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blackleafi wish i was on my home pc so o could participate. but i am on a cell phone. so ill listen. but this is good stuff right here
blackleafI’ve been thinking a lot along these lines recently
blackleafpushing things up into the ultimate abstraction, and then trying to pull it back down again
blackleafbeen making my brain work big time
Writer John Buckyeah, It’s some hard stuff to work through
blackleafso here is the idea i have been playing with
blackleafthe idea of the platonic God
blackleafconsidered the set of all chairs, and define them all as imperfect manifeststions of the platonic chair
blackleafthe platonic chair is perfect for all time, all purposes, all situations
blackleafnow, consider all couches
blackleafcreate the platonic couch
blackleafnow, you can merge the platonic couch and the platonic couch into the level above that, the platonic thing for sitting
blackleafand if you keep doing this, merging and merging and merging, you will eventually, at some level, merge all plantonic ideal and meta platonic ideal, etc, into rhe singular plantonic thing
blackleafwhich everything, including other platonic ideals, are impefect manifestations
blackleafand so we have created the platonic God, perfect for all time, all people, all situations
blackleafnow where i am stuck at the moment is where to go from there
blackleaft
blackleafWhich perhaps is Petersons idea of truth, and why we can probably at best only not lie. Petersons view of truth seems to be Plantonic truth - true for me, and my family, and my community
blackleafnow and nexr week and next year and a century from now
blackleafyeah, if that is whst Truth is, we are all doomed
blackleafPerhaps why man needed to believe in God. Only God could hope to tell the truth
blackleaf[message retracted]
blackleafOr the Seerer
blackleafor the oracle of delphi
blackleafa need to believe in something that knows the capital T Truth
blackleafThere is a perhaps a problem with capital T truth though
blackleafperhaps it is dead
blackleafAll perfectly known futures are indistinguishable from the past
blackleafPerhaps why rebel against Truth. because perhaps we percieve truth as dead? Or perhaps we percieve it as an ideal, as a judge, and see ourselves as impossibly unworthy?
blackleafAll hierachies support their own ideal
blackleafall ideals are judges
blackleafperhaps the root of the desire of the far left to rebel against all hierachies, because all ideals are judges?
Writer John BuckAll hierarchies support their ideal. Exactly. If a hierarchy turns out to be a bad hierarchy, I’d only be able to discern so by using a different
Writer John Buckhierarchy
