Thanks for another reply, which has yet again made me re-think what I said. Here is another version, getting any better? ... McDuff says, 'I'm going to sail...
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Randy Zeitman
randzman@...
Aug 11, 2000 11:53 am
... Me neither. To me: Knowledge is that we deem a fact. Truth is that which is regardless of perception. -- Signature...... "In the best relationships sex is...
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patty duke
australafemina@...
Aug 11, 2000 1:56 am
Hi people. "Truth lies in action..." I don't think this is an off statement, but there are different facets of what truth may be. It can be idea or action,...
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Jack Darach
jack.darach@...
Aug 11, 2000 12:04 am
Hello everyone, Thanks for the response, its given me quite a lot to consider. I don't like standard definitions of Truth and Knowledge. I would recommend...
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Randy Zeitman
randzman@...
Aug 10, 2000 12:26 pm
... What is a "pure" form of expression? ... I like that! Do you think humor is a mechanism for detachment? For example, if I said "Every night I dream I...
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patty duke
australafemina@...
Aug 10, 2000 2:08 am
I agree with what has been said about subjective reality--people make clear distinctions between where they end and where the outside world begings, and tend ...
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patty duke
australafemina@...
Aug 10, 2000 1:48 am
I believe humor, the joke form, is of the most pure forms of expression of ideas, attitudes and the such that are most usually socially controlled. When a...
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Randy Zeitman
randzman@...
Aug 9, 2000 12:50 pm
... Lets apply this same argument to science. I claim there's no such thing as atoms...we can observe and measure the effects of atoms but never see atoms...
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Misam Abbas
misam_abbas@...
Aug 9, 2000 9:47 am
Is there a philosophy of humor ? What makes a thing humorous ? Is it necessary for all humor to have a puerile component ? I would very much appreciate any...
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Amber Leigh Griffioen
griffioe@...
Aug 8, 2000 3:52 pm
... Again, the difference between objective and subjective/relative truth. I agree with Jack that objective truths exists, and a collective agreement does not...
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Jack Darach
jack.darach@...
Aug 8, 2000 2:58 pm
Hi, I've just joined this list and was immediately stirred into thought by the following passage, please forgive me if what I say is a bit off topic. ... a ......
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Tom J
tom@...
Jul 27, 2000 9:38 pm
Yours and a few other's ignorance of how to perform such a simple task as unsubscribing from this list is also rather a vexation. Visit www.egroups.com and go...
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WiLDAeSthEtiCs@...
Jul 27, 2000 8:51 pm
Your ignorance as a whole in becoming quite a vexation. *REMOVE ME FROM THIS LIST*...
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Amber Leigh Griffioen
griffioe@...
Jul 27, 2000 3:32 pm
... I believe you're right on this point. That is why I advocate preaching by example. For me I think the best thing to come out of mission work is the help...
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Mandy Bright
abright@...
Jul 27, 2000 1:15 pm
Hi Zeitman, Thanks for your comments - my apologies if you found me patronising! It is exactly because I find it patronising to have a religious structure...
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Mandy Bright
abright@...
Jul 27, 2000 11:36 am
... Date: Tuesday, 25 July 2000 11:12 Subject: Re: [existlist] Digest Number 162 ... be ... purposes ... or ... is ... angst ... Everything's ... know. ... ...
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Adam Woodward
Maad_D@...
Jul 26, 2000 4:26 pm
Hello everyone I'm new to this group, however, I can say that I am glad to be part of a group that discusses matters at an intelligent level, and seem to be ...
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Randy Zeitman
randzman@...
Jul 26, 2000 2:09 pm
... Philosophy... It affronts my sense of self determinism to have an some academic try to figure out my thinking. I find it patronising. People make is sound...
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Yana Youhana
yana_youhana@...
Jul 25, 2000 6:24 pm
Dear Amber (lovely name), If you "beleived"; in what you wrote, then you shouldn't have forgoten what you wrote and asked people to send what you wrote to...
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Amber Leigh Griffioen
griffioe@...
Jul 25, 2000 3:16 pm
I just realized I sent REPLIES to a few posts to the individuals who wrote them, rather than to the whole list. And I didn't even save them to my sent-box!...
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Mandy Bright
abright@...
Jul 25, 2000 12:45 pm
Religion.... It affronts my sense of self determinism to have an institutionalised religion impose a structure on my thinking. I find it patronising. My ...
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Tom J
tom@...
Jul 24, 2000 9:34 pm
I haven't really got time to say much. However, since when did faith in god automatically equate to weakness? I know some very strong Christians. People die...
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Macduff Hicks
theminorcanon@...
Jul 24, 2000 8:00 pm
I feel it is time I contributed to this discussion, and I have many things to say, so here goes: First of all, the poll in, I beleive, Digest #159. I think...
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T Brooks
thom_brooks@...
Jul 24, 2000 11:00 am
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T Brooks
thom_brooks@...
Jul 24, 2000 11:00 am
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C. S. Wyatt
cswyatt@...
Jul 22, 2000 8:28 am
Faith. I must agree with Amber (who apparently has enough faith in mankind to post her phone number in messages) that faith in its various forms is an action. ...
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Randy Zeitman
randzman@...
Jul 21, 2000 2:02 pm
... I agree and the reason exposes an important argument point..rational thought. Deciding is a rational act, not a reaction. And when one starts to think...
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Jared Frailey
lostmaia@...
Jul 20, 2000 9:30 pm
As long as you are not harming another person's freedom, you should be free to act on or think what you wish. I wouldn't be allowed to lock someone in a cage...
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Amber Leigh Griffioen
griffioe@...
Jul 20, 2000 3:19 pm
... So if I go through an exhaustive mental process and decide that, to me personally, it would be OK to hit another person in the head with a baseball bat,...
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Amber Leigh Griffioen
griffioe@...
Jul 20, 2000 3:13 pm
... *grin* Contradictions galore! But no matter... ... You make faith sound like an easy thing, and perhaps these days it's made out to be just so: EASY....
