Perhaps sophistic was not accurate. Having thought some more let me
use naive instead.

When I was a teenager, in the 1960s, oft times a group would get
together, smoke a little dope, drink a little wine and ponder the
universe and the big questions. What we came up with felt profound at
the time but now it looks like what it was, naive. In fact, I seem to
remember one party where the idea of emptiness and the void as all
there is was discussed at length.

That is the feeling I get when I read those links. Uninformed,
well-intentioned, seemingly profound but ultimately naive.

That a bit better? :)

2009/9/9 ornamentalmind <[email protected]>:
>
>
> I will assume that you are using the more recent meaning of the term
> sophism...rather than that used in Ancient Greese, yes?
>
> Using one 'definition':
> "Sophism can mean two very different things: In the modern definition,
> a sophism is a confusing or illogical argument used for deceiving
> someone. In Ancient Greece, the sophists were a group of teachers of
> philosophy and rhetoric."
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophism
>
> ...apparently you impune motivation upon Narjuna? Perhaps not…
> difficult to tell. Perhaps a little more meat to your argument would
> help us to understand?
>
>
> On Sep 9, 8:53 am, Simon Ewins <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I did read one and scanned the other. Emptiness as it is being used
>> seems a bit sophistic to me.
> >
>

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