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Re: Nihilism [Re: Sclorch]
#1314816 - 02/17/03 03:46 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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Since Hobbes and Bacon decided to take philosophy AND science on a mad goose chase. Truth has never recovered from those fatal twists and turns.
Aristotle then, Aristotle now.
I rest my case. ( and in this case it is a case of Kentucky's finest bourbon, "American Blended" )
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HO HO HO HO HE HE HE HE HA HA HA HA

Please refer us to some of the great works of literature of the animals then. Or perhaps a review of their syntactical grammar. Or a simple list of the machines they make that make other machines.
Show us their written history, their religion, or their technology, please.
The gulf is both wide and deep and cannot be spanned.
There were no great Oriental Philosophers, just rugs.
Cheers,
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Re: Nihilism [Re: ]
#1314889 - 02/17/03 04:17 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Nihilism [Re: ]
#1314930 - 02/17/03 04:31 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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Aristotle was a dandy.
Humans aren't better than non-conscious beings... we're just more conscious. Sure, it's great... woohoo I'm conscious. Ethics and morals (and scales, for that matter) are all irrelevant to animals... but I know you know that. Lame deer... can't even think...[/Homer Simpson voice]
So I'm lost... what's going on here?
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Re: Nihilism [Re: ]
#1315107 - 02/17/03 05:13 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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Mr. Mushrooms reminds me of my philosophy teacher from high school. Except cooler and drunk. Anyways, machines making machines...hmmm. So what if these machines become 'more concious' than us. Does that make us the animals? Or are we still concious and the machines simply become gods. Are retarded folks regarded as animals? I think there are varying degrees of conciousness, with no set line determining when you achieve it. We are evolving as we speak. In a million years, future humans will look back and Neo Mr. Mushrooms will be scoffing at the animals once again.
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Re: Nihilism [Re: ]
#1315123 - 02/17/03 05:19 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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can't show you that, but I can show you experiments that may awaken one from the egotistic trance of which i speak, in many formats including Oriental systems - ah the science of freedom.
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Re: Nihilism [Re: Sclorch]
#1315258 - 02/17/03 05:57 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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You are quite right. Better is a poor word choice. Then again it was also a small red herring equivocation used by a lover of science so what else would we expect? Ambiguity can be fun. You and I both know that. But it rarely gets us closer to the truth.
The difference between man and the other animals is one of several subjects I have promised but failed to deliver. 
I suppose what I really need to do is to schedule it in and prepare some time to discuss it like I did in the Truth? thread.
Currently it is as shelved as much as your leading us through a discussion on Freddy. 
Cheers,
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Re: Nihilism [Re: bert]
#1315267 - 02/17/03 06:04 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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The philosophical argument I am alluding to takes into account other animals than man and their facility with perceptual abstraction AND AI.
Thanks for the compliment. 
Here, have a swig of this bourbon.
Wait.
How old are you?


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Re: Nihilism [Re: ]
#1315274 - 02/17/03 06:08 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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Man, I feel like you just took my brain out, swung it around a couple of times, ring it out and put it back in my head. Nice work. I'm too young for drinking, but too old for thinking.
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Re: Nihilism [Re: Swami]
#1315411 - 02/17/03 07:30 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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If there was no afterlife and we simply no longer existed after death, than I still think I would live my life as I am living it. Either way, what happens happens, and you can't change it- just deal with it.
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Re: Nihilism [Re: Swami]
#1315663 - 02/17/03 11:21 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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It is the difference between materialism and reductionism. Materialism is good, scientific, and pragmatic. Reductionism is an ego game. If we can show that God resides in the brain, and we can give the exact physical location where our conception of dualities can merge into a conception of unity, that is materialistic, and therefore great. But if we then argue that, therefore, God does not exist, that is reductionism. Quite the contrary is true... God being located in the brain is a direct proof for the existance of God, and it means that every mystic who ever walked the planet was absolutely right.
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Re: Nihilism [Re: Nomad]
#1316069 - 02/18/03 05:37 AM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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God is a concept in us...
Anything else is a lie.
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Re: Nihilism [Re: Sclorch]
#1316218 - 02/18/03 06:58 AM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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Come on, everything is a concept. "You" are a concept for the thing in the universe which hurts when you burn it. "God" is a concept for the thing in the universe which you experience on 5g, darkness, silence.
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Re: Nihilism [Re: Nomad]
#1316314 - 02/18/03 08:09 AM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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Fine.... God is ONLY a concept.
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Re: Nihilism [Re: Sclorch]
#1316372 - 02/18/03 08:27 AM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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Cool enough for me.
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Re: Nihilism [Re: Swami]
#1316449 - 02/18/03 08:57 AM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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"I use the term myth to describe any belief that effects human existence, behavior, or history that can not be demonstrated by empirical evidence. A myth is not necessarily a false belief, it's a belief that can't be falsified using the scientific method." Myth cannot be "anything that can't be falsified by science." Because that would mean that my subjective experience is a myth. But I still like the way this Mack Tanner jiggles. And many ideas in there aren't inherently bad, if not inherently misleading.
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I don't think that your subjective experience can be proved by empirical evidence. It would require your subjective experience to interpret the emperical data which would be a conundrum in my opinion.
A limitation of proper conceptualisations, language, and perception lead us to an infinite experience of meaningless conundrums.
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Re: Nihilism [Re: Swami]
#1319481 - 02/19/03 11:59 AM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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The plain fact is that the scientific examination of human existence strips away every claim for a special status of humanity that would put us above the rest of nature. We discover that we are just one more animal and every human attribute is nothing but the sum total of a chaotic, purposeless evolution. There is no scientific proof of god, no evidence of special meaning for human existence, no set of eternal moral and ethical values, nothing in nature that can be described as good nor as evil.
Well I always felt that what made humankind different from other life forms, was that we persue the idea of God. No other life form has errected monuments to their idea of what and who God is and what that idea might mean to an afterlife. Animals use tools, this opposable thumb notion never impressed me nor did the walking upright fact. We are not very distinguishable from other life forms other than the pyramids, cathedrals, tombs and graveyards. Those other creatures aren't even trying! When's the last time you visited a church built by squirrels? (Shroomism may not reply to this question because I'm sure on some planet, from the 2nd season of Star Trek, the animals there did build cathedrals.) Maybe the animals are smarter, not women!
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Re: Nihilism [Re: GRTUD]
#1320514 - 02/19/03 06:41 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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Oh great... [/sarcasm]
Now religion is the measuring stick of humanness?
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Re: Nihilism [Re: Sclorch]
#1320768 - 02/19/03 11:16 PM (20 years, 11 months ago) |
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Wow. I don't know what else to say. Wow. Oh wait, here's my arguement: What buddy in the real long article said is 99% solid, but how do you explain things that can't be explained? His phrase stating that god was neccassary to explain the rising and setting of the sun so the people at that time could concentrate on things like Deer migration and corn scheduling and what not... damn good point, but what about things in society today that can't be proven? I'm talking things like David Blaine floating on the streets, people getting stabbed 19 times in the chest and living to talk about it, or the numerous accounts in history of "magick" that defies the science we claim to hold as the utmost truth...
There's some phreaky shit out there that we can't explain.. I don't know what I believe and I'm easily persuaded by things paranormal, but at the same time, I feel I kind of have to be...
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