GENIUS FORUMS

In junior high myself and a friend brought stewed prunes to school one day and threw them at the blackboard and even hit the wall clock, when the teacher's back was turned. Whap, another prune would stick. Kids would giggle. It was so funny. And I don't know how we got away with it. Another time, f...

The arch enemies of superheros are worth a mention, mostly for their manipulative sociopathic behaviour.

The lost Gospel of Thomas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ocv9AJI88

The Divine Within - Nag Hammadi Library - Gnosticism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGFFf0sMLc0

How can formlessness and emptiness expand (or contract)? It doesn't make any sense to ask the question.

It is pretty clear that you know nothing about this (faith, prayer, etc.), it is not interesting to you at all. Which implies that you do. What are your views, TA, what kind of Christian are you, if any? Are you searching, and what have you found? What -ist would you employ to qualify yourself, to ...

Atum wrote:Pantheism is just philosophy du jour. Sanitized atheism.

I am very handsome, I know God pretty well.

Talking Arse wrote:Have you written, Robert, about your experience and understanding of God?

A pantheistic view, essentially. Nature = God. It doesn't really matter what you call it in the end (although I do like the idea of using the word as a reclamation from those who have subverted it's meaning).

paco, why did you delete your posts in this thread a couple of days ago? Cos this last one isn't much better. Robert, You don't wanna know what I went through the last couple of days. I have this friend who was near to me for ten years then suddenly dropped our friendship(I guess he kinda wanted me...

But isn't it immediate? I meant in the process of understanding. Roughly speaking, first we identify things, then we examine them, then we realise the lack of their inherent existence and their lack of boundaries, then we go back to indentifying. First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain...

It is a very good idea to 'push the analogy' of the 'map'. I can't think of anything more essential. To my understanding, in the analogy, the original poster (crusader) was speaking about religion, of how it's a map to find God ("how can one find his way without a map?"). Like a lot of pe...

Clearly, you imply, if you don't state it outrightly, that your 'map' is superior to some who have recently appeared on this forum, as well as the Christian with whom you were engaged with in dialogue. Why do you bray that I'm implying I have a superior map, did I imply that I have a map at all? Go...

A Christian writing to me in an email recently, after going back and forward for a while over evolutionary science: I now understand where you are coming from and going towards for that matter. In my vain hope I suppose I was trying to challenge you enough for you to see that God is real and not jus...

paco, why did you delete your posts in this thread a couple of days ago? Cos this last one isn't much better.

but i do not agree with you, that one should "bypass" religion to find God. This is absurd. how can one find his way without a map? A map's utility is in showing you where you are, where you're not and where you want to be. Once you get there, you have no more use for it. The problem is, ...

There's no choice involved. No hate. God told me.

What's an "atheist fanatic"?

I do not imagine any course of events as you put it. Rather, I will stick by my definition of Nature as to include everything that I can know or infer to exist, either by direct perception or theoretical abstraction, as long as I insist that any such abstraction is consistent with empirical evidenc...

Start with any physical thing and convince me that A=A is truth in action as opposed to assumption of truth in action. Or I'll make it easier. Show me where it represents certainty, which you say is entirely possible. Take any object you like, the space bar on your keyboard for example. I'm certain...

But certainty is the biggest delusion of them all, Robert. Surely this must be obvious to you. Certainty is entirely possible. A=A is the perfect example. Truth in action. I'm not sure the rest of the post has anything to do with what I've said. You're making a lot of assumptions that don't ring tr...

So, did you grow up believing superman wore a red cape? No. It is totality to say God for instance is the bigger mastermind behind this whole ordeal. Ordeal? Can't be much of a mastermind if it was an ordeal. God came first. Came before what? The Totality? How could he since the Totality is infinit...

Carl G wrote:I believe we know pretty much diddly about the consciousness of cats. If you or anyone knows otherwise please quote the study that shows evidence.

A study not on cats, but crows;
Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows (TED talk).

Why is it wishful? I know I didn't wish it. Any reasoning on the nature of these Gods we're imagining will be wishful by definition, since we have no evidence (empirical or metaphysical) that they nothing more than fantasy and delusion. Housing a psychological framework on such porous foundations i...

I do not understand how A=A is a meaningful conclusion about the Totality. It's more a matter of understanding one is already operating from it at the most fundamental level of reasoning or truth-telling, here and now. For example how you're defining "me" or anything else you want "i...

Obviously, we can't fully experience it in it's entirety, that isn't possible, but then can we fully experience anything in it's entirety? Could you say with absolute certainty that you experienced something to it's fullest? Would you say that the apprehension of A=A is an example of this, since it...

The totality is not something one can apprehend. You cannot perceive it directly, and you cannot form a concept of it because if you do, it must be at the expense of some other concept, which the totality would logically include, so therefore your concept of it must always logically be lacking, i.e...

Hmm, these questions sound very similar to the ones being posed on the Dawkins philosophy forum right now in this thread All Boundaries are illusory . Are you on that board, Loki? Actually Dan, someone called HomoErectorSet has posted a critique of your "The Nature of Existence" videos in ...