Posted on 05/16/2007 6:54:51 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
So, how long have you had that problem?
Truth is, great literature written for beginners and the advanced.
Haha.
That's one way of looking at it.
To reflect his attributes. Sovereignty is a big one. We are all gods, you know. But they say God is love. The power of love can make a blind man see.
Well, we’re getting a little far afield. The 200 milliseconds is the anchorpoint and what we build on that will have to answer the usual problems such as whether today is a good day to go to the mall. Most of the thirty or fifty final judgments of the nature of reality still remain as they were depending on the school. The brain prepares itself for action and the claustrum is the locus where either permission is granted to go ahead or not. Usually not or we would be simple creatures such as microbes that just follow the food gradients.
Yes, being able to good naturedly acknowledge a jibe at your own expense is a good thing even when the humor is weak.
Humor? Plotinus is the jokester! RightWhale is a runner-up.
Ask Paris. She'll have a couple suggestions for what doesn't work.
Well, the parallel becomes even better when you consider what ended up happening to the existing inhabitants and dominant culture, upon passage of said 'closed-door, bipartisan etc. etc.' ;-)
Thx for pointers; the more so about ocular preservation.
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Solipcism lives because I say so. I haven't found anyone else able to refute it, either. :-)
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Yes, but which half?
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Many famous philosophers made their start in philology, which began for them when they looked up a word they thought they knew but surprise! and next thing you know they are acquiring Latin dictionaries and Greek grammars and can’t speak their native language anymore.
The half that looks familiar until the deja vu fades.
Both true and false at the same time. Not in a Hegelian sense; but the problem for all of those except the 'insightee' (to coin a phrase) is how to know *when* it was truly divine revelation; when a mistake; when diabolical.
And then to borrow from RightWhale's point about needing to know both languages *and* the source material, all too often divine revelation seems to be a distillation of the infinite wisdom of God, into the vessel of a single human spirit and mind...lots of room for error, especially for the students of the one who had the insight, and for later generations. There'd be some analogy to the apparent contradiction in experience between someone falling into a black hole and what is seen by someone outside the hole observing them...
...and finally, you have the problem (by analogy to parents and children) you have the possibility of the following: Dad: David, please ask your sister to come downstairs.
David [Running up the steps excitedly]: Mary, Dad says get down here RIGHT NOW! Boy, are YOU in trouble!!!
(And all the time Dad had just wanted to surprise Mary with a candy bar from the store...]
There are great analogies to human religious experience there...
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Kekule might beg to differ ;-)
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New can of worms--is it 'intrinsically divine' or the calling card of 'being made in the image of God'?
J.R.R. Tolkien has some interesting writings in this regard.
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Why then issue the statement "ECREE" ??
There are *degrees* of confidence; and saying that one level of evidence [or 'proof', whatever that turns out to be] is superior, does not forever disqualify the others.
Think by analogy to forensic circles where DNA evidence may happen to trump eyewitness testimony -- but only under the circumstances where the chain of custody is unbroken and the exhibits have not been tampered with, nor falsified.
We do not completely reject eyewitness testimony, but we decide whether or not to accept an assertion, or how much weight to put on it, depending on the extent and reliability of the evidence.
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That was probably Herder, or it might have been Lessing about Liebniz. Of course, William Law and Jacob Boehme have some commentary on how much we can do on our own.
DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING!
"Hast hit it, friend Wiggle."
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