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[Husseinisdoingfine]

Does Sheik in this context have a deeper meaning? Because a Sheik is a patriarchal leader or chief, often of a tribe or family, in Islamic countries. The word Sheikh is more often used for religious leaders, but same general concept. 

[Leo Gura]

57 minutes ago, Francis777 said:

@Leo Gura Is your video game your working on a business venture as much as it is a creative one? Do you hope to make a lot of money off it at some point? Was that one of your original intentions?

I stopped work on it. It was a proof of concept.

Obviously the goal is to make as much money as possible in the end. But never to compromise on quality.

Games are very expensive to make so you need to make large profit to make the risk worthwhile.

Edited yesterday at 10:09 PM by Leo Gura

[Daniel Balan]

How can you be a Trump supporter and be a truth advocate? You can be a truth seeker and hate the democrats, sure! But you can't be a Trump supporter and be a pure human! It is not about Trump, it is about supporting corrupt individual, if you don't realize how corrupt someone like Trump is, and furthermore to support him? I am the kind of person that will never trust as a friend or do bussiness with someone who supports a corrupt politician! Supporting a corrupt politician by definition means that you have high degrees of corruption within you! We all have, but you have to have a dark psyche to agree with a corrupt person, let alone a politician! You have to have extremely selfish interests, to support Trump means that for you corruption is not a problem, it is a great feature of reality that must be exploited to the fullest for your own selfish survival agenda! That's why I refuse to ever associate with such people or their work!

[Francis777]

14 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

I stopped work on it. It was a proof of concept.

Obviously the goal is to make as much money as possible in the end. But never to compromise on quality.

Games are very expensive to make so you need to make large profit to make the risk worthwhile.

Oh, are you planning to anything with regards to game design in the future?

[Daniel Balan]

Someone's politics is the best mirror of their levels of corruption within themselves! Spiral dynamics is to observe levels of cognitive development, someone's politics is the best model to measure someone's levels of personal corruption

[Daniel Balan]

What do you think of Peter Zeihan? I just discovered him and at first glance seems preety accurate!

https://youtu.be/GRyXhfu_ZUE?si=PMFS8xXMsdV6i9BX

Edited 23 hours ago by Daniel Balan

[Daniel Balan]

On Sunday we have to choose between a russian stage red viceroy hoolingan and a stage yellow double gold medal winner at the inernational mathematics olympiad! Wish us good luck!

 

[Leo Gura]

21 minutes ago, Daniel Balan said:

What do you think of Peter Zeihan?

Be careful with him.

He is such a blabbermouth and so confident in his blabbermouthery that he is dangerous.

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

The word Sheikh is more often used for religious leaders

It's the same word.

Sheikh is just the British spelling.

Edited 23 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Husseinisdoingfine]

52 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

It's the same word.

Sheikh is just the British spelling.

But is there a deeper spiritual meaning to the proverb?

[Leo Gura]

8 minutes ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

But is there a deeper spiritual meaning to the proverb?

What more meaning do you need?

[Husseinisdoingfine]

I remember I read Santata Gamana's book, where in one of the chapters it asked, do I need a guru?

And the answer is, yes, but a Guru is anything which takes someone from darkness to enlightenment.

But it right now is commonly is used for scholars. I need a scholar by my side or else my scholar is satan?

 

 

[Leo Gura]

You need epistemology and metaphysics in your life.

It's an analogy!

[zurew]

On 2025. 05. 15. at 10:19 PM, Thought Art said:

Aren’t these all aspects of reality though? Fiction exists as fiction. Logic as logic. That’s all “real”

If you make comparative terms to be all encompassing you destroy the meaning of those terms. You can stretch the meaning of the terms, but then nothing will be  in the category of 'not real', and "realness" will completely lose its meaning and it becomes redundant.

 

One last comment on logic and I wont derail the thread further - I view it kind of similar as natural language (conceptual tool). It would be weird, and imo it would make no sense (it would contain a category error) to ask the question which one is the most valid or correct or true natural language?

Like - English doesn't make any inherent claim about the world.

It would be also silly (imo) to say that natural language is in the substance of the world. Like where is English or German like can you find it in rocks or in atoms somewhere or in some transcendental realm?

You can use any natural language to refer to and to express things about the real world, but you can also use them to talk about hypotheticals and things that are not world related.

Is there a true or objectively "correct" way to design the grammar for English or for any other natural language and do we need to affirm a metaphysical existence to natural language? I don't think so.

Its a descriptive, conceptual tool that helps with and useful for a lot of things.

 

[Yimpa]

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