• TheMadFool
    13.8k
    It deserves such attention? "Deserves" by whose standards?

    Waiting for others only makes one a victim, and if persisted in, eventually, a martyr.
    baker

    That's your side of the story.

  • baker
    5.7k
    See, you're not practicing anekantavada.
    Q.E.D.
  • TheMadFool
    13.8k
    See, you're not practicing anekantavada.
    Q.E.D.
    baker

    No, no, I want to see it from your point of view. That's why I want to know what your assumptions are.
  • baker
    5.7k
    No, no, I want to see it from your point of view.TheMadFool
    Then you'd need to give up anekantavada.

    That's why I want to know what your assumptions are.
    That anekantavada is a non-viable outlook on life, given that one who practices it will be crushed by other people.
  • Prishon
    984
    The cilinder with radius 2 and height 4 is circular and square at the same time.
  • TheMadFool
    13.8k
    No, no, I want to see it from your point of view.
    — TheMadFool
    Then you'd need to give up anekantavada.

    That's why I want to know what your assumptions are.
    That anekantavada is a non-viable outlook on life, given that one who practices it will be crushed by other people.
    baker

    The goal of SPI (Indian Protection Service) was to protect the well-being of natives, and Cândido Rondon created its motto: die if need be, never kill. — Wikipedia
  • baker
    5.7k
    And the best philosopher is a dead philosopher, eh?
  • Prishon
    984
    And the best philosopher is a dead philosopher, eh?baker

    What do you mean by that? I cant see the connection with the comment before.
  • TheMadFool
    13.8k
    And the best philosopher is a dead philosopher, eh?baker

    Well, experience tells me that those who have to face death on a daily basis make the best of companions.
  • baker
    5.7k
    the best of companionsTheMadFool
    ... for what? Misery?
  • baker
    5.7k
    It's a reference to this idiom:
    "The Only Good Indian is a Dead Indian"

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/541345#:~:text=%22The%20Only%20Good%20Indian%20Is%20a%20Dead%20Indian%22%3B%20the,traditional%20life%2Dstyle.


    The form "the only good (the best) X is a dead X" has wider applications.
  • Prishon
    984
    The form "the only good (the best) X is a dead X" has wider applications.baker

    The ethnophaulism is used also in political context: "The only good commie is a dead one". But why is the best philosopher a dead one? They ask too much?
  • Prishon
    984
    See, you're not practicing anekantavada.
    Q.E.D.
    baker

    "Anekantavada, (Sanskrit: “non-one-sidedness” or “many-sidedness”) in Jainism, the ontological assumption that any entity is at once enduring but also undergoing change that is both constant and inevitable."
  • TheMadFool
    13.8k
    the best of companions
    — TheMadFool
    ... for what? Misery?
    baker

    Maybe...
  • TheMadFool
    13.8k
    "The Only Good Indian is a Dead Indian"baker

    the best philosopher is a dead philosopherbaker



    The people that are left, what they've become, are not the kinda people worth saving. — Emmett (Quiet Place 2)
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