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No thing doesn't exist. No thing... no thing is nothing that is on the table. I do say this V. But if there is no thing, then there is no self as well. What you have to come to terms with, in your own philosophy, is why you have assumed that no thing would mean total void. It doesn't. *Things*...

Hey, you'welcome Rade! It's good to meet people mapping ideas. The best suggestions are always to trust yourself, and trust that you are just as smart as everyone else - the very greatest minds all based their work on other people's work, considered, looked at it from new angles. Most...

You should also challenge the massive cultural assumptions implicit in that example. Why is thinking you are special *bad*? Calling it delusional is, like Focuault pointed out, generating the idea of mental illness to explain traits that we don't like. Nietzsche would have said that thinking...

Hey - sure! Tha's what I want! Tear ideas apart, rip out the contradictions, the falsehoods, the suppositions - process the ore until the only the valuable stuff is left. Well, that could be true regarding Rand - I'm not a deep reader of Rand, but, I do rather subscribe to Nietzche's idea...

That, in my view, is the key point.

You are welcome. Any one who is thinking is worth having a chat to in this day and age! What Rand is saying is that ideas have units. What I am saying is that the idea that ideas have units is just an idea. It's important to break the idea that ideas must relate to things external to...

Hi Philly - Hi Verty... I don't think it is pompous to think about stuff - why would it be? It's just exercise for the brain, like running is exercise for the body. I think, anyone who is interested in this debate so far would really enjoy a bit of Heidegger! A couple of relavent aspects...

That's a realy, really top point as well in my view! Human self importance is one of our driving factors! Boy how it tickles us to think we are the be all and end all...

You know, that's a really, really good point - and the significance of it is easily over looked. It goes back to Wittgenstein's explanation that all fo the knowledge that we use to generate the concepts with which we engage the world, think about it, need, necessarily to come from a cultural...

Well, what you are confusing there is your own *map* with the landscape itself. In other words, this descripton lanugage is just that - a description, nothing more. The *units* are an idea, not actual elements of language. Yes, your explanation is much clearer, and I can see why you see...

Well, what you are confusing there is your own *map* with the landscape itself. In other words, this descripton lanugage is just that - a description, nothing more. The *units* are an idea, not actual elements of language. Yes, your explanation is much clearer, and I can see why you see...

Have you ever loved someone, or hated someone, that no one else love or hated? Or, not to the same degree? Is truth that which is true for all people at al times...?? Or is it a function... a statement of affairs around us? Linguistic alchemy turns it into a *thing*... with all the...

And yet, people feel that they can!

Yes, i deny it! The self is dead, god damn it! Heh... I'm not denying anything - I'm saying that in your sentence you haven't considered that you are not narrowing down the existence of self, you are just widening the meaning of *existence* - in other words, if I ask you what youmean be...

Hi Philly - thanks for the intelligent and considered response. No probs on the old Ta Mo - it IS very confusing because there have been many people who are supposed to have achieved Buddhahood! Ta Mo is the guy wo founded Ch'an - later evolved into Zen in Japan, and is also, according to...