1. An ism can be, if all goes well, reduced to a single proposition i.e. an ism can be true/false/unproven but in all cases they're sold to us as truths. — TheMadFool
1.What single proposition could socialism be reduced to? Darwinism? Jungianism? Freudianism? Modernism? Post Modernism? Platonism? — Janus
2. & 3. What do you take nihilism to be claiming apart from the usual denial of objective meaning? Are you extending that to the claim that there is no objective truth? If so, then nihilism would be saying that there are no context-independent truth, and more, that there are no subject-independent truths just as there are no subject-independent meanings (according to nihilism as it is usually understood).
What about empiricism? It claims that there are empirical truths; truths that can be confirmed by observation. This seems irrefutable to me. My understanding of rejecting isms is not to deny that they contain any truth but that whatever their truths are; they are relevant only to a context. I actually think this is also pretty much irrefutable, that it is not correctly referred to as nihilism, and does not itself constitute an ism at all; it is merely an acknowledgment of the limited and contextual nature of all human claims. — Janus
What do you intend to do about it in the next 24 hours?I fully second that motion. — TheMadFool
Unlike some, I have not fallen asleep at the wheel.That, acceptable though it is, is, right or wrong, the easy way out. Let's engage in some role play. Suppose I'm your teacher. Your assignment is to solve the paradox as outlined above, keeping in mind "life is suffering" is to be understood as it is with no provisos/caveats/conditions as those that appear in your ingenious solution. Can you?
I´m multidimensional ... I'm a Life ... You cannot imprision a free being ... You cannot imprision Life ... Can you ? — Anand-Haqq
Buddha, once, was recorded for saying - "Even in Hell, I'll be well" ... Meditate upon this, friend ... — Anand-Haqq
What do you intend to do about it in the next 24 hours? — baker
Unlike some, I have not fallen asleep at the wheel.
Referred to for the n-th time:
Life Isn't Just Suffering — baker
Saṃsāra in Buddhism, states Jeff Wilson, is the "suffering-laden cycle of life, death, and rebirth, without beginning or end" — Wikipedia
Read with more precision.What do you expect me to do? — TheMadFool
Now, did Thanissaro Bhikkhu actually say "life is not suffering", or did you perhaps miss out on a word?Clearly, Thanissaro is way off mark, at least in a Buddhist sense, in saying "life is not suffering", the title of his short, interesting but completely wrong exposition of the place of suffering in Buddhist philosophy. — TheMadFool
Now, did Thanissaro Bhikkhu actually say "life is not suffering", or did you perhaps miss out on a word? — baker
Because there is suffering. The usual course of a person's life is that it swings from grief to joy, and again to grief, and again joy, and so often, it ends in grief. It's this swinging and the uncertainty of joy that is so exhausting.Life isn't just suffering. Apologies, my bad. If so, why all the fuss about nirvana? — TheMadFool
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