sudden valley gunner
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New episode airs tonight!!
Thanks for the reminder, I forgot ! Hope it's as good as the class warfare one that was brilliant writing in that one.
New episode airs tonight!!
No, in fact, I'd say you're the kind of relativist who, by extrapolation, denies all meaning. Everything is anything, amirite?
I merely acknowledge that meaning is a subjective construct. If there is Truth or a Truth, which is what a Fact is supposed to represent, humans will never perceive it; Humans merely perceive a manifestation of truth, not the Truth.
I merely acknowledge that meaning is a subjective construct. If there is Truth or a Truth, which is what a Fact is supposed to represent, humans will never perceive it; Humans merely perceive a manifestation of truth, not the Truth.
You have an interesting writing style, which I've always marveled at: you seem to have an uncanny ability for using as many words as possible, in the most incomprehensible way, to say absolutely nothing.
Humans require oxygen to breathe. That is a fact. That is a truth. It is not a manifestation.
You strike me as one of those students who could write a book without ever penning a coherent thesis sentence.
Humans require oxygen to breathe. That is a fact. That is a truth. It is not a manifestation.
That's rather 17th century. Philosophy has progressed a bit since then. Might want to catch up.
And yet you are wrong.
Humans need air. Try breathing just oxygen and see what happens.
Try breathing air without oxygen and see what happens.
Nice try, though.
And yet you are wrong.
Humans need air. Try breathing just oxygen and see what happens.
The point is that you are focusing on her writing style and completely misunderstanding what she is saying.
While there are basic facts we all know, much of what you feel and know is just a shade of the truth. Like the oxygen...
That may be, but by claiming that the empirical does not exist, or alternatively that the empirical is opinion, she has denied the basic, agreed-upon meaning of words.
The relative "truth" of empirical data may questionable, but that does not render it "opinion". Words mean things. Unless you're B92FSL. Then the "truth" of words' meaning is unknowable. Hence, nothing means anything; hence everything is anything.
QED.
That may be, but by claiming that the empirical does not exist, or alternatively that the empirical is opinion, she has denied the basic, agreed-upon meaning of words.
The relative "truth" of empirical data may questionable, but that does not render it "opinion". Words mean things. Unless you're B92FSL. Then the "truth" of words' meaning is unknowable. Hence, nothing means anything; hence everything is anything.
QED.
Words have no Fundamental meaning; they are a construct. I should point out that you have acknowledged in your post, highlighted in red, that words are a construct.
Obviously, I never claimed otherwise.
(1)I'd point out that the agreed-upon meaning of words is an excellent example of empirical data. (2)But we've already establishes you don't believe in the empirical.
Lord Sega said:I am all for legal immigration, I spent 22 months and around $30K to bring my (now ex-) wife and her daughter up from Brazil.
Following the rules is a pain, and the bureaucracy needs to be streamlined, but like it or not it needs to be followed.
In other words: "I was raped and abused by the system, and I support similar abuse being heaped upon others, because rules are rules." ...
Lord Sega said:It kills me when the Mexican President slams US laws, especially when states try to address the issue when the Feds aren't.
So to be fair we need to make the penalties the same as Mexico's, then they can't complain.
All I stated about the Empirical is that it is an opinion, not that Empirical does not exist. I reject the premise that Empirical is Truth:
I never said the empirical was truth. I said it is, by definition, not opinion.
Wow Tawnos, you took my two sentences that I was using to show that I am familiar with the immigration "system", that I explained is messed up and needs to be streamlined (changed legally), but needs to be followed to keep out undesirables (ie criminals ... those who already have a record in their home country, like Russian mobsters, or South American cartel druggies, NOT poor looking for a better life).
Look here to see just how much we can help the poor of the world through LEGAL Immigration: Link
No, I said you were raped by the system, because that's the experience you described. Holy shiat, 30k to bring people into the country legally? That's insane! How about the quotas, though? I agree on keeping out the convicted felons and insane, but should that really take 30k+? Should there really be quotas on the non-felonious people who desire to move here? I say no.Did I say I was "raped by the system"? No, I willingly paid the money and more importantly the almost 2 years of separation from my then future wife, because I loved her and her daughter. BUT, I did not enjoy enduring the separation, which is why I said the system needs to be fixed & streamlined, get the job done faster while still keeping out proven thieves/rapists/murderers.
And two of those principles are freedom to travel and freedom of association - rights denied by current immigration policies.I love all types of people and their cultures, America is not so much a "melting pot" where everyone merges to sameness, but more like a "bowl of mixed nuts", different but together... America is built on a foundation of principles (Constitutional rights) that bring us together as one while allowing us to keep our uniqueness.
And again, the link above is bullshiat. There is no evidence that such would happen, and the empirical evidence from when America had open borders to all comers shows that "NumbersUSA" is plain wrong.But again, see the link above, we cannot solve the world's problems by opening our boarders wide and letting in everyone who wants a better life. That would, in a matter of a generation or two, lower the USA to worse conditions than Mexico or other 3rd world countries. If you want to help these desperate people, we need to help them, enable them, encourage them to fix their own countries. Improve their "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" in their homeland wherever it may be.
I say this, because Mexico should not be complaining or trying to influence our immigration laws when theirs are worse.
Mexico needs to stop b*tching at the USA and clean up their own house so that their good citizens would want to stay there.
I merely acknowledge that meaning is a subjective construct. If there is Truth or a Truth, which is what a Fact is supposed to represent, humans will never perceive it; Humans merely perceive a manifestation of truth, not the Truth. **Sorry, everything is something but not anything.
That's a simple restatement of Plato's Allegory of the Cave.