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Offline Solnath

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Welcome to the Fountains of Learning
« on: July 21, 2007, 10:20:20 PM »
Here at the Medeist Academy, we believe in a few basic principles. I say basic, because although they are complicated, they can be stated in a simple manner. There are four main ones:

I. Thou Art God.
II. Know Thyself.
III. Love Thyself.
IV. Respect All That Is God.

Fear not, they will all be studied much more closely in a series of lectures by Doctor Professor Balthazar.

As for other functions, we have a fifth, unofficial principle, "Understanding Brings Self-Control, Self-Control Is The Ultimate Power." By sharing understanding with others, the Academy seeks to bring upon people control over themselves and thus power to change their and others' lives according to the four main principles.

I ask that everyone who understands something someone else might not explain the issue here and I offer the spaces of the Academy for the free use of the University of Taijitu as long as they uphold the general rules of courteous debate and intellectual endeavour.
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Re: Welcome to the Fountains of Learning
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2007, 01:03:59 AM »
Define "self"
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Re: Welcome to the Fountains of Learning
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2007, 02:20:38 AM »
Define "Love".

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Re: Welcome to the Fountains of Learning
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2007, 02:21:57 AM »
Define "Define"
http://www.nationstates.net/wheresoever

"Reality is an illusion albeit a persistant one"
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Re: Welcome to the Fountains of Learning
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2007, 02:23:38 AM »
and may i please have a child board for the true history and effects of legal and illegal drugs?

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Re: Welcome to the Fountains of Learning
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2007, 09:48:52 AM »
PUR: Just open up a lecture.

Love: General appreciation and enjoyment of something.

Self: The Mind-Nexus as referred to previously.

Define: The act of specifying something with excessive detail.
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Re: Welcome to the Fountains of Learning
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2007, 06:30:17 AM »
Do you feel that the definitions given live up to the nature of the definition you gave of what it is to define a thing? Certainly these one liners are many things, but excessively detailed? I think not, certainly something so complex as love can be defined in a scant six words. If even a definition cannot be fully and properly defined how can we stand firmly on the other definitions given.

What are your thoughts on the existence of source? or the infinite nature of the universe? After discussing these things I'd like to test the assertion that control could exist in a reality in which source was only an illusion.
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Re: Welcome to the Fountains of Learning
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2007, 06:21:52 PM »
To control an illusion you need illusionary control. Durr.
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Re: Welcome to the Fountains of Learning
« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2007, 09:35:48 PM »
Illusionary control is still not control.
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Re: Welcome to the Fountains of Learning
« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2007, 03:11:40 AM »
It is control. Whether or not anything is real is as much up for debate.

EDIT: By the by, commenting is free-for-all.
« Last Edit: August 19, 2007, 05:50:11 AM by Solnath »
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Re: Welcome to the Fountains of Learning
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2007, 04:18:06 PM »
If the control is only an illusion and one truly has no knowledge of what drives the mechanics behind the illusion then how can one be said to have any actual control? A gear doesn't control the clock, the clock controls the gear.
The gear is part of the clock, but the clock is not part of the gear. If you took that gear out the clock would stop functioning, this is not control because any other gear of the proper size put in it's place would fill the exact same function and the clock would work again with or without the original gear. That gear placed into a new device would no longer be a part of the clock but a part of the new device and it's control would be determined by the new device.

So if I take you out of this illusionary reality and place you into another who is really "in control"?
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Re: Welcome to the Fountains of Learning
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2007, 06:49:37 PM »
The gear controls the clock as much as other parts of the clock. The clock is a sum of its parts. And there can never be two identical gears.

I am in control, because I know where my towel is.
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Re: Welcome to the Fountains of Learning
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2007, 02:10:39 AM »
Good, can you tell me where I left mine, then?
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Re: Welcome to the Fountains of Learning
« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2007, 04:55:10 AM »
No one can be told where their towel is. You have to see it for yourself.

Which reminds me. No comments?  :'(
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Re: Welcome to the Fountains of Learning
« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2007, 11:51:22 AM »
Comment #1: We love Soly-chan!  Wai~~!

Comment #2: Your first lecture was brilliant.  I simply had nothing to add because it was well-written, interesting, and very clearly thought-out.  Gave me a few things to think on, it did.