| Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina |
1-Apr-05/1:16 PM |
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How do you determine the criteria to test the falsity of a proposition. How do you determine the criteria to pick a good criteria.
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| Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina |
1-Apr-05/1:14 PM |
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To argue with any conviction the case for open-mindedness is a contradiction. It is like arguing that which you hold to be true is wrong. Now we have you in such a tizzy can you think of a single statement that is not a platitude under your recently acquired definition of platitude.
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| Re: a comment on Plato by not_a_philosopher |
1-Apr-05/10:34 AM |
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| Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina |
1-Apr-05/10:33 AM |
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It is, one of the reasons why your ideas about open-mindedness are so silly.
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| Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina |
1-Apr-05/10:32 AM |
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I think you are getting confused Dovina. You are the one claiming to be open minded. Unless of course your new argument is that you do not accept any criticism because all criticism is closed minded.
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| Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina |
1-Apr-05/10:30 AM |
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I think you miss the point Dovina. This is not a competition to see who is most open minded. This is a use of counter-example to prove how ridiculous your claim that you, the queen of vague platitudes, are open-minded. Why must you continue to argue the case for open-mindedness. This is extremely dim. Surely you can see why.
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| Re: a comment on Plato by not_a_philosopher |
31-Mar-05/11:19 AM |
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I think you need to be more open-minded.
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| Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina |
31-Mar-05/11:14 AM |
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I thought we had proved you were not open-minded.
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| Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina |
31-Mar-05/11:11 AM |
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Only thickies use the word issue (unless they are talking of comics or children). That is a fact.
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| Re: a comment on stab in the dark by not_a_philosopher |
31-Mar-05/10:50 AM |
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you talk a lot of bollocks.
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| Re: a comment on Plato by not_a_philosopher |
31-Mar-05/10:43 AM |
But the voice must be yours because
your are the only
one who talks like this.
..)
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| Re: a comment on Plato by not_a_philosopher |
31-Mar-05/10:40 AM |
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Then your comment would have been needless. You got it right first time. If you are to put God at the centre of your universe then to say he causes evil things is ruinous and impious. This is true of every individual who puts God at the centre of their universe.
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| Re: a comment on Reasonably Good by Dovina |
26-Mar-05/2:19 PM |
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and because this site is a poetry site. Check out 'In Broken Images' by Robert Graves. His words are both precise and restrained.
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| Re: a comment on Reasonably Good by Dovina |
26-Mar-05/2:17 PM |
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because you have failed to grasp the contradiction. You are open minded and therefore seek out more representations of truth, however you are unable say with any certainty whether something is true or not (because you are open minded).
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| Re: a comment on Reasonably Good by Dovina |
26-Mar-05/2:14 PM |
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The acceptance that truth exists is itself a dogma.
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| Re: a comment on Reasonably Good by Dovina |
26-Mar-05/10:03 AM |
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Also, virtually every criticism I have ever levelled against you has been that you are too dogmatic. You are now using dogma to forward your open-mindedness argument. This is ironic too.
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| Re: a comment on Reasonably Good by Dovina |
26-Mar-05/9:55 AM |
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True. I was going for the if every advance widens the detail of a picture thus making it fuzzier then to say truth exists is analgous to say divergent lines meet. However more important I believe is the way you have been arguing the truth of 'you must be open-minded to receive truth' statement which is a touch ironic yes?
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| Re: a comment on Reasonably Good by Dovina |
25-Mar-05/11:34 AM |
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Jesus christ I hope you don't think all these comments actually had anything to do with your poeme. The poeme takes the voice of a dunce claiming to know the difference between good and bad. The dunce narrator does not have to be correct in his/her theories in any way. S/he is a dunce. I thought that was obvious in both versions.
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| Re: a comment on The Symbol by Dovina |
25-Mar-05/7:35 AM |
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There must have been a reason you refused to write the word crucifix in your poem. I think it is because you believe if your symbol is sufficiently vague it becomes transcendental and represents lots of thing.
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| Re: a comment on Reasonably Good by Dovina |
25-Mar-05/7:32 AM |
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Nope. With every new degree of magnification the object you are seeking to represent becomes more complicated.
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