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I'm guessing that you really understand neither concept. We’re both in the same room. But that seems to be about as far as it goes. Not at all. The idea is that we each enter the room with our own biases that influence our perceptions, but that these biases and perceptions can change as we're willi...

MG 2.0 wrote: ↑

Mon May 13, 2024 1:46 am

My comments regarding a closed system refer to my references to solipsism.

I'm guessing that you really understand neither concept.

I'm sure that you'll agree that even a cursory reading reveals that David Brooks is suggesting that perception is not a closed system. Again, I’m not directly correlating the two. They stand apart from each other. One is inside the other but the other exists independently Make your argument, but pl...

MG. Earlier, I tried to warn you against using Brooks to support your argument without understanding his thesis. Here you use Brooks's quote as an example of how we live in what you call "a closed system": Within a closed system we might agree on some things but not all things because of the “in the...

MG, where do you get this "we all live in a closed system" stuff? What does it even mean? I'm having a difficult time following you. edit: Earlier, however, I mentioned that we live within a closed system of perceived reality. And that’s as good as it’s gonna’ get. How the hell is our perception of ...

I think that's great. Why don't you go back to the original thread and try to get into the conversation's topic, rather than a meta discussion about the conversation -- (can the conversation ultimately tell us anything since everyone is living a different reality)? I'll tell you what, go back to th...

MG, this is exactly what happens when you superficially throw out concepts without understanding them. When you invoke constructionism, you forfeit any claim to any access to objective truth. Full stop. You cannot claim superior access by invoking God, or the promptings of the spirit. The entire LD...

MG 2.0 wrote: ↑

Fri May 10, 2024 8:02 pm

(Sorry I can’t remember where I got it. I find something I want keep and then save it for my own use. This was one of those times.)

Maybe Daniel Peterson quoting David Brooks.

By the way, I don’t know if you all have either seen, read, or discussed Hardy’s “Annotated Book of Mormon”. It’s worth spending time with. Hey, MG. I hope you're well. I believe that there are more than a few here who will have read the book. Maybe you should start a thread and lead a discussion o...

Good recommendations, Xenophon.

Though it's a little dated, for someone experiencing PTSD from combat, I'll add Jonathan Shay's Achilles in Vietnam.