Philosophy Now Forum

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2019 5:52 pm

henry quirk wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:53 pm Define it.

Example it.

Argue about it.

Go!

Define it.

Example it.

Argue about it.

Go!

Define it.

Example it.

Argue about it.

Go!

It'll make for a good story no doubt! And we all love a good story.

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Walker wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2019 12:39 pm Jay
Things happen fast these days. It doesn’t take long to know when the car crashes. For instance, even before Obama was sworn in, businesses with any sense of self-preservation had contracted into hunker-down mode.

Most major media outlets* are organs of the Democratic Party that report what supports the narrative of invalidating Trump’s presidency by any means necessary. There are lots of swampy reasons for this. Trump responds appropriately to that world, and also to his world of official duties.

The press attached Obama on bailouts after 2008 and homeowners' defaults. Then they attacked him on the failure to implement Obamacare smoothly and later they attacked Hillary on emails and Benghazi. If it weren't for the media's reporting, Hilary would have won the election. The press has always been in the Republican's pocket. To say otherwise is creating an illusion of unfairness when the media is used by Republicans to attack the Democrats.

China has been provoked by Trump. Russia interfered with the election. Trump makes North Korea a huge threat. Yet the media underplays Trump's games. His actions are getting downplayed by the media. They are in his pocket. And you know it.

Lying is a political ploy used more by the Republicans in collusion with the press. "Lying Ted" or "Lying press"? They pretended to be fair to Cruz while they didn't call Trump on defamation. Their pretense is Trump's delight as they help him fake out the electorate. Are you deceived or crafty?

"Pocahontas" and all the other Trump insults are not news yet the media enables his defamation again and again.

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 9:16 am

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2019 5:52 pm

henry quirk wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2019 3:53 pm Define it.

Example it.

Argue about it.

Go!

Define it.

Example it.

Argue about it.

Go!

Define it.

Example it.

Argue about it.

Go!

It'll make for a good story no doubt! And we all love a good story.

.

That is because stories about about definining, giving example, and arguing about the nature of reality by localizing phenomena that have happened empirically or abstractly and connecting these "localizations" to form new patterns....

Stories are madness...and they are all about ghosts, imaginary entities which exist inside our heads....

jayjacobus wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 10:26 am "Pocahontas" and all the other Trump insults are not news yet the media enables his defamation again and again.

Fauxcahontas ... Crazy Bernie ... Sleepy Joe ...



All well-deserved, appropriate monikers, which is why they stick, which is why they're a burr under the saddle. Defamation my ass, they've all parlayed political power and influence into personal wealth far beyond their accumulated salaries while hiding behind the misnomer of "public service", whereas Trump donates his presidential salary where he pleases.

Madness is defending Progressive values, (not to be confused with progressive values.)

Nick_A wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2019 4:21 pm I define human intelligence as the ability to connect the wholeness of ideas with their interpretations we witness.

Most seem to prefer to argue Trump so we may as well abandon contemplating madness for the pleasure of arguing Trump.

So for the sake of peace; "Go Trump."

As you note, Trump as sociological phenomenon is a witnessed interpretation and wholly appropriate when connected with the wholeness of ideas, inappropriate when wandering lost in the weeds of distracting, propagandized minutia, or personal opinion.

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 9:16 am
It'll make for a good story no doubt! And we all love a good story.

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Some stories correlate with the one and only reality.

Some don't.

Walker wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 4:01 am

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 9:16 am
It'll make for a good story no doubt! And we all love a good story.

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Some stories correlate with the one and only reality.

Some don't.

All stories are temporal appearances of the one and only reality resting in peace, in living memory, or archived away in books.

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 7:13 am

Walker wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 4:01 am

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 9:16 am
It'll make for a good story no doubt! And we all love a good story.

.

Some stories correlate with the one and only reality.

Some don't.

All stories are temporal appearances of the one and only reality resting in peace, in living memory, or archived away in books.

Begin real stories with the ending that everyone knows for sure, and extrapolate from there with as few assumptions as one can manage. After the pre-language certainty of I Am, the only dualistic certainty is that one way or another, without the glue of life that arranges autonomic life processes into ordered, coherent relationships, the body identified as you will reduce to the elemental forms of earth, wind, fire, water, light and space.

Walker wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 7:31 pm

jayjacobus wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 10:26 am "Pocahontas" and all the other Trump insults are not news yet the media enables his defamation again and again.

Fauxcahontas ... Crazy Bernie ... Sleepy Joe ...



All well-deserved, appropriate monikers, which is why they stick, which is why they're a burr under the saddle. Defamation my ass, they've all parlayed political power and influence into personal wealth far beyond their accumulated salaries while hiding behind the misnomer of "public service", whereas Trump donates his presidential salary where he pleases.

Madness is defending Progressive values, (not to be confused with progressive values.)

The press reported republican's words as the republicans wanted. The press is in republicans' pocket Yet you will say "No".

jayjacobus wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:51 pm
The press reported republican's words as the republicans wanted. The press is in republicans' pocket Yet you will say "No".

You're halfway there. Now, simply connect your political insistence with the wholeness of ideas.

Okay! When the wise men speak, the press is no where to be found.