Philosophy Now Forum

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 29, 2025 2:14 pm

Fairy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 29, 2025 2:12 pm

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 29, 2025 1:58 pm

Mind is where thoughts occur and reside.

You’re doing well, keep going.

Keep going where?

Wherever it is that you think asking these questions seeking for answers is going to take you.

Fairy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 29, 2025 4:09 pm Let’s just remind ourselves what You did here on this thread topic.

And ignore everything else that is relevant so that you can make a biased judgment.

Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Mon Sep 29, 2025 4:50 pm

Fairy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 29, 2025 4:09 pm Let’s just remind ourselves what You did here on this thread topic.

And ignore everything else that is relevant so that you can make a biased judgment.

I know what you did.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 29, 2025 1:27 pm To me it seems pretty clear that there are billions of minds in the universe. And what exactly is a "mind" to you?

There’s no communication travelling anywhere. There’s only one field of knowing appearing as thoughts, questions, and answers.

“You” and “I” aren’t separate agents, they’re movements of the same awareness. Only the mind moves not you.

You are awareness, mind is thoughts, questions, and answers. “Consciousness” (mind) aware of existence, solidity. “I exist”

Speed of light. No two points.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 29, 2025 2:28 pm

Age wrote: ↑Mon Sep 29, 2025 2:15 pm

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 29, 2025 1:58 pm

Mind is where thoughts occur and reside.

So, if we were to cut open a human body, where is 'this place', which you call 'mind', exactly, where 'thoughts', themselves, occur and reside?

And, is the whole purpose of the 'mind' thingy to be 'just a place' where 'thoughts' occur and reside, only?

I don't know.

Thank you very much. I really do appreciate when people just answer my clarifying questions openly and honestly. It is very refreshing and again very much appreciated.

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Sep 29, 2025 4:15 pm

Age wrote: ↑Mon Sep 29, 2025 10:56 am

Do you feel the need to make that case, with the necessary clarifications?

No. I do not feel a 'need' to make absolutely any case, here. I am, here, to learn how to communicate better with you human beings, instead.

As for making 'that case', then 'this' would just happen naturally through Truly open and honest peaceful 'logically reasoned' discussions, where the goal is to just uncover and find out what the actual Truths are, exactly.

So, if 'that' is the 'actual case', in Life, then 'that' will just naturally 'come out', eventually, anyway.

Once more, I am not, here, with absolutely any position, view, nor case that I am necessarily fighting nor arguing for, nor against, at all.

More posturing from the clown.

The clown enjoys pretending to be the polar opposite of what he really is.

Age wrote: ↑Mon Sep 29, 2025 11:26 pm Thank you very much. I really do appreciate when people just answer my clarifying questions openly and honestly. It is very refreshing and again very much appreciated.

Nah, you enjoy it when they say, "I don't know". Had he honestly and openly stated an opinion you don't like, you would have welcomed him with a number of LOLs, you would have called his stance laughable, you would have addressed him with "this one" and "these human beings", you would have raised the stupidest objections against everything he has said and has not said, no matter how big or small, you would have accused him of being overly attached to his beliefs, of being deaf, blind, dishonest, a slow learner, etc. You're a poser through and through.

Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 3:49 am More posturing from the clown.

The clown enjoys pretending to be the polar opposite of what he really is.

If 'this' is what you continue to 'see', and/or really want to 'believe' is true, then 'this' is perfectly fine and okay, with me.

Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 3:53 am

Age wrote: ↑Mon Sep 29, 2025 11:26 pm Thank you very much. I really do appreciate when people just answer my clarifying questions openly and honestly. It is very refreshing and again very much appreciated.

Nah, you enjoy it when they say, "I don't know".

Once more, 'this one', very laughingly, actually believes, absolutely, that it can correct 'my views'.

LOL How much more 'superior' could one believe "itself" to be 'over others'?

By the way, I do, very much, enjoy when you people are honest. So, why did you say and write, 'Nah', for, exactly?

Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 3:53 am Had he honestly and openly stated an opinion you don't like, you would have welcomed him with a number of LOLs, you would have called his stance laughable, you would have addressed him with "this one" and "these human beings", you would have raised the stupidest objections against everything he has said and has not said, no matter how big or small, you would have accused him of being overly attached to his beliefs, of being deaf, blind, dishonest, a slow learner, etc.

How do 'you', supposedly, 'know' what 'I' would have, or will, do, exactly?

Also, and by the way, if and when you people express or state 'an opinion' as just 'an opinion', then there is nothing really 'to discuss', or 'reply to'. Unless, of course, a 'goal' was being sought out through a 'logically reasoned' two-way Truly open and honest discussion. However, when 'an opinion' is stated in 'a way' as either a 'belief', and/or a 'claim', then I will, again, suggest that 'the one' who does 'this' has already obtained actual Facts and irrefutable proof for 'their belief' and/or 'their claim'.

Look, stating a so-called 'opinion', as a 'fact' or as a 'claim of what is true', is a very, very different thing than just stating 'an opinion' as 'an opinion', only.

Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 3:53 am You're a poser through and through.

Again, if 'this' is what you want to 'believe is true' and/or is what you 'see', then 'this' is perfectly fine and okay, with me.

Age wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 5:18 am Once more, 'this one', very laughingly, actually believes, absolutely, that it can correct 'my views'.

You wanted to say "laughably" not "laughingly".

You didn't want to say that I believe in something while I laugh.

Rather, you wanted to say that the fact that I believe in something is laughable.

Laughingly: with laughter.
Laughable: able to cause laughter.

Age wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 5:18 am LOL How much more 'superior' could one believe "itself" to be 'over others'?

Significantly more. Consider a person who believes there are no minds. And who also openly shows disdain.

Age wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 5:18 am Also, and by the way, if and when you people express or state 'an opinion' as just 'an opinion', then there is nothing really 'to discuss', or 'reply to'. Unless, of course, a 'goal' was being sought out through a 'logically reasoned' two-way Truly open and honest discussion. However, when 'an opinion' is stated in 'a way' as either a 'belief', and/or a 'claim', then I will, again, suggest that 'the one' who does 'this' has already obtained actual Facts and irrefutable proof for 'their belief' and/or 'their claim'.

Look, stating a so-called 'opinion', as a 'fact' or as a 'claim of what is true', is a very, very different thing than just stating 'an opinion' as 'an opinion', only.

You're trying too hard.

Age wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 5:18 am Again, if 'this' is what you want to 'believe is true' and/or is what you 'see', then 'this' is perfectly fine and okay, with me.

And just so you know, you don't have to tell us that. You repeat yourself too much. It's VERY boring to read.

Age wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 5:10 am If 'this' is what you continue to 'see', and/or really want to 'believe' is true, then 'this' is perfectly fine and okay, with me.

I can write a Commodore 64 program that simulates your mind. Your responses are THAT generic.

Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 3:49 am More posturing from the clown.

The clown enjoys pretending to be the polar opposite of what he really is.

Nah.
Age is your mirror reflecting exactly what you want to see. A mirror is emptiness, reflecting thoughts,beliefs, and projections. The mind’s job is to focus on the reflections, mistaking them for actual reality.
Truth is beyond the minds reach. Truth is the emptiness in which every thought, belief, and projection appears, disappears, and reappears. Appearances have no solidity or substance they are like watercolour paintings upon a flowing river.

Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 5:40 am

Age wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 5:18 am Once more, 'this one', very laughingly, actually believes, absolutely, that it can correct 'my views'.

You wanted to say "laughably" not "laughingly".

You didn't want to say that I believe in something while I laugh.

Rather, you wanted to say that the fact that I believe in something is laughable.

Laughingly: with laughter.
Laughable: able to cause laughter.

Thank you for correcting 'my view', above, here. What I meant was, 'this one', very laughably, actually believes, absolutely, that it can tell 'me' what 'my views' are, and are not. Which is funny to watch, play out.

I do, very much, enjoy when you people are honest. So, why did you say and write, 'Nah', for before, exactly?

Also, what I wanted to say and write, I said and wrote. However, if what I said and wrote is Correct, or not, is another matter. So, what I meant to have said and written may well have been different.

Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 5:40 am

Age wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 5:18 am LOL How much more 'superior' could one believe "itself" to be 'over others'?

Significantly more. Consider a person who believes there are no minds. And who also openly shows disdain.

LOL Once more, 'this one' has failed, absolutely, in comprehending, and understanding, here.

Consider that there is no person who believes there are no minds, and that you only believe there is, because of your imagination and pre-exiting assumptions and beliefs.

What 'this one', here, is 'trying to' suggest is that those who believed the sun revolves around the earth are, significantly, 'more superior' than 'the one' who knew that the sun does not revolve around the earth, and who also may well have openly shown disdain, as well.

Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 5:40 am

Age wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 5:18 am Also, and by the way, if and when you people express or state 'an opinion' as just 'an opinion', then there is nothing really 'to discuss', or 'reply to'. Unless, of course, a 'goal' was being sought out through a 'logically reasoned' two-way Truly open and honest discussion. However, when 'an opinion' is stated in 'a way' as either a 'belief', and/or a 'claim', then I will, again, suggest that 'the one' who does 'this' has already obtained actual Facts and irrefutable proof for 'their belief' and/or 'their claim'.

Look, stating a so-called 'opinion', as a 'fact' or as a 'claim of what is true', is a very, very different thing than just stating 'an opinion' as 'an opinion', only.

You're trying too hard.

'This' was a typical response from people, back when this was being written, when they had absolutely nothing.

Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 5:40 am

Age wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 5:18 am Again, if 'this' is what you want to 'believe is true' and/or is what you 'see', then 'this' is perfectly fine and okay, with me.

And just so you know, you don't have to tell us that. You repeat yourself too much. It's VERY boring to read.

Well I could suggest that if 'you' just stopped believing and claiming 'things', which really have no place at all in a 'philosophy forum', then I would just stop saying and writing things like, 'if this is really what you want to believe is true, and/or is what you see, then this is perfectly fine and okay, with me'.

Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 5:40 am

You're trying too hard.

Actually the opposite is true. The speed, accuracy and effortlessness of the Age responses are impeccably delivered.
You see, I’m just observing something I’ve noticed over the years of interaction with Age, but then you might just want to believe I am defending Age, but I’m not, it’s just obviously not what I’m doing at all.

The point is, Age is very good at what he does. Very very good actually. Very precise, perhaps too precise for most people who are just seeking impatient instant gratification.

Everything is very easy when you know exactly what you are doing, my central heating engineer told me that. When you know exactly what you’re doing, you finally stop having to try hard.

You’re welcome.