Or the \"Knot of Truths?\" (Endings)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 20:09 (5636 days ago) @ George Jelliss

I don't know why my name changed, i didn't do it on purpose. I just popped my name into the profile, we'll see if that changed anything. - As for N, (Short term for Nietzsche) he wanted to be understood, but only by those people willing to fight with him. You have to be able to read very holistically to understand him, and read him more than once on each book. Intra-textual and inter-textual references, aphorisms, and all sorts of difficult literary devices make him the hardest philosopher I'm aware of, and the only way to fully grasp his ideas is to read all of his works... it builds a "transcendent" narrative independent of the words. Part of his goal was to blend both eso and exoterism, but that is my own hypothesis, and is not scholastic canon. - If you want to see what he was capable of in terms of lucid writing, look up "Truth and Lies in an extramoral sense" sometimes tranlated as "Truth and lies in a Nonmoral sense." Look for a Kaupfman tranlsation. - We have a great similarity in thought though, what you call the ability for people to write and give meaning is exactly the kind of wonderment I appreciate. We're free to do so, but it is potentially illusion to think it means anything in the grand scale of things. - As for transcendental functions being "in the mind of the mathematician" only, I used to think that too except you can observe PI, e, and the golden ratio in nature. They are artificial in the realm that the symbols we use are only abstractions, or metaphors if you will, but whatever you choose to call PI its value is the same no matter where you are in the universe. The same goes for other numbers such as e. Those numbers transcend humanity, meaning the truth of their existence is independent of human thought. Strangely, contrary to what Dr. Turell states, I've seen this argument used by several physics guys to base their hunch that there is a creator to the universe.