by jc » Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:56 am
re the highlighted:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>I don't buy the LeVeyian-Crowleyian <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"break every rule, indulge in every pleasure, but we'd never do anything illegal,</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> that would be naughty" caveat. This has zero value coming from men for whom honesty has no place in their belief system.<br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>i didn't know there was anything to buy. i always thought if people actually listened to what's being said, they'd have seen this vile sophistry for what it is.<br><br>LaVey, Crowley and their ilk don't believe in law to begin with, so how could they, in their own minds, and according to their belief in their own superiority be doing anything illegal? even paraphrased it's staring you in the face:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"break every rule, indulge in every pleasure, but we'd never do anything illegal,</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>to do something illegal in their "system" would be to go against their ONE dictum: "do what thou wilt shall be the WHOLE of the law."<br><br>that's the point for them isn't it? "everything is permitted." the law as we understand it is for us: the sheep. they, on the other hand are evolved supreme beings who know better and are ABOVE the law.<br><br>the scum… they have no feelings, no remorse, nothing.<br><br>reminds me of the republican who said "we create reality, and while you're studying it, we create a new one." (paraphrase)<br><br>these people would just love it if they could sell us on the idea that what they're doing is all "<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>natural</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, all <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>chemicals</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> or <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>genetic</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> or <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>part of the culture</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. it's just the way to be, this is true freedom" or whatever.<br><br>also, Sade's reputation taken into consideration (i.e. what we're told about who he is and how he "liberated" everyone) i find it interesting that he wrote in his preface to a little know work of his: "Incest," that the reason he wrote was in order <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>to show people the consequences of complete freedom</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. and none, NOT ONE, of these "intellectual, academic, liberation theologians" EVER told me this. (i had to read it in his book myself, (and i only read the preface, figured if that was his point i didn't have to read the damned thing.)) the man was actually tried and sent to prison by the Revolutionary Council accused of being, of all things, <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>reactionary</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. <br><br>one thing that to me really reveals the sad state of "education" and "academia" in our world is when people buy into absurd, overgeneralized, self contradictory and downright STOOPID claims such as:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>nothing is true. everything is permitted.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>which entails that the sentence itself: "nothing is true…" is false, and if false <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>something must be true</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. and if the sentence is true it contradicts itself as it would read "nothing (ExCEPT THIS SENTENCE) is true." how stupid can you get, bubba?<br><br>or this one, which is a mere variation on the theme:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>everything is relative.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>not to knock einstein but i've been thrown out of classes and failed (in itself a contradiction of the claim seeing that my thinking was FALSE) for (1) objecting to the prevalent interpretation of that statement which is that everything is equally true: nothing is true: relativism; and (2) for pointing out the fact that if you grant the premise then the sentence itself: "everything is relative," is selfcontradictory. the sentence itself being a "universal" claim, i.e. an "absolute," can mean one of two things:<br><br>(a) either the sentence itself is exempt which would entail emendation along these lines: "everything (except this sentence) is relative," or <br><br>(b) the sentence itself is covered by the term "everything," and reads "everything (including this sentence) is relative," which renders it meaningless, absurd, plain southern comfort stupid.<br><br>[on edit: all that i object to above (as far as i can tell) is very Foucault and Derrida by the way, super modern and trendy acedemically, a lot of booksales, tenures and carriers involved. can't knock it. that's a no no.]<br><br>whatever…<br><br>peace, y'all<br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=jc@rigorousintuition>jc</A> at: 7/14/06 7:37 am<br></i>