Arising_uk wrote:
Sorry, I used the wrong scare-quotes, it should have been 'truth', so no need to bother with the bulk of your response as I pretty much agree with it.
Dear girl, you women often use these games to poke and draw attention. All innocent and shit.
You coy little girl, you.
Arising_uk wrote: It was your explanations I was confused about as they appeared to contradict themselves with the idea of something being 'static' being able to be updated, i.e. they are dynamic but just in a different timescale from what they are describing.
Again, woman, the contradictions are not in my opinions but in your understanding of them. I suspect, although I may be wrong, that they are intentionally projected there...because a girl has needs.
Arising_uk wrote:I'd have thought, given your description of 'nature' that neither consciouness nor intelligence matters not a jot, apart from mattering to the things that have it that is.
But consciousness and intelligence do matter all the more in a dynamic reality, dear woman.
How else, sweetie, would consciousness progress and grow, and how else would intelligence be dominant and exceedingly overpowering.
Let me explain, because no matter how many pages I write you are still confused princess.
Nature: The sum of all the interactions that preceded one's emergence and/or birth. I also call this essence and spirit, with none of that religious superposition.
Nurture: The sum of all the ongoing interactions that immediately affect the flourishing or the retardation of all the previous interactions.
Ergo, little woman, nurture cannot totally erase nature and nature, even if denied, cannot be dismissed with human contrivances and/or mimetic effects.
Now, babycakes, using what I just said the feminine/masculine divide becomes clearer.
You can call it Apollonian/Dionysian or animus/anima or Yin/Yang or you can call it Shirley.
The feminine attitude, shaped by the female's sexual role, is one associated with nature or the acceptance of entropy.
A towards nothingness.
It is one of acceptance, in general...tolerance.
It characterizes your
New Age's progressive, liberal, democratic attitudes.
It's nihilism consists in total chaos, the emptiness as Buddhists call it. It is a negative nihilism even though it is often given a positive spin.
Judeo-Christian thought has a knack for turning reality on its head.
But of course, in true religious style it selectively saves itself by retaining consciousness as the indestructible, timeless, eternal thing.
So it keeps to the assumed immutable absolute.
The masculine attitude shaped by its sexual role, is one of resistance, rejection, discrimination, against entropy.
This is why males are idealists and then sell this to females who go along with anything that promises the absent absolute.
The male is about conflict, resistance. He, therefore, goes against the flow, counter to entropy and towards an absolute something...whatever it might be. The abstraction is always ambiguous because it is nonexistent...so it can take on any form and be projected as anything.
This is often misconstrued as free-will.
It's nihilism is on a positive kind, as it promises an absolute state of Being, in the eternal Becoming...a final destination, an end.
It is defined by conservatism as to conserve means to resist change..and also by traditional values, as turning back to the past, a higher state of order, given the continuous entropic decay, is preferred.
In fact we might say that the real rebels are the conservatives as they reject the
status quo of eternal change, or entropy...and it is the so called progressives who offer an acceptance of change, or what occurs naturally and without effort in the universe.