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by Sphere70
Mon Jun 24, 2013 1:33 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Star Friendship
Replies: 5
Views: 2992

Star Friendship

from 'The Gay Science' (Nietzsche) "We were friends and have become estranged. But this was right, and we do not want to conceal and obscure it from ourselves as if we had reason to feel ashamed. We are two ships each of which has its goal and course; our paths may cross and we may celebrate a ...
by Sphere70
Tue Jan 22, 2013 1:29 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: How to Build a Stronger Ego - Steve Pavlina
Replies: 160
Views: 82913

Re: How to Build a Stronger Ego - Steve Pavlina

Talking Ass - 'Secret Sunshine' is actually one of my absolute favorite movies. It is so damn good. You should also check out his latest movie 'Poetry' - amazing stuff. Also look up Michael Haneke's 'The Seventh Continent' and his 'The White Ribbon', kind of the same mood. And throw a classic in the...
by Sphere70
Tue Dec 18, 2012 8:17 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Women, Freedom, Entrapment, Strategy
Replies: 617
Views: 118075

Re: Women, Freedom, Entrapment, Strategy

Alex, your writing sometimes remind me of Don Delillo.
Have you read 'White Noise'?
by Sphere70
Mon Dec 10, 2012 7:46 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Freud / Lacan / Zizek
Replies: 27
Views: 11503

Re: Freud / Lacan / Zizek

Hi Diebert, You're right about his own celibacy, but as I understand it he himself didn't hold himself up as reference of perfection/sanity (and this is also something that I'm unsure off about his work; what's his actual reference-point to sanity? I have my ideas but I'm not sure), and that he actu...
by Sphere70
Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:28 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Freud / Lacan / Zizek
Replies: 27
Views: 11503

Re: Freud / Lacan / Zizek

I read Freud's 'Civilization and Its Discontents' recently and found it to be a great, insightful, book. And he makes it quite clear in the beginning that he finds the hermetical, celibate, enlightenment-searching approach to life a psychological sickness (as a response to a friend of his - Romain R...
by Sphere70
Sat Mar 03, 2012 5:16 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Dualism and non-dualism:
Replies: 7
Views: 2434

Re: Dualism and non-dualism:

life = non-duality experiencing itself through duality. An incestual orchestra!
by Sphere70
Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:52 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Aesthetic, Ethical & Religious
Replies: 29
Views: 7678

Re: Aesthetic, Ethical & Religious

David, is 'Liberty Sea' your Johannes Climacus? :-)
by Sphere70
Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:04 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Aesthetic, Ethical & Religious
Replies: 29
Views: 7678

Re: Aesthetic, Ethical & Religious

For me Zarathustra is Nietzsches only artistic work (bare in mind that I haven't read Ecce Homo). The other books I've read of him - from both before and after TSZ ('Birth of Tragedy', 'Beyond Good and Evil', 'The Gay Science' & 'Twilight of the Idol') - is in my view not really artistic at all...
by Sphere70
Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:46 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Aesthetic, Ethical & Religious
Replies: 29
Views: 7678

Re: Aesthetic, Ethical & Religious

Cory: If you're interested in aesthetics relationship to spirituality (or life ) I recommend reading Arthur Schopenhauer's 'The World as Will and Idea'. Chapter 4 - or 'Book 4', as he call it - is the main section relating to the arts. Edit: He actually goes in-depth about aesthetics in 'Book 3' al...
by Sphere70
Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:36 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Aesthetic, Ethical & Religious
Replies: 29
Views: 7678

Re: Aesthetic, Ethical & Religious

For me Zarathustra is Nietzsches only artistic work (bare in mind that I haven't read Ecce Homo). The other books I've read of him - from both before and after TSZ ('Birth of Tragedy', 'Beyond Good and Evil', 'The Gay Science' & 'Twilight of the Idol') - is in my view not really artistic at all ...
by Sphere70
Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:27 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Reasoning show
Replies: 56
Views: 10247

Re: Reasoning show

Charles Bukowski - Hell is a Lonely Place he was 65, his wife was 66, had Alzheimer's disease. he had cancer of the mouth. there were operations, radiation treatments which decayed the bones in his jaw which then had to be wired. daily he put his wife in rubber diapers like a baby. unable to drive ...
by Sphere70
Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:25 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Reasoning show
Replies: 56
Views: 10247

Re: Reasoning show

Charles Bukowski - The Genius of the Crowd there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are ...
by Sphere70
Tue Dec 20, 2011 5:51 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: are you smart?
Replies: 131
Views: 69405

Re: are you smart?

Talking Ass: While in a Swedish mood I'll suggest you look into the poet (this years Nobel Prize winner in literature) Tomas Tranströmer. Good stuff! Here is a nice reading from the Guardians webpage Alone by Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2011/oct/06/alone-n...
by Sphere70
Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:51 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why causality is an illusion
Replies: 292
Views: 97059

Re: Why causality is an illusion

Apologies for the late reply. Ah, you’re a fighter, I’ll give you that. I’m not sure how men like Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Huang Po, Diogenes, Lao Tzu, etc, qualify as being “gray", but at least you’re putting up a spirited defense of your views, which is good to see. : Actually I don't care muc...
by Sphere70
Thu Aug 18, 2011 4:55 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why causality is an illusion
Replies: 292
Views: 97059

Re: Why causality is an illusion

In other words, not only is the concept of Silence a dualistic creation, a thought-construct, but so too is the experience of Silence. It is vitally important to understand that Silence, or the natural state, can never be experienced. And yet at the same time, it can never cease being experienced. ...
by Sphere70
Mon Aug 15, 2011 8:35 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why causality is an illusion
Replies: 292
Views: 97059

Re: Why causality is an illusion

It isn’t just about the boundaries of thought, though, but about the boundaries of all things. The boundaries between enlightenment and ignorance, for example. Or between reality and illusion. Or between the self and the rest of reality. These things are all created by thought and therefore illusor...
by Sphere70
Sun Aug 14, 2011 2:57 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why causality is an illusion
Replies: 292
Views: 97059

Re: Why causality is an illusion

They are NOT an invitation for irrational people to shut down their brains. This is a very ignorant statement. I'm sure Huang Po would slap you for this. For what reason? - First of all, to use thought to realize the boundaries of thought (in terms of Enlightenment) is not the last step, its an int...
by Sphere70
Sat Aug 13, 2011 9:44 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why causality is an illusion
Replies: 292
Views: 97059

Re: Why causality is an illusion

They are NOT an invitation for irrational people to shut down their brains.
This is a very ignorant statement. I'm sure Huang Po would slap you for this.
by Sphere70
Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:13 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why causality is an illusion
Replies: 292
Views: 97059

Re: Why causality is an illusion

Huang Po: If you would spend all your time – walking, standing, sitting or lying down – learning to halt the concept-forming activities of your own mind, you could be sure of ultimately attaining the goal. If they would only eliminate all conceptual thought in a flash, that source-substance would m...
by Sphere70
Tue Aug 09, 2011 12:12 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Visual Art as Contemplation
Replies: 60
Views: 16133

Re: Visual Art as Contemplation

Nice one - thanks!
by Sphere70
Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:03 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: know 'self' as hallucination = enlightenment.
Replies: 33
Views: 7403

Re: know 'self' as hallucination = enlightenment.

There is a seeing without the intermediate step of a someone who sees and who will consequently apply its abstract knowledge during a moment when the need for it is not there. It sure can appear that way. Doesn't mean some truth is uncovered! It's just a technique, a visual effect of a crossed mind...
by Sphere70
Mon Aug 08, 2011 4:37 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: know 'self' as hallucination = enlightenment.
Replies: 33
Views: 7403

Re: know 'self' as hallucination = enlightenment.

How can a picture "be there", filling the space, while "passed out of all relation to something outside"? How could such picture still be "sensuous" or identifying anything at all? The reverse might actually happen: all innumerable but undeniable relations to any "...
by Sphere70
Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:13 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: know 'self' as hallucination = enlightenment.
Replies: 33
Views: 7403

Re: know 'self' as hallucination = enlightenment.

I don't understand what Schopenhauer is getting at here: ...because the whole consciousness is filled and occupied with one single sensuous picture; if thus the object has to such an extent passed out of all relation to something outside it How can a picture "be there", filling the space,...
by Sphere70
Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:06 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: know 'self' as hallucination = enlightenment.
Replies: 33
Views: 7403

Re: know 'self' as hallucination = enlightenment.

Hi Menski. (observe attempts to capitilise eyes below) Hi, thanks for sharing. As to Ruthless Truth, I have been following them, but as I am not 'a graduate of their system' as of yet, I cannot claim to be 'from' them. Even if I WERE liberated according to their definition, I would debate being 'of...
by Sphere70
Sun Aug 07, 2011 11:46 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: know 'self' as hallucination = enlightenment.
Replies: 33
Views: 7403

Re: know 'self' as hallucination = enlightenment.

Good explanation of "Enlightenment" by Schopenhauer from 'The World as Will and Idea' If, raised by the power of the mind, a man relinquishes the common way of looking at things, gives up tracing, under the guidance of the forms of the principle of sufficient reason, their relations to ea...