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Dontaskme wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:12 pm

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:03 pm Ever get bitten by a concept?

Head in the tigers mouth.

You're fortunate to still have your head ... or was that just a conceptual tiger.

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:16 pm

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:12 pm

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:03 pm Ever get bitten by a concept?

Head in the tigers mouth.

You're fortunate to still have your head ... or was that just a conceptual tiger.

The I has no head...it's a conceptual tiger.

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Ah. A paper tiger.

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:03 pm Ever get bitten by a concept?

No. I've never been bitten by a "dog". Words can't bite.

Semiotics.... Signifier vs signified.

http://changingminds.org/explanations/c ... nified.htm

But a far more pertinent question is thus: Have you been bitten by a concept?

Yes! They can.

I see you get bitten by ignorance rather frequently.

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:20 pm Ah. A paper tiger.

Seemingly so.

Logik wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:21 pm

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:03 pm Ever get bitten by a concept?

No. I've never been bitten by a "concept" or a "dog".

Words can't bite. The thing the words point to.

You is/are a word.
A tooth (word) cannot bite itself.

Words can only point to another thing. Words cannot point to the no thing in which they arise...are known conceptually....it'd be like trying to point to silence by filling it up with words.

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Dontaskme wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:26 pm Words can only point to another thing. Words cannot point to the no thing in which they arise...are known conceptually....it'd be like trying to point to silence by filling it up with words.

Concepts can point to other concepts.

That's how metacognition works.

Logik wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:21 pm
Indeed they do! I see you get bitten by ignorance rather frequently.

Only ignorance is original...everything else is illusory secondary knowledge, heresy.

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Dontaskme wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:22 pm

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:20 pm Ah. A paper tiger.

Seemingly so.

Accident Report Question:
Cause of injury?

Answer:
I was bitten by a signifier protecting its turf.

(one laugh will do, don't want to oversell it)

Logik wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:27 pm
That's how metacognition works.

Cognition, from Self to no self an endless spring.

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Walker wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:27 pm

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:22 pm

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:20 pm Ah. A paper tiger.

Seemingly so.

Accident Report Question:
Cause of injury?

Answer:
I was bitten by a signifier protecting its turf.

(one laugh will do, don't want to oversell it)

Are you sure it was a tiger? There aren't many of those in the USA.

Appropriate Eddie Izzard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DMnthDaVpA

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:27 pm

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:22 pm

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:20 pm Ah. A paper tiger.

Seemingly so.

Accident Report Question:
Cause of injury?

Answer:
I was bitten by a signifier protecting its turf.

(one laugh will do, don't want to oversell it)

Move along..Nothing to see here.

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:29 pm Move along..Nothing to see here.

Bingo. (signifiers)

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:31 pm

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:29 pm Move along..Nothing to see here.

Bingo. (signifiers)

Nothing signifying itself. Much-a-do about nothing..Freedom from the burden of knowing.

When nothing is known. Everything is known.

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:37 pm

Walker wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:31 pm

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:29 pm Move along..Nothing to see here.

Bingo. (signifiers)

Nothing signifying itself. Much-a-do about nothing..Freedom from the burden of knowing.

When nothing is known. Everything is known.

What do you think the gist of your above posting signifies?

Or, are gists just illusions.