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Your questions have far too many assumptions for me to answer adequately. For instance, you presume a supremely perfect entity is also a personal being who engages in human emotions, and that there is a "devil" who hates God. My essay explores the dialectic of passions only along human...

binary opposites are fundamental but not necessary! This is where philosophy strives for the more fundamental, the more basic, and where most people settle for quasi-synthetic new age-y goo. You can't have "varying intensities" without dichotomies. :nono: I'm not sure what you mean here...

what gives? What is with all these content-free and substanceless remarks from the peanut gallery? I thought this was the ON-TOPIC forum, so, for everyone concerned, kindly refrain from irrelevant asides. If you must, there's always private messages.

ASL deconstructed! Actually, the argument does not lead to a pluralist buffet where anyone can choose their medium. Phonocentrism is merely the prejudice that has existed for the past 3000 years in western philosophy (plato, Aristotle, rousseau, hegel, husserl, etc) where speech was...

The two cents of a fellow heretic Folks, i sent my opening post to many people in my address book, and one replied in kind. After i told my friend that i posted my critique, s/he asked me to post his/her comments. Without further ado... Of course, if there was a group of deaf/hard of...

There is nothing outside of text.... Jolie 77, your post was obscure. I don't understand this phrase: putting it to the negativity, nor what you actually mean by a P.O.V. If you meant that Gannon had a valid POV, then I can say 2 plus 2 is 6, cuz it is my point of view. Otherwise, POV or not...

In this post I will deconstruct the notorious scholar of Deaf studies, Jack Gannon, who blamed Aristotle for that moniker, "deaf and dumb." While reading his excerpt, I found his rhetoric to be over cooked. Deaf and Dumb -- A relic from the medieval English era, this is the granddaddy of...

This short essay is a illustration of the contrast between two impulses: the religious and a very ancient one, the tragic. The religious impulse comes from a long and hard look into the depths of the human element - suffering - and in the process of doing so, a divine force is postulated...

It is a paraphrase from a very pregnant line I read in the Genealogy of Morals.

No, because an agnostic refuses to come down either side of the fence and decide whether there is a God or not. S/He may think there is insufficient evidence or reason to conclude either way, so s/he withholds judgment. That you believe in a "higher power" disqualifies you from joining the...

The agnostic worship the question mark itself as his/her God.

Perhaps! Liza, your reference brought me back to my sciifi days where I consumed asimov, phillip k. Dick, greg bear, baxter, card, niven, pratchet, adams, et.al., like no tomorrow. One book in particular, likely by asimov, where (the title escapes me, sorry) a highly advanced...

Ramblings, part III Redfox, I finally have the time to address your questions about humanism. But first, thank you for your kind words. :) My argument against humanism isn't addressed to a specific type in your wiki entry, but the general theme of humanism. I know this can be criticized on...

Deafdyke Let me explain myself: the "death of god" does not mean people no longer believe in god at all, but that the God concept of the Middle ages and Enlightenment has lost much of its potency and given ground to different ones that are much weaker copies, ghosts that live on beyond the...

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most do. Indeed, a fine ipse dixit, yet wildly inaccurate. Reading a lot of pop culture books like Sheldon or Danielle Steele or Dan Brown will limit your tolerance for the more difficult writers like Bataille, Foucault, Deleuze or...

Yes,the Fleisch Grade level rates it at the 12h grade (multiplying the numberof words by the average syllables of each then divided by the number of sentences per paragraph or some other formula) But I think this formula is rather artificial and abstract, to be frank. Hell if I know, and...

The proof is in the pudding.

Great! Do you have anything to ask me, something i need to clarify? Reba, crippled by her Christian Goggles, is incapable of reading my metaphors as anything but metaphors. God, if he was alive, then he was immortal. He couldn't have "died." Hence, i must be talking about something else...

At last! Gnarly Dorkette, you hold the distinguished honor of posting the first - and quite possibly, the last - intelligent response. :smoking: Actually, i haven't told our mutual friend about this, and i know he would ask if i was channelling the spirit of both Foucault and Nietzsche in...

Levonian I could say the same for your response, but that wouldn't be getting us anywhere. Perhaps if you put in some effort in making a question rather than pooh-poohing, such as "what did you mean by X?" I'd be happy to explain myself. But if you prefer to pull the ostrich routine, then...