GENIUS FORUMS

very constructive synthesis between eastern and western, this is what is needed today, merging the perspectives of Holism and non-Holism into one. good read

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran showcased a patient with a diagnosed with typical Split-Brain Syndrome. He suffered from epilepsy and as a result had to have the connection between both hemispheres cut. This resulted in the Split-Brain case that he now suffers from. However, when asked separately, the rig...

How can anyone assert that the ends do not justify the means, when everyday, we justify our appropriation and killing of other life for the sake of furthering our own, when we kill animals for the sake of nourishment? On the twilight side of things, life requires cruelty, and therefore, we justify o...

Just because I AM A SINNER doesn't mean I am that linvingston road block you all call fate. I am an Uzzy. I am a sinner. Why? Jude, F By whose standards are you a sinner? Do you know the concept of Sin has only been greatly used in the Judeo-Christian theology only? Why is it sinful to do things wh...

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There is a misconception with your idea of "feminism", where masculinity is to be comprehended as the properties of reason, calculation, domination, "femininity" is to be comprehended as the manifestation of the properties of emotion, sensation, art, beauty.. An anxiety in a guy ...

~ if john lennon delved into the epistemological and metaphysical... oneness is merely a product of societal labels. if humans were non-existent then oneness would defined by the universe. i am the universe, i am infinite. obviously my 'oneness' can be infinitely broken down, but that's old news by...

Were the human being not a human being, would not the world present itself in an entirely different fashion? Envisage yourself not being human, but being the world itself, were you the world itself, would not everything be ONE indivisible, inseparable, unified being? What is knowable, beyond any cer...

What is the world like were we to remove our human perception of it? If we were not human, would the world be present to us like this? Would the world be a multiplicity of things, a movement, endless rotation, creation, destruction, or would it be something entirely different?

The advent of an Industrial Society would've never been given cause to rise were it not for the mechanical view of the world, the mechanical philosophy first promulgated by Descartes, furthered by Bacon, substantiated by Galileo and finally stamped with "scientific validity" by virtue of N...

You are right about the time part, the fate part goes a bit more complex than that... If anyone is familiar with the German Idealist tradition (including Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Goethe and Schopenhauer), you would realize that time, along with space and causality might not be as "real" as ...

> Jamesh you are completely right about "mirror" and "elemental" reality not being opposites, in the language of German Idealism they are called "empirical" and "transcendental", while being viewed as opposites, they are not. They simply "differ" to ...

Dionysus - You are completely wrong. There is nothing about consciousness that is beyond empirical reality. Consciousness is the overall effect of certain forms, of certain casual patterns. "Consciousness "moves" because causes change. Not that it "moves" as such, rather th...

[quote="Firefly"]Here's my two cents... I hope this helps expand your works to a more approachable form. Note that my approach is to expand awareness of the subject, not to insult or intimidate.. may poke. This exercise also helps me so don't think too much into it. 1. Consciousness exists...