GENIUS FORUMS

I am entirely weary of your accusatory nonsense, Sir. Either prove to my satisfaction that I was born at some objective time and place, or I will ban you. You want to stay? Meet the challenge. Btw, so we're clear - you have a single post within which to meet this challenge. I was ready to leave any...

You seem almost to equate 'enlightenment' with scientific rationalism. For you, 'enlightenment' is something quite different from all other definitions of enlightenment. You have appropriated the term, you bend it to your purposes, when other far less problematic terms would suffice. Mikiel appears...

Iolaus: "I already answered you that so far as I can tell, you do not differ from him on the question of time and now." Yet again I will refresh your memory with a cut-n-paste from pg 18 above. I've edited it to include just the time vs now issue... Omniscience still means all-knowing and ...

Hey Iolaus, Are you really going to walk away without even a word about the two elephants in the living room being totally ignored in this thread? (Time vs Now and Jehu's obvious craziness about omniscience and omnipotence.) Just another case of what a joke this forum is without a trace of "rea...

Gnosis is synonymous with enlightenment, meaning *knowing* God as our True Identity. ("Selflessness."... see http://www.centerforsacredsciences.org/practices.html#teachers ) This is what Jesus meant when he said, "I and the Father are One." This is what I mean by "conscious ...

Show me where/when I was born. I mean, seriously, do it definitively or accept that I'm correct in my ultimate point, which was there there is no place I was born other than the innumerable arbitrary designations one can assign. Btw, I have Mikiel on ignore so if he directs anything to me he's wast...

Well... I gotta go again for a few days. Looks like Dan is going to stick with his ignor-ance tactic... head in the sand to avoid my challenge to his subjective absurdities based on sophomoric idealism. Specifically in that regard, its much easier to quibble about peripheral issues like whether I ha...

Remo: So there you have it: To exist, you must have mass. Mass is equivalent to energy. Energy is nothing but a concept. Therefore, you are nothing but a concept, probably in a computer program designed by GOD." I'll just cut to the chase here on your supposed supremacy of human subjectivity ov...

A mini-workshop/ playground for joke writers: So... a guy walks into a psychiatrists office and says, "I was never born." Shrink asks, "So are you a real person with a real body, brain, mouth and delusion or a figment of my imagination?" Psychotic says, "You don't exist eith...

Assuming honesty of testimony (again, sina qua non), anyone who knows and says with absolute certainly, "I and God are One" is enlightened. The rest is window dressing.

guest_of_logic wrote: "Secondly, claiming a degree with a minor in philosophy is a legitimate appeal to authority, not a fallacious one, given that the theme of the disagreement is philosophical." Dan replied: I"t is a fallacy if it doesn't contain an argument." Dan wrote:"T...

Bump.
The above is very basic, Dan. If you can't answer intelligently, you might as well pack it in as a serious philosopher.

(I was at the 99th percentile, the highest possible score, in my Graduate Record Exam with a minor in philosophy. Point: I am not easily bullshitted.)

(Gone again for a few.)

Ultimate safety is known through action. What does this mean, d.f.? Who was talking about safety? "I" (this guy) lost all fear when I lost the illusion of personal self as an identity separate from the One Cosmic Self... as do all enlightened ones. This is one way to know for sure who is ...

Just a little housekeeping here. My last post in the "Key to Free Thought" thread clearly belongs in this thread, tho it was in reply to a post there. So here it is in its proper home: Ramayana wrote: "You will be as Gods" (Genesis 3:4,5). So says the serpent... I had missed this...

Iolaus, OK, to focus on one point at a time: What is real? m: "Do you too believe that the manifest world/cosmos is not real?" I: "I think its as real as it gets...I've had the thought that it is both real and unreal at the same time, which I think was a kind of intuition about the tw...

You've just gotta love a debate with an idealist who claims that there is no objective component to his subjective experience of, for instances, red or birth. Dan: As to qualia: where is "red" in your perspective? A bunch of neural pathways and synapses that light up when a person says the...

guest, I allow as how his definition from the Oxford is valid, *and* I was attempting to broaden the perspective on "reality" (the noun referenced by the adjective, "real", quite obviously, Iolaus.) Jehu insists on his narrow usage in support of his doctrine. Fine. But consensus ...

"You will be as Gods" (Genesis 3:4,5). So says the serpent... I had missed this little contribution from my old Nemesis, Ram. So... a quick bible lesson... with my commentaries in context in bold: John Chapter 14, verse 12 Jesus: " I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me ( (...

Jehu: With all due respect, I can no longer converse with you on this thread, for it is clear to me that you are of an irrational state of mind To the forum: What specifically was irrational in my replies to Jehu? He did a clean break from all my challenges. I call this cowardice and avoidance of me...

Jehu, You are correct in assuming that I have not read, and have no intention to read, all 467 posts in this thread. In fact I have only read those posts (and their immediate contexts) to which I have replied. You wrote: Yes, mine is a “narrow usage”, for it is the ‘philosophical usage’, and such pr...

Ryan: However, such experiences (as I have had as a mystic) are not absolute proof that reality is one intelligent being. "Absolute proof" is clearly hyperbole in this context. It is a big leap of faith to go from – the experience of an altered state in the brain that felt like oneness to ...

[/quote]The following definitions may be found in the current Oxford Dictionary under the sub-heading of philosophical usage: “real 8. Philos. having an absolute and necessary and not merely contingent existence.”; and “absolute 2.a Philos. that which can exist without relation to anything else.” So...

Ryan, You conclude: The certainty of Gnosis is a form of fundamentalism in my view, and we are in an age where all forms of fundamentalism are being crushed by the weight of an intensified rationalism. ... This simply affirms that you are among those who, as I said have never "experienced the t...

Hey Loki, Did I blow you clear away? It was nothing personal. I'm a longtime practitioner of radical honesty. It's about truth telling *at all cost* even if it hurts *feelings.* If you were actually remorseful, I'd like to know what changed your mind about Tomas. If you were, as I suspected, just ma...

Ataraxia, First, thanks for the civil reply. Regarding your "appeals to authority" remark in following exchange: m: Is the QRS doctrine *not* all about conceptual understanding, as per logic/reason? A:It does seem to be, yes. I too am interested in reasoning in philosophy.Appeals to any au...