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- Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:37 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Women as emotional being :myth ?
- Replies: 151
- Views: 21170
Re: Women as emotional being :myth ?
How is the ego unnatural, not-natural? I consider everything in existence as natural. Why demonize the ego as something 'evil'? If it is so evil and unnatural why is it so ubiquitous, is then the whole manifest material universe inherently evil and unnatural? that seems a harsh perspective to take o...
- Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:27 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Emotional triggers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2950
Re: Emotional triggers
Out of all the philosophers, I find Nietzsche the most fascinating and insightful and entertaining. But that is just my impression. There are so many books and so little time, one can't read them all, one has to be selective.
- Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:02 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Emotional triggers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2950
Re: Emotional triggers
Transcending the ego, that's no easy task. Is this what Nietzsche talked about with his "down-going", killing the ego (the self) then overcoming it to create something stronger. But then again on my understanding of Nietzsche he seemed to be against focusing on backworlds and otherworlds, ...
- Tue Jul 03, 2012 6:31 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Emotional triggers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2950
Re: Emotional triggers
I would define an Emotion as a bodily reaction to an object or situation. If you're a cheating, wife beating, pyromaniac, white supremacist, I would say you've let your emotions get the best of you. Emotions to me are 'good' or bad' depending on the results they obtain. One mother may nurture her ba...
- Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:02 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Faith
- Replies: 109
- Views: 24843
Re: Faith
I'm not familiar with Kierkegaard, never studied his writings. Maybe the above is why.
- Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:58 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Emotional triggers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2950
Re: Emotional triggers
But hunger and anger are just feelings in the body. How is one permitted, one forbidden, one judged delusional, the other judged right and proper? What about Joy? can one distinguish between negative and positive emotions. Because I can acknowledge that negative emotions when they arise should be ov...
- Sun Jul 01, 2012 3:23 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Emotional triggers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2950
Re: Emotional triggers
If a person is hungry, and they experience anger, that is their body sending them signals to do something. No one is ever removed from life and in a vacuum. As living creatures we have first to survive. Eating being essential, the body will use everything it can to spur one on to rectifying the defi...
- Sun Jul 01, 2012 3:03 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Faith
- Replies: 109
- Views: 24843
Re: Faith
The rational status for the God question, for human being, is that it remains unanswered. the positions of believer, atheist, agnostic are merely opinions. suspend belief either way is an appropriate response. Yes, at heart I remain neutral when it comes to this question. I suspect it is somewhat b...
- Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:15 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Emotional triggers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2950
Re: Emotional triggers
But what if that person was being held hostage and was being starved deliberately, would not they have justification for feeling anger. Emotions seem to me an integral part of the human organism. A survival mechanism. Something that has survived down the ages. I suspect it must have some value. So d...
- Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:31 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Women as emotional being :myth ?
- Replies: 151
- Views: 21170
Re: Women as emotional being :myth ?
Ah so its like emptiness is the neutral (and only reasonable) attitude to life, between negative and positive. pessimistic and optimistic. nihilistic and essentialist?
- Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:55 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: "I am" my reason
- Replies: 126
- Views: 81068
Re: "I am" my reason
My ego believes what you say is fundamentally sound.But going beyond ego, I'm not sure my ego knows how to do that, or even wants to.
Thoughts that you've displayed are akin to sentiments I've experience in my more trippier moments though.
Thoughts that you've displayed are akin to sentiments I've experience in my more trippier moments though.
- Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:48 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Emotional triggers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2950
Re: Emotional triggers
Yes I am realizing more about emotions. I think i should really read more of this site. I know the drawback of emotional states, but i never thought of eliminating emotions, overcoming them, subjugating them.
- Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:34 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Women as emotional being :myth ?
- Replies: 151
- Views: 21170
Re: Women as emotional being :myth ?
What you say is articulate and thought provoking. But one thing I don't quite grasp is what distinguishes nihilism from 'emptiness' they seem almost to signify the same thing.
- Thu Jun 28, 2012 1:11 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Emotional triggers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2950
Emotional triggers
From the little I've read of this forum, I've gathered that emotions are looked down upon as weakness and folly and contemptible and even 'feminine'. Are emotions not to be trusted? does one of superior intellect always rely on cold logic, do they ever succumb to emotions? I know the averrage mind c...
- Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:28 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What drives a Genius?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17479
Re: What drives a Genius?
I have the desire, I don't think I have enough discipline though. There's only so much a person can digest.
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:09 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What drives a Genius?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17479
Re: What drives a Genius?
Thank You, your blog is very insightful, your writings are quite profound. You display a clarity of thinking I can only admire. When I think about how I can attain such a sublime state of mind I remember Nietzsche: “How shall I reach the top?” No time. For thus reflecting! Start to climb!" Mayb...
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:32 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What drives a Genius?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17479
What drives a Genius?
I wonder if any Geniuses who happen to frequent this forum would be willing to share with the less gifted of their brethren what constitutes at the core the mind of one possessing superior intelligence. Basically what makes a Genius? Is the Genius a type that from birth is biologically predetermined...
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:34 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Road to Hell ...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2994
Re: The Road to Hell ...
The Road to Hell ... Starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour.
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:20 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Machiavellianism
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8925
Re: Machiavellianism
Initially it was, but widespread dissemination of Machiavellian literature shows that the underlying social psychology applies everywhere where social power and seduction matter. Hence, you see Machiavellian philosophy rear it's head even in the music industry (2pac Shakur consciously employed it t...
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:57 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Music that moves
- Replies: 1086
- Views: 468413
Re: Music that moves
Mozart's Symphonies, concertos, sonatas, overtures, move me very much.
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:43 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is the the value of being a genius?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 53297
Re: What is the the value of being a genius?
It seems the value of being a 'Genius' is the advantageous ability to process life's experiences more efficiently than most of humanity.
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:35 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: purgatory
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3174
Re: purgatory
We probably in Hell already, our dumb asses not knowin
Everybody kissin ass to go to heaven ain't goin
PAC
Everybody kissin ass to go to heaven ain't goin
PAC
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:26 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Christ consciousness, Buddhahood, Cosmic Union...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8993
Re: Christ consciousness, Buddhahood, Cosmic Union...
Lets say that everyone on this planet attained 'Christ consciousness, Buddhahood, Cosmic Union etc' then what would be the end result, A Utopia?
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:13 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Faith
- Replies: 109
- Views: 24843
Re: Faith
What if one cannot select ones god wisely, what if it is an unconscious idiosyncratic part of the personalty. It seems depending on a person constitution they are likely to exalt different things as the most highest. e.g. A psychopath might worship "Power" as their God, and a 'spiritual' p...
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:06 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Fate & Time do not exist...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2863
Re: Fate & Time do not exist...
Time may not exist but it sure is useful.