GENIUS FORUMS

<t>Robert Larkin wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> To express truth via thought is impossible. Do you mean to tell me you don't understand it, that all we can do is draw second-hand pictures of at best relative usefulness? <hr> This is a common, lazy viewpoint. In reality, words and thoughts are pe...

It pertains to all worldly attachments.

<t>Robert Larkin wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> That's interesting, David, in that what I've come across all suggests there are absolutely zero true thoughts. Thoughts can have relative value - or relative uselessness - but their relationship to any truth is at best second hand. <hr> So I take i...

<t>The chimp wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> This is all irrelevant. Do you think women should become uglier like David Quinn does? <hr> Verily, perchance I have taken from you an hundred definitions and the<br/> dearest playthings of your virtue; and now are ye wroth with me as children<br/> are...

<t>Enlightenment is not about unburdening from conceptualization. It is about experiencing true understanding and true thoughts. <br/> <br/> The concept of cause and effect, for example, when properly understood, is a true thought and needs to be protected against the false mythologies which current...

<t>Naturyl wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> The authentic wisdom is found at the source. Science and even philsophy often favor modernity, but I think that spiritual insight becomes more pure the closer one gets to its origins. We could do a lot worse than to skip the middleman and go all the way ...

<t>From Kevin Solway: <br/> <br/> - You can only properly recognize a delusion through intellectual knowledge, the discriminating force. That intellectual knowledge in itself moves you closer to Truth, but not by any means all the way there. Then, the more you think about Truth, and the more you fil...

<t>Rairun wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> "From 1931 to 1933, they continued to travel and Mead continued to study in New Guinea. In 1933, they assembled their third camp in Kenakatem. Here Mead made her great discovery that "human nature is malleable". She had witnessed three specific cultures; ...

<t>Krussell wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> On the other hand, if we were to adhere to your generalizations wouldn't it be equally true that women are a stabilizing force given the extreme designs of MAN that need to be tempered? <hr> This has been the traditional dynamic, yes. The powerful psych...

<t>Naturyl wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> Hu Zheng: I think the proportion of men to women will always keep 1:1, even people want to born boy. The biological theory make the proportion keep 1:1.<br/> <br/> Nat: That pesky yin/yang thing again. <hr> No, you've already agreed that there is no rela...

<t>Krussell wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> David, there's a two-pronged explanation to your perception and why it is so. One of which is that men of exceptionally high levels of intelligence outnumber women 2 to 1. However, the same is true on the other side of the spectrum. ie metally deficient...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr> Females are quite capable of greatness. What is misogynistic is your not-so-subtle implication that in order for women to achieve anything great, greatness must be redefined. <hr> The article posted at the beginning of this thread does show that greatness is being redefined by mo...

<t>Thomas wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> Well, greatness is culturally construed, so there are few female artists who have been idealized as much as those artists you mentioned. It's a result of male dominated culture. <hr> Sure, males have defined what greatness is. That goes without saying. It...

<t>Sure. But I don't make judgments based on differences in gender, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation either. That would be stupid. Rather, I judge each individual I meet, man or woman, on their mental qualities, level of understanding and values. That is what interests me most as a philosopher....

Thomas,

Do any these female artists possess the greatness of a Michelangelo or a Picasso?

You obviously must believe that your values and choices are superior to those made by frauds and authors of their own misfortune?

<t>Krussel wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> I think to view oneself as superior to others on any basis is stupid. <hr> So when you wrote on another thread:<br/> <br/> What kind of a man are you? Not only are you a misogynist but a hypocrite as well. Might I add that you are a spirtitual eunuch. I ...

<r>Here is an article which examimes the question of why there are no great women artists. Of interest to me is the way society's traditional notions of what constitutes great art have either been modified or abandoned in order to create the illusion that woman are as good at art as men are. This pa...

<t>Aphorisms from Weininger's Notebooks:<br/> <br/> --<br/> <br/> - Innocence is ignorance. To know and remain innocent would be the highest.<br/> <br/> <br/> - Morality expresses itself thus: Act in full consciousness, that is, act so that in every moment you are whole, your entire individuality is...

<t>What is this infamous baby-strangling remark that everyone keeps refering to? I must have been away at the time. <br/> <br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> What is this notion of understanding causality in a spiritual way? What kind of division is this, and why not explain it instead of stating it smugly...

<t>John wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> Your concept of the grass is not the grass, it is far removed from the grass. <hr> Indeed, it is in his head. <br/> <br/> However, your concept of Kevin's concept of grass is far removed from Kevin's concept of grass. <br/> <br/> In fact, all of your concep...

<t>Thomas wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> David: You don't understand causality with your own mind in a spiritual sense.<br/> <br/> Thomas: Aha, now we are coming closer to the core of your argument, which is -how could it be otherwise- spiritual. You seem to maintain a spiritual attachment to th...

<r>Owen wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> Please demonstrate how it is that causality "is universally true by logical necessity".<br/> <br/> I bet you won't even try. <hr> I explored this issue in detail in my book, particularly chapter 2 - <a href="<URL url="http://free.hostdepartment.com/w/wisdom...

<t>Thomas wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> David: They don't help a person understand the soul of causality, which is where you are lacking, Thomas.<br/> <br/> Thomas: The soul of causality? Oh well. I think now it is YOU who sounds like a bible-banging parish priest. Let's call it the church of c...

<t>Naturyl wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> 1. If non-causal phenomena are observed in nature, they exist.<br/> <br/> 2. Non-causal phenomena are observed in nature.<br/> <br/> 3. Non-causal phenomena exist.<br/> <br/> How do any of the historical follies you list affect the truth of this logical ...