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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: akira_akuma]
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I think it’s unscrupulous to suggest we don’t share the same sense organs, I mean it’s obvious we don’t share the exact same sense organs, but that we have the same sense organs is not up for debate. Unless of course you have some sort of extra gland in your foot..

The intensity of and interpretation of our sense experiences can and does differ, however again, I can not see eye to eye on your claim of us not sharing sense organs, in rational regard.

I’m also not sure of why something actually would be considered an objective truth and not just a truth per se.

Because there is truth, which is objective; not some kind of ‘objective truth’ which stands out amongst all other truths..

And subjective truth, well that just depends on how you feel.

You also said,
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ratiocination precedes empiricism



And to that I say, in other words, we interpolate, extrapolate, and eventually articulate on sensory information.


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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: akira_akuma]
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the basis of scientific inquiry is peer reviewed experimental evidence; it is not ratiocination (which is actually the basis of mysticism and argument).

the conclusions reached by scientists are subject to interpretation (they are ratiocination as are mystical interpretations) but good experimental documentation paves the way of understanding which can have lasting value after antiquated views are quashed.


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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: redgreenvines]
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And to that I say, in other words, we interpolate, extrapolate, and eventually articulate on sensory information.



yes, but the information is there prior to our sensing them, q.e.d.

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The intensity of and interpretation of our sense experiences can and does differ, however again, I can not see eye to eye on your claim of us not sharing sense organs, in rational regard.



some people are blind, some are deaf. and because, literally, we don't share the same sense organs [because we aren't an amalgamated together, like some kind of blob], we don't share the same experiences as per what has been "sensed" per person, or in other words, the experiences we live thru are not shared, sensorily, between one another, due to the sense organs we have being separately conceived, per person, and is attached, per person, to different bodies, hence "different sense organs", q.e.d.

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the basis of scientific inquiry is peer reviewed experimental evidence; it is not ratiocination (which is actually the basis of mysticism and argument).



i already explained and proved how this is wrong, in order of precedent. try again, infinitely.

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conlusions reached by scientists are subject to interpretation (they are ratiocination as are mystical interpretations)



says you. :durrhurr:

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but good experimental documentation paves the way of understanding which can have lasting value after antiquated views are quashed.



and i explained how this experimentation works, from the get go, and how the method of scientific discovery works. people [alot of you] assume "science answers all things with truth" because "a belief labelled as science" is "truth" per se. it requires the interpretation of information, and it requires the positing of the assessment [and gathering of] information, to interpret, hence, ratiocination proceeds before empirical data can acquired and assessed, q.e.d.

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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: akira_akuma]
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yes, but the information is there prior to our sensing them, q.e.d.



This is curious because I’m not sure if you just mean memories? Because while we take in sensory information, we do also accumulate memories of said information.

Some people are blind or deaf because their sense organs have deteriorated in one way or another.

We are not an amalgamation or blob and it’s facetious to bring up because it’s obviously not what was meant.

Separately conceived sense organs work in the same ways is what I’m pointing out.

‘Different interpretations of sensory experience’ is far more appropriate IMO.

And isn’t ratiocination just reasoning? q.w.u.d


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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: sudly]
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’t ratiocination just reasoning? q.w.u.d



empircism is a preclusion to hard science- that is the sum and substance of my point.

ratiocination is foremost before "empirical data" in terms of what is a necessity, for conforming to data as an open-ended subject, and conforming to a definition as to what denotes science.

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We are not an amalgamation or blob and it’s facetious to bring up because it’s obviously not what was meant.




a little informality, because i find the position of having to readily define the denotion of science beyond mere subjectivity hilarious, a bit, and a [as my usual self does] tend to mix things up, stir the pot, a bit. sorry.

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Separately conceived sense organs work in the same ways is what I’m pointing out.

‘Different interpretations of sensory experience’ is far more appropriate IMO.



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This is curious because I’m not sure if you just mean memories? Because while we take in sensory information, we do also accumulate memories of said information.



no, i mean by virtue of our bodies being individual and given our own organs, we sense things not only differently, than others, but our experiences are different, and therefore, science cannot be merely based on the qualia of the senses, thus, empirical data must be sussed thru the lens of the objectively irrational [humans]. thus we need ratiocination to parse accurate from inaccurate data, first of all, and secondly [,as i already explained,] because we rely on the instinct and processes of the mind-body [twain] to make decisions based on our survival, but also based on our character- that is to say, we can make decisions against our survival, but we are hard-wired for survival and thus are opted to make a decision [regardless of any device posited to inherently co-opt this instinct (propaganda) or to deracinate it's operative force]; thence, our character for defining things [labeling/naming/communication] limits us to the bind of either regression [psycho-trauma of the lack of expansion of communication- see certain "uncontacted tribes" which act "exuberantly & erratically" because of the lack of development of communication/labeling/naming, and then subsequent devolving into motions of attenuated chaos, that is, in order to fend off outsiders]. {i'm not making a claim about how they operate within their own sphere, they probably, i imagine ritualize various atrocities, but they might not, their behavior to outsiders might be merely a defense mechanism- though that is highly unlikely just that} or this bind of expansion, and which expansion is dictated, still, by these selfsame operative forces as those found within the most "primitive" societies, only, layered under cognitive defense mechanisms.

i got off on a tangent there. point is: we must reason because we must summarize and weigh data in order to prescribe and define reason, epistemologically, axiomatically, and practically [for others, that is, when using gathered information as a teaching tool].

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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: akira_akuma]
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ok, since you redefine words to your own liking, I'm gonna be "like, who's akira_akuma", you are on fake ignore, which is less than actual 'ignore this user'.
nobody has ever earned this distinction before.
you are uniquely ignorable.


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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: akira_akuma] * 1
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Maybe there’s a balance between rationalism and empiricism, like nature and nurture.

Does one of us sense that fires are hot and the other not?

Uncontactable tribes do have well developed languages, it’s just that they’re not English.

Some tribes are defensive, some, like the Aboriginals of Australia where rather welcoming at times. There was initial fear of a whole new kind of person waltzing into their land, but over time forms of communication where channeled and trades formed.

The settlers being settlers however did eventually decide they were going to settle everything and so they did, taking over and killing any who opposed.

They may not have had the same technologies though they weren’t required for their lifestyle. It’s not to say they didn’t have the capacity to develop technologies, but there was no driving force or requirement within their nomadic life styles.

One thing that’s interesting is that when an uncontacted tribe was finally met by the white man, they showed them all their technologies and the tribes people were mostly nonchalant. It wasn’t until they brought forward a lighter that they were in awe, because it was one of the only things that made their life easier, being able to make fire with the flick of a finger.

In the end we reason our conclusions. That doesn’t take away from them or mean they are not true. What is true is that they can change, that is, when new reason comes to light, with all its supporting backbone.


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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: sudly]
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good points


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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: redgreenvines]
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redgreenvines said:
ok, since you redefine words to your own liking, I'm gonna be "like, who's akira_akuma", you are on fake ignore, which is less than actual 'ignore this user'.
nobody has ever earned this distinction before.
you are uniquely ignorable.



BYE

PS: no one is "redefining" words. one example: just one. you can't give it though. otherwise, you would have already. you just can't comprehend what you [tried to] read [see what i did there?]

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Maybe there’s a balance between rationalism and empiricism, like nature and nurture.



yes, i'm with you so far [so far, this is what i've been indicating]

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Does one of us sense that fires are hot and the other not?



you used ratiocination to make that claim- not empirical data. because of the very fact that there is no difference in the qualia of sensation that is relevant [like asserting the necessity for testing a phantom limb for the selfsame type of analysis of the sensorium, postulated for testing actual limbs (or perceptions)...]- ie, it's absurd otherwise to assume one needs empirical data to make such a judgement claim, when obviously, you do not.

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Uncontactable tribes do have well developed languages, it’s just that they’re not English.



yes, i foresaw that argument. you're right. but some tribes do not have such languages, and instead communicate in sex, and exchange, and gestural communication, and well, vocalics that are not linguistic, insofar as we can assign to it a linguistic feature, categorically.

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Some tribes are defensive, some, like the Aboriginals of Australia where rather welcoming at times. There was initial fear of a whole new kind of person waltzing into their land, but over time forms of communication where channeled and trades formed.



yes, this is important, and a good claim. the ethnosocialogical study is a good study, i think. a tribe will have a chieftain who takes on the application of war, and survival. the tribe will also have a shaman, traditionally, and this shaman serves to amalgamate features from outside [what is termed] the ethnocentrum, in various ways & means. the natural evolution of this is the chieftain-shaman, thru [what is termed as] 'passionarity'. tribes without the shaman, though...are induced to the typical fear response [by an order of magnitude greater than the aforementioned shaman oriented tribes], which has co-evolved within the strata of our society. these strains of fear are still prevelant today, only they are hidden in our various psychologisms and biases in not only perception, but in predilections.

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The settlers being settlers however did eventually decide they were going to settle everything and so they did, taking over and killing any who opposed.



cf. ethnosociology and passionarity. that is the study of concept described above. yes, you are right. the passionarity of the shaman-less nomad tribes [out of agrarian tribes, if one will notice] commit to violence [as there is no shaman to translate & integrate things into tribal consciousness], and commit to slavery [as a natural trend of the brutality of those rulers with more propensity towards expansionism].

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They may not have had the same technologies though they weren’t required for their lifestyle. It’s not to say they didn’t have the capacity to develop technologies, but there was no driving force or requirement within their nomadic life styles.




this is also due to passionarity, one should [if interested] look into it. it's a complex subject.

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One thing that’s interesting is that when an uncontacted tribe was finally met by the white man, they showed them all their technologies and the tribes people were mostly nonchalant. It wasn’t until they brought forward a lighter that they were in awe, because it was one of the only things that made their life easier, being able to make fire with the flick of a finger.




this is a rather philosophical subject: what is the point? [i am actually rather interested by your eloquent responses, here, if you permit me to exude such pathos.]

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In the end we reason our conclusions. That doesn’t take away from them or mean they are not true. What is true is that they can change, that is, when new reason comes to light, with all its supporting backbone.




yes, this just is more of same conducive conclusions to my hypothesis: so...i dunno, am i being opposed? i can't tell anymore.

Edited by akira_akuma (09/06/19 11:13 PM)

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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: akira_akuma]
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I asked a question and you avoided it like the plague.

Tribes not use English.. clicking fine too.

Some shamans smoke dried vulture brains to absorb their exquisite vision.

The Aborigines had fine knowledge in medicinal herbology.

Some shamans incite violence, like how they want to eat the ‘magical’ body parts of albino black people in Africa to this day.

The Aborigines were systematically eradicated. Nearly 200,000 killed by the settlers.

The passionarity of the settlers was conquest.

What does ethnicity or tribe matter in this discussion anyway? Different societies and cultures are at different stages of development, and with how you’re going on it’s almost like listening to a Trumpian speech.

I think you’re relying too heavily on empiricism, at least that’s how it has appears to me.

It doesn’t seem to me like you’ve brought rationalism into due consideration.

If it weren’t for rationalism, and empiricism was the leading factor, how is it that we could know of infrared?


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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: sudly]
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I asked a question and you avoided it like the plague.



no. i answered it, naysayer.

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you used ratiocination to make that claim- not empirical data. because of the very fact that there is no difference in the qualia of sensation that is relevant [like asserting the necessity for testing a phantom limb for the selfsame type of analysis of the sensorium, postulated for testing actual limbs [or perceptions]- ie, it's absurd otherwise to assume one needs empirical data to make such a judgement claim, when obviously, you do not.




this is the answer, in connection to what you were ascribing to with your assertion.

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Tribes not use English.. clicking fine too.



fine syntactical structures promote normative social structures, whereas a lack of fine syntactical structures, limits semantic-expansion, thus limiting the ability of a group [especially cut off from social interaction outside their limited scope of understanding and reality] to sidewise proclivities to assert themselves in a communicative fashion.

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Some shamans incite violence, like how they want to eat the ‘magical’ body parts of albino black people in Africa to this day.



didn't say shamans can't be violent.

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The passionarity of the settlers was conquest.



that doesn't explain passionarity. this is mistaking the effect for the cause.

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What does ethnicity or tribe matter in this discussion anyway? Different societies and cultures are at different stages of development, and with how you’re going on it’s almost like listening to a Trumpian speech.



societies grow out of tribal interaction, on an ethnosociological level [ie, before the advent of civilization]. you're really off-base, here.

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I think you’re relying too heavily on empiricism, at least that’s how it has appears to me.



i would argue that that is my counter-opposition to you, that you are making assertions that are like those of the empiricist- or rather, that you [unknowingly or not] adhere to them. and isn't that quite the conundrum? if i was right, it would be quite so....

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It doesn’t seem to me like you’ve brought rationalism into due consideration.




hey, i'm the one who argued that ratiocination is the ne plus ultra of science as opposed to the empirical "significance" of various data [that is, not taken for the sum of it's parts] qua "empiricism". "rationality" is 'a measure of truth', not the 'significance of truth' itself; that is to say, one can have rationality, one can derive from reasonableness "the rational", but one doesn't simply conjure it, that is, without ratiocination, which i already made an argument for as the ne plus ultra of scientific thought.

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If it weren’t for rationalism, and empiricism was the leading factor, how is it that we could know of infrared?




i think you're now arguing for my own argument. i gotta figure out how this occurs.

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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: akira_akuma]
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there is no difference in the qualia of sensation that is relevant




Was that your answer? Because if so, then what in your view is it that makes our sense organs not shared, or different?

Conquest made settlers alright, by replacing all the natives. Like a Central American weed in Australia called Lantana.

It creates impenetrable thickets 3m high in hundred of hectares of eucalyptus forest and bush lands.

Incorporating lost tribes with our relatively futuristic technologies is not something that should involve the slaughter of any individual or group of ethnic people.

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fine syntactical structures promote normative social structures, whereas a lack of fine syntactical structures, limits semantic-expansion, thus limiting the ability of a group [especially cut off from social interaction outside their limited scope of understanding and reality] to side wise proclivities to assert themselves in a communicative fashion.




I don't know if there's a meta analysis on what you've said yet, but it'd be nice if there were because I tend to agree with this statement of yours.

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didn't say shamans can't be violent.




Then why are you talking about shamans?

Rugby and cricket are tribal in many aspects of their interactions on an ethno-sociological level. 

Fan groups can form for various ideals, and eating albinos is one of them.

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i would argue that that is my counter-opposition to you, that you are making assertions that are like those of the empiricist- or rather, that you [unknowingly or not] adhere to them. and isn't that quite the conundrum? if i was right, it would be quite so...




If you highlight my assertions I'll cite them more clearly for you.

In the mean time here's another reading. 
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Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure of ‘significance’

What does statistical significance offer?
Many scientific studies today are designed around a framework of “null hypothesis significance testing.” In this type of test, a scientist compares results of an experiment asking, say, if a drug reduces depression in a treated versus control group. The scientist compares the results against the hypothesis that no difference really exists between the groups. The goal is not to prove that the drug fights depression. Instead, the idea is to gather enough data (eventually) to reject the hypothesis that it doesn’t.

The scientist will compare the groups using a statistical analysis that results in a P value, a result between 0 and 1, with the “P” standing for probability. The value signifies the likelihood that repeating the experiment would yield a result with a difference as big (or bigger) than the one the scientist got if the drug doesn’t actually reduce depression. Smaller P values mean that the scientist is less likely to see a difference that large if no difference really exists. In scientific parlance, the value is “statistically significant” if P is less than or equal to 0.05.

When scientists interpret P values correctly, they can be useful for finding out how compatible experimental results are with the scientists’ expectations, Lazar says. Because a P value is a probability, it “has variability attached to it,” she explains. “If I repeated my procedure over and over, I’d get a whole range of P values. Some would be significant, some wouldn’t.”

Because of this variability, P equal to 0.05 was never meant to be an end result. Instead, it was more of a beginning, “something that would cause you to raise your eyebrows and investigate further,” Lazar says.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/statisticians-standard-measure-significance-p-values 



Edited by sudly (09/06/19 08:59 PM)

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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: sudly]
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Was that your answer? Because if so, then what in your view is it that makes our sense organs not shared, or different?



their being different objects with different reactions/actions which culminate in their becoming receptacles for differing experiential perceptions in respect to the individuals in question.

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I don't know if there's a meta analysis on what you've said yet, but it'd be nice if there were because I tend to agree with this statement of yours.




:thumbup: that's cool. according to my findings...it's accurate.

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Then why are you talking about shamans?




because shamans were the vocal point of assimilation, thus, the arbiter of the ethnocentrum and it's protector from passionarity [via a split in the ethnocentrum from undue ethnodynamic variables causing a ethnokenetic break, creating passionarity].

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Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure of ‘significance’



yes, because society is a numbers game [at large] and so people opt into oversimplifying their worldview for the sake of a clear-cut agglomeration of effects [the socium].

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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: akira_akuma]
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"Finally, in societies of nomad-herdsmen, the structuring of a strict and asymmetrical patriarchy occurs. Male status is placed in a clear vertical position above female status, producing the specific social quality of nomadic ethnoses, polygamous without exception, where women are related to as property and the first legal and economic codes take shape, firmly anchoring masculine status as the norm in the social order."



Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Maturation is not a process that happens over night, it's a long curb from novice to learned.

The receptacles we have are genetically different but functionally the same.

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Australian indigenous society did not have any official chain of command that excluded women, but politically, Aboriginal women were second-class citizens. They were not allowed to use the spear and fight or communicate with other tribes. They did not have any power over their own marriage arrangement and they were kept away from any spiritual secrets of “reproduction” or communicating with spirits.

However, they held power over the food production, which gave them relative autonomy and they had the last word over the marriage arrangements of their daughters. Without disregarding the special socio-political powers that Aboriginal women held, the Australian indigenous society was ruled and control by males, leaving only those positions for women that would serve male domination, not threaten it.

Aboriginal women were more independent than any other European female during the era of the first settlement. They had a position in the indigenous society that was invaluable, with responsibilities as vital as food production and as powerful as control over betrothal, while their Victorian era counterparts were only trained in table manners and in how to look beautiful while standing next to a man. At the same time, Aboriginal women were brutally abused and used as sexual merchandise by their own peers. They did not have control over their own bodies and they were excluded from any major decision-making. The Australian bush was a place of inequality, where the power of the fittest was in control.

The Rule of Law was not observed and in the eyes of the first Europeans the Australian female was living in misery. Nevertheless, the Australian Indigenous society operated for thousands of years, and during that time, geography and social evolution dictated a unique balance of power between the two sexes, giving the Aboriginal women a special role to play, if not equal to men, still fundamental to the structure of the Indigenous culture.

http://australia-day-and-night.blogspot.com/2009/02/aboriginal-women-in-pre-colonial.html



Do we not share the same sense(s) here?


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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: sudly]
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the truth is never a waste of space such as this bombastic thread


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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: redgreenvines] * 1
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Tautological delusions.


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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: Loaded Shaman]
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Maturation is not a process that happens over night, it's a long curb from novice to learned.

The receptacles we have are genetically different but functionally the same.




wow, and why do you think all that is? how it is?

we can show compassion [for animals, for each one another], we can, or lest we forget, and then aren't we truly damned? maturation doesn't happen overnight, no, it is a development of the cleansing of karma. this is why the receptacles matter; they may be functionally the same, but they are of different bodies.

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Re: The problem with Truth. [Re: akira_akuma]
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Γέγονᾰ φύσις κρύπτεσθαι ὕψιστος φιλεῖ

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