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Are Zeno's paradoxes solved by modern science?
Taoist Texts replied to wandelaar's topic in The Rabbit Hole
It was his intent, albeit misunderstood by all except myself. It is a complicated matter due to Parmenides himself being misunderstood according to -
Are Zeno's paradoxes solved by modern science?
Taoist Texts replied to wandelaar's topic in The Rabbit Hole
Good questions. Yes there is something special about the paradox besides it being harder to understand. A parable was simply the way they presented their arguments back then, the arguments which added to the general knowledge But a paradox format of a parable was used to mark the end of all possible knowledge. Paradox means that we do not know and will never ever know. With his 'paradoxes' Zeno did 3 things: 1. Demonstrated that the very fabric of our world consists of nothingness. 2. Marked the end of all knowledge on that particular issue 3. Refuted Parmenides' argument against nothingness. (Refuting the atomists too.) Zeno's paradoxes, when rephrased, are very simple and very irrefutable: Splitting a unit of space or a unit of matter into progressively smaller bits will eventually end in bits that are ungraspable to our senses or to our measuring tools, i.e this process will end in nothingness. Which in turn means that the spacematter consists of nothingness. Also, it means that the spacematter is fundamentally unknowable. That's all there is to it. Simple, no? -
Are Zeno's paradoxes solved by modern science?
Taoist Texts replied to wandelaar's topic in The Rabbit Hole
thats not the point. The point is that you claim that zenon was stupider than you for not understanding limits and zeroes that you understand. -
Are Zeno's paradoxes solved by modern science?
Taoist Texts replied to wandelaar's topic in The Rabbit Hole
ahh, the 'silly ancient people' theory -
Are Zeno's paradoxes solved by modern science?
Taoist Texts replied to wandelaar's topic in The Rabbit Hole
if you know all that then you just started the discussion in order to show off your knowledge. Which is ok, please proceed -
Are Zeno's paradoxes solved by modern science?
Taoist Texts replied to wandelaar's topic in The Rabbit Hole
err, u all just admitted that you dont even know why paradoxes were created or what they even mean. Is not that a reason to suspect that y'all do not comprehend them? -
Are Zeno's paradoxes solved by modern science?
Taoist Texts replied to wandelaar's topic in The Rabbit Hole
Zeno's paradoxes are a set of philosophical problems generally thought to have been devised by Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (c. 490–430 BC) to support Parmenides' doctrine that contrary to the evidence of one's senses, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing but an illusion. It is usually assumed, based on Plato's Parmenides (128a–d), that Zeno took on the project of creating these paradoxes because other philosophers had created paradoxes against Parmenides' view. Thus Plato has Zeno say the purpose of the paradoxes "is to show that their hypothesis that existences are many, if properly followed up, leads to still more absurd results than the hypothesis that they are one."[1] Plato has Socrates claim that Zeno and Parmenides were essentially arguing exactly the same point.[2] -
Are Zeno's paradoxes solved by modern science?
Taoist Texts replied to wandelaar's topic in The Rabbit Hole
how about the comprehension of the both is flawed -
Neidan ( all experiences and opinions wanted)
Taoist Texts replied to Clouded_mirror's topic in Daoist Discussion
No. I do some sitting and standing, 2-3 sets of taichee in a day.- 163 replies
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Taoist Texts replied to Clouded_mirror's topic in Daoist Discussion
You are doing just fine yes i would love to except there was not any). Like i said, the elixir does not do anything except giving you confidence. There is a reason why it is called 'nei' - internal.- 163 replies
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Could be, except in the christ's time there was no goddess. It is a part of the christian reversal by which the judaic norms were replaced by the opposites, like 'an eye for an eye' replaced by 'turn the other cheek'; while the goddess started as a whore turning into the virgin mary, when the dust settled down.
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Neidan ( all experiences and opinions wanted)
Taoist Texts replied to Clouded_mirror's topic in Daoist Discussion
the experience is called 'creating the elixir'. The elixir does not do anything except giving you the sense of a long life. -
Heaven : Illusions : Rapid Advancement
Taoist Texts replied to rideforever's topic in General Discussion
exactly of course i do. charity is useless for purposes of the practice -
in a sense there is. Both the gnostic whore and the alchemical antymony give birth to a sacred child (the alchemical gold in case of the latter). But the latter she is "to use an old expression, a sort of meretrix casta, a « chaste whore » available to all but owned by none. Nature continues by adding that her kingdom is « in the State of Innocency », appearances to the contrary (33)." https://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/rhs_0151-4105_1996_num_49_2_1254.pdf
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Heaven : Illusions : Rapid Advancement
Taoist Texts replied to rideforever's topic in General Discussion
and how does it work exactly? say, you give to charity, what wheels that puts in the motion? -
Heaven : Illusions : Rapid Advancement
Taoist Texts replied to rideforever's topic in General Discussion
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Yes, correct. In the patriarchal society a woman who gives birth to a child whose father is unknown to her tribe is considered a whore; consequently her son is a son of a whore. The Spirit is unknown to the laymen, they only know the physical mother but not the father Spirit, thus Jesus calls a newly born adept the child of a whore...metaphorically. The distant echo of which is heard in the "menstrual blood of the sordid whore" of the western alchemy.
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who is being with many ppl?
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Neidan ( all experiences and opinions wanted)
Taoist Texts replied to Clouded_mirror's topic in Daoist Discussion
I definitely have not achieved this. Amen to that padre.- 163 replies
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Neidan ( all experiences and opinions wanted)
Taoist Texts replied to Clouded_mirror's topic in Daoist Discussion
You can say that, but i follow the patriarchs and obvously they did not call themselves as Longmen or Yuxian Certainly, thats the reason they were written. Its all about the attitude) No, not personally. I have nothing against a genuine teacher in principle, its just there are no attained teachers at all nowadays (except myself of course).I posted on this issue -
Neidan ( all experiences and opinions wanted)
Taoist Texts replied to Clouded_mirror's topic in Daoist Discussion
Qiu and Ma. No, i dont believe in teachers. Only patriarchs. Turkey, I said, was our national bird http://www.goethe.de/ges/prj/nzv/ret/ehe/en12327069.htm- 163 replies
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Taoist Texts replied to Clouded_mirror's topic in Daoist Discussion
No we shy the spotlight. Quanzhen. Well it can but only to a receptive target. -
Neidan ( all experiences and opinions wanted)
Taoist Texts replied to Clouded_mirror's topic in Daoist Discussion
Oh, of course. I am a neidan teacher. Why? -
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Taoist Texts replied to Clouded_mirror's topic in Daoist Discussion
no) its just my results are exactly what the page says i understand what you are saying. to me my=me.
