If this is in any way related to Kristor and a.morphous’ dialogues, can you explain non duality? It looks like garbage but i cant tell why. I would chime in to old K/A threads when Kristor was explaining metaphysics and it was very helpful but this appears to be a step beyond that.
It is a bit complex, and I’m a layman. Thomists have traditionally been opposed to Cartesian dualism, a dualism of soul and body, “God and the machine” and all that. But that may – or may not – be an interesting area of debate. I’ve known many brilliant Protestants firmly committed to dualism. But there is a radical (non) dualism that pits objective truth against subjectivity simpliciter. That says there is no such thing as objective truth, usually in the key of Qm. They are all a bunch a pu$$@@$.
LOL. That’s all I need to know. When I was in highschool I had some great debates with an atheist friend about quantum stuff. I intuitively understood then–without knowing a whole lot about quantum anything, in fairness–that it was becoming science worship and so a complex way of saying “I don’t actually know how to explain this phenomena”.
It’s like Dark Matter in the astronomy field: “we don’t know, but if we give it a name then we SOUND like we know”.
My brother in law argues against objective truth sometimes and we’ve since mutually and silently come to an understanding not to talk about it, but I wish I knew Kristor’s “if there is no truth then the claim “there is no truth” cannot be true” line at the time.
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If this is in any way related to Kristor and a.morphous’ dialogues, can you explain non duality? It looks like garbage but i cant tell why. I would chime in to old K/A threads when Kristor was explaining metaphysics and it was very helpful but this appears to be a step beyond that.
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It is a bit complex, and I’m a layman. Thomists have traditionally been opposed to Cartesian dualism, a dualism of soul and body, “God and the machine” and all that. But that may – or may not – be an interesting area of debate. I’ve known many brilliant Protestants firmly committed to dualism. But there is a radical (non) dualism that pits objective truth against subjectivity simpliciter. That says there is no such thing as objective truth, usually in the key of Qm. They are all a bunch a pu$$@@$.
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LOL. That’s all I need to know. When I was in highschool I had some great debates with an atheist friend about quantum stuff. I intuitively understood then–without knowing a whole lot about quantum anything, in fairness–that it was becoming science worship and so a complex way of saying “I don’t actually know how to explain this phenomena”.
It’s like Dark Matter in the astronomy field: “we don’t know, but if we give it a name then we SOUND like we know”.
My brother in law argues against objective truth sometimes and we’ve since mutually and silently come to an understanding not to talk about it, but I wish I knew Kristor’s “if there is no truth then the claim “there is no truth” cannot be true” line at the time.
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