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| From: |
MadPole | 2000-11-26 08:43:19 |
| Subject: | I DISAGREE! |
| Comment: | Wait one week!
When You have your lovely babies Your TOTAL and ENTIRE attitude will change!
Mark my words and to not be ashamed of change! Life is about changing! If You can't cope with change You are DOOMED! (But I know You won't be - inteligence is a skill to adopt to circumstances quickly - and I know You can!)
I am proud and happy for You and SUE!
WELL DONE!
ENJOY THE MOST AMAZING AND PHILOSOPHICAL TRIP IN YOUR LIVES! |
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| From: |
bryony | 2001-04-26 05:24:13 |
| Subject: | truth |
| Comment: | this burning desire of our young (dare i say it) fundamental physisist to explore the effectiveness of philosophy (its self a term which remains undefined) by evaluating its production of truths, seems to be avoiding the issues of not only what is truth (a wonderfull question in itself) but also why would such a quest be a validation for an area of human exploration such as philosophy - which is (at least as i understand it) concerned, surely, with the production and exploration of concepts and constructs, and the relations between them, (as they are percieved). Cant we leave the sciences born from such self indulgent intelectual masturbation to drag out 'laws', and argue over 'paradoxes' (how dull things would be if they did not contradict) while we get back to pleasuring ourselfs in the nobelest persuit of test driving this fantastic evolutional masterpiece that is our minds to the speed of light and the stillness of meditations.
(aaarrhhh, i enjoyed that little ramble. i supose i better get back to being a scientist)
Psych kid XX |
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| From: |
ChestRockwell | 2001-06-07 08:37:09 |
| Subject: | it doesn't matter |
| Comment: | When I die, the world ends. Everything else is irrelevant. |
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| From: |
Dale | 2001-10-31 23:46:12 |
| Subject: | Consistency... |
| Comment: | You say here that so-and-so destroys the 'belief that mathematics is internally consistent.' ... Yet in another article (infinity) you say: 'To digress, mathematically proven facts are true, incorruptible, absolute and unchallengeable.' ...... hmm... |
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MadPuke again... | 2001-12-07 13:59:18 |
| Subject: | THIS IS TOO MUCH!!! |
| Comment: | What a total pile of balls if I may... Philosophers spend most of their time considering relativity, not to mention quantum phisic and Eadon boldly tells us.. that.. they not! What is 'Philosophy' then? Philo.. as Religion or Harry Potter film or indeed good steak with chips... is the means not the aim... I haven't met anybody who says 'I don't agree with carrots.. they don't represent the Truth...' .. or 'those green peases are false and have wrong meaning...' or 'this potato lies to us and should not be taken seriously...' Everybody writes their thoughs and analyses them for it helps.. the person concerned.. it also helps others.. for they don't have to go through the same 'pains'.. they can make some mental shortcuts..... But ultimately the Truth lies in EXPERIENCE and REALISATION.. and more importantly.. in PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION.. what is good if You say that You have discoverd recently that You are a 'loving' person... when nobody loves You eh?!!! .. And experience can only be experienced.. no books or theories will replace that...Eadon is talking like Parsifal (see 'Coincidences' section) ... if Parsifall experienced REAL Coincidences.... he would not feel any need to write about them... they would be just part of his life...and he would be greatful to God for them... but Parsifall likes the idea.. so he wrote a book in belief that if everybody likes the idea... it will become 'TRUE' for him... and this is what Eadon is attempting to do here also....Am I on the wrong page again?!! hehehehehe |
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| From: |
Wu Li | 2003-02-22 09:53:38 |
| Subject: | The Paradox of Existence |
| Comment: | Existence is demonstrably paradoxical, that is, it does not make rational sense. Nature can make a great deal of sense but existence itself is distinctly irrational and, thus, possibly supernatural. Attempts to explain this paradox have proliferated since the dawn of humanity, but all of these attempts have led back to paradox rather than resolving the paradox of existence.
The concept of eternity presents one of the many failed attempts to explain the paradox of existence. Some argue that if existence has no beginning or end it is not paradoxical. Unfortunately the concept of eternity itself involves the paradoxical concept of infinity. Lao Tzu expressed this conundrum of infinity and the paradox of existence with elegant classic flare some twenty-five hundred years ago:
The mother of nature.
It has no name,
But I call it 'the Way';
It has no limit, but I call it 'limitless'
The concept of paradox itself is, of course, a logical philosophical construct. Thus, instead of superficially rejecting paradox and constantly striving to resolve it philosophy is better off embracing paradox. |
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| From: |
Clayton Carterq | 2004-01-20 01:54:41 |
| Subject: | Almost had something there |
| Comment: | These paradox's are what I would like to call linguistically relative. And as everyone here knows, relativism is a big red-herring. There is truth and there is false BECAUSE language has developed the way it has. we have given way for a statement 'I am lying to you' to be a false statement. regardless of how you put this it will always be false by logical rules. So why even concern yourself with falsities, with paradoxes. Philosophy is the pursute of truth, and there is a truth out there, and it has no 'relative' false to quantify it's truth. There can be truth with no false, but no false can be without a truth. This I think is your major dillemma and using language to equivicate it's meaning into proving what... nothing at all. The posting was mostly philosophical constipation, followed by a complete lack of progress, and a need to make the uneducated scratch there heads. It's like knocking over the kid on the wheelchair just to see what would happen. Don't pick on the retarded kids. |
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| From: |
Pfunk | 2004-05-06 19:28:29 |
| Subject: | Too much? |
| Comment: | I enjoyed your site.
TOO MUCH? Thinking should never feel like its too much. This world doesnt think enough. We need to think more as a whole and stir away from being dependent on material posetions and egos.
That reminds me, Here's a good quote for ya.
Collin Powell said 'Avoid having your ego so close to your
position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.' |
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| From: |
Bruce | 2004-05-30 08:25:44 |
| Subject: | chess and coincidences |
| Comment: | very interesting web page. I heard about it while veiwing your lectures on wcn. heres a coincidence, today I was day dreaming of one day playing as well as you do. I was thinking how someone like myself might be good at chess but was really searching to find clues if it were possible to be a grandmaster say, then i thought 'Plaskett is funny, not an officious or serious type of individual at all, more of a person like myself maybe' then I check out your page and find out you like philosophy(my major in University)existentiallism, Buhdism and Marx are my favourites. and then the coincidence of coincidence- I once got the idea to start collecting words that were strangely interesting or new that I would seem to hear for a period of time (like within a couple of days) but unfortunately i never did. I think you are on to something though. enjoy your lectures they are entertaining and keep my interest unlike others. hope you read this bye |
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| From: |
Thomas channing | 2005-12-22 16:46:28 |
| Subject: | Philosophy-The Key of SEE |
| Comment: | Yes the 'key of see' is a website. Yes It's mine, but it's for everybody to read. 'The world will never cease from it's ills til philosophy rules.' a greek phil. once said. My site is all about phil. & relidgion. Phil. sets the rules to read the Bible. My grammer is poor, I know. But my website is not. I do have peoms too. I'm not plugging my site for money. My site is free and it will benifit the whole world. Actualy my father is Thomas Channing, he has since passed away. He devoted his whole life searching all the ancient books and the Bible. He has found the KEY to read the Bile and The ancient books. It is a world of knowledge. It is called The Inward Part. Man now only excepts the words at face value. There is a spititual meaning behind them. It's not hard to see. Example 'Fire' represents truth. In the end we all wont be thown in a lake of fire, it will be a lake of truth.
www.freewebs.com/keyofsee/ I'm doing my part. I know I sleep good at night. |
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| From: |
Casey | 2006-06-30 22:55:08 |
| Subject: | Your logic is flawed |
| Comment: | <b>You said:</b> <i>The statement, 'All philosophy is untrue', is a philosophy in its own right. If it is true then it says it is not true! If it is not true then it is true! Philosophy can quickly lead to a paradox! Philosophy itself is, at its very core, defective.</i>
<b>However:</b> 'All philosophy is untrue.' That statement is not true. That does NOT paradoxicaly prove itself to be true, <i>because</i> the statement is '<b>All</b> philosophy is untrue.' As oposed to just the statement being untrue. So it's simple to conclude the statement is untrue, but not all philosophy is. |
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