Originally posted by PuterMan
reply to post by ProudBird
Perhaps you would feel safer retiring into your mainstream shell? You obviously do not appear to have an enquiring mind and the ability or wish to explore outside the boundaries of what is fed to you on a plate. Do you also follow mainstream media I wonder?
It doesn't take courage to be irresponsible in your thinking. I could only make it through this thread to the point of this statement (above) before feeling compelled to speak up a bit about the actual point of philosophy, metaphysics, physics and all related efforts that seek to probe the deeper reaches of reality. Not that it'll ever matter to some people who post here, or to the crass carnival clowns they quote and whose bizarre YouTube channels they link to as if book sales mean legitimacy of concept, but the point has never been to win a get-out-of-reality-free card by way of concocting slippery arguments against the boring stability that allows physical existence to emerge and progress. The point of metaphysics, philosophy and even the more adventurous strains of quantum theories, is and has always been to establish the correct parameters of reality, both absolute (if possible) and within the limits of specific relative confines.
This kind of outlook (quoted above) isn't what metaphysics or philosophy is about. It's the kind of aimless stream of consciousness that other people's kids and barroom drunks pester folks with. Not everything is possible. Not every idea is valid - not if it's being presented as serious fodder for philosophical, metaphysical or any sort of serious discussion meant to be an examination of reality. It's like how bicycles aren't allowed on superhighways.
I'd just hate to see this forum turn into a joke.
edit on 12/18/2011 by NorEaster because: (no reason given)
