI thought that when I asked you to clarify what you actually meant when you said and wrote, 'any of us', above here, and that when you replied that it meant; 'that 'the One' is perceiving, (guessing, or concocting), that there is more than just 'this One'.
But, I must of been mistaken, right?
Because you keep going on about the "One", and do so in conversations with others.
Because what "is known to be something, certainly, existing" is not an "I".Age wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:25 amHow could there may be no 'I' if there is known to be something, certainly, existing?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amWell, what I meant there is that there may be no I, no thing, no substance. "Something" certainly exists, even if it's just a—single—hallucination.
As I said, caught in a web of language.Age wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:25 amBecause the word 'my' implies ownership. And, who or what, exactly, could 'own' a 'self'?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amSo the terms "my" and "self" contradict each other? Please explain.
By discovering it, duh. Know relatively, that is. Never absolutely. Hence philosophia, not sophia.Age wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:25 amSupposedly, 'typical of a believer' of 'what' exactly?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amNo, that's just your circular reasoning—typical of a believer.
Also, if you are not starting off, from the very beginning, with an actual.irrefutabke Truth, then how are you ever going to 'know' what is, actually, 'True' later on?
It's when what's experienced is essentially the same as the experience thereof.Age wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:25 amyou do, by the way, appear to have misinterpreted and misunderstood what I am actually saying, and meaning, here.1. What do you mean by, 'you of all people', here, exactly?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amBecause then someone, and in fact you of all people, would have to have had a divine revelation.
2. A so-called 'divine revelation' could only happen and occur if there was some 'divine' thing existing, right?
3. Do you find it 'most improbable' that one could 'come-by-chance' to a 'divine revelation' or to 'divine revelations'?So, what is 'revelation', to 'you', exactly?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 am I do believe people have had experiences that they—and/or their followers—have interpreted that way, but that's just interpretation, not revelation.
"Idea", not "ideal". Neither term requires a "by", though.Age wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:25 amAn 'ideal' by who and/or what, exactly?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amBack where it's reasoned that, because a predicate requires a subject, an experience requires an experiencer. It doesn't. It merely requires the idea of an experiencer (and an experienced, for that matter).
You.Age wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:25 amAnd, how did you come-to-obtain the absolute irrefutable Truth here?
Was it by 'divine revelation', or by some other way?
If it was the latter, then how and what way was that way, exactly?
Here 'we' have another one who will just not clarify.
Or, because it is just an absolute impossibility to explain Accurately and Correctly how some thing that is both theoretically and empirically impossible to exist could exist.Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 amNo, because there's no need to explain that whatsoever.
Some times the actual Truth just had to be presented, for some people to comprehend and understand 'It', fully.
As seen here, once more, lying and/or deception will just not work.
What are you even on about, here now?
Are you by any chance Ecmandu?Age wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:28 amWell have you human beings ended up where you want and desire to be and/or ended up with 'the answers' that you have been searching and looking for?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 12:11 amTell that to Age, for it was him I was paraphrasing there. He seems to regard everyone who is not going in his direction—which I doubt is following his own lead, by the way—as a wrong-way driver.
Or, in the days when this is being written, are you adult human beings, still, pondering and wondering if there is 'more' HERE?
Okay. But, it is also some thing that just cannot be refuted, by any one, obviously.Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:11 amYou keep telling yourself that.Age wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:25 amWhy is this even a question, to you?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:48 am
I didn't say I believed it absolutely. It's just that, as Neumann says there, "[n]othing is easier to perceive". In fact, as he exclaims in the same book,
"What is clearer than the impossibility of experiencing anything but experiences!" (Neumann, Liberalism, page 35.)
The question, then, is whether those experiences are experiences of something (and by someone) or not. They may be, or they may not.
Of course, and irrefutably, if there is an experience, then there is some thing/some one.
Perceptions, impressions, or experiences of what', exactly?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:11 amNo, not the "I" (hence the quotes), but so-called perceptions, i.e. impressions, experiences.
So, just because you, or another, said some thing, this, obviously, in and of itself does not.mske 'that thing' right, nor true. So, who cares what just a human being says, or claims?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:11 amNope, they just said it before me and probably as well as I could say it myself.
you seem to have, again, completely and utterly missed, misinterpreted, and/or misunderstood what I actual meant.Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:11 amReally? The world is not just earth, though. But are you sure a view must not be a view of something?..
Well if you look above, then you will see that there is not, actually.
So, now what 'we' have is 'this one' saying, and claiming, that the 'I' is 'a mind', as well as 'a body'.Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:11 amAge wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:25 am
LOL
This was a very common response among the adult population, back in those very, very 'olden days' when this was being written. That is; I would ask them an 'or' question, and they would would respond presuming or believing that I knew which part of the 'or' that they were responding to, exactly.
Or, they just did not know what they were doing.
Or, they were just, purposely, being misleading and/or deceptive.
One body among an enormous—and changing—number of other bodies.
Would you like to Correct any errors you saw or see here?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:11 am
If you say so (grammatical errors notwithstanding).
Okay.Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:11 am
Because you keep going on about the "One", and do so in conversations with others.
Why not?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:11 am
Because what "is known to be something, certainly, existing" is not an "I".
But, 'you' are not, correct?
As I pointed out before, you are misinterpreting here.Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:11 am
By discovering it, duh. Know relatively, that is. Never absolutely. Hence philosophia, not sophia.
Could 'you' be caught up in a so-called 'web of language', here?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:11 am
It's when what's experienced is essentially the same as the experience thereof.
So, in 'your web of language' where doss 'the idea' exist if the words 'experiencer'' (and 'experienced') exist, exactly?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:11 am
"Idea", not "ideal". Neither term requires a "by", though.
Once again, actual clarification is not provided.Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:12 amAre you by any chance Ecmandu?Age wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:28 amWell have you human beings ended up where you want and desire to be and/or ended up with 'the answers' that you have been searching and looking for?Self-Lightening wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 12:11 am
Tell that to Age, for it was him I was paraphrasing there. He seems to regard everyone who is not going in his direction—which I doubt is following his own lead, by the way—as a wrong-way driver.
Or, in the days when this is being written, are you adult human beings, still, pondering and wondering if there is 'more' HERE?