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"X-ray is confabulating the whol...Janet wrote:<br />"X-ray is confabulating the whole post and thread by <br />refusing to use disqus. I am tired of it." (end quote) <br /><br />What I'm tired of is the totally impractical software for the reply system here. This was actually the the reason why I 'jumped up' for this answer to the bigger 'reply' box at the top of the page: <br /><br />For the in reply system here, replies to specific posts are progressively 'indented', thus allotting a narrower and narrower space to each subsequent reply (this can be carried to the extreme of leaving barely more than one letter per line (!) .Xraynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262631126788882699.post-56692792364201367192012-05-23T01:24:23.288-07:002012-05-23T01:24:23.288-07:00Žižek, Buddhism and no Ego
"This is why, for ...Žižek, Buddhism and no Ego<br />"This is why, for Buddhism, the point is not to discover one’s “true <br />Self,” but to accept that there is no such thing, that the “Self ” as <br />such is an illusion, an imposture. In more psychoanalytic terms: not <br />only should one analyze resistances, but, ultimately, “there is really <br />nothing but resistance to be analyzed; there is no true self waiting in <br />the wings to be released.”72 The self is a disruptive, false,<br /> and, as such, unnecessary metaphor for the process of awareness and <br />knowing: when we awaken to knowing, we realize that all that goes on in <br />us is a flow of “thoughts without a thinker.”"<br />http://www.bigthink.com/ideas/slavoj-zizek-on-buddhism-and-the-self?page=1curioushairedgalnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262631126788882699.post-55256378743037323022012-05-21T13:41:41.430-07:002012-05-21T13:41:41.430-07:00nerrad you are getting into a meta level here with...nerrad you are getting into a meta level here with x-ray. Is she following you. Until she registers at disqus I have quit trying to track her comments. X-ray is confabulating the whole post and thread by refusing to use disqus. I am tired of it.abbeysbooksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262631126788882699.post-1038921007984305282012-05-21T13:37:27.605-07:002012-05-21T13:37:27.605-07:00Darren wrote
"My p...Darren wrote <br /> <br /><br />"My point, moron, was that, in her supposedly non-fiction works, Alisa<br /> Rosenbaum often quoted her own fictional dialogue from her own fiction <br />characters from her own own fiction literary works intending such quotes<br /> to serve as scholarly source material. Randroids like you and others on<br /> SOLO and OL quote from Rosenbaum's fiction works to each other — not to<br /> critics, but amongst yourselves — as if any of this had anything to do <br />with scholarship. It doesn't. It simply helps foster a cult mentality." (end quote)<br /><br />Your inability to grasp the nucleus of an issue manifests itself again: <br />Don't yu see that it is totally irrelevant whether it was Rand or her disciples who treated/treat her fictional work like a source of scholarship. For the basic mistake of proceeding like that remains the same. Got it now?Xraynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262631126788882699.post-27327542043723095302012-05-21T13:22:35.083-07:002012-05-21T13:22:35.083-07:00Janet wrote:
"I had been brainwashed by musi...Janet wrote: <br />"I had been brainwashed by music teachers into thinking I couldn't sing,<br /> when everyone can sing, even Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan!" (end quote)<br /><br />Cohen "spoke" more than he sang, and Dylan with his thin and rasping voice could barely carry a tune, but oh how I LOVED his songs!! Still do.<br /> Xraynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262631126788882699.post-83356292350746369112012-05-20T14:51:02.929-07:002012-05-20T14:51:02.929-07:00You are both wrong. It is your thinking this way a...You are both wrong. It is your thinking this way and/or how to get out of it that creates the problem and the argument/discussion.<br /><br />Read Foucault - both of you - on infinite regress or searching for the origin or its inversion - the horizon that ever recedes.<br /><br />It can never go anywhere except in mutual or solitary thinking/ masturbation. Goes nowhere except to display how much of the Dominating Discourse you have absorbed. Why Foucault tosses it under the bus. Take this discussion/argument and do a genealogy on it and it glimmers anew. But wait, Nietzsche already did it in Genealogy of Morals.<br /><br />How about that!abbeysbooksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262631126788882699.post-61228880417840555602012-05-20T14:35:34.352-07:002012-05-20T14:35:34.352-07:00Darren wrote:
"This is why, Eva, you have th...Darren wrote: <br />"This is why, Eva, you have the fine reputation that you do: a 9th-rate <br />mind and an intellectual blank-cartridge. The choices before you <br />regarding issue Z are not "A" or "B"; they are "A" or "Not-A". "Not-A" <br />includes "B", "C", "D", etc. It includes everything but "A". Get it?" (end quote)<br /><br />If you think your attempts to cloud issues with a smokescreen is going to throw me off track, you are sorely mistaken. <br />For question was whether infinite regress or first cause EXPLAINS anything.<br /><br />Darren wrote: <br />"You assert that neither "An infinite regress" nor <br />"Not-an-infinite-regress" explains anything. That leaves you with only <br />one possible position: "There is no explanation at all."<br /><br /><br /><br />"That's a very un-Objectivist position for a Randroid to hold." (end quote)<br />Indeed is an un-Objectivist position. Does it finally begin to dawn on you now that I'm no Objectivist? <br /><br />Darren wrote: <br />"Why don't you simply admit this is what you believe?" (end quote)<br /><br />There is nothing to 'admit' because I have been clear as bell about this: there is indeed no explanation at all. <br />For what would e. g. first cause "explain"? That something "always was" - this is no explanation. The human mind can neither grasp infinity nor can it grasp eternity. The reason being that the human brain is just not hardwired that way.Xraynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262631126788882699.post-69896815319441492992012-05-20T12:44:15.471-07:002012-05-20T12:44:15.471-07:00This is why, Eva, you have the fine reputation tha...This is why, Eva, you have the fine reputation that you do: a 9th-rate mind and an intellectual blank-cartridge. The choices before you regarding issue Z are not "A" or "B"; they are "A" or "Not-A". "Not-A" includes "B", "C", "D", etc. It includes everything but "A". Get it?<br /><br />Issue Z=Origin of the Universe<br />Theory A = An infinite regress;<br />Theory Not-A = No infinite regress (= an "arbitrary" stopping point chosen as a First Cause).<br /><br />"Not-A" includes all arbitrary stopping points: God, matter, elves, etc.<br /><br />The only alternative to an infinite regress is "no infinite regress", which means "some point at which the causal chain stops", which means "the stopping point must be assumed to be eternal (causeless) or self-caused, and like a big finger on a big hand, capable of knocking over the first domino that will then continue on its own knocking over the dominoes in front of it.<br /><br /><br />You assert that neither "An infinite regress" nor "Not-an-infinite-regress" explains anything. That leaves you with only one possible position: "There is no explanation at all."<br /><br /><br />That's a very un-Objectivist position for a Randroid to hold. Why don't you simply admit this is what you believe?Darren Wredehttp://randroidbelt.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262631126788882699.post-57360099722160206972012-05-20T04:55:01.675-07:002012-05-20T04:55:01.675-07:00 Darren wrote:
[quoting me] >>>>"... Darren wrote: <br />[quoting me] >>>>"Neither choice 'explains' anything." (end quote Xray)<br /><br /><br /><br />"Then you prefer an infinite regress to an arbitrary stopping point. In your view, an infinite regress would "explain" something." (end quote Darren)<br /><br />You youself have just quoted my reply where I verbatim stated: "Neither choice [First Cause or infinite regress] 'explains'' anything.", and from this you conclude that infinite regress explains something to me? Huh?? <br /><br />This is as absurd as if you had stated: "Neither the theory of scientist A nor the theory of scientist B explains anything about issue Z ", and replied: "In your view, the theory of scientist B would "explain" something. " Xraynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262631126788882699.post-51395649363088726412012-05-19T15:19:06.386-07:002012-05-19T15:19:06.386-07:00>>>>"Which again takes us to the ...>>>>"Which again takes us to the question whether a programmer also has to exist."<br /><br /><br />Not so different from the questions implied by the fact of the Big Bang: the original singularity of compressed matter/energy had to have a cause. Where did it come from? How did it get here? What brought it forth? How? That you habitually evade these questions doesn't mean they aren't implied by the theory. Those are the religious implications of the Big Bang theory. They don't disappear just because you choose to evade them.<br /><br /><br />>>>>"For if yes, then this programmer also caused ticks, roundworms, rat fleas etc. to exist."<br /><br /><br />So what? If yes, then this programmer also caused an ignorant twat in Germany calling itself "Xray" to come into existence apparently for the purpose of misleading young children in their early education, as well as causing a prick in the U.S. (now in hiding for tax evasion) calling itself George H. Smith to appear, apparently for the purpose of writing an execrable book exhorting readers to accept the idea that rationality requires the belief that matter self-organizes itself in contradiction to the 2nd law of thermodynamics, and that programs, books, plays, symphonies, and scientific theories are capable of appearing on their own if only given enough time for ink, paper, and "natural selection" to sort through all the possibilities until the "right" combination of words, notes, or mathematical symbols, gets chosen as "more fit" than the other combinations. Sounds stupid to me (not surprised you admire him; for those are truly profound thoughts that only a Randroid could love). <br /><br /><br />I fail to understand why you believe that ticks, worms, and fleas are "evil" or contradictory to the idea of a programmer whereas "Xray" and "George H. Smith" are assumed to be good. If given the choice between a planet inhabited by nothing but ticks, roundworms, and rat fleas, or a planet with nothing on it but a twat calling itself Xray, a prick calling itself George H. Smith, and excrement calling itself Lindsay Perigo, I would choose the former as being far more benign — and more intelligent.<br /><br /><br />>>>"In short, all the nice little critters which I suppose got no passenger ticket for Noah's Ark. :-)"<br /><br /><br />Apparently, you're hung-up on the Bible. You're a mentally ill Yentavist. See a shrink. :)Darren Wredehttp://randroidbelt.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262631126788882699.post-4270849047403796982012-05-19T15:07:04.830-07:002012-05-19T15:07:04.830-07:00Foucault says this in his Lectures on Abnormal at ...Foucault says this in his Lectures on Abnormal at the College de France. He is referring to a well known and respected psychiatrist (Lacan) who in doing an evaluation of a criminal reverts to his delinquent boyhood to show his linear path toward criminality. In other words, condemning him by precession. It was pre-ordained that he would do this. Foucault is exposing that way of thinking in a very revered authority figure. One did not throw the gauntlet to Lacan lightly in the mid 70's in France.<br /><br />Hence he said:<br /><br />People know what they say. They even often know why they say what they say. But what they don't know is what they say does. - Foucault<br /><br /><br />In other words, Discourse <b>CAN KILL!</b>. Of course this is what Lacsan's evaluation accomplished. The criminal was executed. <br /><br />Take the US wars in the Middle East. Patriotism and Nationalism were the words used to convince the masses of the necessity of declaring war after 9-11 and then extending it to Iraq. <br /><br /><br />Bust used "only words" but those words have killed, maimed, mutilated, murdered, etc " thousands of innocent people.<br /><br /><br />And then we can go to Hitler, but let's not. Just words.abbeysbooksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262631126788882699.post-51539647318080788092012-05-19T14:47:37.642-07:002012-05-19T14:47:37.642-07:00Language has lost representation. What Benno says ...Language has lost representation. What Benno says in Cosmopolis, "People keep trying to put the sign and the sound together and they don't fit." (Close to his meaning anyway.) Signifiers now <b>"FLOAT!"</b> This is the point. They float. The signifier is no longer attached to anything. Language refers only to itself. Money talks only to money, to itself.What Randroids are doing is almost self-referential, Rand refers only to Rand, Rand talks to herself. <br /><br />This is the problem of information, money, sex circulating globally, rising and setting with the sun; in orbit; asymmetrical; radical.<br /><br />So your point of Objectivism being part of her fiction is true but unacknowledged by her disciples or even herself. Rand's work is a floating sign in a way that becomes more obvious in a work of fiction such as Cosmopolis, itself a "floating sign" that can be read in an infinite number of ways.abbeysbooksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262631126788882699.post-43519630029130472032012-05-19T14:46:18.012-07:002012-05-19T14:46:18.012-07:00>>>>Eva Braun evasively wrote: "...>>>>Eva Braun evasively wrote: "By "arbitrary", I was not referring to the choice between positing matter or god as First Cause. <br /><br /><br />I know.<br /><br /><br />>>>>"I was referring to the act as 'arbitrary' that puts up a 'stop sign' in the mind to end a causality chain.<br /><br /><br />I know. The implication of your assertion — which you evade as a huge "blank-out" — is that, THEREFORE, it makes no difference if one chooses God or matter as a First Cause. That's the implication you evade.<br /><br /><br />>>>>"Neither choice 'explains' anything."<br /><br /><br />Then you prefer an infinite regress to an arbitrary stopping point. In your view, an infinite regress would "explain" something.Darren Wredehttp://randroidbelt.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262631126788882699.post-64348657681819047892012-05-19T14:38:53.363-07:002012-05-19T14:38:53.363-07:00>>>>Eva Braun wrote: "...who ofte...>>>>Eva Braun wrote: "...who often quote Galt's speech to critics..."<br /><br />My point, moron, was that, in her supposedly non-fiction works, Alisa Rosenbaum often quoted her own fictional dialogue from her own fiction characters from her own own fiction literary works intending such quotes to serve as scholarly source material. Randroids like you and others on SOLO and OL quote from Rosenbaum's fiction works to each other — not to critics, but amongst yourselves — as if any of this had anything to do with scholarship. It doesn't. It simply helps foster a cult mentality.Darren Wredehttp://randroidbelt.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262631126788882699.post-34692298226693901512012-05-19T14:16:54.652-07:002012-05-19T14:16:54.652-07:00I'm typing on some prehistoric computer and di...I'm typing on some prehistoric computer and disqus won't save edit so here it is:<br />Xray, strike what I wrote above about understanding your hating the translating. It would be wonderful if you just focused on what gets across, as so much does when you're translating someone you love! I have proof of this other than experiential.curioushairedgalnoreply@blogger.com