Wednesday 12 February 2020

Flash Philosophy


I have been wondering for the last week why the anatman/annica doctrine (no-self/momentariness) doctrine is proffered by Buddhists when it is so obviously senseless and self-contradictory. Crazy ideas coming from philosophers are generally preceded by an intuition that they experience as a eureka moment whereby a field of thought becomes crystallised and an intelligible pattern is discerned. This flash is like the M.I.B.s but it destroys not the memory of ever having seen aliens but the fibrillating antennae of the illative sense. Conclusions are missed that ought to be obvious and the reductio ad gibbering folly follows not. No, our philosopher receiving the spark from heaven remains complacent.

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