GENIUS FORUMS

In any case, I've personally had enough of this bozo. Can anybody think of a reason why he should stay? Nope. All he has had to say can be summed up as, "I like love. Love is good." I don't know if he is irrational or just a-rational on this topic, but his response to any attempt at dialo...

williamashley wrote: truth is what is. Is it ideas that prevent one from seeing clearly? To value any idea is self-deception....delusion. An idea is a tool for giving reference to what we see. If we have an idea of justice it give a perspective from which to measure what we see as just of injust. A...

propellerbeanie I like what you said for the most part, but your logic breaks down after awhile. Look at religion as people trying to be good I wouldn't say this at all. I think all kinds of different people are looking for many different things through religion. Be it peace, contentment, happines,...

It's politics. religion is culture with a source that isn't human. The source of religion is completely human. Which is like saying the cosmos exists by virtue of our ability to percieve it, which may be true personally, but hardly explains another person's acceptance of a creation by God of all re...

Truth is not only everything we see, but all we see with, know with and live with. It is the sea we swim in and the sea we are, I think I agree with you up to this point. Or perhaps you're just getting lucky, it's hard to tell.... and what we can do with this everything is all that is morally right...

Jason wrote: It's all just meaningless babble that gushes out from his brain with the sole purpose of delighting females. - [edited for grammer - DQ] In the middle ages people once accept ass's feces as an aphrodisiac, and you are welcome to test if this quaint theory on your own time. Delighting f...

The value of philosophy is as the embodiment of the best virtues of humanity: the ability to feel love, and the ability to think about it.
What does the peanut gallary think?

Love is wisdom, because it is all that is protecting our lives. It is not laws or morals or religion apart from love, but love mainly along with people who love that keep the human race alive and some steps short of murder. And if you donnot hold that as a positive goal, this survival through love, ...

Women are the most natural philosophers on earth. On a worldly level, yes, as I said before. On profound truths outside the worldly or everyday sphere, I don't see much interest from them in that, or there would be more evidence. Knowing how to get on in the world isn't truth or enlightenment/freed...

I think that's what gives women power on a worldly level. They don't know the "big truths" but they don't care, while men kind of do, at least a bit (even, in fact quite often, criminal types). So on a worldly level women seem freer, but worldliness isn't the only thing worth having. It w...

Truth is not only everything we see, but all we see with, know with and live with. It is the sea we swim in and the sea we are, I think I agree with you up to this point. Or perhaps you're just getting lucky, it's hard to tell.... and what we can do with this everything is all that is morally right...

Love of knowledge. Love of wisdom. Yet, where is the understanding of love? If you want to argue that love has some value, then you need to specify exactly what you mean by the term - otherwise it is just wishy-washy words of no meaning. Don't confuse things like spiritual love with human emotional...

All of us here are beginners when it comes to Oprah-speak. You alone are the expert in this. I can agree that you are beginners to philosophy, and that you do not have the education and the mental discipline to make philosophy a reality in your lives. If you want a circle jerk for the high Qs, invi...

if you think you can have reason and enlightenment without love you are not thinking. You need to provide some argument that love has anything whatsoever to do with reason and enlightenment. So far you have failed to do this. Let me offer you one word, recognizing that it has no value to you, that,...

Beanie, you are in the wrong forum. This forum is about reason and enlightenment. There are countless other forums devoted to the subject of love, but this is not one of them. I know this is your home address, but if you think you can have reason and enlightenment without love you are not thinking....

Some witty aphorisms on love: -I got to have some fun. No one in love is free - or wants to be. Love frees everyone, and hate builds a portable jail. Love makes time pass, and time makes love pass. Love changes our perception of time, but so does fire. The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. ...

Properllor you write inspiringly about courage, but it is a suppression of fear and not the elimination of it. A man could be physically fearless but terrified by loss of love. Never try to eliminate an emotion because they are what you are and what you live with. Feel them, and dwell on them if ne...

As if: you don't act like truth can be found or inspired or that you can be led to wisdom by your nose. All you see is truth. Look or don't look and you find truth. Truth is everything, and knowing what to do with everything, which is truth, is wisdom. What can you do with "everything"? T...

Beanie, Do you think a serial rapist is immortal if he manages to reproduce through his raping? And does the saint remain merely mortal if he doesn't have sex? In a sense both of these are immortal because the good and evil we do survives us. But, of concieving and raising children, teaching them, ...

If the truth is our friend, then the absolute truth is our enemy. It is certainly your enemy. To be considered as an absolute the truth must be separated from all the contexts that give the concept meaning. To make truth absolute every single human being, which also happens to be every living human...

Father Beanie: I know because I live consciously and add to that voluminous reading, during which I have had time to notice that every book written has a particular view of truth, and that the truth that most often claims divine inspiration, which is the very truth one should expect to be good is t...

[ quote="DavidQuinn000"]To me, propellerbeanie sounds more and more like a born-again Christian - except it is "love" and not Christ which he dogmatically worships. I do not worship love. I worship God as meme for all I do not understand and all that is greater than myself. Love ...

. [Speaking of Nietzsche] Some posts above remind me strongly of the following aphorism ( The Gay Science , 14) wherein the "selfless" nature of love is called out to stand beside its bedfellow avarice (greedy possessiveness): Sexual love betrays itself most clearly as a lust for possessi...

When people ask why reproduce; they are admitting they have nothing to give, and no love to share. When they refuse to reproduce they are throwing futility in the face of their parent's desires to find value in life, and to cheat death, and to become immortal. A person without children is a perpetu...

I am finding some cool ideas by propellerbeanie. That is what is wrong with having the great big mighty brain we are born with, and having a culture that makes a fetish of the antinatural. It may possibly be natural for our culture to have a fetish for the antinatural. Remember, everything that hap...