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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts 
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On 2012-06-12 20:44, R.S. wrote: I'm not sure that it defies everything we know about nature, biology, logic, and the human propensity for embellishment as much as it allows for the possibility that we don't know everything. Yet. I'm cool with that. Quote:
On 2012-06-12 20:44, R.S. wrote: Oh, c'mon: ten thousand housewives can't be wrong. (I know this for a fact because they used to say it in a television commercial.) Quote:
On 2012-06-12 20:44, R.S. wrote: A shortcoming of truth that can hardly be blamed on Kam. (Well, it's actually easy to blame Kam for it, but it's likely not his fault.) |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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What sort of person deconstructs Plato's allegory of the cave to merely inquire about how to make shadows?
A more insightful student might ask what the guy wanted back in the cave.
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts
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Can the real deity please stand up?
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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panlives Inner circle 2087 Posts
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On 2012-06-13 09:28, Jonathan Townsend wrote: Mr. T., The impulse is not to learn how to cast shadows; it is to meet the entity casting the shadows. You are misreading Plato.
"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes. |
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts
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Let's just wait till we die to find this out.
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts
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On 2012-06-13 12:12, Pakar Ilusi wrote: Time is running out. Won't be long. Count on it. Death lets no one escape.
If I were to agree with you. Then we would both be wrong. As of Apr 5, 2015 10:26 pm I have 880 posts. Used to have over 1,000
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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How am I misreading Plato? Here's the source text:
From Plato's Republic Book VII (Translated into English ... ) Quote:
And do you see, I said, men passing along the wall carrying all sorts of vessels, and statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone and various materials, which appear over the wall? Some of them are talking, others silent. What we "see" is an interesting construct.
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kambiz Inner circle Perth, down by the cool of the pool 1129 Posts
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On 2012-06-13 07:25, gdw wrote: I forgot about responding to this post gdw . The Manifestations of God do have a human element for sure, but up until now the mysterious nature of their station was hidden from our eyes, mainly left to the interpretations of many who read anecdotal records of their lives. However, now, the nature of Their existence has been extensively divulged for all to read and understand. I am specifically avoiding posting these details in here, since I sense most struggle with the idea that there is a twin nature to human existence, never mind the possibility of someone who has a unique third nature to Their make up and existence. If you wish to read what has been divulged, it is perfectly within ones capacity to seek it independently 
Suffice it to say that They are not Gods, nor are they mere humans, yet can be perceived as both God and human at the same time.... (please read my signature below for a hint . )
Kam
If I speak forth, many a mind will shatter,
And if I write, many a pen will break. .....and when I consider my own self, lo, I find it coarser than clay! |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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I'm all for using the 3D glasses model of perception and presentation of statements/content. Rhetoric made transparent - or statements made plain in terms of what they appeal to - enthymemes in honest detail.
Agreed about a spiritual/sentimental/Greek Humors aspect of human consciousness that IMHO controls the majority of our experience along with some occasional input from a more "logical" function we sometimes call rational.
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts
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On 2012-06-15 23:31, acesover wrote: That we can agree on.
So no point arguing about something that we'll find out. Soon enough. 
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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