Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "You are the Target | James Lindsay | EP 367" video.

  1. "Inclusiveness" is diffusiveness. Exclusion is the negative aspect of the process of focus! And what can be accomplished without focus!? "Inclusiveness", as a prescription, is always inefficient, no matter how politically desirable it may appear to be.
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  2. "Satan is an evil clown", Jordan? Is your conception of evil evolving? Or only your image of "Satan" as a container of "evil"? Evil is a product of distorted human apperception. A container for the spirit of disorder and possibility...we give it reality by our attention to it...its peculiar form an expression of ourselves. Nothing can be said to exist that does not have a "body"...a container...a form...a boundary set between an "inside" and an "outside"...Every conception is an attribution of form to the formless, so that it can be "known"...that's how "naming is knowing"...
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  3. It's very important to BE honest, but "telling the truth" is a different animal! Articulate speech is one problem; the greater problem is defining "truth"--and then identifying it!...and then articulating it unequivocally accurately...I'm reminded of Jesus' answer to Pilate's question, "What is truth?" Jesus' answer was...silence. Silence! SILENCE!!
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  4. 31:10--"...whatever God might be...something like the highest spirit of genuine self-sacrifice..."--you sound like you're guessing, Jordan! Try a different tack: what does God HAVE to be to satisfy the requirements of a cogent, coherent, and comprehensive philosophy and metaphysic of existence! How 'bout...Awareness is God; Spirit is the character, or attitude, of awareness manifesting in a particular grade of matter/energy. Since God is One, all awareness is one and the same, essentially, though, limited by the requirements of manifestation in the local environment. The conception of a good vs evil dynamic is a natural anthropomorphism that limits God's conception by implying a perfect ultimate God Who is incomplete, which smacks of contradiction. Better to attribute "evil" to the mishandling of "possibility", the currency of the Primordial Chaotic Void, a pressure It exerts upon Order. Possibilities crop up perpetually in associations; your character depends upon which associations you internalize as good, true, and proper...over and over again. This habit also provides a degree of psychic separation from the "other", "evil", possibility associations, so that time accumulates a power of spiritual nobility.
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  5. Credentials are certificates of conformity to the authority of the certificate issuer--gate-keeping, in short!
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