- Dan~~ wrote:
- So, i had a little piece of realization recently.
"There is no truth" means you don't need to be constantly finding the truth about things. Instead, it is futile, so a person gives up. This idea is easy to have, because it requires next to nothing. Just a feeling of skeptical attitude.
No.
It means "truth" - the word - refers to perspective (subjective); "perspective" refers to an interpretation; "interpretation" refers to reality, a.k.a., world, existence etc.; "world" refers to dynamic, interactions, i.e., flux.
So, truth is a static (abstraction, i.e., simplification/generalization, approximation etc., of a dynamic ever-changing reality.
this doesn't mean there is nothing known, only that the known refers to dynamic patterns which require constant revalidation, reaffirmation, and so consciousness is constant.
- Dan~~ wrote:
- "There is much truth" means we have a lot of work to do.
Yes....it means the concept of "truth" if used as an absolute - absurdity - requires to be nullified by an equally absurd absolute, producing a linguistic paradox in the mind, since in reality there is no such thing as an absolute: indivisible, immutable, whole, complete, singularity etc. Reality, existence, world, is fluid, fluctuating, dynamic, i.e., process.
We call this "change". Change is how the organic brain experiences - interprets - fluidity, i.e., flux: interactivity.
- Dan~~ wrote:
- Nihilism has more than one flavor,
but it is an easy, useless idea.
It's use is psychological. It protects the ego from reality.
In this case, as I've noted, nihilism acts as a defence against man's emerging self-cosnciuosness, viz., man's ability to perceive himself, in the world, from a third person perspective.
This exposes man to sources of suffering no other earthly animal experiences. Man feels exposed, vulnerable, insecure...he realizes he can be known more than he can ever know himself. this is disconcerting and terrifying. Nihilism acts as a semiotic, i.e., linguistic, womb to conceal himself from others and from himself.
This insecurity is political, and can be manipulated/exploited for political reasons; for marketing, i.e., for control.
Nihilism can take any ideological/spiritual form because it is a defence, and defences can take any form.
So, we first encounter it as code through Mosaic laws....spiritual nihilism. This encoding of nihilism was a powerful innovation, since mankind is dominated by individuals who seek relief from existence. It was so seductive it had to be restricted to retain tis potency.
Christianity made it cosmopolitan, allowing all mankind - the world's downtrodden, desperate, ill, - to partake.
The mediocre masses cannot formulate a plausible ideological/dogmatic defence....so they need the priestly kind, to fabricate such narratives, mythologies.
The more creative priestly kind then become dominant over these uncreative mediocre masses by making themselves indispensable mediators between the mundane world - reality - and the non-existent divine world. They become mental surrogates fabricating linguistic defences which they then market to these who are incapable of such semiotic creativity.
- Dan~~ wrote:
- Having a weak mind makes weak ideas more appealing.
A strong mind wants to do work, and can do work.
A weak mind cannot do much work, and dislikes work.
I believe this may be why iambigous posts the way he does.
His constitution is flabby and short sighted.
The uncreative adopt the nihilistic narratives they are given.
He is trapped in a cycle of repeating the narrative as he was taught it, unable and unwilling to break free because he is terrified by existence.
He is an old man who had been given a method of dealing with what he cannot deal with personally. He is the worst kind of hypocrite....he believes in his own lies.
Everything he says is in bad faith. He doesn't want to be released from his self-imposed conundrum, he wants to pull the world in with him, before he dies. No doubt, he believes he is helping mankind, doing his duty to help the world escape violence and suffering....because he is trapped in Abrahamic thinking. he west form Christianity to Marxism - not a big leap when you go form spiritual to secular nihilism - and now he's entrenched in postmodernism. He thinks this is his "maturation process" when he remains within the same psychologically retarding nihilistic paradigm.
There's no use getting involved in any dialogue with such creatures. Their motive is evasion.
He doesn't really want to "bring it down to earth" or give anything "context", all he wants is to reduce it in complexity, so that he can understand, and to make it emotional, personal, so that reason is subdued by emotional criteria.
In the case of
ecmandu we can both appreciate his shattered mind.
I didn't "break his mind" as you once accused me in regards to another, of the same sort. Existence broke him.
He now accuses existence of being flawed...and he will correct it, as any messiah would.
This is the by-product of Abrahamism infecting western man for over two thousand years.
Ecmandu is trapped in Abrahamic morality, and the concept of sin. His resentment has become guilt. The guilt of being born and living - killing other life to sustain his own. Brutal natural selection broke him. He feels ashamed of needing/desiring anything, projecting his insecurity as shame upon the world. He was denied what he wanted and so he feels ashamed of denying it to others.
He desired and did not get what he desired, because another took it. Resent of the other is assuaged by an accusation of guilt. The other took away from him what he wanted and he must be punished. This is concealed in self-shaming, and this story of experiencing multiple hells.....describes his path, through the years, of great misery.
He truly went through psychological hell before he reached the solution, heaven, of a compartmentalized, shattered, mind. Dividing existence into parts - described as "multiple realities" - was how he coped; what his mind had to do to survive.
Others turn to drugs.
A weak constitution manifests a weak mind, which is broken by its first contact with an indifferent uncertain, unforgiving reality.
Weak minds cannot be philosophers. They must seek refuge in ideologies and spiritualities that offer them a linguistic shelter from a world they cannot cope with.
Philosophy requires a masculine psychological constitution.
- Dan~~ wrote:
- Eating psychological junk food weakens the mind.
Not using the mind also weakens it.
Yes...ergo
KT does not tolerate psychotics, no more than ancient Greeks tolerated children and madmen in their symposiums.
Madmen, like children, dominate any social event they are allowed in, and toelrated, like
ILP. A system settles upon the lowest-common-denominator....and the lower that is the lower it settles.
Madmen and children, think this is them dominating, or about their charm or worth, because madmen, like children, have an undeveloped self-cosnciousness. They cannot differentiate between kinds of attention. For them all attention is a validation. In this they are more like women and children....ergo I call them men-children.
- Dan~~ wrote:
- Wild ideas are interesting to me.
They are hard to control.
They are raw and strong.
Radical ideas need to be limited by reality, otherwise they can fall into science-fiction, or spiritual occultism.
- Dan~~ wrote:
- ]So I figured that there is a relation between philosophical success and mental fitness.
Mental fitness, like physical fitness, must offer a pragmatic advantage, relative to the objective, otherwise it is like bodybuilding, useless aesthetics, a show of potentials.
Philosophy is about words - semiotics - and how these words, referring to mental abstractions, i.e., concepts, ideas, ideals, relate to reality, i.e., the indifferent, uncertainty of a dynamic world.
Philosophy - love of wisdom - establishes objective and distinguishes which are feasible, realizable, from those that are unfeasible, unrealizable.
Knowledge = data, information.
Understanding = patterns in the data, information.
Wisdom = discrimination between the feasible/unfeasible, or what is attainable from what is unattainable - pragmatism.
Wisdom categorizes knowledge/understanding in accordance with the individual - know thyself - and his/her objectives/motives.