RE: Ontological Disproof of God
August 21, 2018 at 1:13 am
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2018 at 12:56 am by Losty.)
(August 20, 2018 at 11:46 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: OP, well, for starters, you could put down the thesaurus and write according to the audience you purportedly want to reach. What you think is style is merely obfuscation. Rather than clearly expressing your ideas, you seem to simply enjoy appearing intelligent by throwing as many superfluous words into the mix as you can muster. It's anything but impressive.
In my experience, those who have truly mastered what they claim to know can express even complex ideas plainly. Rather than complain that we're, essentially, too dumb and/or lazy to understand you, maybe take a crack at meeting us halfway? After all, you're the one proclaiming that your treatise has value. One would think you'd want it to be accessible. Otherwise, your persistent tut-tutting merely shows you to be a snob, providing evidence to my accusation above.
Assuming you're not simply an internet troll that's dialed the stereotypical online atheist persona up to 11, of course.
I do not use a thesaurus, ever. I am not trying to pretend to be intelligent,(I am intelligent in the sense that I have an IQ in the superior range), nor am I attempting to obfuscate. I am simply writing employing terminology and theoretical constructs which have their basis in twentieth century existential writings. I cannot communicate what I want to say by using the language of some putative indeterminate "audience". All my terms exist in the English language and are peculiar to writers who base their thought upon negatives: non-being; nothingness; negation; nihilation; negatite. I am not purposely putting in more words that necessary; I have cut my sentences to the bone over years of reading and re writing...I would vainlywish I could employ the words other persons deem preferable to mine, however, that is impossible; I cannot suddenly become someone other that I am, and , all of a sudden write otherwise that I do ! I cannot realistically expect persons who are now living to follow/understand what I am setting forth. According to Plato it takes five hundred years for a thinkers writings to become commonplace among ordinary persons. I am writing for the future, and, it would be luxury and miracle for contemporary persons to understand my particular ilk of language. I cannot and do not expect you to instantaneously understand what I am writing. Certain PhD\'s are familiar with the species of philosophical thinking I employ, and, possibly certain doctors of jurisprudence...What you have to do is let off complaining about how and what I write, and, if you wish to engage in philosophy, set yourself to the extremely difficult task of researching every word and theoretical construct which you encounter in an unfamiliar writing, and, ultimately, take an understanding of what is being said...what is being said is intelligible...I cannot lower my thinking in order that unscholarly persons may attain an instant understanding thereof...for that is wholly impossible. I am writing something which has never ever before been thought to write, i.e., a destructive critique of existing notions of law whereupon our very civilization is built; I can write it because I have made myself familiar with ideas with which the vast majority of all other persons on earth are unfamiliar. Therefore, I will choose the words and the sentences which I deem necessary to enunciate the brand new task which I have undertaken. The very last possibility would be that it is up to you to suggest that my words and sentences are incorrect ! What do you know about accomplishing a viable theoretical destruction of the very foundational mistaken presuppositions which underpin our extant civilization !? What I have to say has had to be cast in the terms which I have employed: Jurisprudence; negation; double nihilation; and, I have explained these terms in the text...You are very very mistaken if you think that I can suddenly evaporate as Duane and reappear as someone other than myself, for the sake of living up to the expectations of some indefinite series of others !All through college whenever a professor would grade a paper I had written I always thought to myself, "Where is this ideal paper to which he is comparing mine !" No such ideal and preferred paper exists. I am clearly expressing my ideas, I think that these ideas are so alien to you that you think they are unintelligible nonsense, and, therefore, should be written in accord with your estimation.I assure you the ideas I set forth are highly I intelligible, and, it must be that the readers lack the particular education and determination to slowly and painfully make the effort to follow what is being set forth. I cannot possibly cast my new and radical critique of our existing legal system in the old threadbare cloth of old and outworn theoretical language, which language cannot permit me to make the criticisms which I deem myself obligated to write.I write for the sake of fulfilling my Socratic responsibility to critique the civilization that bore and nurtured me...My requirement is simply to place my writing within a historical record, like this particular forum...for the sake of the future. I do not expect to have the pleasure of having my contemporaries understand what I am saying...any understanding they might attain is up to them, and, is not up to me. I have written this in the very best fashion which I possibly can, however, it is not instantly comprehensible to all persons, so be it. Thanks a million. Duane C.
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