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yes but the idea that history has no progress and just goes by contingency is also a foundational framework, it can't be proved in and of itself, without, again, going back to the thing-in-itself of Kant. so you then end up refuting yourself. you are essentially arguing that society can have a...

oh for the crying love of Simone Piles, what feels right to you is irrelevant. It is impossible to carry out any form of research, let alone make any argument, without eliminating, and then eliminating at a new affirmative point again. You cannot just have free floating multiplicity in the...

This is not an accusation, you know. Many spectacular so-called 'geniuses' have turned out to be colossal idiots of the highest order. If I am a bumbling fool, then this is the ultimate compliment, for me. It means I'm getting good inputs from the matrix and giving it good outputs.

again, if we reduced dialectic to the purely logical abstract method of Hegel, you are right. But when we use it to think through the actual changes taking place in society, we can see the tendancy to global communism already being extant. The only way you could argue against this is to...

again, I do not believe so: Heavy objects move downward. Objects that do not move downward are not heavy: is the weight of the pendulum heavy or not? This is what the old aristotelians struggled with, and they could not resolve it because they merely proposed negations as affirmations. But we...

I wonder what her views on hamas are now though. 15 years ago she would be on campus protesting, there is no doubt about it! but did she get boring and start collecting bob dylan records?

I don't even want to talk about the anal thread where she confessed how sequestered she is. i still get nightmares from reading that. even me in my sheltered kurdish life probably stuck a water syringe or a 50 p coin up there as a child. who tf knows.

Yes they all were/are. heads stuffed full of prejudices and the constant need to doubt.

It wouldn't. I despise intellectuals. compared to them, mules are gentlemen.

isn't this just an abdication of society having conscious representation of itself? That's a very Thatcherite position, albeit not in the way she thought. Very close to Land, actually.

oh, come on. I'll ask nomad out on a date if you think I resemble her, just to infuriate craner. Although, I should warn you in advance, hothoused new york Jewish girls are just not my type. Prefer the hungarian ones.

because anti-communism in the long duration is impossible. It is the species-destiny. You are on the reserve bench for the losing team, as it goes. Now be nice to your team mates tea and version. every liberal must dead. United not doing too good this season, are they?

hmmm... I don't think so. That would have to postulate that contradictions are symmetrical. But it is the failure to be self-identical which pushes the contradictions and forces their resolve into syntheses, into new (unequal) contradictions. surely an order of symmetrical contradictions, where...

the religious in the guise of anselm of canterbury, Duns Scotus, Spinoza and so. all laid the foundational steps for atheism, even if they were not aware of it, even if they could not be aware of it.

no because all living phenomena is multilaterally interconnected. Like I said, the dark underbelly of religion is atheism.

you should come into philosophy through Augustine, Aquinas, Maimonides, Ibn-Arabi, Spinoza, Liebniz, Locke, Rousseau, etc. not these ephemeral artfags of overexpired delicatessen.

your liberal atheism is exactly the same though, worse still in that it cannot account for persistent belief in God.

no it is consciousness, not contact or evidence. that is the rational kernel in the mystical shell. The mystical shell is God, but the rational kernel is greater human consciousness of its activity.

it doesn't, we're only using the language of Hegel and Marx(s) refutation, because the question was posed in a philosophical, quasi-religious manner. Agnosticism is a philosophical position, it is untenable and unrealisable in practical human activity. The aim is simply to show up the...

what Hegel is saying is not novel to him, it traverses all the major abrahamic mystical tradition. That god is the univocity of being.