When I read this, and then this:I remember hearing similarly naive discussions — ssu
What kind of currency would cost nearly $20k? — ssu
Market crazes (& speculative bubbles) are always marked by people dogmatically sticking to one idea, and greedily chasing it, thinking that they too can earn. They are generally unable to provide even one single rational idea behind their actions.
Funnily enough, in this thread, some reputable atheists are doing exactly this, backed by absolutely no rationale or reason, except that the price is going up, and they want in. They are behaving much like the crazed cultists who strap bombs to their chest and blow themselves up thinking that it's the will of God.
Generally, market crazes are created. Those with money can buy strategically placed media assets to inseminate such ideas in people. They can also create the necessary fluctuations in price. And people bite the bait because of their greed (or fear). However, once created and on the way, like now, they're entirely irrational and uncontrollable. So one has to be careful when they cash out.
It will never reach that high. By New Years' Eve or Christmas, it will have tanked, that's my prediction. Until then, it may reach 20-30K. Or it may tank sooner. The reason I'm saying that is that most people want to cash out for the holidays ;) - they don't want to be playing stocks on Christmas Eve. — Agustino
Nope - social media was the exact opposite of this. In fact, with social media I said from the very beginning that it will be a goldmine for the government. You have a centrally controlled platform (for example Facebook) - all government has to do is go to Facebook and request access to any of their data and they will pretty much get it. So it's a way for the government to have access to databases containing almost everyone's personal information.I remember hearing similarly naive discussions about the social media and it's positive effects couple of years ago.
Especially that a) governments are too old fashioned and dumb to understand it and b) as social media is so decentralized they cannot control it and hence c) with the social media and new media, freedom will ensure and nation states cannot influence the discourse as they could do earlier. — ssu
Well, of course, they will be able to track if I pay my taxes, was that what you were thinking about? :sBut you are. You are a citizen of some country, and if you get income, you have to report it to the government or otherwise you are avoiding taxes. Wouldn't matter if you made a fortune in barter trade and never would have taken actual money. The worth of the barter trade can be measured quite easily. And if it's a too big hassle to go at the user, you simply go after any merchant vendor accepting any cryptocurrency. After that it isn't so cryptic anymore. — ssu
Why don't you short this then?I wouldn't bet on it going to those levels. — ssu
That's not true, there are people interested in finance here, just not as many. I'm one of them, I would guess Benkei is also one of them, and so on so forth.Now I've known a lot of people here from the old PF times, and I know that they are interested in philosophy and perhaps current topics. But not investing or currencies. — ssu
I believe it's actually a very relevant question. What you mean by useful is very important. Many things are not useful in the sense that they don't have immediately observable results, but without them, everything falls apart.Only a philosopher will ask. 23 pages on transubstantiation and nothing happened. We can pin a link to this thread next to the word "useless" and let that be a definition by demonstration. — Benkei
Since it rejects or denies the existence of God, atheism is a sin against the virtue of religion. The imputability of this offense can be significantly diminished in virtue of the intentions and the circumstances. "Believers can have more than a little to do with the rise of atheism. To the extent that they are careless about their instruction in the faith, or present its teaching falsely, or even fail in their religious, moral, or social life, they must be said to conceal rather than to reveal the true nature of God and of religion.
29 Q: But if a man through no fault of his own is outside the Church, can he be saved?
A: If he is outside the Church through no fault of his, that is, if he is in good faith, and if he has received Baptism, or at least has the implicit desire of Baptism; and if, moreover, he sincerely seeks the truth and does God’s will as best he can, such a man is indeed separated from the body of the Church, but is united to the soul of the Church and consequently is on the way of salvation...
Last one is from here.Baptism of desire can be explicit…The doctrine of the Church also recognizes implicit baptism of desire. This consists in doing the will of God. God knows all men and He knows that amongst Muslims, Buddhists and in the whole of humanity there are men of good will. They receive the grace of baptism without knowing it, but in an effective way. In this way they become part of the Church…"
What's the benefit? You compile them into books you then sell? :PIt's only for my own benefit. — apokrisis
I don't know - again, I've seen people take your attitude, and reach their goals. How they do that remains a mystery to me. I haven't found that to be the case for me when I tried it, so then I adapted, and learned that I have to work on things in a systematic way, and hold onto every little win I get along the way, before the "big" win. That's why I said that I think it depends on what you're trying to do, and really your context and personality. That will determine the methods you use.Irony is a mastery of truth. Perhaps it's the opposite. — Wosret
>:OOr maybe... just maybe... thy're the same thing! Zomg I'm doing it! Damn... gave too much of a fuck, ruined it. — Wosret
Hmmm, maybe, but you can get quite efficient at controlling those things. It just requires that you take a step by step approach to things, much like the scientific method itself. It requires that you leave nothing to chance. And of course, with regards to many things, it requires that you avoid them altogether, especially if the chance of failure is great.I'm saying that he has the same method of anxiety relief. Falls to shit though when things do stuff you aren't expecting. — Wosret
Oh yeah, death imprisoned him in a sack of his own skin, and seeing as the outside world became entirely unknowable to him from there, he decided that it didn't exist. — Wosret
Hmmmm - so are you suggesting that I am like a villain who swallows his own soul out of fear of it? :P :-OAsura is the villain of soul eater, he swallowed his own soul out of fear of it, and spreads his madness of paranoia and existential anxiety, only feeling confident with a complete grasp of the causes, and situation.
Make is a weapon master, that wilds her soul like a weapon, he father being death himself's scythe, but since she harbored resentment towards him, she become a weapon master reason than a weapon herself. — Wosret
Oh? I still don't use real birthdate >:O (unless it's an official, business related thing). But I think I'm just paranoid. Looking around, many people give just about everything, including their address online :-O - and someone can obtain your rough address (city) from your IP anyway - so basically every website you visit. Moderators here may be able to access those details anyway.Remember when we never used our real birthdate, our real location, our real names? — ArguingWAristotleTiff
Just out of curiosity, why was this?There was a time when people didn't advertise they had kids on the Internet (think WAY back in the day) — ArguingWAristotleTiff
I look at this change as a defeat. The people in charge of this website used you as (1) a sacrifice in order to be able to say that moderators (themselves) are not immune to action, (2) moderators who don't fit the bill with regards to POMO views of sexism, political correctness and so on so forth will be eradicated (a warning to other moderators to watch what they do), and (3) a way to get rid of a pernicious element who didn't fit in on the moderator team in terms of modus operandi and beliefs.So, how do you feel about the practical consequences of this change? (How do you intend to celebrate this hollow victory?) And is this not yet another example of the shortcomings of a certain sort of idealism, or, dare I say, political correctness? — Sapientia
Right. If the North Korean people don't like Kim Jong Un they should go vote. It says it's a democratic people's republic afterall, so it must be true. It's sad to see you defending the status quo, I thought better of you. You do lack class consciousness in this regard.
It's funny that I see this much like you, but I've also been deceived with regards to Wosret in the past, so I wouldn't jump to your conclusion so quickly on this issue.I know exactly what this means. You're worried about all sorts of shit you can't control so you're trying to assure yourself that you're doing exactly what you ought to be doing and that you're exactly in the right place and you're using as evidence of this some completely irrelevant things that you're trying to convince yourself are important, but you know deep down they're really not, and this is so not what you want to hear.
It's all self deception to alleviate your sense of hopelessness. It's distressing to me. I can't imagine what it's like to you. — Hanover
I've also experienced a great reduction in anxiety for the past 8 or so years, but it's been gradual for me, definitely not sudden. And it has been proportional to the growth of my knowledge, and my capacity for action, doing things, and understanding things.the near complete absence of anxiety already is worth more than all the gold. — Wosret
I don't think it's a question of stupidity and intelligence. People often take practical matters to be matters of someone being more intelligent than someone else. For example, we often think of Bill Gates, say, as being more intelligent than most other people. But while intelligence can help, it's by no means the critical factor in such decisions.The stupidity was not buying a Bitcoin a year ago and making about 14 000$ of profits. — Akanthinos
That Aristotle is a kind of Platonist isn't very much in doubt. However, saying that Kant is a Platonist is very much different. In what sense is he a Platonist?Aristotle and Kant are both Platonists! — Wayfarer
Ummmm. No, they are subjective and they pertain to whatever creatures experience things in space. I never meant by subjective that they pertain only to yourself - Kant was quite clear that the forms are universals and necessary - nothing can be imagined without them, and everything presupposes their existence (from your point of view at least).That is mistaken. They’re not ‘subjective’ in the sense of ‘pertaining only to myself’. — Wayfarer
You are not following closely what I've been saying. Your understanding can have the form of space (which you can take as a concept), without you being able to analytically describe this concept, break it into its parts, derive Euclid's postulates from it, etc.Strike two. ‘Percepts without concepts are blind’. — Wayfarer
Nope - what I meant by conceptual ability was ability to linguistically break things down into their component parts and perform operations with them. Cows do lack the latter part for sure, though very likely they do NOT lack the understanding that assembles experience through the forms of space, time, causality, etc.Strike three. — Wayfarer
Right, I agree that they are internalised in Kant, but that's precisely the problem. If they are internalised, then they are mind (understanding) dependent - they are of subjective origin. This is precisely what allows Kant to call space, time, causality, etc. as transcendentally ideal, as opposed to transcendentally real.There are divergences. Kant did a dissertation on the Ideal Forms in his early days, but changed his view later. But arguably they became internalised in Kant as forms of understanding. — Wayfarer
In Kant's terminology understanding and reason aren't the same. Kant's point is that the understanding gives (or creates if you want) the forms. So perception itself is fashioned by the understanding according to Kant. Understanding + sense impressions = phenomenon. So it's not that the understanding understands forms that are out there in the objects. But rather it creates the very objects that are objectively given in the phenomenon.Not so - only perceptible by a mind, a rational intelligence, that is capable of understanding 'north'. — Wayfarer
Sure, but presumably (we can't know for sure the subjective experience of a cow though), cows also have spatial perception. In order to have any kind of spatial experience, the understanding must supply the form of space according to Kant (refer to the transcendental aesthetic). Cows may lack conceptual ability, but this isn't to say they lack the forms. One can drink water without having the concept of drinking water. And one can perceive in space (ie their understanding provides the form of space), without being able to think about it.They do it without thinking about it (and science doesn't know how!) — Wayfarer
It's a crucial point that has been lost ever since the mind has been reconceived as "constructive" by the neo-Kantians - in that they took the mind's function to be adding form onto sense impression, instead of perceiving (the form).Hence we must admit that the relation [‘north of’], like the terms it relates, is not dependent upon thought, but belongs to the independent world which thought apprehends but does not create. — “Bertrand Russell”
There we go, this is a realist position and is opposed to the Kantian. According to the latter, "north of" is dependent upon the mind, since it is the mind that adds spatial form to the contents of sense impressions - that gives the experience of whatever is perceived as "in space". It is also this spatial form that puts sense impressions in relations of "north of" etc. to each other.The way thought operates constantly relies on such judgements, that are not dependent on a particular mind, but only perceptible by a mind. — Wayfarer
No, I wasn't referring to that sort of scenario. I was referring to the sort of scenario where, say, someone saw a murder, but the murderer later threatened to kill all witnesses, and this person nevertheless comes forward to testify. In that light, his testimony, because he is willing to risk his life, has greater weight.I'd think bias would count against the witness, offering a motive to fabricate. — Hanover
What distinctions aren't supportable?The basis presented for it seems to be a biblical passage or two then supported by some Aristotelian philosophy then in vogue, which draws upon distinctions not really supportable. — Hanover
Excellent exposition. I would add that this view of substance is inescapable for Aristotelians and even Cartesians, however substance can also be seen, as per the Schopenhaurian understanding of it, as the inner meaning of things - that is their substance, as opposed to their appearance. So in this Kantian/Schopenhaurian framework, what is substantial is defined as opposed to what merely appears. The Will is substance (or conatus as Spinoza calls it) - the phenomenal world is appearance.I think you still misunderstand the nature of substance. If a person is composed of two substances, then the person is two individual objects. To say that one thing is two substances would really be contradictory because substance is what validates the existence of the thing, so this would be like saying one thing has two existences. So substance dualism says that the human person is composed of two distinct things, body and soul, and this is why the soul can persist as a thing even without the body. It is usually argued that Aristotle's system is not consistent with substance dualism.
You're really just turning things around, saying that there is one thing (person) with two substances mind and body. This allows you to say that the one thing, person, has two properties, body and mind. The proper understanding of substance dualism would be more like two things, body and soul, each with properties. Each of these would be an individual substance.
If you check Aristotle's "Categories" Ch. 5, "Substance in the truest and primary and most definite sense of the word, is that which is neither predicable of a subject nor present in a subject; for instance the individual man or horse." In no way can primary substance be a property, this is what is explicitly excluded from the definition. "Substance" refers to the individual thing itself, not a property of the thing. — Metaphysician Undercover
Sure, but isn't "skin in the game" one of the criteria you will use to determine the truth ceteris paribus?The one telling the truth? — Hanover
Right, so no wonder you haven't adequately judged the matter if you don't know the criterion of truth in this case. I suggested that the criterion of truth, in this case, is experiential. You have to experience it, and it is that internal change that is the substantial change mentioned. So bread and water remain physically bread and water, but their meaning has changed for the believer. So, by all means, this is a mystical experience, that is open to those who take part in the Eucharist.Your original question makes no sense to me in this context, if I interpreted it correctly. When you asked me what I would see, I took that literally, as in, asking what it is that I would observe. I would observe no difference in the bread and wine.
The purported difference is that the substance has changed, and that the elements of the Eucharist which were formerly bread and wine are now the body and blood of Christ. But that isn't something I'd expect to see, and I don't know how I could know that to be the case.
And I didn't say that I had no internal criticism. I do. The internal criticism is epistemological: how can we know this? Even under the assumption that it is true, that question remains. What I did was emphasise the distinction between external and internal criticism, because the absence of that distinction seemed to be the cause of some confusion. — Sapientia
A miracle it might be, so long as you understand that the traditional definition of a miracle as something that "breaks the laws of nature" is silly.I disagree, but I think that this is semantic. I'd call that a miracle, as would countless others. In fact, I think that if you put it to the general public in the form of a survey, then the vast majority would agree that it's a miracle. So you're just not speaking the same language as the rest of us. — Sapientia
Yes, it actually does discount your testimony in comparison to someone who is willing to die for what they've witnessed. If you have no skin in the game, it's easy to testify for anything. And don't be silly now - if you were a judge and a man risked his life to testify something, while the other didn't risk anything, who would you believe?I wouldn't be willing to die for most of what I'd testify to having witnessed, but that doesn't discount my testimony. — Sapientia
That's not true from my perspective at least. I apply the same standard to all claims in intellectual matters.No, I can't add metaphysics to the list. That's far too vague and unexplained. And if you think that you've got a solid case, then you must have much lower evidential standards than me - at least when it comes to what we're talking about here. Elsewhere you raise the standards, creating a double standard. The stuff that we're talking about here gets special treatment, because it's your religion. But that isn't a reasonable, objective stance to take, and you should admit that. — Sapientia
Sure, I can absolutely imagine a world - not our world though - where the sea lion produced mystical experiences, and everything around the universe revolved around it. Sure, nothing ridiculous in that. Just a different world from ours. In ours, as we know it today, that would indeed be ridiculous.How much testimony? What if it was a central tenet of your religion? What if people reported mystical experiences which they attributed to the sea lion? These were not rhetorical questions. — Sapientia
I think governments may very well convert the USD or their currencies to a blockchain technology based on the distributed ledger.The question is, will it be issued by government(s) or will it live outside government? — fishfry
Well yeah, that's not surprising, governments and those in power always seek control.Miners are being arrested in Venuzuela for "terrorism," the theory being that since bitcoin can be used for terrorism, if you mine bitcoin you're aiding and abetting terrorism. It's nonsense but that's how politicians work. They don't subscribe to notions of sound argument. They subscribe to notions of raw power. They're the government and whatever it is that's new and revolutionary, they'll control it. — fishfry
Yeah they do. The only question is if they can manage to control something like Bitcoin without incurring serious losses themselves. That they want to control it is one thing, whether this will be possible is another. The example of Venezuela and other North-Korean-like countries, don't carry much weight here. The question is if the big and powerful nations can do anything. For example, if America bans mining, won't Russia and China promote it, and earn billions of dollars for themselves out of it, while America is losing? So yes, maintaining control is important for politicians, but maintaining power is even more important. If they lose power for control, their nation will become much like North Korea is today - lots of control, but very weak.But governments the world over take a dim view of people trying to replace government-controlled money, and that's where they'll bring down the hammer. — fishfry
Right, of course the governments will obtain information that they need to assess taxes, etc. These are relatively unimportant though. The real question is if they can control the actual technology itself.Mining and exchanges are the two points of contact where the blockchain meets the real world. That's how the government will move to suppress and control cryptos. It's already happening. The IRS got a court ruling that Coinbase has to give up the names and info of 14,000 of its largest customers. The SEC has ruled that some ICOs are securities. Venezuela's going after the miners. — fishfry
>:O oh dear... She's referring to her sons I think, though I don't know why she calls them Indians :-O . I guess Tiff will have to explain this herself.May I ask, who are these Indians? — fishfry
Alan Watts is a great introduction to philosophical questions for someone who never got his feet wet before. But after some time, it gets tiring - he says the same thing over and over in different ways, and that's that. He has great breadth, but little depth.Alan Watts — JustSomeGuy
Oh man BC! Back in the stone ages, aren't we? X-) The way to do this is you go to the search box that you see at the top, and you type there 'Cicero', and then he just pops out just like this:You might want to PM him for some private stoic-talk, or ask him to join the discussion. How to find him? Click on MEMBERS at the top of the page and then select "names" for listing the members. The 'C's are not too deep down, so it won't take you long to find him. — Bitter Crank
Yeah, I have skipped over profiting by buying it and trading it, but that seems more of a "consumer" approach. In becoming a miner or creating your own digital currency, you take a "producer" approach and are liable to access much higher profits if you were successful. You also retain much more control. Only that with something like this technology - apart from starting your own currency or becoming a miner for an existing one - I don't see many alternatives, at least as of yet. But it may be possible that it's just because I'm not sufficiently technically literate in the surrounding matters.Agustino, I am watching what my two Indians are doing with BitCoin and Ethereum how the systems will work with a little skin in the game. My eldest Indian has invested $100.00 in BitCoin while my younger Indian has been mining and nothing but "mining" in Ethereum. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
I would agree with that advice, or at the very least I would say to keep everything invested, but not in just one asset/trade. I've done a bit of stock trading with small sums of money while in University, but that didn't go as well as - *gasp* - sports betting >:O I remember that I struggled to even keep up with inflation and avoid losing with my stocks. Sports betting went much better for me - I guess it was because I also happened to have the right mentors around for the betting.In the last month we have gotten two calls from our younger Indian telling his older brother to sell and sell now. But before days end, he called and said if he didn't sell tell him to hold off. That sounds more like a day trader who has the time and desire, to closely monitor the movements. I keep giving the sage advice my parents did of taking out your original investment and only work the profit, never the initial investment. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
Many people are doing that, but what's the point? Nobody knew back in 2010 that Bitcoin would grow so much. And until recently, even my own knowledge about it came more from hearsay than anything solid - I've only started reading into it and understanding all the factors at play much more recently. So without being intimately familiar with the technology back then it's almost impossible that you could have rationally made the decision to invest a sizeable sum of money in it.All this happening while NicK who does IT for a living is kicking himself for not buying into BitCoin when it first began — ArguingWAristotleTiff
It's not their "energy", it's the computer's X-)I think it is quite appropriate and it appeals to the Wild West attitude in me, when they call those who want to only invest their time and energy for a little piece of the gold, miners. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
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43 70 26 16 69 57 87 83 31 03 93 70 81 47 95 77 44 29 68 39 51 56 59 63 07 25 70 07 77 43 53 64 03 94 42 95 39 18 01 66 21 16 97 20 50 90 16 70 10 95 69 29 06 25 61 41 26 15 59 63 35"; String triangle2 = "75 95 64 17 47 82 18 35 87 10 20 04 82 47 65 19 01 23 75 03 34 88 02 77 73 07 63 67 99 65 04 28 06 16 70 92 41 41 26 56 83 40 80 70 33 41 48 72 33 47 32 37 16 94 29 53 71 44 65 25 43 91 52 97 51 14 70 11 33 28 77 73 17 78 39 68 17 57 91 71 52 38 17 14 91 43 58 50 27 29 48 63 66 04 68 89 53 67 30 73 16 69 87 40 31 04 62 98 27 23 09 70 98 73 93 38 53 60 04 23"; // triangle = active one, problem 67 now. triangle2 = inactive one, problem 18. String[] total = split(triangle, " "); int size = 200; int probability_switch = 200; // reads 1 out of 200 int probability_scramble = 15; // 1 out of 15 int probability_inversion = 100; // 1 out of 100 int[] path_genome(int[] nums) { int rows = (-1+int(sqrt(1+8*total.length)))/2;; int[] moves = new int[rows]; int pos = 0; for(int i=1; i<=rows; i++) { if(i<rows) { if(nums[i+pos]>nums[i+pos+1]) { pos += i; moves[i] = 0; } else { pos += i+1; moves[i] = 1; } } } return moves; } int getFitness(int[] path, int[]triangles) { int pos = 0; int fitness = triangles[pos]; for(int i=1; i<path.length; i++) { pos += i+path[i]; fitness += triangles[pos]; } return fitness; } int[] doMutation(int[] path) { //FLIP Mutation for (int i = 1; i < path.length; i++) { if(floor(random(probability_switch))==1){ if(path[i]==1) { path[i] = 0; } else { path[i] = 1; } } //SCRAMBLE MUTATION if(floor(random(probability_scramble))==1) { int start_position = floor(random(path.length)); int end_position = floor(random(path.length)); if (start_position > end_position) { int temp = start_position; start_position = end_position; end_position = temp; } for (i = start_position; i < end_position; i++) { int pick = floor(random(start_position, end_position+1)); int temp = path[i]; path[i] = path[pick]; path[pick] = temp; } } //INVERSION MUTATION if(floor(random(probability_inversion))==1) { int start_position = floor(random(path.length)); int end_position = floor(random(path.length)); if (start_position > end_position) { int temp = start_position; start_position = end_position; end_position = temp; } int n =0; for (i = start_position; i < ceil((end_position+start_position)/2); i++) { int pick = end_position-n; int temp = path[i]; path[i] = path[pick]; path[pick] = temp; n++; } } } return path; } int[][] getGenePool(int[] path) { int[][] pool = new int[size][path.length]; for (int i=0; i<size; i++) { pool[i] = makeArrayCopy(path); } return pool; } int[] makeArrayCopy(int[] old) { int[] copy = new int[old.length]; for(int i = 0; i<old.length; i++){ copy[i] = old[i]; } return copy; } int getFittest(int[][] pool, int[] nums) { int fittest_loc = 0; int fitness_new = 0; int fitness = 0; for(int i=0; i<size; i++) { fitness_new = getFitness(pool[i], nums); if(fitness_new > fitness) { fitness = fitness_new; fittest_loc = i; } } return fittest_loc; } void setup() { int[] nums = int(split(triangle, " ")); int[] path = path_genome(nums); int fitness_loc = 0; int numGens = 0; while(numGens<1000000) { numGens++; int[][] pool = getGenePool(path); for(int i=1; i<size; i++) { pool[i]=doMutation(pool[i]); } fitness_loc = getFittest(pool, nums); path = pool[fitness_loc]; if(numGens%5000==0) { println(getFitness(path, nums)); } } println(getFitness(path, nums)); }
void setup() { int[][] triangle = readInput("triangle.txt"); int lines = triangle.length; for(int i = lines-2; i>=0; i--) { for(int j = 0; j < i+1; j++) { if(triangle[i+1][j]>triangle[i+1][j+1]) { triangle[i][j] += triangle[i+1][j]; } else { triangle[i][j] += triangle[i+1][j+1]; } } } println(triangle[0][0]); } int[][] readInput(String filename) { String line; String[] linePieces; int lines = 0; BufferedReader reader; BufferedReader reader2; reader = createReader(filename); reader2 = createReader(filename); try { while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { lines++; } reader.close(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } int[][] inputTriangle = new int[lines][lines]; try { int j = 0; while ((line = reader2.readLine()) != null) { linePieces = split(line, " "); for (int i = 0; i < linePieces.length; i++) { inputTriangle[j][i] = int(linePieces[i]); } j++; } reader2.close(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return inputTriangle; }
Sure, but not everyone has the skill to make them into a raft, even if it's a 'bad' raft. The raft represent the teachings - the teachings may now be useless to you now that you are enlightened, but send them down the river, someone who isn't enlightened may find them, and they will be of use to him/her. The problem isn't only keeping something that is no longer useful to you, the problem is keeping something that isn't useful to you and could be useful to others. I think the Buddhist parable misses this aspect and it doesn't surprise me, given Buddhism's somewhat "selfish" focus on personal salvation (this is only relative to other faiths, not absolute).There is an abundance of leaves and twigs. — Wayfarer
That's not a logical truth.She takes one very general logical truth (we are all rationally self-interested) — Inter Alia
I never liked this parable of the raft. Largely because of the ending of "leaving the raft behind" instead of sending it back down the stream so that others may find it and use it to cross the river. An opportunity lost.Fair enough. I would interpret it as follows.
First, it is a Sutta, meaning it is said to be something the Buddha really taught. In the Alagaddupama Sutta the Buddha gives two similes which explain how the dhamma that he teaches to the monks ought to be understood, one of which is the parable of the raft.
The parable of the raft starts with the simile of 'a great expanse of water, with the near shore dubious & risky, the further shore secure & free from risk, but with neither a ferryboat nor a bridge going from this shore to the other.' The 'near shore' and the crossing itself, symbolise 'samsara' or worldly existence, with all of the hazards and dangers that it poses. The 'far sure' represents Nirvāṇa, freedom from all worldly anxiety and suffering.
So the man says 'What if I were to gather grass, twigs, branches, & leaves and, having bound them together to make a raft, were to cross over to safety on the other shore in dependence on the raft, making an effort with my hands & feet?'
The 'raft' symbolises the vessel which is used to 'cross the expanse of water' - that is, the very teaching of the Buddha about 'the cause of suffering’ and its end.
I was struck by the simile of the raft being makeshift - twigs and the like 'being bound together' - so that it doesn't present 'the vessel' as being something of fine manufacture, you might say. In a way it's quite self-deprecating.
Then having 'crossed the river', the Buddha says, '"Having crossed over to the further shore, he might think, 'How useful this raft has been to me! For it was in dependence on this raft that, making an effort with my hands & feet, I have crossed over to safety on the further shore. Why don't I, having hoisted it on my head or carrying it on my back, go wherever I like?' What do you think, monks: Would the man, in doing that, be doing what should be done with the raft?"
"No, lord."
So the message is, once the raft has served its purpose, it is discarded. The simile ends with this admonition:
'Understanding the Dhamma as taught compared to a raft, you should let go even of Dhammas, to say nothing of non-Dhammas.' — Wayfarer
How will they manage that? The only way they'll succeed is if they become the miners. Or in collaboration with the government, they change the USD to a blockchain system of their own making. Either way, I think the blockchain technology will win.The evil banksters who have run the world since the beginning of civilization will continue to do so. I tend to agree with that side of the question. — fishfry
I think the government can absolutely outlaw blockchain technologies. Not that this would do anything, because not all governments will outlaw it.The government can't outlaw that. Programs are speech in the sense of the first amendment. I believe [not really up on this] that there have been court rulings to that effect. — fishfry
Why do you think they're weak? I don't think they're weak at all. If China bans miners, US miners will take over, and so on. Because power is distributed through the whole network, and does not rely on any one person or group to keep it going. So to really bust them, there must be a coalition of governments looking to do that. And I don't think that if some governments seek to do that, others won't seek to do the opposite.Of course governments can bust the miners and the exchanges. Those are the weak points in the system where the cryptos meet the real world. — fishfry
It's not available for my region ;)Try Coinbase again. If they finally let me in perhaps they have their technical problems fixed. — fishfry
Identities are always revealed when trying to exchange crypto for any standard currency. To mask the identity, you'd need to purchase directly with crypto for the most part (and also receive your payments in crypto, not in USD you convert later to crypto).And don't forget that nation states and governments have had the monopoly on legal tender for quite a while now. And then there is the interest the tax office has on any kind of transactions. Hence if you would have a widely accepted "cryptocurrency", then likely it's watered down so that it's easy for the authorities to check the transfers. Because what will regulators see with cryptocurrencies? Money laundering and tax evasion. — ssu
I do think Bitcoin will collapse in value, but the underlying blockchain technology will very likely revolutionise the way we do business. This paper was very interesting.And anyway, likely bitcoin Tulip-mania level bubble bursting will decrease the hype around cryptocurrencies. — ssu
Okay.I recommend you stop being so rude. — unenlightened
Luther didn't reject all the sacraments, he just disagreed with the Aristotelian interpretation of transubstantiation which was common in his day. Not to mention that there were times in Luther's life when he agreed with the doctrine of transubstantiation as well.Can you explain what all the fuss was about when Luther rejected the sacraments or should he also go back to smoking weed? — charleton