Arising_uk wrote:So what you are actually saying is that you take no note of others opinions and because you mistake this for an 'open' mind you can ignore them.
That is not true. I do listen to others, as I have reviewed that website you've shown me from my latest post. However, that does not stop me from analyzing them and critiquing them to see if I can find some flaws or shortcomings. Another thing is that much of your comments on what I've presented on this forum have been pretty much attacks on me which reflects your massive egotism.
No, what I am saying is that my description of you is a fact and I reject what you post as it having no basis in fact but are in fact propaganda produced for political reasons by various groups. Now you can say this applies to 'academia', et al but I'll point out to you that they are, on the whole, peer-reviewed and backed up by historical evidence whereas what you have posted is conjecture by various groups to support their agenda.
And how would you know that unless if it were you who were to actually take it upon yourself to examine them? Are you truly more serious about learning and Philosophy, or are you just parroting things from what you've heard without realizing or acknowledging it?
The reason why Maths is 'endless'(?) is the same reason why Logic is, they are formal axiomatic symbolic systems that can go on churning out theorems until the end-of-time.
Why, that is the mistake of only trusting your inductive mind without reviewing them and trying to deduce them, which is what Logic in its simplest term is, no matter how much you explore it. Trying to explore it too much without a basic axiom is useless, and thus all you're doing is playing simple mind games and tricking yourself.
Try looking at it now and seeing that it contradicts your claim about the Hindu.
You make a fair point about examining such things, as such I'd not say you should stop but you are obviously looking into such things to find a purpose or meaning that you haven't found elsewhere, e.g. in academic study, and as such I think you will not be able to critically examine what you read and that your confirmation bias will only allow you to choose from the options rather than look for true alternatives, i.e. your will not consider that all of what you've found may be wrong and that maybe just maybe the academics might know what they are talking about.
You see, you are repeating the mistake of blindly trusting authority, which is known as the "Appeal to Authority" fallacy. You are simply denouncing what I'm talking about mainly because that's it's not acknowledged by authority. This goes back to what I've been talking about regarding academia; it is no more different in its process of molding minds and persecuting other opinions than that of the Roman Catholic Church. Now one can argue that the RCC used much crueler tactics, such as that of torture,and they are right on that. But it's the essence of that tactic; the propagandizing and tactics that shut out dissenting opinions, that make the two similar. So really, you are not much better than me when it comes to examining things. I admit that I've taken things at face value in the past, and I believe that I was probably in your shoes back when you looked into things like the Occult, and I understand why you've probably left that place, and I myself have been growing out of it for the most part (years ago, I was heavily into the reptilians and New Age phenomena). But the thing is, I still explore it, mainly because I want to learn more about it, and it's because that I was never taught this when I went to school.
What do you mean by "I'm looking into Logic"? If you are looking into Logic then pick an introductory book and really study it.
You are all over the place in your 'research', flitting from one subject to the next. Try some discipline and study one subject for a few years.
Right now, I'm reading
42 Fallacies by Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere in learning how to track fallacies in how information is presented, and as well as pick up on things that I myself have been lacking. You are right that I do jump all over the place, which is a bad habit of mine. The reason why I do that is so I don't get stuck with the same information when others are aloof and are, for me, a want to look at, and also because there are things that I don't know about that I want to find before something happens (such as the information being mysteriously shut down as I've been noticing occasionally). I'm close to being an adult actually, so I am starting out doing things.
You think you can spout your far-right conspiracy bollocks upon this site and I should chill-out? Still, I'm not really mad at you as I think you just another bourgeoise dweeb. You're obviously fairly intelligent, go do something positive with it before you go off the rails into a world you're not prepared for.