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  • flattery makes a good @ss-cover. - (nt:) 21:26:23 5/19/99 (0)
  • They are blood-ing parasites, the kind of anti-intellectual s that bred Hitler and Lee-Kwan, Cronus and Boratis. They are an all consuming flame, a death that will not die... (nt) - Didactic us 18:34:48 5/18/99 (0)
  • Humans are word-making (and mongering!) animals. True, I revel in the sound of flowery words, but at least I do so as minimalistically as possible. Less is more, gang. Less is more. (nt) - Words mith 16:59:56 5/18/99 (0)
  • Have fun, I hope you all get a whole lot out of your membership here. Just listen to KWW and Who Cares and Algore and you'll learn a whole lot about philosophy. . - Landru 22:06:02 5/17/99 (6)
  • HUMPS! Useless grindling HUMPS! Why do you breath? Don't try and speak, everyone will be better off if you die quickly and silently... - Radamanth Neme a fire under your sorry a s s !! - Who 22:00:27 5/17/99 (0)
  • Why do you ume that I am not a poet and a lover of beauty just because I appreciate the pristine joy of the mind in rigorous action instead of animal reaction...? (nt) - Landru 20:59:08 5/ 17/99 (1)
  • I mean, by lumpiness , apart from our subjective interpretation of time, are there times with different qualities? by the way this is fun: - http://www4.bluemountain.com/eng3/iching/ICGoracle.html 00:46:28 5/17/99 (0)
  • The "fostering of creativity" is not limited to "art school" or its "masters", but is, moreover, a "personal process". What say you? (nt) - Gwynnfrithbane 23:47:24 5/15/99 (0)
  • "not letting the individual run wild": the sublimation of the individual for the sake of society, or the "greater good" - are you opting out of that then? ersatz. 00:55:2 1 5/16/99 (0)
  • flatlanders only see in 2-D, we only see a limited spectrum, we only see what our wiring allows us to see. - we agnostics see as through a gl darkly , but will we ever see clearly? 02:13:3 6 5/15/99 (0)
  • any "universal good" could not be stated in a word or set of rules: let's say it must be an attitude. - ersatz: I picked up on the comment about consciousness: maybe the Good is that which furthers our consciousness. 02:04:13 5/15/99 (0)
  • Do you guys actually think owning guns protects your freedom? If the government wanted to wipe your sorry red-neck s out they'd send in a real army and kill you all to the last man without breaking a s weat no matter what kind of guns you have squirrled away in your basements. Get real. - Ed 15:52:52 5/13/99 (3)
  • the trouble is your philosophy is so dismissive and limiting that it is like watching a Bergman movie: you just know it will end badly, but he always manages to rip your guts out anyway. - emerge 14:24:42 5/03/99 (0)
  • identifying the sense of I with "God" is risky. I would prefer to say that consciousness in each of us may be part of one universal consciousness. yes, i'm a buddhist. - e_merge 14: 19:30 5/03/99 (1)
  • The question to answer is how experience arises and to better understand the process, not how to live with it! Living with it is the province of religion, not philosophy. - Radamanth Nemes 23 :03:56 5/02/99 (2)
  • No sweat, casameer, indira wanted to burn up the board before it s, I thought I wold ablige. And really there are not to many posts when we have a proclaimed genuis on bored. - michael 08 :08:31 5/03/99 (0)
  • Ho Great Radamanth, ye need burn this blithering village daily until Aye all swarthy wee pilchards are cured in the oil of preservation so their stench does not overcome true philosophy, that sends it to t he depths of inane exchanges of trivial insignificant mouthings,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, - I p to you the torch of pilchard burning (nt) 08:51:22 5/02/99 (2)
  • Well, thats about all the energy I have this morning Indira. Except this quote form aristotle: Our attitude towards what we listen to is determined by our habits. (nt) - michael 08:13:19 5/02 /99 (2)
  • I see! You're alluding to the difference between fear and anxiety. Tillich speaks of this in one of his books. Anxiety differs from fear in that the former has no object, but the latter does. (nt) - Wordsmith 09:09:25 5/02/99 (0)
  • I see! You're alluding to the difference between fear and anxiety. Tillich speaks of this in one of his books. Anxiety differs from fear in that the former has no object, but the latter does. (nt) - Wordsmith 09:06:02 5/02/99 (0)
  • Radamanth must go. Tomorrow is another day. I will look forward to picking you up then OJ. Sleep is mandatory, it's been a longer day than you can imagine... - Radamanth Nemes 23:09:19 5/01/9 9 (4)
  • Not outside our own ability to frame a rational (read : substructural) context. The ding an sich is always going to conform to our expectations because we can build no other form for it that what we can va lidly frame. (there is more text) - Radamanth Nemes 22:51:43 5/01/99 (5)
  • Ja, I am tired and it's only us. As soon as we leave the morons will flood in like the Red Sea after Israelites ped through. Sigh...I fear it is bed time for Radamanth. - Radamanth Nemes 2 2:31:19 5/01/99 (0)
  • The knowledge thing is simply a refutation of the idea that knowledge can say anything except to elucidate our substructural construction. What we perceive is made possible by the substructure and therefor e reflective of it (and onlt it) by necessity. - Radamanth Nemes 22:22:06 5/01/99 (5)
  • As a representation of how we are able to frame experience; the rule book, as it were. Maths represent the purest (aside from logic itself) vision of our own function that we can achieve. - Radamant h Nemes 22:53:13 5/01/99 (1)
  • As a representation of how we are able to frame experience; the rule book, as it were. Maths represent the purest (aside from logic itself) vision of our own function that we can achieve. - Radamant h Nemes 22:53:13 5/01/99 (1)
  • OJ and I have emerged, talking about Hume and linguistic substructure. This is what this exercise is about and proves that no-one but we two have any steam what-so-ever. Speak or leave this place forever. Worthless YOU WORTHLESS HUMPS! - Radamanth Nemes 22:00:40 5/01/99 (7)
  • All these ideas of priority and temporal ordering are a result of substructure, biological machinery. Consciousness itself is not a platform but a result of this. There is no I. - Radamanth Nemes 21:23:23 5/01/99 (4)
  • Knowledge, properly defined, is composed of valid relations of substructural elements. The I included. There is no more validity in the concept of the I than there is in the concept of chair. - Rada manth Nemes 21:17:18 5/01/99 (2)
  • I can tell you of the glory of sound thought, of transcendent logic but I fear you have not the capacity for anything but death like lambs. Speak wisdom or perish...! - Radamanth Nemes 20:47: 11 5/01/99 (4)
  • You have condemned yourselves to the ignominious void with you half-baked bile-soaked blitherings. Die like men or run lRadamanth Nemes 20:39:21 5/01/99 (0)
  • Re: Hey Wordsy, where is Mal? Have you seen him perchance at the Park? Tell him I have a loaded pistol, and the bullet is inscribed with his name; I am awaiting the day of our duel... - Cronus 22:42:45 4/29/99 (1)
  • I post a serious response to Cronus's excellent question on Hume and all you can do is bullsh*t about who I am. What a waste... No wonder the heavies left. - Viddu The Magnificent 22:09:22 4 /29/99 (4)
  • Re: The bug tasted like Pure, Unadulterated Reason --- A triumph of my faculties... And yet,I am perplexed, for what does a bug sound like when it has no taste at all? (nt) - Cronus 21:44:57 4/29/99 (2)
  • Re: In some cases, faith in God can be a unifying principle; but in the case of the atheist, his atheism can be just as integrative as the Theists belief in God... (depends on the person)...(nt) - C ronus 22:11:55 4/29/99 (0)
  • I suppose, if someone says, "good morning", I should reply "good moring." I suppose there is no point telling him "can't you see it's going to be night in about 8 hours!" (nt) - ls 03:30:06 4/29/99 (0)
  • Agree, if you can't look after yourself you shouldn't be allowed to burden society with kids, they've got their own. Also, if you didn't put in to the gov. you don't say how it's spent. - KWW(nt) 00:24:02 4/29/99 (2)
  • Reply to Zeus, on "God: A Case Study" (sorry for the delay but I'm a busy man!) Alas, CRITIQUES of metaphysical speculation do not become you....... - Gwynnfrithbane 23:17:39 4/27/ 99 (2)
  • do what I do: read only algore's posts, and skip the rest. -/b> 02:19:58 4/27/99 (1)
  • Have Christians got it wrong? - Crissy wissy 15:10:25 4/26/99 (8)