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Related to the global population, the number of the unaffiliated decreases and will further on decrease, whereas the number of the muslims increase and will further on increase.
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Arminius.
It is perhaps my fault that you would arrive at such a conclusion - it is likely that the way I have presented some things that there is some ambiguity.
Arminius wrote:
»Why should an emotion not be a kind of an affect?« ** **
To clarify I would say an emotion is a kind of affect, and an emotion is itself being affected. James mentioned to me earlier that commonly used categories for things are often not well defined and this is conceivably where I am guilty of introducing an equivocation on the matter of an emotion. **
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The transition for Chinese people is much easier since they largely avoided the paradigm of heiarchy, institution, dogma and rituals of religion.
18th17 and 18th century Europeanintellectualsrationalists and empiricists ... the Leibniz crowd ... recognized this fact. They couldnt understand how such a sophisticated civilization could emerge without religion. Though the Chinese have always had religion .... Chinese people over the age of 8 have long recognized the expression »Dao De« ... literally translated ... »The Way ... Virtue«. Seems the Chinese religion has always been more focused on the built in biological model ..... **
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The Classical* religion lived in its vast number of separate cults, which in this form were natural and self-evident to Apollinian man, essentially inaccessible to any alien. As soon as cults of this kind arise, we have a Classical* Culture, and when their essence changes, in later Roman times, then the soul of this Culture is at an end. Outside the Classical* landscape they have never been genuine and living. The divinity is always bound to and bounded by one locality in conformity with the static and Euclidean world-feeling. Correspondingly the relation of man to the divinity takes the shape of a local cult, in which the significances lie in the form of its ritual procedure and not in a dogma underlying them. Just as the population was scattered geographically in innumerable points, so spiritually its religion was subdivided into these petty cults, each of which was entirely independent of the rest. Only their number, and not their scope, was capable of increase. Within the Classical* religion multiplication was the only form of growth, and missionary effort of any sort was excluded, for men could practise these cults without belonging to them. There were no communities of fellow believers. Though the later thought of Athens reached somewhat more general ideas of God and his service, it was philosophy and not religion that it achieved; it appealed to only a few thinkers and had not the slightest effect on the feeling of the nation that is, the Polis.
In the sharpest contrast to this stands the visible form of the Magian religion the Church, the brotherhood of the faithful, which has no home and knows no earthly frontier, which believes the words of Jesus, »when two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them«. It is self-evident that every such believer must believe that only one good and true God can be, and that the gods of the others are evil and false. The relation between this God and man rests, not in expression or profession, but in the secret force, the magic, of certain symbolic performances, which if they are to be effective must be exactly known in form and significance and practised accordingly. The knowledge of this significance belongs to the Church in fact, it is the Church itself, qua community of the instructed. And, therefore, the centre of gravity of every Magian religion lies not in a cult, but in a doctrine, in the creed. (*Source of the translation*) *Source of the original*
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Magic word: EQUALity!
Thus: No quality ! ** **
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Die moderne Welt ... wird sich als eine Zeit erweisen, in der die Wünsche durch ihr Wahrwerden das Fürchten lehren. **
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Am Ende hängen wir doch ab, von Kreaturen, die wir machten. **
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Der Mensch ist ein Tier, was eine Erziehung nötig hat. **
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Yes, everything can be misused.
And everything is questionable.
Now can we get back to the topic of this thread? **
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I still maintain its much more likely they just got the maps from somebody - for example European traders. **
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OK ... you win! **
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You mean, Happy Thankstaking day?
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Kant did not say god is an impossibility, Arminius , my friend,
because he did not rule out the a-priori synthetic which Marxists did rule out. For them an a- posterior synthetic was the only acceptable basis , and as such made anything else immaterial.Hope You are doing fine, always carefully reading Your worthwhile and valuable comments. **
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You have proven nothing.
What you are doing is nothing else than advertising destruction, thus nihilism. ** **
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Uccisore wrote:
»I still maintain its much more likely they just got the maps from somebody - for example European traders.« **
That is indeed much more likely. ** **
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Kathrina wrote:
»Im convinced now: Donald Trump is dangerous since the US nation is dangerous. The US nation has been starting wars since a long time over and over again. More and more people have been learning how to justifiably hate the US nation for this fact.« ** **
*hits rewind on the Hate America tape*
Justafiably hate the US. I suppose, but who should people then love? Should Americans hate the US? **
Who should Americans love? **
Isn't hate bad? **
Shouldn't people be tolerant of the cultural and social sensibilities of others? **
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
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Prismatic 567 wrote:
»Note I was once a pantheist re Brahman for a long time, so I know what Brahman is all about.« **
Gyahd ....
»I was once alive, so I know what Life is ALL about.« - 13 year old boy.« **
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James S. Saint wrote:
»As I have stated multiple times, you do not understand what the word perfect means, thus your claim is lacking meaning.
But since you don't understand what Reality means either, such as to propose multiple realities, there isn't much point arguing about your absolute statements, as they could only be relevant to which ever reality happens to conform to them, thus not really absolute.
Your concepts are all conflated and confused, so of course your effort to deduce anything is going to be merely whatever you prefer the conclusion to become, dominated by wishful thinking rather than rational thinking (the exact thing that you accuse religious people of doing).
So I merely pointed out that contrary to your prior claim, »God« does in fact refer to Truth, Logic, Reality for those far more educated than you on the subject. But since you have no understanding of those terms either, I am not interested in continuing to argue with you over it amidst such excessive ignorance of the language and its concepts.« **
Note I was once a pantheist Brahman for a long time, so I know what Brahman is all about. **
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Hegels ... teleological understanding of history served as a useful template for Dantos conclusions. Hegel understood progress as an overarching dialectic a process of self-realization and understanding that culminates in pure knowledge. This state is ultimately achieved through philosophy, though it is initially preceded by an interrogation into the qualities of religion and art. As Danto summarized in a later essay entitled »The Disenfranchisement of Art« (1984):
When art internalizes its own history, when it becomes self-conscious of its history as it has come to be in our time, so that its consciousness of its history forms part of its nature, it is perhaps unavoidable that it should turn into philosophy at last. And when it does so, well, in an important sense, art comes to an end.
Danto is not the only philosopher to have adopted an Hegelian dialectic. Both Francis Fukuyama and Karl Marx utilized Hegelianism to reach their own historical conclusions. Fukuyama argued that liberal democracy and free market capitalism represented the zenith of Western civilization, whilst Marx argued that communism would replace capitalism (neither of these developments have quite panned out). **
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HEGELS END-OF ART THESIS.
»Art , considered in its highest voc ation, is and remains for us a thing of the past. Thereby it has lost for us genuine truth and life, and has rather been transferred into our ideas instead of maintaining its earlier necessity in reality and occupying its higher place.« - Hegels Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Arts. Translated by T. M. Knox. Oxford; The Clarendon Press, 1975. 10. Unless otherwise indicated, all references to Hegels writing are to this superb translation. This is the most forceful of Hegels many formulations of what we may designate his End-of-Art Thesis, and it appears very near the beginning of the published version of his Lectures on Aesthetics - his Vorlesungen über die Aesthetic - delivered for the fourth and final time in the Winter Semester of 1828, at the University of Berlin.
The thesis is so intricately woven into the texture of Hegels text, however, that it must be regarded as a central and indeed as tructural feature of his philosophy of art, rather than a critical obiter dictum regarding the art of his time. And it as much addresses what other philosophers have said about art, as art itself.
Of course art will go on being made. There w ill be art after the end of art.
»Art can be used as a fleeting play, affording recreation and entertainment, decorating our surroundings, giving pleasantness to the externals of our life, and making other objects stand out by artistic adornm ent.« - Ibid., 7.
So understood, art will play any number of roles in what Hegel terms the objective spirit of a society - the system of meanings and practices that constitute the form of life its members live. But Hegel was not speaking of art in terms of objective spirit when he advanced the End-of-Art Thesis.
»The universal need for art ... is mans rational need to lift the inner and outer world into his spiritual consciousness as an object in which he recognizes again his own self.« - Ibid., 31.
That is arts »highest vocation«,to which alone the End-of-Art Thesis has application. So the truth of the thesis was consistent with art, and even great art, continuing to be made. In the Epilogue to his lecture, Origins of the Work of Art (1935-36), Martin Heidegger wrote:
»The judgment that Hegel passes in these statements cannot be evaded by pointing out that since Hegels lectures ... we have seen many new art works and art movements arise. Hegel did not mean to deny this possibility. The question, however, remains: is art still an essential and necessary way in which truth that is decisive for our historical existence happens, or is art no longer of this character?« - Martin Heidegger, »The Origin of the Work of Art«. Translation by Albert Hofstadter, Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger. Edited by Albert Hofstadter and Richard Kuhns. New York; The Modern Library, 1964. 700.
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The more I look at the modern state versus anarchy or anarchism I am coming to the conclusion that they are essentially the same thing. This might of not been the case with states of the past ( especially our ancient past) but again certainly can be said of the modern ones. Modern states are becoming more chaotic, disorderly, unorganized, self destructive, and socially conflicting internally. These are the kind of things you would expect in an existence of anarchy and not that of a governed state of society that prides itself on social order. **
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Prismatic 567 wrote:
»Note I was once a pantheist re Brahman for a long time, so I know what Brahman is all about.« **
Gyahd ....
»I was once alive, so I know what Life is ALL about.« - 13 year old boy.« **
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James S. Saint wrote:
»Prismatic 567 wrote:
Note I was once a pantheist re Brahman for a long time, so I know what Brahman is all about. **
Gyahd ....
I was once alive, so I know what Life is ALL about.« - 13 year old boy.« **
Pure Stupidity! **
Note I was once a pantheist Brahman for a long time, so I know what Brahman is all about. **
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Is this the place you request a username?
I want the username, Machiavellian Negator. **
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Arminius wrote:
»Interestingly, before the relativity theory of 1905/1916, the most accepted cosmological theory was the ether theory; and if someone wants to imagine how full the universe is of affectance according to RM:AO, it is helpful to imagine how the universe is full of ether according to the ether theory. But anyway, the ether theory and RM:AO are not the same.« ** **
Yes, quite true. The distinction of the Affectance Field is:
A) Affectance is provable.
B) Affectance is understandable.The aether field was speculated in a typical superstition fashion of trying to make sense of other known events. The problem is that they were merely speculating that there must be a field of some kind (and now they have invented the Higgs Field for that purpose) yet didn't understand it enough to properly test the hypothesis. They ended up speculating that the aether field must behave this way and that. After testing to find that there was no such behavior, rather than speculating that perhaps the aether doesn't behave that way, the Quantum Magi cult demanded that the only resolve was that there couldn't be any aether field (a fallacy in logic). The behavior of affectance is both rationally sensible and testable. **
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Spätzle with Zwiebelrostbraten (Zwiebel-rost-braten), roasted / grilled / fried beef and onions in gravy. ** **
Spätzle with cheese and onions. ** **
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Humans are NOT »evolving«, but rather are being designed, modified, and bred. **
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Interesting and likely true. But what would you respond if someone said to you that humans had ancestors that evolved?
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Arminius wrote:
»Philosophically said, the Marxistic communism, which is based on Hegels dialectic, says that the capitalism is the thesis, the dictatorship of the proletariat is the antithesis, and classless equality and equal happiness for all is the synthesis. But if it is right that history is class struggle (war), then it is not - or at least only without history - possible to get a classless equality and equal happiness for all. Okay, Hegel already claimed the end of history (**|**), also Marx who was a Left-Hegelian, and many others (mostly Hegelians, some Nietzscheans, some others). So, as long as there is history there is no classless equality and equal happiness for all, so that the classes, the inequality, thus the class struggles (war) remain.« ** **
Clearly, an excellent analysis.
Basic entitlements and privileges are a hindrance of history
How one gets those is the question and the sustenance of
the structure of entitlements from beginning to end usually proceeds on a declining curve.The end of history may signal the beginning of doubt as to the pathogenesis of the attainment of capital, corresponsongly the power of its sustenance.
Now, when that historial awareness fractures in any bounded social group, that social group, be it a family or country,
They will be progressively defensive and aggressive about their awareness their own entitlement.People will act as if they have nothing to worry about except their own state of mind and resulting connect with others who appear to threaten the safety and security of their own domain ,will be bothered by their apparent disconnect with the look of others, thereby suppress a socially incongruent approach to each other in favor of focusing on social heresay, relating to their own activities generally.
This general disconnect seems to hang in the air, as if previously no connection can be made with the idea of past
repressed ideas commensurate with others in Their domain.This oftime fearful transference becomes so overwhelming as to enable some leaders in their field to make accessible the relevance which in most people mind remains insurmountable. **
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The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.
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Here are some questions upon which I have been reflecting lately, and upon which I invite you to think of some solutions:
How can we maximize human fun and minimize human suffering?
How can we attain widespread prosperity? **
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Arminius wrote:
»Communists have to be optimists. They have no other choice - except death, caused either by a bullet or by Gulag. And they have no arguments and evidences, but only ideology (modern religion). Their arguments and evidences are not more than merely ideology (modern religion), in praxis: terror, thus death again. When their terror system crashes, they are so much depressed that it is not possible ot find them on the surface of this planet. So in reality, communists are those pessimists who are using optimism as a mask for power reasons.« ** **
Arminius ... youre a genius!
.... Notwithstanding your access to that yuge data bank.
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I am apolitical, thus not bothered to be a communist or otherwise.
But as Schopenhauer has stated, the true blind optimists are theists especially those of the Abrahamic religions who so optimistic they will have eternal life in heaven/paradise as promised by an illusory God. And Schopenhauer sarcastically declared, if that is theistic optimism, then he [Schopenhauer] is a pessimist.
Believing in an illusory and impossible God is blind optimism which as a whole enable and is complicit to greater enmity in terms of terrible terrors, violence and all sorts of evils. **
Prismatic 567 wrote:
»Believing in an illusory and impossible God is blind optimism which as a whole enable and is complicit to greater enmity in terms of terrible terrors, violence and all sorts of evils.« **
Prismatic ... what a »drift« from your first comment in this OP.
New Eastern Outlook wrote:
»Drugged on the self-aggrandizing drugs of excess, lude and lascivious lifestyles, and utter godlessness, the United States is all set for an apocalypse few in my country see.« **
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The theory is based on analogies. For example: Sun and technique (technology), planets and cultures, moons and economies, other bodies and art. The pre-condition I made is that the problem of the »dualism« between nature and culture can be overcome by analogies. In addition to the great »dualism« between nature and culture there are three other »dualisms«; so actually there are four »dualisms«, thus one »quadrialism« - four regions, and each region has two subregions; so I've got eight subregions (little »worlds«), and this eight »worlds« are: (1) physical, (2) chemical, (3) biological, (4) economical, (5) semiotical (incl. psycholgical/sociological), (6) linguistical, (7) philosophical, (8) mathematical. We can combine them: I (1 and 2), II (3 and 4), III (5 and 6), IV (7 and 8 ); or: A (1,2,3,4 or 1,2,3,8) and B (5,6,7,8 or 4,5,6,7). We can also combine them in this way, which makes the quadrialism clearer: (1 or I) natural, (2 or II) natural-cultural, (3 or III) cultural, (4 or IV) cultural-natural; and the eight »worlds«: (1a or Ia) physical, (1b or Ib) chemical, (2a or IIa) biological, (2b or IIb) economical, (3a or IIIa) semiotical, (3b or IIIb) linguistical, (4a or IVa) philosophical, (4b or IVb) mathematical. But the principal point is the analogy by itself, just in principle. It is very much stuff! So it is very much text too! ** **
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Money ... is something that can be exchanged between things, between living beings, between things and living beings, provided that these living beings confide, trust, believe in it as a means of exchange (barter). Money is a promise, which will be fulfilled in the future. So, if the money shall work, the promise shall be fulfilled in the future, one has to confide, trust, believe in it; and if one really confides, trusts, believes in it, it will work, the promise will be fulfilled. ** **
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To impose upon the world the form of his will, Faustian man sacrifices even himself. ** **
The Faust of the Second Part is dying, for he has reached his goal. What the myth of Götterdammerung signified of old, the irreligious form of it, the theory of Entropy, signifies today world's end as completion of an inwardly necessary evolution. ** **
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