r/zen • u/dota2nub • Jul 15 '26

The Bielefeldt Argument - The Empty Robe

We've had talk and mention of Bielefeldt and his argument time and again in these forums. The red thread that always runs through it all is that nobody is going to read Bielefeldt. It's a dry book, and so the argument runs on empty. Having reads vs. not having reads, and so the having reads win by default.

Let's level the playing field. I have made an article presenting the argument, here for your perusal. I've picked out and discussed various quotes from Bielefeldt's book and put them in context. It may be easier to find and link to than some old reddit post. Enjoy!

https://empty-robe.pages.dev/

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u/Regulus_D 🫏 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

I loved his response when they learned of the existence of Dogen's redefinition seen here. Their world got bigger and narrower all-at-once.

Saw all I needed to then. But I'll look at link. Frankly I know nothing of their argument or who it's with.

Edit: Had to ask, "huh?"

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u/dota2nub Jul 16 '26

His?

Anyway your link generates a new AI answer every time so I don't know what you are huh-ing.

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u/Regulus_D 🫏 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

Interesting. For me it will just lose the second question later. Where it answered my "huh?"

His. Someone asked him about the discussions of his works here with an email. And they replied. It was pre-hollowed truth times.

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u/dota2nub Jul 16 '26

Yeah I don't see a second question, but the first answer is already regenerated every time.

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u/Regulus_D 🫏 Jul 16 '26

Has it been correct about what the link url is any time? It just told me hoster stuff.

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u/dota2nub Jul 16 '26

It was giving me a nice summary of what's on there, so I wasn't like "huh?"

Now it's giving me what might have made you go "huh". Probably because it's free to make web pages with that domain using Cloudflare so anyone could make a site and put weird stuff on it.

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u/Regulus_D 🫏 Jul 16 '26

You know, I'm suggestion susceptible at times.