Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00502)

In a message dated 8/24/2004 6:19:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
aupanishad@m... writes:
Robert Anton Wilson says that "What the Thinker thinks, the Prover 
proves" in "Prometeus Rising." Doesn't this lead to solipsism? Is 
solipsism different from the Samkhaya idea of "Kaivalya" 
(aloneness)? Sartre speaks of the "reef of solipsism" in "Being and 
Nothingness." Actually, solipsism scares me more than any other 
concept, hell included!
It is another way of saying that should you believe a thing to be true, your 
mind will filter data to exclude that which does not jive. I belive this is a 
direct result of our need to be right.

Also, I feel that the word 'provable' is misleading. It all depends on 
consensus reality. If I have enough data available to me, then I can pick and 
choose what I want to present in order that I might convince (prove) someone one 
of something that might not be true.


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