What's stopping us from seeing the truth?

[SpheresOfBalance]

What's stopping us from seeing the truth?

Perhaps a good reason is the toxically poor notion of 'either/or', 'true/false', me/you'... (Western philosophy) that is obfuscating our perception of the Truth that Truth/Existence/Reality is One, all inclusive.
That is the complete 'set', all other definitions that include your 'distinctions' and 'conditions' are subsets. Just as 'everything exists' is the complete 'set'. All definitions depending on 'exclusions' are 'subsets'.

We always see Truth, That which Is, a reason that we doubt it is that thoughtful dualistic perspective.
All the different descriptions/definitions of elephant are correct perceptions of the one Truth od Elephant! Though the ego's argue who's 'right', the complete elephant is defined as the sum-total of all Perspectives!

"The complete Universe (Reality/Truth/God/'Self!'/Tao/Brahman... or any feature herein...) can be defined/described as the synchronous sum-total of all Perspectives!" - Book of Fudd

All duality is ego. All ego is thought.
Sometimes you make me laugh out loud. "All duality is ego. All ego is thought" huh?

Thus the religious teachings that thought/ego must be transcended to perceive our One-ness (enlightenment), Truth.

It is the inability of many to perceive 'That-which-Is', sans 'thought', that cannot see further than the dualist Perspective; "Me vs you sukka!"
Yes, dualism exists, and so does the One from which the duality has been, in 'thought', schizophrenically fragmented.

That schizophrenic rift that has been the hallmark of homo (schizo-) sapiens is finally healing, and we are become (evolving into) homo-novus, New Man. We are witnessing a world shaking (literally) birth right Now! Globally!

We are One and we will all see it and all live it. The schizo-sapiens will evolve or die off.
Either way, good riddance!

Goodness Gracious son, you've got to get a grip. While we could probably agree on some things, you seem to be too tweaked to give it a chance. You should always relax and not charge into a room like a raging rhino. It would seem that you've come here to 'tell' everybody things and that's the wrong attitude to take

[..nameless..]

I havn't read such shit since grok tried to crash Atheists vrs Skeptics

I really did expect more from the 'so called' philosophers gracing such a great magazine's forum.
I was obviously mistaken.
Gee, three on the ignore list in one night.
Anyone left worthy of philosophical communication?
Any subject can be respectfully examined, that is what philosophers do. You and your ilk don't. Seems that I stumbled in on some daisy chain (with, perhaps, few exceptions). I guess that I'll see.
I don't mind casting a pearl or two if there is at least one here who isn't a 'swine'!
So 'pleasant' talking to you.
Dismissed back to your daisy buddies.

(We do have something in common, though, you are 'Godfree' (intelligencefree, respectfree...) while I am Jackassfree!
You are Ignored.
Bye

[Metazoan]

Hi ..nameless..,

Welcome back, I missed you.

I'd love to chat but I'm really stuck for time.

Best pop me on your ignore list right away.



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Don't follow this link!!

[lancek4]

Oh, does that mean that perception is that which is known? I can agree with this version, but I would have to ask how we know what perception is.

Took me a moment to translate your format..
Perception? Existence. Reality. The act/moment of 'Self!' Knowledge.
How do you know what an itch is?
How do you know when you are hungry"
Next time you itch, doubt your perception and don't scratch it. Same when you are hungry. That we perceive is evidence a'plenty of it's existence.

Whether you believe everything or doubt everything, one eventually finds the same Truth!

-----LK4-- platitude. Great. Where's Typist? he'd dig this.

If you have nothing to say, please do.
If you have some sort of viable refutation, let's hear it. Personal attacks and remarks are amateurish and not philosophy.
Your ad-hom attack by calling what I said some 'name' is meaningless, philosophically or scientifically.
If someone says something that bothers your delicate sensitivities here, ask for clarification before declaring ignorance and wildly attacking. To tell you the truth, i expected more from the folks here. So much for expectations. Are you all divided up into your own corners of the schoolyard? Someone comes with a different Perspective and gets marginalized and bullied? Homey don't play that!

----LK4: got my hopes up there for a second...

And with that sad juvenility, welcome to my ignore list.

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Obviously with your thinking you'd fail a college level logic course as false does in fact exist.

Perhaps if you unclenched a moment and read what I wrote!

Everything Is! Everything exists!

I have witnessed the mediocre mindless parrots regurgitating the same crap, like zombies, spewing from the hallowed halls. Your unphilosophic ad-hom insult is meaningless and juvenile.
Nor does it refute anything.

Truth tables would seriously kick your arse.

Again, you don't manage to refute an iota of what I have said. Are you the best that those hallowed halls produce?
Going 'personal' is a sad sign of inability to philosophically refute something said that 'bothers' you (usually a 'belief').
If there is any particular point that you wish elucidated, that I have offered, if you care, just ask, but lets keep the disrespectful cheap personal stuff out of this. Philosophy is about 'critical thought', not personalities.

A good place to start;

Critical Thinking Mini Lessons
http://www.skepdic.com/refuge/ctlessons.html

Bertrand Russell on Critical Thinking
http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Educ/EducHare.htm

Thanx

I'm gonna give a nod to Bills earlier thread:

I am you.

[lancek4]

I might take you ignore as an indication of me feeling the same as you in your rebuttals.

I have given you sound argument and you offered the rebuttal : truth is and 'I ignore you!". So I retorted with childlike play.

I addressed your point, now address mine with something more than "it just all 'is', dood, come on, take another bong load".

[..nameless..]

Hi ..nameless..,
Welcome back, I missed you.

Nice to be welcomed. Sweet! Thank you!
I'm a whole new updated version!

I'd love to chat but I'm really stuck for time.

Me too, anytime you like!

Best pop me on your ignore list right away.

So far you are completely unqualified! We'll see! *__-
I have no time anymore for mentally constipated schoolyard bullies or their disrespect.

[lancek4]

Hi ..nameless..,
Welcome back, I missed you.

Nice to be welcomed. Sweet! Thank you!
I'm a whole new updated version!

I'd love to chat but I'm really stuck for time.

Me too, anytime you like!

Best pop me on your ignore list right away.

So far you are completely unqualified! We'll see! *__-
I have no time anymore for mentally constipated schoolyard bullies or their disrespect.

Yes, all 'is', but I have no time for bs in my dualistically informed life.

I have no time to give of my self to those who are Obviously not like me, so even as I say Truth Is, I am going to contradict myself and take the priviledge of asserting my separation from this other being.

Good instructive parable in it own right -

Shall we get back to discussion of the issue?

I think it was 'what is stopping us from seeing the Truth?'.

[MJA]

Dear


"Ultimately 'lies' are True as they are subsets of Truth. Locally, with definitional limitations ('exclusivity' rather than the 'inclusivity' (Oneness) of the 'Set') there are 'falsehoods'."

So then everything you hear is true and false depending on what?


"The flaw of classical science is the assumption of empiricism, which has been refuted by quantum, as has the obsolete notion of the 'independent observer'."

Are we not independent observers?


"The Laws of Nature are not rules controlling the metamorphosis of what is, into what will be. They are descriptions of patterns that exist, all at once... " - Genius; the Life and Science of Richard Feynman

The only laws of nature are the ones created by independent observation right?
But if there is no such thing then nature is truly lawless and free.


"All existence ('Self Knowledge') is one timeless Planck (almost 10^-43/sec; one billion trillion trillion trillionths of a second!) moment, Now!"

Was Planck the observer?
I think you should double check his measurements!


Thanks,

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[MJA]

A Symposium

I’d love to have a symposium with Socrates, Einstein, and King, but will settle equally and happily with all of you. The menu is simple, it’s simply the Truth.
(Sorry for clarity no alcohol will be served)
Let’s eat!
First Course:
The flaw in our mentality is our continued practice and belief in measure or measurement. Science has proven nature to be truly immeasurable but unfortunately as of yet most including science itself has failed to move on. Probability is all we have today, QM, the grey area of fairness, of justice, a dice game. “Man is the measure of all things,” yet truly everything is immeasurable!
Main Course:
Einstein knew God or nature doesn’t play dice but unfortunately again science rather than searching for the absolute path went the most probable way instead, the wrong way. Beyond our path of measurements, of uncertainty or chance, beyond our judgments of good and bad, beyond our philosophies of East and West, beyond our theories and faiths, or beyond what you call relativity IS nature’s absolute; a truth more simple and more powerful than thought; the true Way.
Desert (The Cake):
There was an old Greek who asked his wife to follow him outside into the starry night so that he could show her the truth of the universe he had found. As they walked through the darkness the man stumbled and fell into a ditch. The woman began to laugh. The man became angry and asked why she found this so funny. She said you claim to know the truth of the universe yet you fail to know what is in front of your own to feet.
The Frosting:
The truth is not only in front of us All, it is us All.
Truth is!
Bon appetite,

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[Godfree]

I havn't read such shit since grok tried to crash Atheists vrs Skeptics

I really did expect more from the 'so called' philosophers gracing such a great magazine's forum.
I was obviously mistaken.
Gee, three on the ignore list in one night.
Anyone left worthy of philosophical communication?
Any subject can be respectfully examined, that is what philosophers do. You and your ilk don't. Seems that I stumbled in on some daisy chain (with, perhaps, few exceptions). I guess that I'll see.
I don't mind casting a pearl or two if there is at least one here who isn't a 'swine'!
So 'pleasant' talking to you.
Dismissed back to your daisy buddies.

(We do have something in common, though, you are 'Godfree' (intelligencefree, respectfree...) while I am Jackassfree!
You are Ignored.
Bye

Translation , you are some sort of religious nutter ,
who wants to make everything true , so you can feel your religion is true ,
truth is religion is not true , religion is a fantasy ,
if you don't agree with that , think it's true ,
then you don't live in the real world .
you may have read about a few philosophers , seems you didn't understand much of what you read ,
I find people quote others because they lack the understanding to put it in their own words ,
are you ashamed of your belief system ,???
will you deny your god just to appear intelligent ,,???
because believing in god , isn't very bright ,
only children could believe such nonsense , are you still a child ,,???

[lancek4]

I havn't read such shit since grok tried to crash Atheists vrs Skeptics

I really did expect more from the 'so called' philosophers gracing such a great magazine's forum.
I was obviously mistaken.
Gee, three on the ignore list in one night.
Anyone left worthy of philosophical communication?
Any subject can be respectfully examined, that is what philosophers do. You and your ilk don't. Seems that I stumbled in on some daisy chain (with, perhaps, few exceptions). I guess that I'll see.
I don't mind casting a pearl or two if there is at least one here who isn't a 'swine'!
So 'pleasant' talking to you.
Dismissed back to your daisy buddies.

(We do have something in common, though, you are 'Godfree' (intelligencefree, respectfree...) while I am Jackassfree!
You are Ignored.
Bye

Translation , you are some sort of religious nutter ,
who wants to make everything true , so you can feel your religion is true ,
truth is religion is not true , religion is a fantasy ,
if you don't agree with that , think it's true ,
then you don't live in the real world .
you may have read about a few philosophers , seems you didn't understand much of what you read ,
I find people quote others because they lack the understanding to put it in their own words ,
are you ashamed of your belief system ,???
will you deny your god just to appear intelligent ,,???
because believing in god , isn't very bright ,
only children could believe such nonsense , are you still a child ,,???

I prefer the arrogant fools who can stand up to other arrogant fools, rather than the pompous fools who run away and ignore.

[lancek4]

A Symposium

I’d love to have a symposium with Socrates, Einstein, and King, but will settle equally and happily with all of you. The menu is simple, it’s simply the Truth.
(Sorry for clarity no alcohol will be served)
Let’s eat!
First Course:
The flaw in our mentality is our continued practice and belief in measure or measurement. Science has proven nature to be truly immeasurable but unfortunately as of yet most including science itself has failed to move on. Probability is all we have today, QM, the grey area of fairness, of justice, a dice game. “Man is the measure of all things,” yet truly everything is immeasurable!
Main Course:
Einstein knew God or nature doesn’t play dice but unfortunately again science rather than searching for the absolute path went the most probable way instead, the wrong way. Beyond our path of measurements, of uncertainty or chance, beyond our judgments of good and bad, beyond our philosophies of East and West, beyond our theories and faiths, or beyond what you call relativity IS nature’s absolute; a truth more simple and more powerful than thought; the true Way.
Desert (The Cake):
There was an old Greek who asked his wife to follow him outside into the starry night so that he could show her the truth of the universe he had found. As they walked through the darkness the man stumbled and fell into a ditch. The woman began to laugh. The man became angry and asked why she found this so funny. She said you claim to know the truth of the universe yet you fail to know what is in front of your own to feet.
The Frosting:
The truth is not only in front of us All, it is us All.
Truth is!
Bon appetite,

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So, is the flaw 'the way' we measure? Or is it 'that' we 'are measuring' ?

[SpheresOfBalance]

I havn't read such shit since grok tried to crash Atheists vrs Skeptics

I really did expect more from the 'so called' philosophers gracing such a great magazine's forum.
I was obviously mistaken.
Gee, three on the ignore list in one night.
Anyone left worthy of philosophical communication?
Any subject can be respectfully examined, that is what philosophers do. You and your ilk don't. Seems that I stumbled in on some daisy chain (with, perhaps, few exceptions). I guess that I'll see.
I don't mind casting a pearl or two if there is at least one here who isn't a 'swine'!
So 'pleasant' talking to you.
Dismissed back to your daisy buddies.

(We do have something in common, though, you are 'Godfree' (intelligencefree, respectfree...) while I am Jackassfree!
You are Ignored.
Bye

Translation , you are some sort of religious nutter ,
who wants to make everything true , so you can feel your religion is true ,
truth is religion is not true , religion is a fantasy ,
if you don't agree with that , think it's true ,
then you don't live in the real world .
you may have read about a few philosophers , seems you didn't understand much of what you read ,
I find people quote others because they lack the understanding to put it in their own words ,
are you ashamed of your belief system ,???
will you deny your god just to appear intelligent ,,???
because believing in god , isn't very bright ,
only children could believe such nonsense , are you still a child ,,???

I prefer the arrogant fools who can stand up to other arrogant fools, rather than the pompous fools who run away and ignore.

I hear you lance, I'm sure you all know by now that I have my problems/limits that I'm working on improving everyday. I've only ignored Chaz and BobEVenson. Chaz for name calling, and Bob because of this religious SPAM! Maybe it's cowardly by some standards but my emotional plate is currently full enough as it is. So I prefer balanced psyches meshing with my slightly off kilter one. I just can't stand people that have the arrogance to assert that their knowing supersedes another's because I know that in fact 'no one does.' We all have beliefs though. Hey part of me wishes we were that close to perfection (knowing all) at least then the lines between good and evil could be definitively drawn, (where good is that which supports other life and evil is that which destroys other life, because you have every right to destroy your own, and that's it, unless it's in defense.)

[SpheresOfBalance]

<snip>
The Frosting:
The truth is not only in front of us All, it is us All.
I disagree as to the totality of your assertion but agree incrementally.

1) I agree that in fact, all that exists, truly exists.
2) I agree that in fact, the beliefs that we all have, truly exists.
3) I do not agree that in fact, all our beliefs are absolutely true.
4) I agree that in fact, all our individual beliefs are true to each of us individually, which is relative to our knowledge (understanding).
5) I 'know' that in fact, anyone that believes that all the beliefs of all of us, are absolutely true despite their contradictions, is a would be anarchist that truthfully knows not what they think they know, unless they have served on the front, and fully understand "Mutually Assured Destruction," and if they do, and are still anarchists then they are in fact (truthfully) suicidal and thus psychotic.

Truth is!
So 'truth is,' but not all 'that is,' 'is true,' lest you be a fool or psychotic!


Bon appetite,
Some people just chew on fat!

[MJA]

Measure is the flaw that stands in the Way.

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