XPost: alt.philosophy, alt.atheism
From: brianf88@bigpond.net.au

"Chameleon"  wrote in message
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> Brian Fletcher wrote:
>> "Joseph H"  wrote in message
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>> > Brian Fletcher wrote:
>> >> "Joseph H"  wrote in message
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>> Of course, but a stage.
>>
>> > Also, I have no problem with thinking. That would be absurd. I have
>> > problems with the creations of the human mind - the religions, myths,
>> > ignorances, fallacies and absurdities - that have bedevilled thinking
>> > since it first originated.
>>
>> Exactly. Group consciousness is a platform for individual discovery.
>
> I think you have somewhat neutered, or even anaesthatised,  what I'm
> saying to the point where I don't feel a thing. That is not my natural
> condition.

You mean not your past condition. Neutrality is an advanced step. To see all
sides of an argument, with detatchment.


>What I am saying is that we have lived under a pall of error
> since the beginning of thought. Now we must see the truth - because if
> we don't difference and indifference will destroy us. Is that blunt
> enough for you?

"Hit over the head with a blunt instrument" :-).

"We" live in the 'past condition' referred to above. You see this when you
step aside from the 'group'.

Try and re write in the first person . Always an interesting exercise eg
"What I am saying is I have lived etc etc".

BOfL




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>> BOfL
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>> > Joseph H
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>> >> BOfL
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