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Re: [ontolog-forum] Model or Reality

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From: Duane Nickull <dnickull@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:11:04 -0700
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In other words the ability to differentiate between fact and opinion/story
becomes pivotal to any society's tolerance and flourishing.    (01)

Welcome to the spiritual word of Satsang (literally " The company of the
highest knowledge and Truth; the company of a Guru; contact with a person or
an assembly of persons who listen to, talk about, and assimilate the Truth")    (02)

Sounds almost like the ontolog forum....    (03)

;-)    (04)


On 8/8/07 2:21 PM, "Christopher Menzel" <cmenzel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:    (05)

> On Aug 8, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Azamat Abdoullaev wrote:
>> There is a sorrowful example of my thesis; continue you emotional
>> statements:
> 
> Good grief, John's statements weren't emotional at all.  The
> following in particular is empirically verifiable:
> 
>>> The 20th century was filled with disasters caused by people trying to
>>> ram their conception of the truth down other people's throats.
>>> And the
>>> 21st is starting off on an even worse footing.''
>> 
>> All these devastations and destructions arose from and will arise
>> only from
>> ''different conceptualizations''.
> 
> Rubbish.  The mere existence of different conceptualizations hasn't
> in itself any power for good or ill; if anything, it indicates a
> healthy community in which competing ideas are allowed flourish.  A
> mixture of conceptualizations becomes volatile only when combined
> with an unshakable belief on the part of the devotees of one or more
> of the conceptualizations that (i) theirs mirrors the One True
> Reality and (ii) others must be made to believe the same way or be
> marginalized or destroyed.
> 
> It is one of the creepier aspects of human psychology that (i) seems
> to engender (ii).  So when I encounter a True Believer I just smile,
> nod, and slowly back away...
> 
> -chris
> 
>  
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