Marsha said:
...because RMP has clearly stated that there are many truths, and in regards to
philosophy a position can be both true and false, and that truth is relative, I
am correct to stick with what I know from my own experience.
dmb says:
Well, Marsha, as I keep pointing out, you have confused Buddhism with fascism.
Your understanding of the MOQ turns it into relativist nightmare. Like I said
to John, you have confused diversity with promiscuity. I mean, wanting lots of
different opinions is not the same thing as dropping our standards of quality
to accommodate every opinion. That's just intellectual debauchery.
"If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to
be the bearers of objective immortal truth ... then there is nothing more
relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity... From the fact that all
ideologies are of equal value, that all ideologies are mere fictions, the
modern relativist infers that everybody has the right to create for himself his
own ideology and to attempt to enforce it with all the energy of which he is
capable." (Benito Mussolini, 1921)
Part of the problem is that you define static patterns as ever-changing. That's
like defining stable to mean unstable. It's just plainly wrong. There is DQ and
there is sq and "ever-changing" is a good description of just one of them and
it isn't the latter. There is a 50-50 chance of getting that right but you blew
it.
This is a philosophy forum, you know? Killing static intellectual patterns has
it's place but not during a philosophy discussion. That would be like touting
the virtues of fasting during a feast or expressing the joy of dance at a
funeral. It's just insensitive to the point of obliviousness. It's like pooping
in the punch bowl. You might feel liberated but that's not enlightenment.
You're using "meditation" as cover so you don't have to play by the same rules
as everyone else.
You're too enlightened for philosophy? Jeez, I think you flatter yourself way
too much.
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