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Unread 08-02-2014, 08:34 AM   #1432 (permalink)
Dent
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Eastern spice, can we deal with the millions of claims you're making? slowly and one at a time? we are dealing with contested terms "I don't think that means what you think it means"


"The more I try to refine my morality and ethics, namely by viewing other humans as equal to (or, in the Taoist sense, greater than) myself, the happier and more fulfilling my life becomes"
"If someone is not harming another person with their behavior"

Are you speciesist? what are you classing as a person here? do we classify personhood?

"Our scientists and philosophers may find more and more about it as time goes on, but do you ever think we will reach a point where we'll just understand everything about it?"
I haven't ruled this out.

"Language (guttural flapping of flesh in complex patterns) created by sentient apes simply cannot encapsulate the sheer magnitude, inexplicability, and ineffability of existence itself. "
how do you know?

"The real question is --- Is the universe conscious? Is Nature?"
No the real question is "why is there something instead of nothing"
or maybe
What is ultimately there?
What is it like?


"trapped in the cage of the human construct of language and the compulsion to "define" everything in some sort of logical framework, the further lost you will become."
*sigh*
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