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I was working through your claim with what you said. A reality that no longer exists when it is not constructed by mind indicates solipsism, which means only you exist, or at least that is all you can be certain of.

The question was: what is the population of reality? Mental, material or both, or something else?

Can you explain more about these multiple realities? How can you know them?

I don’t know anything until you tell me.

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First, we “know” freedom from its oppositions, ie determinism.

Are we to take oppositions to be necessarily true? Is freedom really the opposition of determinism?

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Thanks for posting, welcome to OPF!

I like the metaphysics of freedom, we would all like to be free(r), but as you said, there is no way to know freedom, so how can you possibly know if freedom is the primary moving force of the Good, or even progress?

Also, doesn’t framing freedom in a context of duty take away freedom?

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So if you didn’t exist, everything else in reality would not exist as your mind could not construct it?

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I’ve come across Wilber before through thetrizzard, some stuff pertaining to Derrida and how politics is a ‘monistic antagonism’ .

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It can be considered snobbish, but sometimes we need space to rebuild.

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once someone said to me that ‘their’ interest lies in elitist ways. this made me think about what elitist is. for me when i think about that word i connect that with politics, with people who think high of themselves, people who are in ahh with etiquette.

for me all these things stand for complexity, but when i look at the people who live that way i see the simple….

Elitism can also be used in a less negative sense as simply ‘secrecy’. Simplicity is clarity, secrecy is solitude (being alone, away from etc) and out of this simplicity, complexity can emerge.

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So self presence is say, ‘I’, which we ordinarily take to be ‘there’ as a fixed, coherent construct?

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Now this is a proper philosophical question, what is rage, anger, contempt? We experience these emotions and actions (no need to see these as separate) because we search for something like happiness and act/think out of duty in my opinion.

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Simplicity is best thought of in terms of the Quakers, simplify your life so you can focus on important things.

Complexity in my mind, brings forth images of termite mounds, emergence and ant colonies above 25 ants.

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There is the death of the one who consumes himself in the fire of Selfrealisation and there is the dissolution of the one who determines his life as well as his death. To him existence is the Great Ritual and death the crown of it.

I like this part, death is a particular of life, life is centered by death and being-towards-death makes life a project, a work of art. In a way, we do not project, so much as, we are on the recieving end of a projectile coming towards us which we either embrace or resist.

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Cool, but from my understanding, forces obey laws and so love and will are inseparable, yet separate in Thelema, hence why it is a dialectical monism.

None… and two. For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all.

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The world exists as two, for only so can there be known the Joy of Love, whereby are Two made One. Aught that is One is alone, and has little pain in making itself two, that it may know itself, and love itself, and rejoice therein.

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Not foolish at all. 🙂 It has stimulated discussion and is therefore of great value to the forum.

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I see, well I have a lot to read on psychoanalysis yet, so it’s food for thought for me at the moment but if other members have any insights here, please feel free to put them here.

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The people who need to read and understand Deleuze and Guattari in regards to thier critique of capitalism have the disadvantages that are the result of capitalism itself! Also, ironically, D&G did such a good job in A Thousand Plateaus that corporations use thier critique to make capital stronger! This is a critique mentioned by Rosi Braidotti.

Alfredo Bonanno suggests the anarchist has to remain silent most of the time as we are unable to determine if the reciever is an enforcer.

Affirmative Ethics w/ Rosi Braidotti

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