--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" <compost1uk@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > ...Werner believes his metaphysical totalitarianism... > > ...that might just smash open the metaphysical falseness... > .... > > Isn't there SOMEONE out there willing to become a devotee > > of the ex-enlightened man? > > I would perhaps, if only I felt worthy! > > I understand "totalitarianism" - but what's "metaphysical > totalitarianism"? > > I understand "falseness" - but what's "metaphysical > falseness"? (An oxymoron in a more earthy philosophy?) > > I understand "metaphysical" - but what's..(heck, you get > my drift!) > > I've noticed you have a nice line in "ontological" whatnots too. > > "Ontological" and "epistemological": You'd think they'd be > ugly enough to be safe from kidnappers, wouldn't you. But no.
RESPONSE: Eastern Bloc communist was a totalitarian political system. Werner Erhard's context is a totalitarian metaphysical system (i.e. there is only one truth, and you shall submit to it and no other: and not only that: YOU SHALL LIVE UNDER THIS TRUTH. Reality is what I, Werner, have proved to you that it is). Metaphysical totalitarianism, then, is consciously or otherwise living under a context in which you experience reality through the mind of someone other than yourself. In this case, Werner's mind. Just as all CubansI've spent time in Havanalive under the totalitarian mind (and system) of Fidel. Falsenness = something other than the truth (as measured by CONTENT). Metaphysical falseness = the apprehension of the universe and reality in a way which is not in accordance with the way the universe actually, objectively is, and what reality actually, objectively is. E.g. the metaphysical difference between believing in Fallen Nature (Catholic) and believing in the divinity of the Self (Hindu). That is not only a distinction of what is false and what is true (either one or neither is true), its implication extends to a determinative interpretation of what reality is. Because when one goes through the death experience, one will know: is it reincarnation for me, or is it personal judgment?or something else. This is the metaphysics of dying. Not just dying. >
