The power of negative thinking is that it might be realistic

The power of negative thinking is that it might be realistic
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "Realists": deluded, logical, irrational, nihilistic pessimism? -- Angus Cunningham	Post Reply		Forum

Posted by: DWA
03/02/2008, 22:14:07

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Angus:"Silverfox appears not to have been reading the posts in which I mentioned such logically presented realities as "time is money". Time is not money. It only has an equivalence to money from an exclusively financial view (his wife's?). The former statement is a commonly stated reality. The latter statement is true. Nonetheless "time is money" sounds so logical -- it has some truth in it in certain circumstances often forgotten by the person who states it -- that millions of people keep saying it (not the least, by the way, Scientologists, whom I troubled to check out and have rejected but with some specific recognitions for the book Dianetics -- recognitions I have recorded in TT posts). But saying something does not make it true; it only makes it a mantra."

Angus is not really saying much there, IMO. Maybe not absolute double talk, but remi-ni-scient?

That concept "time is not actually money" is for me just unpersuasive polemic. The converse is actually the more robust vision/delusion.

In brief: Your "point" goes whoosh over my head, sorry.
Yes, a mantra of sorts, though.

Angus:"Silverfox's point of view remains nihilistic and pessimistic: it is do-nothing and it offers no hope for a better world. That nihilism has been his reality, I have no doubt; and that he has overcome pessimism with psychoanalitically based mantras, I also have no doubt."

Whoah, there. Silver has convinced me that he is a doer and achiever when he wants to be. If he throws a few curves and spews some silliness here at TT, that does not wholly justify your harsh judgement.

As for virtue in action per se, for action's sake, no, that's not a given.

. . .. ... o http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29542 Pigs win constitutional protection (o; ... .. . Cogito ergo spud: I think, therefore I yam (Yam = dolce spud) . .

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Re: The power of rational thinking is that it creates either whooshes or insight --- Angus Cunningham ( 03/03/2008, 08:34:08 ) ( 538 bytes ) +1
- Exchange rates on rice, blood, money and time+Time Management for Dummies --- DWA ( 03/03/2008, 09:06:22 ) ( 1476 bytes ) +2
  - Re: Exchange rates on rice, blood, money and time+Time Management for Dummies --- Angus Cunningham ( 03/03/2008, 20:13:36 ) ( 4 bytes )
  - Re: Time Management for Those with Good Intents ... --- Angus Cunningham ( 03/04/2008, 19:20:45 ) ( 444 bytes ) +1
    - Non-response can be rational, even if you are right --- DWA ( 03/04/2008, 19:34:47 ) ( 1118 bytes ) +1
      - Re: Non-response can be rational, even if you are right --- Angus Cunningham ( 03/04/2008, 20:09:57 ) ( 500 bytes ) img +1
        
        Logical reasonable and rational hierarchy-ization somewhat arbitrary --- DWA ( 03/04/2008, 20:49:04 ) ( 827 bytes ) +1
        
        Re: Logical reasonable and rational. What hierarchy? --- Angus Cunningham ( 03/05/2008, 13:48:13 ) ( 504 bytes )
Re: Rational thinking changes people's senses of reality to one more reliable --- Angus Cunningham ( 03/07/2008, 19:18:26 ) ( 839 bytes )