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Suergaz wrote:

Quote:Quote:<hr>Rhett, you mistakenly think a hurdle to wisdom goes against wisdom. Wisdom itself is a kind of hurdle!<hr>
Can you be more specific?


Rhett

Quote:Quote:<hr>Quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Basically, they try to convince themselves that the act of giving-up on thinking is wisdom. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- yet the very act of thi...

Don't you think you know it?



Rhett

Do you have any idea why these people have deeply studied it? I just mean, if these people arent seekers, and the Bhagavad Gita is basically all about truth-seeking (which it certainly appears to be, at least to me), then what about it do these people find interesting enough to deeply study? Just cu...

<t><br/> In an earlier thread, Rhett mentioned that the Bhagavad Gita could have the unfortunate effect of stopping people from seeking truth. <br/> <br/> <br/> I withdraw the statement (and ideally wouldn't have made it), considering that i've only read a few bits of it on the 'Minefield'. I actual...

<t>African and Australian peoples have shamanic traditions which exist for no other purpose than communing with "ultimate reality."<br/> <br/> How can they commune with reality since they don't experience it Truthfully?<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> For you to suggest that entire races of people have...

<t>Jesus. Wasn't the misogyny enough? <br/> <br/> I was being no more than suggestive in response to a previous point.<br/> <br/> Perhaps there is reason to debate it? If i have unearthed significant attachments then that may well be the case. After all, do we want to become like Ne Plus Ultra? <br/...

<t>Neither is the assertion by some psychometric experts that blacks are inferior to whites because the average of their collective IQ scores is lower than that of whites racist. I'm interested to here what you would make of that. <br/> <br/> Now we're really onto a dangerous topic. I imagine that i...

<t>John: We must conclude then, that the staff is magically spontaneously produced at the instant it strikes Rhett.<br/> <br/> Rhett: The staff never really exists.<br/> <br/> John: You are saying that a non-existant staff hits...<br/> <br/> The staff does exist, as i mentioned in my response. It ex...

<t>I can't work out how Andrew Beckwith is in that supposed elite group. He is clearly an idiot, from my perspective. <br/> <br/> Yes, i saw it unfold. I thought he was just a lacky and would peel away and leave room for some real thinkers to enter the fray. It seems that there weren't any.<br/> <br...

<t>Voce: Rhett, you're right in your last post. You're most likely wrong in the fact that things don't exist when you don't view them. I mean, if such a thing were true, you wouldn't be existing when I wasn't aware of you, and I wouldn't be existing when you weren't aware of me. Do you see where thi...

<t>Rhett:<br/> 1. Since you are asserting that the staff may exist even when it is not being experienced, philosophically speaking, i can put the onus on you to prove that proposition. Seriously, i am interested to know why you think that something you experience in one moment can continue to exist ...

<t><br/> Anna: My answer to number one is: because I am no longer an infant.<br/> <br/> That's hardly a line of reasoning...<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> Anna: My answer to number two is: The variability in perception is certainly fascinating, and quite irrelevant. To say we need not worry about it ...

<t>Rhett: Seriously, i am interested to know why you think<br/> that something you experience in one moment can continue to exist after you<br/> have finished experiencing it (?).<br/> <br/> <br/> Voce: Abductive reasoning, fool!<br/> <br/> <br/> I'm sure people will take it in the manner in which i...

<t>-------------------------------------------<br/> Anna: Rhett, do you really accept the above nonesense, that the staff ceases<br/> to exist when it is outside of his awareness! No wonder women aren't<br/> interested in (this sort of) enlightenment.<br/> -------------------------------------------...

<t>Leo wrote:<br/> <br/> "A new sage is with us! I believe you, my friend. But you can't very well expect the unenlightened to understand, now can you?"<br/> <br/> You are becoming quite undiscriminatory Leo. Your definition of enlightenment seems to run along the lines of: 'The state of anyone that...

<t>Suergaz wrote:<br/> <br/> How is that Rhett if we have no will? <br/> <br/> Read David's book.<br/> <br/> You think the making of decisions makes the notion known as morality valid?! If it is only a notion, then what is it really but the prejudice of punishers? Morality is the safe-guard of bad c...

<t>We can never know if we have free will because, in order to even ask the question, it presupposes we already do.<br/> <br/> Your statement is illogical. Will relates to the conscious directing of one's experiences, or more correctly - the illusion of the conscious directing of one's experiences. ...

<t>Rhett wrote: Anyone that does not know Ultimate Truth is incapable of determining whether anything they think is true or not. This statement cannot be falsified, it is logically valid. Thus, anyone that does not know Ultimate Truth does not<br/> have a single leg to stand on, they exist solely in...

<t><br/> Dave Toast wrote:<br/> <br/> Not that I remember but I'm pretty sure, and I think the evidence bears this<br/> one out, that when I was a baby I had all sorts of correct knowledge which<br/> followed no path of higher reasoning and had nothing to do with faith. This<br/> would seem to inval...

<t>Rhett, my dear, what is your view on Artificial Intelligence? <br/> <br/> A proper understanding of the nature of cause and effect gives one a wholly different perspective on Artificial Intelligence. Man has been creating AI since the dawn of man, because man is AI. There is no fundamental differ...

<t><br/> Hi Hywel,<br/> <br/> Happiness is lack of desire. This can be through contentment with the<br/> current situation, and therefore temporary, or through understanding of the<br/> nature of happiness, and therefore permanent (while the understanding<br/> remains).<br/> <br/> Whoa there. I agre...

<t>Hi Hywel,<br/> <br/> It is the voice of limited or partial reason, in concert with faith.<br/> <br/> Unless you know something fully, you don't know it, and you need to keep reasoning until you reach certainty.<br/> <br/> At the moment your concept of will is still in the realm of faith.<br/> <br...

<t><br/> No responses thus far, perhaps i have hit the jackpot here, perhaps i have hit on the dearest attachment of all?<br/> <br/> Let's see if we can get a serious debate going...let's see if people are willing to back up their attachments...<br/> <br/> Here is another extract from the 'Genius Ne...

This is an extract from 'Genius News' of a discussion that took place on the 'Genius List' back around mid 2002. It was my first foray on the list. Dan comments are the one's to watch, my views are now radically different to what they were then. Rhett: I hope that a genius can achieve plenty of happ...