On 10/21/2014 4:33 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Funny, you accusing me of losing something, that you never had, in the
first place. lol.
>
/This is not funny - a guy that has believed in "Buddhas" for a decade
has apparently lost it - lost his faith in karma and reincarnation. It
looks like a clear case of transference, and now it's all Jim's and
John's fault. A clear case of transference. Barry must be experiencing
some roughness - now he is tilting at windmills. Go figure./
>
You would not know the first thing about Enlightenment, especially
after that spiritual criminal "taught" you and the rest of the chumps
that only two people out of the hundreds that worshipped him, even had
a *chance* for enlightenment, in this lifetime.
Really took it to heart, didn't you? Have a nice day.:-)
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
Jim has lost it before and will lose it again, but this is by far the
worst case of losing it so far.
Enlightened? At this point he's barely human...
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*From:* "curtisdeltablues@... [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Tuesday, October 21, 2014 12:12 AM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Belief in God is a form of mental
illness
--In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote :
I certainly wouldn't have expected you to agree, Curtis, but your
response hasn't changed my assessment of your motives. Sorry.
M: I didn't realize that this was a discussion of motives. OK, Well in
that case I think your motive for making up a bunch of derogatory shit
is to get back at me for not going along with your "I am enlightened
and you are not" routine. I think that gets you angry and you have to
lash out.
But don't worry Jim,there is always Nabbie. He believes EVERYTHING.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote :
This was a particularly nasty trollish comment Jim. I will let most of
it ride as an indictment of your character.
But I will correct this: I am not an outsider in my community. I am a
leader in the arts in education movement and just last week addressed
19 Principals in one of my school county districts about the need to
bring arts integrated teaching in their schools, at the invitation of
the regional arts director who is a fan of my work.
As far as making a living in the arts is concerned you got it wrong
sorry to disappoint, I am very much an insider working to improve the
educational system in my area with my own choice of music from within
the system, and recognized by it.
So you can fantasize about me not being successful in my chosen field
if you want to grind out your own ill will. But it just doesn't fit
the actual facts of the work I am doing or how it is being recognized
in my community. I was just changing lives one classroom at a time today.
Oh yeah:
J: But, the argument that only they are right, and the rest of the
world, as represented by the other members of this forum, is wrong, is
clearly not sane thinking.
There are so many funny things about this I hardly know where to
start. If fact coming from you the irony is too perfect to comment on.
I'll just let the "rest of the world" think about who just said this!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote :
Yes, they are both a piece of work. I think both of them take extreme
views, in social settings, because both of them feel to be outsiders,
in the world they inhabit. Their position reminds me of that of the
most vociferous born again "christians", often found proselytizing,
while working minimum wage jobs.
These are not successful people, Barry and Curtis. Both are white,
from upper middle class backgrounds, privileged as American citizens,
and each with a college degree. Yet, not a hill of beans, between
them. I am not necessarily talking about material possessions, but
things like strength of character, foresight, humility, social
intelligence, and a simple ability to achieve that which they set out
to do. All of this, is lacking in them.
So, being emotionally immature, and intellectually lazy, they begin to
show their discontent with society, that it hasn't rewarded them for
their bad decisions. They profess atheism, and go all out against God,
and enlightenment, and any sort of spiritual endeavor that they don't
approve of. They see themselves failing by societies norms, and have
now taken the position, that, "You can't fire me, I quit!"
But, the argument that only they are right, and the rest of the world,
as represented by the other members of this forum, is wrong, is
clearly not sane thinking.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
The ignorant inquisitor.. 'It's not my experience so it does not exist!'
Deltablues' technique is the old trick of the materialist's (orthodox)
inquisitor, “Tell us, what exactly is your creed?” “Tell us in terms
detailed such that we can understand and then the best of sophists of
us will argue it out with you trying it point by point. Lot of people
have been burned at the stake by uber-intellectualistic people like
Deltablues is trying to be here on FFL.
-Buck
fleetwood_macncheese responding to Turqb:
Bye, bye, Lenz, Jr.
turquoiseb@...> wrote :
See what I mean? Curtis refuted John's idiotic argument point by
point, and HE DIDN'T EVEN HEAR IT. The only thing he can do is repeat
the same stupid thing he's already repeated -- and had refuted -- here
on FFL dozens of time in the past.
You really can't deal with anyone as dumb as this. I repeat my
contention -- believing in astrology, God, and the Maharishi Effect
really IS like winning the Trifecta of Idiocy. How does a mind
*become* this weak?
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*From:* "jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Monday, October 20, 2014 1:59 AM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: Belief in God is a form of mental illness
Xeno,
I have asked Curtis about his support or evidence for disagreeing with
the statements in the Kalam Cosmological Argument. But he just gave
me a lot of song and dance about his opinions without providing the
evidence for his arguments. Can you give us a solid argument with
evidence and support why the statements in the KCA have a flaw?
Let's take the KCA which states:
1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause;
2. The universe began to exist;
/Therefore/:
3. The universe has a cause.
Do you agree with statement 1 or not? If not, please give us your
reasons for disagreeing.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote :
Logical arguments about ultimates always contain a flaw. You can
reverse the form of the argument to support atheism and if you do not
see the flaw, it will seem equally valid, that is, that atheism is
true. Now there are some atheists who definitely believe there is no
god and they can be as fanatical as a fundamentalist religionist.
Probably they would have no sense of humour about their condition. But
a real atheist simply lacks a particular kind of belief because that
belief seems neither reasonable or likely. They basically just do not
care. Barry is just testing memes to see what happens when they are
activated. We all have memes which are basically little snippets of
mental routines our minds use. We trade them with each other, but for
the most part these mental stances are just our opinions about the
world around us and we tend to be be rather uncritical as to how well
they really represent what is real, while at the same time taking them
as reality itself.
Take the TMO memes. On FFL, meditators and former meditators all at
one time believed certain things about experience were at least
possible, for example, that if you practice TM, which is not a
religion, you will find God. The TMO memes specify that we are in a
state of ignorance, not knowing the nature of reality. But were we
actually in the state of ignorance, we would not have the capability
to correctly evaluate what we were told because we would be using
delusional thinking to evaluate ideas such as transcendence, states of
consciousness and so forth, so our following this system of thought
about reality would essentially be an act of insanity, that is, mental
illness. The system defines us as in some way incapacitated in knowing
what is real, and then expects us to just jump in, and accept what the
system says is real.
A discussion of the Kalam argument:
Cosmological Kalamity
<http://infidels.org/library/modern/dan_barker/kalamity.html>
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote :
Barry,
Have you ever thought that atheism is also a belief-- and an
unreasonable one at that? The Kalam Cosmological Argument should
dispel any of your doubts.
