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Thats a little condescending, isn't it? This notion that blacks are more "emotional" than "intellectual." You need to read a little more carefully before accusing someone of condescension. Anna didn't say that. I'm not sure I agree with what she did say, but she certainly didn't...

Thats a little condescending, isn't it? This notion that blacks are more "emotional" than "intellectual." This whole stereotype of the "earthy, emotional, primitive black." Like they're a bunch of children. But the uptight, stuffy, intellectual white can treat them like...

. No, most blacks just don't trust white people and their creations. I'm not sure how much I trust them, either. Like I said in a previous post: The kind of "intelligence" that could invent automobiles, nuclear bombs, and TV sit-coms could just as easily be thought of as a form of stupidi...

I'm not sure what to make of this. About 40 to 50% of Hispanic-Americans marry outside their race. And about 40% of Asian-American males and 60% of Asian-American females marry outside their race. But only about 10% of African-Americans marry outside their race. I'm not sure what the breakdown is in...

Well . . . maybe. But she's happier than me. Thats the really annoying part.

"Intelligence" is such a loaded word. Its one of those words like "beauty" or "art." Its in the eye of the beholder. There's all kinds of different forms of intelligence. Someone might be brilliant at mathematical intelligence, but completely stupid at philosophical int...

And yet still, there's a need, in many people, to discuss this stuff. This one friend of mine, a practical sort, who has no interest in the Big Questions, is always telling me: "Ace, why do you waste your time thinking about that stuff. You're just hitting your head against a brick wall. You're...

Well, for one thing, as I mentioned early in the thread, I don't think The Spiritual Life can be effectively discussed on the Internet. Indeed, the subsequent results kink of prove it. I mean king of prove it. Haha, sorry, I mean kind of prove it. I have a question: is the philosophical life the sa...

I'm just giving you one random example off the top of my head, of "suffering on earth" from my daily soap opera. Suffering is what drives man to his knees in search of liberation, in search of a higher reality beyond this shit-stained world of humans. Suffering is what demands us to go be...

"What suffering life on earth are you trying to run away from that you need this? Unfortunately it doesn't exist . . . Are you kidding? Am I misunderstanding you? Last year, I had a friend of mine, this 50-year-old, 110-pound homeless woman, stomped to death in her sleepingbag by four thugs. A...

Neil Melnyk wrote:

mikiel wrote:Liberation is the ultimate breakthrough from this container of "myself" Into true selflessness.

Pining for the "absolute". Pining to escape reality. Pining to be nothing.

Seemed to me like mikiel was more pining to be Everything.

The Kundalini experience, now that is an intense one, and opens a strange ball of wax, a sort of Pandora's bag of cats (I am having problems with metaphors this morning, bear with me). However, and of course this is documented, the Kundaline experience, like the psychedelic experience, is an increa...

Contrary to my last post, I do find this an interesting topic for discussion. Though when it comes to something as ethereal and mysterious as the physiological structure of the human brain, as well as such a loaded terms as "intelligence," I would tread carefully. And I'm put off by the va...

Considering how dumb most men AND women are, this subject is about as enlightening as trying to figure out why men and women's shit smells different.

I know this is an intellectual-orientated forum. Personally, I've always been frustrated by the limits of my intellectual mind, not so much in terms of "summing it up," as Alex put it, but in terms of making real spiritual progress. The meter I use to determine that progress isn't so much ...

Sounds good to me.

In fact, from my perspective, I regard Uncertaintists as being virtually indistinguishable from Christian fundamentalists. Both have settled down into easy pre-packaged answers provided by an external authority (in the case of the Uncertaintists, from the doctrines of postmodernism) and both have a...

acebackwords, You think "I'm sure of myself" when I say I think life is largely a "mystery," and you feel that is somehow a contradiction? Ridiculous. Well, you did say that life is ultimately a mystery. A bit of a difference there. - By "ultimately" I just meant: &quo...

I'm suspicious of anybody who is too sure of themselves Can we be sure who is too sure? Life is ultimately a very mysterious thing. "Ultimately" . Does this mean that you are yourself too sure? As the Firesign Theatre used to say: "Everything you know is WRONG!" Course, if that ...

Acebackwards wrote: I'm suspicious of anybody who is too sure of themselves and their philosophies. How much do ANY OF US really know for sure? Life is ultimately a very mysterious thing. And the Tao shall manifest according to It's peculiar logic. And usually, at best, I only figure it out dimly, ...

There's nothing to pick at, so you're safe. Way to introduce yourself though. Did you ever stop to consider that it's arrogant to think that others don't have the answers you lack? Is there a cogent reason you can offer to support the idea that it's unlikely they do? I can be plenty arrogant. But I...

Hi. I'm Ace Backwords. I stumbled onto your site when Greg Shantz posted Dave Sim's prayer on the Comics Journal Message Board earlier in the day ( http://www.tcj.com ) . So I've been perusing your site and I checked in because, well, I suppose I should have some brainy reason for checking in, but i...