GENIUS FORUMS

You might be mistaking the limitations of your own personal experience for mine. I don't think people are very diverse in terms of being irrational. I pointed out a very basic truth, that reduction to a part is, in fact, irrational. Relation is how we make sense of things. This is too simple to arg...

Some Otto W. quotes, for a modern shaman: Cremation is Dionysian. Burial is Apollonian. Resurrection of the flesh is not affected by burning. -- The problem of individuality is the problem of vanity. That there are many souls is the consequence of vanity. The criminal is vain because he desires sing...

There's an overlap between seduction, healing, shamanism, and it also relates to Kierkegaard's dialectical redoubling. "Dialectical redoubling?" If you're to ever be of any real value to the evolutionary process, Cory, I suggest you come down to earth and take into consideration those goo...

From DQ's Kierkegaard compilation: Basically it is terrible but true, and it expresses the dreadful extent to which it is true - Christianity simply does not exit. This is the real situation in Christendom, especially in Protestantism. The men - and that means the miserable weaklings and clods that ...

2. Psychological healing: This is where you provide them with gentle psychological insights that may aid them in overcoming some sort of emotional issue, which can essentially build them up to be ready for a bit of idealism/logic. Also, some people may never reach god realms, but you can at least p...

Good grammar I think beautifies wisdom too much. Botched sentences are manly. :) joking. My grammar issues are a mundane (or potentially interesting) issue I'm coming to grips with. I'm actually horrible at writing the words physically the way I hear them in my head. I'm also terrible at proof readi...

I think you might have been blinded to DQ's true colours, attacking his movement and not his playful meaning. :)

Then again, the beautify of metaphor is the multiple meaning, it's up to you to laugh or frown at it.

I probably would like your Othello interpretation, as it's a hobby of mine to take old stories and reframe them in a post-fundamentalist context. Let me know when it's ready for viewings.

Alex, I want to see you free yourself from the evil you created. To free yourself from these Tyrant's you invented. The forum can be whatever you want it to be, and you chose to make it a certain way. Here's a good tune all about that: Without Darkness "Things are what we want them to be Though...

Alex, come on facebook and G+. We got some philosophy circles on there from people all around the world. We'll have a fun time.

Alex, Core Webworks welcomes you aboard this coming September. I run a promotional site for artists and philosophers, so yeah, take Diebert's advice and affirm the positive. There must be something you can commit to, but spending all of that energy opposing a single man or two is quite silly. Admitt...

You might be mistaking the limitations of your own personal experience for mine. :) My psychology is deeper than that. Judge not lest ye be judged.

The human race has a history of believing consciously thought-out plots are far more dangerous and evil than instinctive ones. Cold, calculated crimes tend to be punished far more heavily than crimes of passion. This relates to people's hatred of truth and, by extension, their hatred of conscious p...

He is obsessed with "worldly fairness" and because the world contains little of such a thing as fairness (at least how his little mind conceives of it), he is primarily filled with feelings of envy, vengeance and anger, and like Shepard says, he is motivated to "get somewhere". ...

Conscience? Appeal to the conscience of these Machiavellians? DQ, when I dated that lady last summer, I started having intense pangs of guilt and so I did some searching around and coincidentally found your essay "murdering women's souls for sexual gratification". Very potent read. It help...

Too true - but the challenge is, how do we get people to grow up when they do not want to grow up - or worse when they can not even see that they should grow up? The wisest we have had so far have said to not even try ("Do not cast pearls before swine" - etc.) but the world is so full of ...

From evil Wisdom: "I would sooner have the man who sins a thousand mortal sins and knows it, than him who sins but once in ignorance: that man is lost." I remember reading this when I was younger and being a bit confused, but after what I've been through recently, it makes perfect sense. T...

Yes, your job is monk. I get that. :) You just stay put and meditate in the void.

I'll give you a message if I need a refresher on the fundamentals.

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 to...

People like Oscar Wilde or George Bernard Shaw were a bit Machiavellian, but they were also very human people - genuinely intelligent and compassionate (rather than limited to superficial political cunning and feigning empathy). They are examples of people who managed to get very close to other huma...

The subject of Machiavellianism could only hold my interest if you break down very distinct species of Machiavellians. For instance, a man who wants all of the mundane, conventional things in life - luxury, women, money, fame and worldly power is just not a very interesting person. However, understa...

The reality of your own grandiosity, Alex, never really occurred to me. You were the one who brought up the subject, and I just wanted to share my thoughts on why I think employing the term (particularly over a message forum) is problematic. What I've learned about humans over the years is that we a...

Nicely put, Cory. I find these statements of yours sensible and useful. And if basis of misanthropy is self-hatred or hatred of life and even things like flesh & birth & body, what does that say about us? The First Order of Rishic (Vedic and hence Buddhist) awareness was of the horrors arra...

Enlightenment, the word, when you think about it, is really a very bad word. It does not have a definition. It cannot, in fact, have a definition because it means for each person, or for each school of thought, something different. Who can judge 'enlightenment'? A panel of authorities necessarily '...

The most evil thing in the world is, of course, logic. Logic ruthlessly exposes everything that is false and cannot be swayed or bought. It expresses no fear, has no interest in human concerns, places no value on emotional sentiment. It is wholly concerned with the truth and doesn't care who it hur...