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The formal definition of an argument is different from "arguing" and means a method of reasoning that attempts to demonstrate the truth or falsehood of something. Even more strictly, in logic, an argument is a set of statements where one statement follows the other logically. You can have a...

Well... If the question hit you, then you must have had some kind of pre-existing belief you held before you read the book. That way, the question made an impact upon you. The same way reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra made an impact on me, that something could be very deep, and yet be pure...

Ignorance is no excuse! Yeah, i'm glad your friend did a much better job than i did. But I find it funny that you don't think the movie is related to gnosticism, while you haven't seen it. :giggle:

Look past the surface, and look at the obvious symbolism. Neo doesn't have to come out and say "I am a gnostic!" for the movie to contain elements of gnosticism. ;)

Many people detected a streak of gnosticism in the Matrix, and a google search turns up 67,000 hits. Here are a couple of links that explains the relationship between the religion and the blockbuster. The Gnostic Matrix Gnosticism and Buddhism in the Matrix The Matrix: Gnosticism...

gnosticism already invaded hollywood It has already been done. Check a movie that was directed by the Wachowski brothers and released in 1999. ;)

From my blog I have read stuff that paints Paul as a gnostic, and the gnostic tradition was a competing interpretation of Christianity during the early days that didn't survive the march to Orthodoxy. It's possible a majority of its texts were destroyed in the Great Library of Alexandria fire...

:gpost: Actually, Gnarlydorkette, you have contributed to the forum, not dumb it down. It is always important to actually locate concrete examples of abstract ideas, and that's what you took the time to do. :thumb: In my studies of emotions, I found Franz Brentano's brand of...

Cady All the handwaving in the world can't hide the fact you're in over your head - by making routine fallacies and misusing subtle philosophical language, not taking this discussion seriously by typing on a mobile device, and last yet worst of all, resorting to cheap emotional appeals - so...

A colossal waste of time Cady, it would appear that your reading comprehension needs improvement – you keep attributing foreign things to my OP, despite having asserted contrariwise. :doh: I agree on both counts. It is inconsequential, and also amusing that you were on the verge of a tu...

Wow! You've made my day, Gnarly dorkette! :fruit:

Deconstructing a rebuttal Quite, but not too dramatically different to abstract from the particular instances into a general noun that encompasses all the different ways it is manifest across different cultures. If we keep a nose-to-grindstone approach, we will note the differences are...

Why, thanks, Cady! You can always do a search and look up my old posts. I've been here since 2003, i think. :thumb:

Perhaps you can explain this to Cookie Monster, as well, for I have no stomach to dumb down my OP. Even boiling it down to a single argument was too much, seems. :doh:

My Internet connection gave up the ghost last night... I don't see how "taking responsibility" will "break the cycle of desiring revenge" at all. If I take responsibility for my actions, and act with the full awareness that I am acting according to my wishes, there is nothing to stop me from...

Hi Liza, thank you for your responses. It is rather irrelevant whether an emotion is experience before another. My point in this passage was to explain the nature of revenge as the result of a hatred that emerged from some failed love. While true, this is also irrelevant. I am not really...

reductionism, or posting for the adhd audience I believe I've posted in layman's terms. But if you were unable to boil down my post to its bare essentials, then here's a summary: Love is a necessary condition of hate. Hate is a necessary condition for revenge. Therefore, revenge is the...

How can I ever hope to explain a very private and personal and moreover, terribly subjective feeling, when it is little more than a brainfart of chemicals, and especially, all I have is my own experiences, and any attempt to empathize with another's feelings are still filtered through my own...

Previously I had written and posted the following on Heathen Hangout, in response to Davidm’s rhetorical question (couldn’t we get along?): The following expands on why intellectuals are crippled by their own greatest attribute - the powers of abstraction - and why the practical person...

Simpleman, whosoever cannot tell a lie does not know what the truth is.