on philosophy

philosophizing as a neurosis

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[HaleyMary]

I agree with that last line that labels have nothing to do with reality. People can believe in whatever they want, but it doesn't change how the world actually is. It's like if people were to still believe the earth was flat, it doesn't change the fact that it's round.

[isismelting]

all i have is my experience. i translate this into discernible slices of content through sensory representation systems, in order to commune, among other reasons.

this sort of labeling i call modeling; it indeed has to do with my idea of "reality," if not with yours.

i definitely do not care for "facts" or "beliefs" or other such figments of the so-called objective.

[tvfrihed]

Thank you for letting me peak at your "reality"... made me think!

[isismelting]

:-)

[CPLains]

found this: zSZNsIFID28

I think what Feynman says of science here is quite right for most fields: This means, he defends science from "art", but this defense holds for philosophy, music, meditation, dancing, and so on..

you say search as if it's a bad thing, but everyone with lots of vitality will explore, challenge themselves, and try to find new things, ideas, people..

i agree philosophy can be used as a way to step out of life, but so too can meditation or religion or any other thing

[CPLains]

i think the false dichotomy is between "meditative peace" and "restless thought"

both abstract language (science/philosophy) or emotionally unique states (religious experience/meditation) can help bring you more fully *into* the world

if life is a piece of music, the profound do not long for silence or chaos; they long to see it all - this means, knowing mathematics of it, history of it, context, gaining perfect pitch, knowing the artists, etcetc.

there's no easy way to experience life fully

[Israe5l]

sound a bit like later heidegger.

I am all for dichotomies. Its the LOgician's primary weapon.

[zezt]

..amreally tuned into you. LOVE your senstivity--the music in background. how you 'dance' with it, respect it when you talk....your insights. your a cool find ;)

Yeah, philo-SOPHIA. the 'love of wisdom' where WISDOM becomes less whole organism and more the processes of the intellectual mind!

'Sophia', Goddess, is demoted to the 'mindedness' of 'God' by the patriarchal mindset

[patternsinchaos]

If you agree with this video Nick, then stop deluding yourself and others with false reductions of reality and create something cool!! :-P

[forgetfulgod]

"advanced" is a perception of what is. Statements alter our perceptions. Ultimately all there is is what is and our choice of how to perceive it/me. We are all the same. Simply state it and it becomes easier to see, you are changing course in a see of infinite views, your voice/choice is the rutter.

[forgetfulgod]

there is nothing to search for. Nowhere to go. I am already here now. In fact, here and now are me.

[washboard1997]

i don't figure that i need to buy into certain ideologies such as right or left because this system of "buying into" only gives us one token. i see many realities as opposed to just one and i am slightly disturbed by the fact that so many people only see their one particular way of living.