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Comment on The Enemy Within by Adam

Adam — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:01:24 +0000

One night, Nazrudin was on his hands and knees searching for his key in a well light area. Some of his neighbors came to see why Nazrudin was on his hands and knees.

“What are you looking for, Nazrudin?” enquired one of the neighbors.

“My door key.” Came the reply.

The helpful neighbors drop to their hands and knees and joined Nasrudin in his search for the lost key.
After a long unsuccessful search, one of the neighbors asks: “We’ve looked everywhere. Are you sure you dropped it here?”

Nazrudin answers: “Of course I didn’t drop it here, I dropped it outside my door.”

“Then, why are you looking for it here!”

“Because there’s more light here,” responded Nazrudin.

Gotta love the Mullah

Comment on The Enemy Within by dreamguardian

dreamguardian — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:16:57 +0000

Yes, I should use spellcheck more often.

Comment on The Enemy Within by dreamguardian

dreamguardian — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:15:17 +0000

How many pkilosophers does it take to change a light bulb?

Depends on how much the light bulb wants to change!!

Comment on On the nature of soul. by Hilaire

Hilaire — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:46:08 +0000

No,language doesn’t describes the world as it is. It describes the world as the individual or a group of individuals see it (e.g. scientists who use an agreed way of looking – and measuring – the world and a specialised language.We perceive the world through our senses and then our imagination, aided and abetted by our past experiences and associations, tries to build up a coherent picture of what it is like. We construct a narrative to explain the world and our lives because we have a propensity to look for patterns. Our stories – whether of the individual or the group – describe these patterns.

Neils Bohr once said the world is not only stranger than we thought: it is stranger than we could think.

Do we know what we cannot know?
Are we getting into Donald Rumsfeld territory here?! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_unknown

Comment on The Enemy Within by Adam

Adam — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:25:38 +0000

I did once walk off with a philosophy student’s purse, but that was because I was getting fed up with the discussion about whether we could know the table in the bar was a real table

Comment on The Enemy Within by Greg

Greg — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:11:07 +0000

But don’t try this one at home children:)

Comment on Words of Power, Part I by Adam

Adam — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:24:28 +0000

The Chladni song? I rather like it… want to build one now… could have so much fun, annoying the family and cat

Comment on Words of Power, Part I by Bo

Bo — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:29:28 +0000

That was extraordinary!!!

Comment on On the nature of soul. by Adam

Adam — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:59:47 +0000

Fair question I think the distinction is useful not because we can distinguish between what we know and what we think we know (I don’t know that we can, though I suppose I would know if my arm was cut off, but can only think I know that my wife is faithful) but because having both categories reminds us that knowledge is indeed not absolute but derives from our dynamic engagement with experience.

Comment on On the nature of soul. by Red Raven

Red Raven — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:44:37 +0000

What useful purpose would be gained from differentiating between that what we think we know and what we actually know? (I don’t believe that you can actually separate them as neatly as some would like, for I cannot think of any significant advantages.) It is my experience that knowledge, like most of existence, is fluid by nature and steadfastly refuses to be boxed. The experiences created and ongoing with the environment continue to present us with differing perspectives and language is but one method of transmitting, what are essentially, definitions of experience. But language also displays to us this fluidity, by it’s non-static nature.