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To: Alamo-Girl; unspun; betty boop
You are certainly welcome to your views of man as an island, the supremacy of self and the elevation of knowledge, logic and reason.

Thank you for allowing me to have my views.

The insistance that the uniqueness of human consciousness is the ability to choose and reason conceptually in no way limits or repudiates the volitional use of conscious imaging called imagination. While all animals apparently re-image (may kitties dream), what they are not able to do, is by use of rationally directed choice, control that imaging to invent a light bulb, a steam engine, a theory of quantum mechanics, or, in my kitty's case, a nice trap for catching tasty birds. This kind of "imagination," is only possible to a rational intellect.

It is frequently the case that people use their intellect without understanding what they are doing. This is especially true of those with highly but narrowly developed intellects, such as Einstein, who was, outside his specialty, often not far from an idiot.

But I strongly suggest that labeling the thought disciplines of Einstein as insane does not reflect favorably on your doctrine.

Doctrine?

You are a trip.

In any case, you must know by now, an autonomist considers how anything "reflects" on what he believes is totally irrelavent and inconsequential. The arbiter of truth is not others opinions or how things "reflect" on ideas. The only arbiter of truth is reality. It will not matter a fig if the entire world laughs at and repudiates what one believes if it is the truth.

Hank

176 posted on 05/24/2003 11:00:18 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: Hank Kerchief; Alamo-Girl; Lorianne
The only arbiter of truth is reality. It will not matter a fig if the entire world laughs at and repudiates what one believes if it is the truth.

And for one to presume that he knows enough of reality by only what he determines is of some apparent but obviously incomplete and non-basic "laws of physics," is a very sad refusal of reality.

183 posted on 05/24/2003 11:22:20 AM PDT by unspun ("Do everything in love.")
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To: Hank Kerchief
Thank you so much for your post, Hank!

Thank you for allowing me to have my views.

LOLOL! I didn’t mean it that way. I meant that I am on no mission to change you, Hank. We don’t have the same Spirit, but I love you anyway - over all your objections noted on a previous thread.

I see you have taken offense at my use of the word doctrine. I stand by the word choice, because it means “a teaching” – and you have been promoting The Autonomist on several threads.

It will not matter a fig if the entire world laughs at and repudiates what one believes if it is the truth.

That’s something I do agree with. Yeehaw!

It is frequently the case that people use their intellect without understanding what they are doing. This is especially true of those with highly but narrowly developed intellects, such as Einstein, who was, outside his specialty, often not far from an idiot.

Do you have any sources to back up those statements or are they your opinions?

190 posted on 05/24/2003 11:44:53 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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