Search found 1677 matches

by Nick
Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:01 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The average person's perspective
Replies: 6
Views: 2375

Damn. The ghosts of enlightenment past are not here so you are conjuring them up from an old radio show? Strikes me as pathetic. Conjuring? No, you are badly mistaken. It's probably your own sub-conscious causing you to think this. I do recall this statement from you in a post while ago: Where are ...
by Nick
Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:37 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: All Thought is Sensual
Replies: 11
Views: 3857

Re: All Thought is Sensual

All-thought is sensual, incomplete and therefore can only breed misery. Imagine you get into a car accident which destroys all five of your senses, yet you still remain alive. You can no longer see, hear, smell, taste, or feel anything. All that you have now are your thoughts. In this scenario you ...
by Nick
Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:44 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The average person's perspective
Replies: 6
Views: 2375

The average person's perspective

Having developed my own wisdom into the depths of Truth, sometimes it's easy to forget how the average person percieves things, or how I used to percieve things. It made me laugh the other day when I thought about how the average person might react to one of the opening statements on a trascript fro...
by Nick
Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:34 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: the worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race?
Replies: 38
Views: 11879

Re: Return to the Womb

If the hunter-gatherer environment is as artistically nurtering as the author repeatedly insists, then how come the hundreds of thousands of years we spent in it produced nothing but cave scrawlings? There is this persistent meme of a Golden Age, when everything was easy, nobody had to really work,...
by Nick
Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:43 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Forget Philosophy - The Pure Words of Enlightenment
Replies: 37
Views: 11015

Good point mook!

Though I'm sure his ego came to that conclusion long before any of us did.
by Nick
Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:50 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Forget Philosophy - The Pure Words of Enlightenment
Replies: 37
Views: 11015

Truly, I am imperishable, infinite, and the embodiment of pure consciousness. I do not know how happiness and misery are experienced or who it is that experiences them. Either you really as stupid as you sound, intentionally trying to mislead people, or simply being a dick head. I think you really ...
by Nick
Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:36 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Genuis Forum Memberlist
Replies: 3
Views: 5229

Genuis Forum Memberlist

I was just browsing through the memberlist for the forum and something stood out. I noticed that two thirds of the members on this forum have signed up within the past year. I also noticed this forum was created in August of 2001, making it about five years old. That means that only one third of the...
by Nick
Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:25 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Forget Philosophy - The Pure Words of Enlightenment
Replies: 37
Views: 11015

Re: Forget Philosophy - The Pure Words of Enlightenment

I did not perform actions in the past, nor do I perform actions in the present, nor shall I perform actions in the future. Neither did I, nor do I, nor shall I enjoy their respective fruits. This is my firm conviction. #1 Prove it: You claim something and nobody here has a good reason to believe yo...
by Nick
Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:31 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Masculinity OR Femininity, which should or could I choose.
Replies: 16
Views: 5452

So, even when a female thinker arises, there are no guarantees that she will be able to stand the rigors of a philosophic life. She may well fall by the way side, as so many other men have done before – but only time will tell. - Sue In my personal experiences with people, I have yet to meet a Ma...
by Nick
Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:23 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Greetings with first thoughts on encountering the site
Replies: 23
Views: 6671

"And I am certain that there wouldn't be "Buddhists" teaching others about literal reincarnation. " I have yet to read one. Again, if there is no ego, how can there be 'literal reincarnation'. I believe this notion comes from the Hindu, not buddhist, tradition. If you are referr...
by Nick
Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:13 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Greetings with first thoughts on encountering the site
Replies: 23
Views: 6671

If so-called buddhists have strayed, then buddhism too has strayed for there is no such thing as buddhism without those who practice, study and transmit it. Unless you are claiming that all buddhists today have totally lost it, which again is a rather extraordinary claim as I mentioned before. The ...
by Nick
Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:10 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Greetings with first thoughts on encountering the site
Replies: 23
Views: 6671

If there is no ego, who are what gets reincarnated? Actually, the buddhist doctrine is not about 'reincarnation' of a permanent soul, since everything that arises exists only as a composite of interdependent causality. Perhaps you are not aware that everything Quinn lays out in terms of logic comes...
by Nick
Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:25 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Greetings with first thoughts on encountering the site
Replies: 23
Views: 6671

Well, if he is saying that about all buddhists and/or that the overall tradition espouses a view which obviously contradicts egolessness and emptiness, i.e. an eternalist or extreme view, this is a mistaken generalisation. I don't know how many buddhists Quinn has met, but there are quite a few in ...
by Nick
Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:25 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Greetings with first thoughts on encountering the site
Replies: 23
Views: 6671

He's just pointing out that Bhuddists are arrogant enough to think that they alone control their destiny. When in fact we have no control. Even the choices we think we're making completely on our own, are the result of an infinite amount of events that have happened before we even make them.
by Nick
Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:26 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Greetings with first thoughts on encountering the site
Replies: 23
Views: 6671

Re: quibble

Although all the ins and outs of karma cannot be perceived by all except a full Buddha (supposedly), this is not the same as 'luck'. So by introducing luck, he departed from his hitherto impeccable stream of logic and insight. imho. He didn't mean luck as in pure chance that something good happened...
by Nick
Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:31 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Dave Chappelle
Replies: 9
Views: 3079

He is very talented when it comes to seeing the irony and pure stupidity in peoples actions and thoughts. Why he actually checked into a mental hospital... I pondered that for a while. I started thinking that maybe he started to realize that the ignorance he mocks, is actually ignorance that causes ...
by Nick
Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:21 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: In the News
Replies: 855
Views: 349124

Nick wrote: I told her, "Since women are always showing off their tits with low cut shirts, men are gonna start buying pants that lets one or both of their nuts hang out". Pretty funny conversation, everyone got a kick out of that idea. Men already show off how sexy they are through their...
by Nick
Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:47 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The Symbolism of Sex
Replies: 94
Views: 26006

OK. How about this: Totality cannot be qualified by a 'the', as in 'The Universe'. Even though all particulars are more limited than any absolutes, any absolute neither contains nor does not contain any particular. Absolutes cannot be numbered. Absolutes neither exist nor do not exist. We can sit h...
by Nick
Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:23 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The Symbolism of Sex
Replies: 94
Views: 26006

"but the universe is the UNIVERSE" The universe is not. The universe is a thought/concept ABOUT the universe. Anything which 'is', is a non-existent entity, a codependently arising matrix of one-many principle making a one out of many fusing thereby into one whole the masculine and femini...
by Nick
Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:59 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The Symbolism of Sex
Replies: 94
Views: 26006

In enlightenment, you see yourself as the universal male and female. Far far spread out from what the ego can perceive. As Purusha and Prakriti. If someone said to me to describe my personality, I would have to point to every person in every race in every culture in every time - then I would say th...
by Nick
Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:42 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: In the News
Replies: 855
Views: 349124

Any sites on the internet of males tossing their shapely balls around in like manner? I would truly like to see a similar web site devoted to men beating their meat as innoculously as these young large titted ones are doing in innocent fun. Why are boobs considered to be harmless fun while balls or...
by Nick
Tue Jul 04, 2006 1:26 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The Symbolism of Sex
Replies: 94
Views: 26006

Other mystical experiences are quite similar in terms of the quality of perception, but overall one should not value an experience because that is all it is, and once it's over it's over so one shouldn’t desire to have it back. Like love, money, LSD, or cocaine, any time someone achieves some typ...
by Nick
Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:49 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Truth & Descartes
Replies: 12
Views: 6207

707, Hi! As for Descartes, what I think he was getting at in my own perception was the idea of, I think therefore I am, therefore he does not entirely know if reality is real, he doesn't know or know for certain however he does know for certain that he is real due to him having a consciousness, the...
by Nick
Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:30 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Truth & Descartes
Replies: 12
Views: 6207

Personally, I dont really look for labels as such, I was just browsing online on Wikipedia under Philosophy branches and found Humanism, and I could identify with a lot of its points particularly the idea of seeking the truth in people as for me, I believe were all capable of good & evil but ag...
by Nick
Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:57 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Truth & Descartes
Replies: 12
Views: 6207

Re: Truth & Descartes

As for myself, I consider myself to be a Secular Humanist, from this does that make me less likely to find absolution ? if so why.. If you are satisfied with being a secular humanist, then like anything, it will not allow you to make further spiritual progress. The best thing to do is drop any affi...