Education › Re: Shower Thoughts. Philosophy of questioning. by budaatum: 4:50pm On Feb 27, 2021*. Modified: 10:42pm On Feb 28, 2021 |
1. Looking at yourself in the mirror. What harsh truths do you prefer to ignore?
I remember the first time I really saw myself in a mirror. I was in my third decade and had looked at myself in mirrors a lot so I was shocked to see myself for the very first time. I sat there for an hour staring at myself, and when I was done I said "never again will I blind myself from seeing myself again". I have to keep watching to catch myself when I fail.
2. If you could become immortal on the condition you would NEVER be able to die or kill yourself, would you choose immortality?
If I could become immortal in my 40s body, yes. I will love to witness what the world has become in 3021 and 4021, though I wonder how I would maintain the motivation to not live decadently.
3. On Sighting a glass cup, do you think it half full, half empty or you see nothing at all?
I have got to the point where I see glasses for what they are and realise I have the power to fill them up or empty them as I wish. This makes me optimistic of possibilities of filling glasses with whatever I want..
4. A man without hope commits suicide, but when there's life there's hope.
This is a statement, not a question, but I guess when my mind gives up so would I. Consider however that I will not have a mind for suicide neither at that point.
5. The Brained named itself the Brain ,each cell represent your whole, you do not control your action or emotions, cooperative cells controlled by the brain does, the Brain even does your thinking for you. Explains why the Brain feels no pain
My brain neither named itself nor trained itself, buda did! Nor is the brain the whole of buda, as there are legs and hands and liver and heart etc and the part is not the whole. And yes, my brain does feel pain, a lot of pain, on buda's behalf. Just show me a person who is unwilling to learn and I will cry in pain, and since I am on Nairaland a lot where a lot think they already know and do not need to learn, my brain and buda just hurt, continously.
6a. There are no adults we are just grown children confused on our existence but drive by the instinct to feed, protect ourselves and to reproduce, cyclical and pointless
There are adults, and they are very separate from grown children. Grown children may be driven by instinct, but adults are driven by their mind and their ability to reflect.
6b. Want to measure success? Its psychological, success is a state of the mind, Explains Health is wealth.
No, I do not want to measure success. I measure progress instead, and an unhealthy person can be wealthy in mind and spirit, while a healthy person can be very poor in all ways.
7. How do you know you are loved? What part of you do they love because you are not the same person with different people.
I know some people love me and some people do not love me. I know because some tell me they do not love me and some show me they love me by caring for me
8. If you were able to wipe out your entire life, would you? And why
No I would not because that would imply I have lived a worthless life which is untrue.
9. What do you believe but cannot prove ?
I believe the universe is very very very old and it will get very very very much older.
10. What is considered moral ? Pedophilism and child work was very moral, so what is morality is it the ERA?
Considered moral by whom? And who considered Pedophilism moral except a pedophile?
Moral for me is that which I would not mind being done to me. That does not however imply that what I may accept being done to me must be accepted by all however.
11. What is your deepest philosophical thoughts?
Whatever it is gets deeper as I think it, as I am continuously digging deeper in my thoughts.
12. Why don't you want to die, when we know you will die, worse than not wanting to die, why are you afraid of death.
I do not not want to die and I am not afraid of dying and I will someday die.
13. Who is more important to the world, you or your neighbor?
buda is a selfish being. No one is more important to buda than buda, but I am not sufficiently arrogant to talk on the world's behalf.
14. Why are all animals terrified of Snakes (yes including the honey badger)
I do not know this to be true. I know of hawks that hunt snakes for food so they can not exactly be said to be afraid of snakes.
15. Without stating your name,date and place of birth and religion , who are you Remember you never were given a chance to pick any of these .
I am buda.
16. If you're not married does than mean you are not happy? Does marriage mean happiness or distress?
buda is unmarried and buda is happy, when buda was married buda was happy.
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Christianity Etc › Re: What Is The Real Name Of The Islamic God? by budaatum: 4:09pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
1Sharon: I'm sure those arab Christians have another name for God besides ' Allah" unlike muslims
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Christianity Etc › Re: What Is The Real Name Of The Islamic God? by budaatum: 4:07pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
HellVictorinho: I believe that I know how to write. I'm certain you can check the evidence so that you know if you know how to write or not. I, for instance, know how to write. Do you also believe you can reason and think too? Because it will be good if you do not know. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 3:55pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
PrideofLincoln1: The Republicons are self destroying and as a Democrat, I don't even want that. Why should anyone with a sane mind support these worthless non science believing idiots denying climate change. Denying climate change? For Christ's sake, they denied they lost an election they clearly very lost, lol! |
Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 3:49pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
SegFault: One thing I love about you is your calm sarcasm. The guy is obviously bored and looking for who to have a go at, I'm no longer indulging him. Oh, I indulge him, especially since he follows me from thread to thread quoting to challenge me. But how he thinks he can challenge me about books he never reads is amusing, as he wants to tell be what a book he never read is about. Its like he wants to be my pastor and subjugate me so I worship at his feet. He does not realise that it is reading that actually sets one free. His strategy is to jump in and muddy conversations with insults while refusing to realise that he does not listen to himself so I do not expect him to hear me. He then disappears thinking he has said something sensible when the truth is he has been drowned in superior thought but is too arrogant to admit it. Our words are here for him to reflect on someday, which, if he lives long enough, he surely will. We have been at it for a while now and my hope for him still springs with eternal patience. |
Christianity Etc › Re: African Hypocrisy And The Gay Law by budaatum: 3:11pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
Some can not just help their poo obsession! budaatum: Why are you laughing? That your laugh is making me laugh sef! Even though I want to be furious at you all! 
Seriously! 18 pages of poo poking and this isn't the only thread! If muttley were arguing for the non-condemnation of ss poking I'd seriously be on his side with tons of Bible too. Or does your own Bible not clearly infer that after I rape your husband you should give me your son too? Besides, if a person wants to ss (samesex) poke of what concern of anyone is it? If I want to poke poo or be bent over by someone who consents to bend me over and poke my poo is it really anyone else's concern? Do I need the permission of any other than the person I'm bending over and poking poo with? So what if it's written in some book that I am pong if I poke poo, is it your poker that will pong? So what if some book says poo pokers pong, is book my God? Even if my God self comes down from heaven and tells me I pong for poking poo, so what? Is it not God? Is it not true that I can bend over bend over bend over and poke poo until I don't want to bend over and poke poo anymore and just say "Abba, Father, forgive me for I have poked plenty poo", and Abba will just forgive my pong? And even if I don't say "Abba" and say "fuq off" instead, can anything worse than burning in hell till eternity happen to me? Oh, I get it! You want to save me from burning in hell! Why? I made a choice and for some odd reason you want to save me! Are you my Messiah? Are you God? Am I poking your poo? Does my poo poking make you pong?
If I chose to poke my poker in poo it's my poker that will pong so you all should seriously consider minding your own pokers and stop behaving as if it is your poker that I am poking in poo or your poo that I am poking my poker in or you that pongs when I poke my poker in poo that isn't yours!
To you muttleylaff, it is clear that as far as the Bible is concerned a poo poker pongs and no amount of twisting and turning can change that fact. You can go and poke poo and bear the consequential pong but you can't poke poo and have Biblical sanctification to pong unless you've figured out a way to have your cake in your belly as well as in front of you, and seriously, if you have figured that out I'd personally be wondering why you'd want to be applying it to your pong and not to your bank account or something way more rewarding than the pong of your poker!
And to you non-poo-pokers, even eating fish without scales makes you [url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abomination_%28Bible%29?wprov=sfla1]pong[/url] along with lots of other things way more common than poo poking so delight that you never ate mackerel and titus or you pong just as a poo poker and we shall see each other in hell barring "Abba Father" to the Graceful Merciful Ever Forgiving Lord God, of course! There is indeed a reason to not be casting stones!
I'm hoping with this that I've got all you pongers out of my system, and I don't mind being quoted but a pong on anyone who ccs buda in a poo poking pong for I don't appreciate being raped and would rather you don't or I'll personally chop off your pokers so you have nothing to rape me with!!
You all are warned! |
Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 2:53pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
Martian: I don’t stop at who. I seek to understand why who is the way it is and why it wrote (or in the case of your Jesus, allegedly said”) what. Jesus, in your opinion, now is buda's "your Jesus", Martian? Trust me when I say I am beginning to believe there is something wrong with Martians, but I've only met one so can not really tell yet. What I do know is that you have definitely not done 'who' or 'what' or any of the 'w's or 'how' where buda is concerned, but have just made up crap in your head and claimed you know, and I would be most delighted if you correct this about yourself, but if you do not, buda lives. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 2:38pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
Martian: If you would open your eyes and your mind you would be concerned with both who and what because who influences what. That's why I can tell you he was a card carrying Nazi, my open eyed concern for 'who'. And now I'm reading the book for the 'what', unlike you who stops at the 'who'. Do know that next and also is ' why' and 'where' and 'when' and 'how'. It's called Learning. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 2:31pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
HellVictorinho: I didn't say there is nothing in it. I only said it cannot change what I've stated before. And O very wise you hell know this without even seeing a single page of the book? May I too develop your superpower when I grow up, but odd enough, the first 60 or so pages I've read are saying "don't believe all the crap inside your head without testing so you may know", but I guess you will not bother, lol. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 2:25pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
Martian: It's my categorical imperative to expose all sides of issues because you guys have praised these people to high heavens. I so wish you would open your eyes to see that we are more concerned with what they wrote than who they are. Trust me that if I care about who people are I would not waste my time with Martians! |
Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 2:23pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
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Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 2:22pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
SegFault: That is the first problem, people like Schopenhauer might have read it wrongly self. And Schopenhauer read it. So imagine these people who have not even bothered. You should read some of my stuff on Genesis. My position is that no entity can be a God and prefer Adam and Eve to be ignorant and susceptible to an entity called satan. budaatum: Gained from a lot of reading and reasoning with an open mind I daresay, instead of believing the junk and lies peddled about it. I mean, take how people do wuruwuru to claim Adam and Eve who went on to live like 800 years after eating the fruit died as the God said they would. A child would raise eyebrows if you tell it to believe such a lie I would think, but many grown ups seem to just accept it without thinking. I find such brainlessness unacceptable!
The Kingdom of God is not found in a book, Shade. That's why the scholars in Christ time never found it despite all their study. Christ told a most profound truth when he told you where to seek it once you understand what it is you seek. Just become a child and you will understand.
Below are some links on the subject. If you hold me in your prayers perhaps the Lord God will empower me to write a book about it.
https://www.nairaland.com/6301141/emancipate-yourself-slavery-ignorance
https://www.nairaland.com/4960881/garden-eden-childs-view |
Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 2:10pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
Martian: What makes you think I haven’t read or even know some of the inspiration of your European masters. I don’t make the mistake of placing them on a pedestal because I, lol, understand what and who they are. Yeah. We believe you. Martian: Didn’t know he had a card. Thanks |
Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 2:07pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
SegFault:
 can you even understand ... Understand?  He does not even want it read so how can he possibly understand? |
Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 2:06pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
Martian: Nobody said anything about believing or understanding. Just bringing up their flawed side for people who may not know and who may fall headlong into white delusion ideas.
You place them on a pedestal. I just take them off. You place them on pedestals Martian just so you can convince yourself you take them off. Its called the strawman fallacy, go look it up buda, as you can clearly, does not live by bread alone. Those who do become malnourished. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 2:00pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
Martian: How correct is the message when the messenger’s thinking is flawed?
They had some “rational” ideas and plenty “irrational”. Even if the message is flawed, would you not benefit from reading it to know the flaw so you don't make the same mistake? Is this why you have not read the Bible you believe is flawed? I wonder why we should take your critique of it seriously when you have not read it. You sound like a critique of food you've never tasted. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 1:57pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
SegFault: So what should I now do, disregard the fact that most of his teachings invoke deep and rational thinking. I didn't ask you bro, I know he was racist that is not my business, my business is the message not the messenger. I think some think most read books and just believe instead of seeking understanding. They'd probably say", Don't read Mein Kampf so you don't become Hitler". |
Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 1:53pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
Heidegger was a card carrying Nazi. Just so you know I know. Martian: Not here to rain on anyone’s parade but I bring some precipitation. Admire your European sages with some caveat.....
Kant himself was notoriously racist. He treated race as a scientific category (which it is not), correlated it with the ability for abstract thought, and – theorising on the destiny of races in lectures to students – arranged them in a hierarchical order:
1. ‘The race of the whites contains all talents and motives in itself.’ 2. ‘The Hindus … have a strong degree of calm, and all look like philosophers. That notwithstanding, they are much inclined to anger and love. They thus are educable in the highest degree, but only to the arts and not to the sciences. They will never achieve abstract concepts. [Kant ranks the Chinese with East Indians, and claims that they are] static … for their history books show that they do not know more now than they have long known.’ 3. ‘The race of Negroes … [is] full of affect and passion, very lively, chatty and vain. It can be educated, but only to the education of servants, ie, they can be trained.’ 4. ‘The [Indigenous] American people are uneducable; for they lack affect and passion. They are not amorous, and so are not fertile. They speak hardly at all, … care for nothing and are lazy.’ |
Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 1:52pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
HellVictorinho: This book can't change what I have said about the impossibility of the existence of nothing. The universe is not the totality of existence. There can't be a totality of existence. The universe is just another group of indivisible ageless objects. I am glad to see you read the book and found nothing in it. If you do not mind, I will read the book myself instead of taking your word for it. Not because I do not trust you, mind, just that I'd rather use my own eyes and mind instead of just believing you. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 1:49pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
HellVictorinho: Do you think I agree with them? Read everything I post before replying. Why are you arguing your disagreement with them with buda?  And why should I be concerned to read your argument with them?  |
Politics › Re: Never Knew The Northerners Ain't Serious. by budaatum: 1:40pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
toolovely: Oga, my village banned the sale of cow meat in our markets over two years now. Besides, there are people who don't eat cow meat. Glad to hear your villagers do not eat cow meat. I am sure cow meat sellers in Nigeria feel the loss of sales to you as supply now exceeds demand and cow meat gets cheaper because "there are people who don't eat cow meat". Please see the porridge I made with the fresh cow's milk in my fridge so you know I did not eat the cow.
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Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 1:36pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
HellVictorinho: I used the word "if" for a reason. The universe is regarded by some as .... Hell, don't you think you should be having this conversation with those "some" instead of with buda? But if you do feel the need to discuss it with buda, feel free to start a thread because this is not the thread for you unless you are talking about the book referred to please. |
Christianity Etc › Re: The Paradox Of Nihilism- A Problem For Atheists And Humanists by budaatum: 1:19pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
Funny. I did feel we had been here before. budaatum: "Meaning" and "purpose" hardly ever mean the same thing. Try it with "combustion engine", see what you come up with.
That said, "Purpose of life"? None really. Most living things, humans specifically, just occupy space and consume resources to remain alive. In effect, one could say the sole purpose of life is to live. If humans weren't in existence, the planet would most likely go on much better than with them in it. Even birds and goats probably serve a better purpose, birds by spreading seeds and goats by mowing the grass. Trees however help maintain a balance between CO2 and Oxygen.
There is one important difference between human beings and trees and birds. Birds and trees don't choose a purpose while human beings can. Some humans choose to make the world less bad than if they did nothing, whilst some choose to make the world much worse than it would have been if they actually ate, slept and eventually just died.
Regardless, all living things contribute towards the making of manure in the end, whether they choose it as a purpose or not. Whether that manure makes up for what they consume is debatable though. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 1:14pm On Feb 27, 2021 |
HellVictorinho: It is still impossible for nothing to exist. The book can't change that. Do you remember who said the following? HellVictorinho: If 'everything' exists somewhere, 'nothing' must also exist elsewhere. Did you find nothing existed in the book when you read it, or is someone trying to convince you somewhere that it is possible or impossible for nothing to exist? |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 10:30am On Feb 27, 2021 |
PrideofLincoln1: You and I both will be doing that. I will even donate and solicit funds for any of these worthless Nazi loving RepubliKKKans that will be running in the Republican Primaries in 2024. I tell you, I can't wait. Its going to be fun watching them destroy themselves  |
Christianity Etc › Re: Being And Time - Martin Heidegger' by budaatum(op): 10:27am On Feb 27, 2021*. Modified: 1:58pm On Mar 01, 2021 |
I finally got to the end of the Introduction and I'm about to start Part One. The introduction is 64 pages and I read it 7 times (to the end only twice), and in fact had to cheat. I found the hardcopy has far too much untranslated Greek and Latin, so I had to keep checking meanings which made it unreadable. Then I found someone to translate the Greek and Latin as he read it to me and the book revealed itself to be more profound than I thought. You may want to cheat as I did so here is a link to my reader. In his lucid introduction to this recording, Professor Taylor Carman declares unequivocally that Being and Time by Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is ‘one of the great masterpieces of 20th century philosophy.’ And that is despite the fact that it is unquestionably a challenging listen. But by placing it in its historical context - the key work on existentialism between Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) and Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) - it becomes much easier to approach.
As Professor Carman explains, ‘Being and Time addresses a seemingly simple question: What does it mean to be?’ As far as we know, human beings are the only existing things ‘with an understanding of what it is for something to exist’ and, furthermore, are aware of their own existence. Heidegger chose the German word Dasein - existence: literally ‘being there’ - instead of more common expressions such as man, human being, soul, consciousness, etc. And he embarks upon his investigation, considering ‘being there in-the-world, in time (past, present, future); discussing ‘authentic’ and ‘inauthentic’ living and dying; and the acceptance of impermanence. ‘Dasein’s existence is pervaded by a primordial kind of anxiety (Angst)’, Carman remarks, but points out that the concept of care is central to Heidegger’s view: ‘to be a human being is to care about something’.
Being and Time was published in 1927 during the Weimar period in Germany, a time of political, social and economic turmoil. Heidegger himself did not escape the pressures, and his nationalism and undeniable anti-Semitism in the following decades cast a shadow over the man, but not the work. Being and Time is not coloured by expressions of his later views (unlike other writings) and remains an outstanding document.
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Celebrities › Re: Ric Hassani's Father Dies (Photos) by budaatum: 10:06am On Feb 27, 2021 |
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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 9:42am On Feb 27, 2021 |
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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 9:37am On Feb 27, 2021 |
PrideofLincoln1: RepubliKKKan Party has been a racist Party for a long time and it was cemented when Trump became their official Presidential candidate in 2016. You wonder why the Confederate lovers, Nazis, Klans and other White Supremacists and Nationalists find a comfortable home in the Party of Lincoln. I vividly remember when the likes of late Jerry Falwell Snr, Pat Buchanan, David Duke and others were shouting from the mountain top about BROWNING OF AMERICA. It's a code for the racists and scums in America to be wary of Browns and Blacks overwhelming America and we know what that means. Here are few bottom feeders on Nairaland that can't see beyond their noses carrying water for the same racists that will skin them alive not feeling an ounce of sympathy for them. I would love for Trump or any of the scums that fills the Republikkkan Party to win the nomination in 2024 so they can get crushed again. Americans are tired of being divided by Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Religion. I will be here campaigning for him for this exact purpose, lol. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 9:33am On Feb 27, 2021 |
salford1: This is what the GOP has turned into since the orange turd took over. All the dog whistle, retweeting white power videos, posting videos of a white boy being beaten by a black guy in a video from Europe, the stand back and stand down, the good people on both side e.t.c. they are not even hiding it anymore. Racist scums 
www.nairaland.com/attachments/13197816_20210226202719_jpeg6770ce9e09892503258912994fb003ff Whao! They sure know how to destroy themselves, don't they. Let those black Nigerian Gop supporters come tell us they support and have been fighting for white supremacy all along so we can double up in resisting their evil ignorance. |
Politics › Re: Never Knew The Northerners Ain't Serious. by budaatum: 9:23am On Feb 27, 2021*. Modified: 10:28am On Feb 27, 2021 |
Mikester: *smiles* Don't worry, your secret is safe with me I never worry. |