arthuremerson replied to the topic Thelema and "Satanism" in the forum Thelema
Los, Your definition of logic as ‘the process by which one produces valid conclusions from premises’ is misleading at best; at worst it is disingenuous. Logic is not merely the production of validity...
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Los, You’ll have to forgive the tone of my message: in haste I seem to have adopted a rather stronger one than I had intended and would have adopted otherwise. It was not my intention to merely quibble...
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Thelema and "Satanism" in the forum Thelema
As for you, David, you are hardly in any position to be employing the caustic attitude you take toward others in these forums. For all of your apparent specialization in the rigors of informal logic,...
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Thelema and "Satanism" in the forum Thelema
"david" wrote: Just to clarify why you are wrong here and the possible complications that can arise if we consider that informal logic employs formal logic and importantly, scepticism. The fallacies...
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David, The principles of informal logic have largely been in place since the 1970s. Those principles do in now way partake of the type of skepticism you are suggesting they do here. The burden of proof...
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Thelema and "Satanism" in the forum Thelema
Los, You have been quite clear in your use of the term skepticism, yes. But to undermine the traditional dictionary meaning of the term with your own definition strikes me as muddying the discursive...
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Thelema and "Satanism" in the forum Thelema
Los, The Slippery Slope fallacy is a good example of the first. An argument can take the shape of a slipper slop fallacy, but the conclusion can be true. Consider a drug addict on remission perhaps, or...
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"Los" wrote: So what you’re saying is that the phrase “skeptical of skepticism” might mean something like, “I question the value of employing [scientific] skepticism”? If that’s what you’re saying,...
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Thelema and "Satanism" in the forum Thelema
Los, I would like to quickly point out a mistake in my writing earlier. I said that fallacious arguments don’t necessarily entail invalid conclusions. I should have said that they don’t necessarily...
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Thelema and "Satanism" in the forum Thelema
David, Burden of proof is only a determination of who has the obligation to “marshal evidence for his/her position”. In a case such as ours, in which you are attempting a revision of well understood...
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Thelema and "Satanism" in the forum Thelema
Los, I was certainly not trying to imply that locating mistakes in reasoning is not useful. What I don’t think is useful is going around, as David does, pedantically drawing attention to them. The...
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Excellent and insightful posts, Belmurru. I would like to reintroduce something you said earlier in this thread that has stuck with me throughout these discussions, not only due to its insightful...
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"belmurru" wrote: "WilliamThirteen" wrote: some of us understood your subtle overkill… Ah, good to know, thanks! I’m free to do it again, then, confident that some will appreciate it in the spirit in...
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Thelema is not Magick? Thelema is not...
More importantly, David, you might ask yourself where in the passage you’ve quoted Michael expresses a belief in praeter human intelligence. edit: seems Michael swooped in while I was typing. C’est la...
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Very well said, Lutz.
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Clarification re Liber AL I:3 and “The Law...
We’re referring to hermeneutics as “evidence-based” now? Mon dieu…
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Best to you and your wife, Paul.
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Various II:76 Cipher solutions... in the...
All sounds like a bunch of phluphy-phlu, y’ask me.
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Fortean Fallacies in the forum Crowley...
There is a translation here, Markus, though I’m not certain it’s yours. Liber I – The Book of the Zero-Hour
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Short youtube piece on Nietzsche in the...
Epicurus is not one of the Presocratic philosophers.
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"david" wrote: Ok you mean as in strict timeline terms? Epicureanism was originally a challenge to Platonism was it not? Nitpicking? No, I mean that Epicurus is not one of the Presocratic philosophers...
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David, "david" wrote: Maybe you should take this discrepancy up with him? I’d love to hear his answer. I’m sure that if he were an academic of any integrity he would simply admit his mistake and we’d...
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Thelemic Practice in the forum Thelema
David, Could you please direct us to which of Nietzsche’s works this quote is from. -ae
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Thelemic Practice in the forum Thelema
It’s not a Nietzsche quote, David.
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Thelemic Practice in the forum Thelema
David, Forgive my brief and likely wanting response, but I am now embroiled in a project I have little time to be away from. I could use a bit of a break, however. Firstly, I would dispense with the...
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"ignant666" wrote: I wonder if there are any other notoriously perverse and difficult writers who reveled in paradoxes that one might have difficulty appreciating without a thorough grounding in...
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"ignant666" wrote: "david" wrote: I myself am in my mid 40s […] Flabbergasted at this revelation. It’s unbelievable.
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic National Biography: Request For Research...
Paul, I will be at the university library tomorrow- will see if I can’t get your scan. Best, ae
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Paul, Can you provide a bit more information about the book and section you are looking for? I have several options here, but none of them seem at cursory glance to have what you’re looking for. -ae
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Scratch that, Paul. I found what you were looking for. Scan in your inbox. -ae
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Aiwass in the forum Thelema
“Fine matter”, whether the ephemeral density of incense smoke or no, certainly bespeaks of materiality, the measure of which is hardly the human body. Crowley does after all, in the quote you have...
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You might consider distilling your inquiry in favor of concision. You just may be asking too much.
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Squaring The Circle in the forum Thelema
There is no proof here, but this was easily known prior to reading it. This document demonstrates only the ingenuity of its author, as all such attempted numerological proofs have variously done. Even...
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic Squaring The Circle in the forum Thelema
jg, what do you suppose your comments have to do with the document in question? Edit: I see you acknowledge that your comments on squaring the circle are digressive. I still wonder why you’ve provided...
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Herupakraath, There are gematria equations, and then there are my gematria equations; I don’t expect the average person to know the difference, so allow me to demonstrate it. Particulars of individual...
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David, your logical ineptitude is truly astounding. It’s certainly not improved. “Study thou logic,” Crowley beseeches. Mind you, he he wasn’t thinking of the the now popular heuristic distillation of...
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David, I have not missed any of this discussion. I have been a member of this community for nearly ten years. Naturally studious as a I am, I have read nearly every post that has graced or profaned...
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David, I should not have entered this thread with the observation that your logical ineptitude is astounding. Logical ineptitude is, after all, quite commonplace. What is astounding is your inability...
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My post should read “While this was a popular view up until the 20th century […]”.
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If there is any patience left for such a discussion, I’d like to take some time to discuss David’s replies to my post, here. David’s responses are so fraught with terminological ambiguity, fundamental...
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In point of fact, David, it was I who brought up the quote in Chapter 64 of Liber Aleph, here, when I entered the thread. If your main point were to make some commonsensical observation about our...
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Has anyone else ever wondered if david/dom/williams is just S.’. H.’. Fra. Los when he is drunk? I have considered various versions of the hypothesis that David is Los, yes. Whatever David’s story is,...
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Ignant, I’ve also held out some hope for David. I had hoped in these more recent interactions, as with my interactions with him in the past, to engender in him at least some small respect for the...
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Dom/david, wouldn’t it have been better to have started a fresh thread on this as Tiger has thoughtfully done with the two on the A.’. A.’., both of which are arguably of more relevance to the original...
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic annihilate the personality in the forum...
Los seems to be on a sloppy analogy streak. Ignant666 makes rather quick work of Los’s most recent one. I hope it won’t be too much of a burden on the forum if I consider Los’s first analogy, that...
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Arthur yes, seeing as you assumed the premise I would like you to start a new thread somewhere along the lines of (your words) “(Why) Los’s essays/posts are rife with terrible arguments, specious...
View Articlearthuremerson replied to the topic I Am The Child in the forum Thelema
These Childs[…] Moving on…
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David, The text you’ve linked to is unreliable. As it happens, the Google Books preview of Liber Aleph contains the relevant chapter. æ
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