GENIUS FORUMS

. David: If by "I" you mean subjective awareness, then the "I" doesn't appear to be on during sleep. By my perspective, it is necessarily the case that nothing is on during sleep, by definition. Sleep is a neat word for non-awareness. If you mean the body itself, then the "I...

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williamashley wrote:And if they are the same?

That cannot be.

There is only purity, or dissipation.

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. We can see by lifting our hand we have some control by closing our eyes and seeing the stars or sea. We have it within us, but what about flying or levitating why so something occur at will and others do not?? Sometimes the notion "lift hand" occurs and then "the hand" lifts. S...

. I wonder if I'm a peper or a downer or a hallucieonygen Looking at what you've written, e.g. "All I know that the key wisdom is live and let live. Be master of yourself but cause no harm. Ethics is key" , i'd say just a typical egotist, drugging himself with fanciful notions of existence...

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ksolway wrote: On browsing the web, it looks like someone has made a web page out of my compilation:

http://activekarma.homeftp.net/karma/woman/

The main picture is very appropriate . . . especially after finding that one cannot scroll down and see a head.

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. I haven't read all that much Freud, but a central idea in "Civilization and its Discontents" was that repression is a characteristic of civilization. In order to live in a civilization, humans must harness or subliumate their energies and focus them in "productive" ways, rather...

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Are you on drugs William?

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. I'm not so sure that permaculture has anything to do with truth and wisdom - at least, I don't think that was its intention. Ideally everything should relate to truth and wisdom - like agriculture, forestry, business, etc. But in reality, they don't. My understanding was that Mollison and his fore...

. At the beginning of the year 2000 i bought a share in a newly formed land-sharing co-operative, and have been involved in its development ever since. Over the last year i have been establishing the site i own on it, and have been attending to the community's ills. Since my arrival 12 months ago i ...

. Jason: (I thought I'd add this as an initial counter to the expected arguments of needing emotional contrast or tolerance developing. It is quoted from another place): "While most of the crude narcotics available on the market today are marginally to highly tolerance-inducing, experiments don...

. http://www.hedweb.com/ " The Hedonistic Imperative The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. The abolitionist project is hugely ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and morally u...

. http://www.hedweb.com/ " Saving Vehicles With Bad Drivers. Blind selective pressures have acted on living organisms over hundreds of millions of years. Darwinian evolution has powerfully favoured the growth of ever more diverse, excruciating, but also more adaptive varieties of psychophysical...

. If Steve has an IQ of 82, and Peter has an IQ of 120, and Peter sleeps with Ruth once a day for 28 days, losing 1.5 IQ points every time he sleeps with Ruth, but Steve joins Genius Forums and makes one post every 3 days for a total of 32 days, with every post increasing his IQ by 2 points, who wil...

. Avidaloca: They don't want it pushed on them, such as to enter university as you suggested. I think that's due to people being pretty much happy with themselves and not wanting to develop higher. However, this just shows their simple sense of self-worth, i.e. "I'm ok, even if I don't do anyth...

. I get the feeling that for those who develop philosophically and become wise, people think good for them but essentially "leave us alone". Yes, that does occur. Poor cherubs. They don't want it pushed on them, such as to enter university as you suggested. I think that's due to people bei...

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Jason wrote:Rhett your comments are too crytpic for me to properly understand or respond to.

Okay. I'll see if i have the time in the next few days to expand on them.

Please don't hold off in the meantime if anything comes up for you, and this also applies to anyone else.

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I make a rough estimate that i would gain about 30-40 points if i trained, like the mensa types. Don't think i ever will as i've always been highly uninterested in crunching through number sequences and shallow arcane puzzles.

My mind took a different direction.

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. ----------------- To Rhett Hamilton My quote is evil? What could morality really mean when you're an atheist? How can you call my statement evil and you don't even believe in a God? Who created this divine moral order by which you can judge my words? Me. I trust that Christ has forgiven me of my s...

. I've added some of the writings of "Foxylaythee" to the archives. I think it's an excellent read. I've just finished reading these for the first time. I agree with David's parting comment that Foxy is just like any other woman except she's aware of femininity, which, in her depravity, sh...

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Jason wrote:I'm honored to be on your hypothetical gift list.

I'm honoured to not be on it. Marsha is having another bad bout of acceptance.

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. I wasn't kidding. Neither was I. You speak just like a new-age guru and set yourself up as a teacher, the truth is anything you want it to be . . . anything that feels good to the ego that is, and then to avoid criticism for being such you speak against these people as if you are not like them. Ho...

. They are two different systems of thought, and one seeks to counterfeit the other - One is the mind of Christ, one is mind anti-christ, it's that simple. So if you're wondering how the gospel of Thomas didn't make it into the King James along with ten-million other gnostic books at the time, ask t...

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Looking back to a post i didn't read beforehand, i see that Asians have already been compared to ants.

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. The issue of racial characteristics was more heightened in Weininger's time (early 1900s) due to very limited mixing and interbreeding of different races. Mixed marriages would have been almost unheard of. Unlike today, the various races at that time would have had very unique identities that did ...

. There are powerful dynamics to consider here. A shorter and smaller man is more likely to be ignored. He is naturally deficient in the power stakes, and will be concerned with redressing this imbalance. A large man will naturally be less concerned or drawn into power battles. He may however become...