Quote of the day

[Phil8659]

"Old Father's Quote #3. You should not kill yourself in your search for the meaning of life. (2009-05-31)" How I Understand Things. The Logic of Existence

Great Grandfather's knowledge, life, in of itself has no meaning, it is not animate. A life's meaning is produced by those who lived it. Until we know what we are, why we are, and how to do our biologically defined job, we are dead, learning the previous, brings us finally to life.
A mind is always responsible for the behavior of the body within which it resides, therefore if a mind is not doing its job, we are dead. A wise man once said, when we learn this, we are born again. Our life takes two births to happen, the physical and the mental.
Our physical birth only makes achieving life, possible.

If "life ... is not animate" then life is inanimate - is this not a contradiction?

Consider:

"Life (form) := A system capable of decision-making, that is with a perception of the state of systems." How I Understand Things. The Logic of Existence

There are two pars of speech, a relative or verb and a correlative, or noun. Or again, A thing is defined as a relative within, or contained by, correlatives. For example we have wood, color, life, not one of those is a thing, so they cannot be said to exist. We parse relatives, i.e. we cut boards out of wood, red out of color, a living being out of life. So, if you have two parts of speech, which define a thing, and things define what exists, then neither part of a thing, as Plato noted, as you actually know, can be predicated of the other. A noun is never a verb, nor a verb a noun. We make things by combination, or parsing.

Time does not exist, it is not a thing, A minute, a year, a centuray are things, they are parsed constructed by parsing time.
So life is not alive, you cannot predicate a noun of a verb, a verb of a noun, a verb of a thing, etc. It takes both parts of speech to make any thing.

A wooken table exist for we shape wood to make it. but wood in of itself does not denote any thing.

Same with life,. An animal is alive, yet animal does not denote any particular life.
When you treat both parts of speech indifferently and confuse the one with the other, you are not thinking at all. Attempting to think, but not achieving it.

[Impenitent]

"My three favorite things are eating my family and not using commas." - Richard Lederer

-Imp

[Phil8659]

"My three favorite things are eating my family and not using commas." - Richard Lederer

-Imp

New born spiders eat their family too.

[iambiguous]

Intellectuals

“We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.” Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Just one more reminder as it were.

“The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.” Oliver Wendell Holmes 

If only up in the clouds?

“The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.” Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Well, to some of us anyway.

“To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that intellect is really a safe, bland, and emollient thing. In a certain sense, the suspicious Tories and militant philistines are right: intellect is dangerous. Left free, there is nothing it will not reconsider, analyze, throw into question. "Let us admit the case of the conservative," John Dewey once wrote. "If we once start thinking no one can guarantee what will be the outcome, except that many objects, ends and institutions will be surely doomed. Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril, and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place." Further, there is no way of guaranteeing that an intellectual class will be discreet and restrained in the use of its influence; the only assurance that can be given to any community is that it will be far worse off if it denies the free uses of the power of intellect than if it permits them. To be sure, intellectuals, contrary to the fantasies of cultural vigilantes, are hardly ever subversive of a society as a whole. But intellect is always on the move against something: some oppression, fraud, illusion, dogma, or interest is constantly falling under the scrutiny of the intellectual class and becoming the object of exposure, indignation, or ridicule.” Richard Hofstadter

In a nutshell?

“Leftists of the oversocialized type tend to be intellectuals or members of the upper-middle class. Notice that university intellectuals constitute the most highly socialized segment of our society and also the most leftwing segment. The leftist of the oversocialized type tries to get off his psychological leash and assert his autonomy by rebelling. But usually he is not strong enough to rebel against the most basic values of society. Generally speaking, the goals of today’s leftists are NOT in conflict with the accepted morality. On the contrary, the left takes an accepted moral principle, adopts it as its own, and then accuses mainstream society of violating that principle.” Theodore J. Kaczynski

Someone run this by Sean and Stellan.

“Too much elite education renders a person impractical. And tell you what? The highly educated people are further away from reality than the less educated ones. I would rather rely on the opinion of a less educated poor person who constantly deals with people, than an overly educated idiot who views this world only through an academic lens while sitting alone on his comfy couch.” Abhaidev

Of course, he's only paraphrasing Will Durant. You know the one.

[Phil8659]

Grammar is the currency by which human behavior is exchanged.

[henry quirk]

Don’t add to the population (if you can't foot the bill).

Don’t subtract from the population (unless absolutely necessary).

Don’t do illegal stuff (and if you do, don’t get caught)

If you do end up in jail, establish dominance quickly and you’ll do fine.

[Impenitent]

"In America, if 2 immigration agents have a kid, is that an Ice, Ice baby?" - Mark Simmons

-Imp