GENIUS FORUMS

David Quinn wrote: I say this because reasoning one's way into enlightenment is the only way enlightement can ever be attained. Not reasoning in an academic sense, but in a deeper, more powerful sense. Fully, madly, deeply.

How's that working out for you?

Isn't satan something or someone that plays an adversarial role, and not necessarily a specific character? It makes for a great scary bedtime story in order to scare people into submission.

To clear up what I meant - the "master" or highly conscious type mentality may be characterized by attachment to material things, even though it is of a higher type than the "slave" mentality. I think a good way of defining your usage of the terms "master" and "sl...

Help others to destroy themselves since they're going to do those things anyways. Do it in such a way that they thank you. Make sure you acquire more power in the process for yourself. That would be the moral thing to do. I've learned empathy is evil, wretched and completely selfish.

Blair wrote:

Whirling Moat wrote:I am here to test my own ideas

How does One 'own' an idea?

Quite impossible since I own them all. Bought and paid for. Nice try.

This thread doesn't appear to be about Steven Norquist but I'll make a comment nonetheless. I'm reading his book called Haunted Universe. I like his slightly dark approach. I have no idea if he is enlightened or not, since this brand of enlightened master and those like him i.e. U.G. Krishnamurti, J...

I've read all three books.

The thought that he was arrogant or condescending never entered my mind when I was reading. I didn't come across such ideas until I began reading about him in forums and book reviews.

What made you feel this way?