GENIUS FORUMS

. (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 done by Ja...

. 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...

The enlightenment seekers think too much about "ego". They should stop seeking to destroy their tendencies, and instead create the tendency to uncover the truth in their day to day lives. Enlightenment is being aware of the truth. That's all it is. Find the truth and then decide for yours...

. Rhett: To "jump out of your socks" from an overhead gun-blast would still be indicative of delusion. A better response would be to investigate the situation with a clear mind. To do that in view of personal safety would not be delusional. Nick: You are missing the point by stating that y...

. Rhett: Being a good thinker and a good moralist go hand-in-hand Rairun. Whilst most 'moralists' are mind-dead religion regurgitants, there's another breed of people quite unlike them. Rairun: No, they don't. You can be moralist while being a good thinker, but you have to recognize that you're basi...

. What you are describing is pure instinctual reaction, not emotions. Think of it this way, would you feel like a pussy if a gun is shot right above your head unexpectedly and you jump out of your socks? Of course not, your mind doesn't even have to "process" the blast from the gun. It's w...

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In the presence of others ones ego is protected and reinforced, often via daily life iterations, otherwise the others ego may well become one's own.

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How do you get on in life Unknown? Does the bus driver understand you when you need to buy a ticket?

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sschaula wrote:To answer Rhett's question to hades - my reward is the personal freedom that goes along with it.

That question was actually posed by Diebert.

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. There's a distinction to be made between feeling superior and feeling different . Feeling superior doesn't actually make you any different at all. On top of that i also see a difference between feeling superior and (merely) cognising that one is superior. The feeling is ego-based and therefore rev...

. Preaching Masculinity over Femininity or Males over Females is no different than glorifying White Power over the Black man.... no? Whilst the gaining of power of masculinity over femininity plays a role, the overarching solution is the eradication of femininity in each and every one of us, regardl...

. Being a good thinker and a good moralist go hand-in-hand Rairun. Whilst most 'moralists' are mind-dead religion regurgitants, there's another breed of people quite unlike them. I think UG is a cool dude. All he seems to say is that there's no wrong way of living. Anyone can do whatever he or she w...

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I recall having conversations with you over a year ago Rairun and you're still saying the same things. No progress. Still extoling the virtues of psychopathy.

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. The other day I came across a passage about epilepsy written by Nietzsche, so maybe it was common for people to write about it back then or something. What is the significance of epilepsy? It's not that common is it? I don't think I've ever known anyone who has had it. Why would anyone feel the ne...

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drowden wrote:I once passed an entry test into Mensa. I immediately cracked the top off a stubbie, sat back and wallowed in my personal glory.

Next comes the UltraHi IQ test. Reckon I'll need at least a six-pack for that one.

Dan Rowden

Why the need to unwind?

And why not use God?

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. 'The Intriguing Secret of the Machinery' http://www.utas.edu.au/docs/humsoc/kierkegaard/docs/Kierkepilepsy.pdf "And with reference to the last of the tales in the Thousand and One Nights, Kierkegaard remarked that "as Scheherezade saved her life by telling stories, I save my life or keep...

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DavidQuinn000 wrote:

catsndogs: So nobody here cares what their IQ is nor knows what it is?

Well, let's ask them. Anybody here care?

Whenever i hear an I.Q. score i naturally place it on a scale from zero to ten-thousand.

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. I have been on full disability for "cyclothymic disorder" for six years. Psychologists have finally come up with a modern word for Samsara? I have never been forced to take any medications, and until recently, I was unmedicated for several years. I voluntarily started back on an SSRI a f...

. It is so hard for me to imagine a girl of twelve finding a man of thirty attractive. I have been around many, many girls that age and they consider someone thirty to be very old. Even my seventeen year old daughter thinks that thirty is old. Certainly, such a thing is possible but are you sure tha...

. . . any man who is a half decent human being, or even a quarter decent, or not decent at all for that matter, will attract the attentions of women provided he has enough money and status in the community. I wonder if Siddarta kept getting offers. One of my next door neighbour's is a young girl, a...

But I wonder -- you consider men born in the '40's to be more masculine; taking stands against this thing or that thing; challenging oppressors. Please keep in mind that my intention here is not to discuss politics but do you consider George W. Bush to be that sort of man? He was born in the '40's ...

I think its interesting that Marsha has two children, Sue one, and Kelly none, and that they devoted themselves to wisdom at ever younger ages and in ever increasing degrees. I see this as mirroring the societal trend for males to be less masculine and females to be less feminine. I think we're seei...

<t>Sure. Just email me your address.<br/> <br/> I have the forum set up for viewing 20 posts per page, so when i did the saving and there was more than one page to a thread i numbered them accordingly.<br/> <br/> Interestingly, if anyone plans to save the forum in future it should be quicker and eas...

<t><br/> I have a considerable portion of the forum saved, but i don't know how to make it available to people. <br/> <br/> I have from about midway through the block of threads that was numbered '9' through to the end, which was numbered in the twenties i think. It is 63Mb and occupies 84Mb on the ...