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by Whatshappening
Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:30 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Where's my offset?
Replies: 3
Views: 1920

Re: Where's my offset?

Hey CB... Given you're lengthy comment, it's seems I hit a nerve. My direction with the offset has more to do with psycho sociobiology. "So Gary, if I get you right, we all try to know our offsets because we expect to benefit by them in some way" as well as understanding some of our angst ...
by Whatshappening
Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:05 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Where's my offset?
Replies: 3
Views: 1920

Where's my offset?

On a job site you'd hear, what's my offset? Similar questions both referring to something artificial, a mechanism for efficiency and practicality. One of my first moves when starting a new project is to pin the site, for that I need a surveyor. During our first phone conversation we discuss offset, ...
by Whatshappening
Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:12 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
Replies: 405
Views: 64098

Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?

Dennis Mahar wrote:A house is built to avoid the suffering of exposure to the elements.
It's called Shelter.
The builder's ego trip is incidental to that and must be suffered as well I suppose.
Causes/conditions.
No comment Dennis, just respect.

Respect
Gary
by Whatshappening
Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:37 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
Replies: 405
Views: 64098

Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?

That's apprentice kind of thinking. The MB is not in action to forestall suffering, any of that is purely incidental. I wouldn't buy a house off you in order for you to self-fulfill. I'd buy it to protect against the elements. You'd get the money to access the doc with the pile of stethoscopes when...
by Whatshappening
Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:52 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
Replies: 405
Views: 64098

Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?

David Quinn wrote:
I can't find the switches to delete my membership..? Where is it?..
Sorry, you have to be a genius to exit this place.

-
Or will-less(lol), one of the two.

Is there a difference?

Difference
Gary
by Whatshappening
Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:47 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
Replies: 405
Views: 64098

Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?

quote="Dennis Mahar"]The 'doing' of a master builder is actually a 'dealing with'. What a master builder is dealing with is Suffering. He is in action to forestall the suffering entailed in human being exposed to the elements. That's apprentice kind of thinking. The MB is not in action to ...
by Whatshappening
Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:25 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Difference in the "inner life" between males and females
Replies: 5
Views: 1689

Re: Difference in the "inner life" between males and females

Hi All, I'm new to posting in this forum but I've read some of the post made recently, thought I'd say hello. The subject of wisdom is important to me, it's somewhat of a paradox although, it seems to understand the absolute the path is subjective rather than objective. To find wisdom one needs to ...
by Whatshappening
Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:13 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
Replies: 405
Views: 64098

Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?

quote="Dennis Mahar"]I'm not getting the concepts: (in)actionable in-understanding is that referring to the 'in' of the person, their mindset. Surely a master builder is a condition due to the causes coaching/experience/familiarity. the apprentice is a condition that is lacking those cause...
by Whatshappening
Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:39 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
Replies: 405
Views: 64098

Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?

Is the journeyman the same as the bigminded builder. Is the amateur the same guy as the 2 x 4. Who's who over there. Who's the who and monkey moves. First the who then the monkey. In some sense "who's who" is all the same, (in)actionable structure. My apprentices, however, don't see it th...
by Whatshappening
Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:00 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
Replies: 405
Views: 64098

Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?

If what you said is true, then your comment is irrelevant. It is and it isn't. It's relevant because it discloses concept as empty of inherent existence. It's ultimately irrelevant because it too is empty of inherent existence. play of causality. A concept has meaning existentially. In that way Wis...
by Whatshappening
Sun Mar 11, 2012 2:32 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
Replies: 405
Views: 64098

Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?

Reality= what is real Since everything is empty, nothing is real Without space...form does not exist...form needs a space since every phenomenal form inherently exists (dosn't exist by itself...but exists because of causes/conditions) it is dependant on something...not self dependant.... so the con...
by Whatshappening
Sat Mar 10, 2012 9:58 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
Replies: 405
Views: 64098

Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?

Addressing the original post: You have a serious flaw in part of your thinking. It is the acceptance of a faulty premis - leading to faulty conclusions. You need to rethink what the term "reality" means, and what you are addressing. This is just a heads up. Good luck in your lifetime. I w...
by Whatshappening
Sat Mar 10, 2012 12:58 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The Road to Hell ...
Replies: 13
Views: 2956

Re: The Road to Hell ...

ForbidenRea wrote:People that are in Hell have no way out...
"no way out...", that sounds like a rule. There are rules in hell, wonderful. That sounds like Heaven, blissful.

Blissful
Gary
by Whatshappening
Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:39 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
Replies: 405
Views: 64098

Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?

BTW, Gary - I enjoyed that 2x4 post above. It reminds me of someone I knew pretty well a number of years ago and did a bit of business with. His main source of self-support was trucking, but he had done a lot of construction as well, mostly residential, in his time. I remember him being excited one...
by Whatshappening
Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:38 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The Road to Hell ...
Replies: 13
Views: 2956

Re: The Road to Hell ...

This is hell.. We got here by taking the road that saw us dismantle heaven for hell's building materials... You ain't gonna get out of it... The question remain: "Why do you pray in hell?".. How can you talk like that? What Hell? It's a strange conclusion considering the situation. Probab...
by Whatshappening
Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:14 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
Replies: 405
Views: 64098

What is reality, what is a 2x4?

What is reality? A simple question, three words. My girlfriend asked me that the other night. Catching me with my mouth open...I chuckled. How can you ask a question like that? Or more importantly why would you? At some level the answer doesn't matter, it is what it is. Just for fun, however, let's ...
by Whatshappening
Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:46 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: In everything I do ....
Replies: 294
Views: 41086

Re: In everything I do ....

I'd like to put them to work. I love working with people who work like that. They're usually busy changing light bulbs. If today's gig is setting up the trusses. That's what you do. Minimum fuss, maximum effect. Awareness/action merged. It's all about the task at hand and what you bring to it. If '...
by Whatshappening
Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:59 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: In everything I do ....
Replies: 294
Views: 41086

Re: In everything I do ....

What you are describing there is an incredible possibility for being Gary. It's what a Zen practitioner is accessing when the name 'mindfulness' is put out there. It's a way of being that you 'get' as a distinction aside from all the other ways of being. It's what you generate. It's there in every ...
by Whatshappening
Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:55 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: In everything I do ....
Replies: 294
Views: 41086

Re: In everything I do ....

But unlike the toddler, the task of "standing, walking and running" for the enlightened person doesn't come naturally or effortlessly." I separated this comment, intentionally, to highlight a point. I've taken it out of context, in fairness to the author, because by itself it's absurd...
by Whatshappening
Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:27 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: In everything I do ....
Replies: 294
Views: 41086

Re: In everything I do ....

"...,reality responds accordingly". Doesn't mean it responds to your wishes, at least not directly. But we knew that already. So if not that, then what? I read a comment here at GF, "The desire to grow into the mode of sustained non-attachment ..." the subject matter is obvious....
by Whatshappening
Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:36 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The Road to Hell ...
Replies: 13
Views: 2956

Re: The Road to Hell ...

"How can the principle of incidentals be applied?" No one wants to explore?

Explore
Gary
by Whatshappening
Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:21 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: In everything I do ....
Replies: 294
Views: 41086

Re: In everything I do ....

If i set it aside. Form as the thing and function its relations in the grand scheme? MV...would you mind explaining that for a simpleton like me. Simpleton Gary I was separating the thing from it's voyeur. A fundamental construct, which is transmutable by it's unavoidable relations to everything pr...
by Whatshappening
Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:14 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: In everything I do ....
Replies: 294
Views: 41086

Re: In everything I do ....

"...,reality responds accordingly". Doesn't mean it responds to your wishes, at least not directly. But we knew that already. So if not that, then what? I read a comment here at GF, "The desire to grow into the mode of sustained non-attachment ..." the subject matter is obvious. ...
by Whatshappening
Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:32 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: In everything I do ....
Replies: 294
Views: 41086

Re: In everything I do ....

Jufa, What I am saying is from beginning to end thought is the visionary, the architect, builder, and finally the initiator which produce effect. Are you saying Absolute or the notion of Absolute is beyond the realm of conceptual designation (thought), and that conceptual designation is a phenomeno...
by Whatshappening
Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:02 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The Road to Hell ...
Replies: 13
Views: 2956

Re: The Road to Hell ...

Gary, Can we identify existence as: one body, Universe, split up in to pieces and parts, each not the same and not different, one mind, split up in to myriad viewpoints one spirit. The web looks like, in the mind's eye, one of those 'exploded view' drawings used in technical engineering text books....