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- Sat Feb 16, 2019 4:28 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Transsexualism & philosophy
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10690
Transsexualism & philosophy
Topic split from Statement about Solway and Trump -- moderator ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- That was something to read. It is surprising for me to observe how much has changed in the last 8-9 years. While I understand if Kevin may be worried of people...
- Fri Dec 18, 2015 4:51 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Enlightened Am
- Replies: 33
- Views: 31426
Re: Enlightened Am
I have recently gotten a schizophrenia diagnosis, I have mentioned I used to care about philosophy and truth, and that I thought I knew what most people never get close to, but it feels as if people have a perception that any knowledge similar to say some of Jesus' knowledge, and a feeling of being ...
- Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:18 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: "I am" my reason
- Replies: 126
- Views: 81249
Re: "I am" my reason
I have a feeling that the your 'Why you exist' would be different from the concept of my 'why I exist'. why are you interested in 'coming up with nothing'? it basically means *not finding the thing I wanted to 'come up with'' which sounds quite ordinary, everybody seems to have issues where they 'ca...
- Mon Nov 21, 2011 5:05 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why causality is an illusion
- Replies: 292
- Views: 154292
Re: Why causality is an illusion
so is non-casuality :)
- Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:51 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: "A violent man will die a violent death!"
- Replies: 25
- Views: 17142
Re: "A violent man will die a violent death!"
I'd say it's akin to the idea of the "good tree bears good fruit, a good tree does not bear bad fruit". A violent man dies a violent death because his mind state is violent; if he was a calm person, he would die calm. It speaks about how the people are measured by their effects, and my gue...
- Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:27 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Qualities of a Divinely Inclined Person.....
- Replies: 670
- Views: 126835
Re: The Qualities of a Divinely Inclined Person.....
the Kevin/GF notion that the universe is wholly causal, leading to the notion that no aspect of a person is due to his own doing; that in fact there is no such thing as "own doing", that it's all "Nature's doing". This is the idea by which Kevin rejects especially emotions Note:...
- Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:40 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why I want to participate in this forum
- Replies: 42
- Views: 18073
Re: Why I want to participate in this forum
Psychologists have implied that genius is the term describing people who have extraordinary capabilities, and originally, it seemed that was the situation. However, more recent findings indicate that genius would be the normal case if we didn't screw up our children. This damage isn't intentional, ...
- Wed Jul 06, 2011 4:03 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Qualities of a Divinely Inclined Person.....
- Replies: 670
- Views: 126835
Re: The Qualities of a Divinely Inclined Person.....
Anyhow, I do believe people here can answer your question, including me, atleast, in the spirit of logic, and maybe less so in action, to me, what David said is a hard hitting statement if you really let it affect your being, but it's also a relatively simple logical conclusion in essence. I imagin...
- Wed Jul 06, 2011 8:15 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Qualities of a Divinely Inclined Person.....
- Replies: 670
- Views: 126835
Re: The Qualities of a Divinely Inclined Person.....
Alex, why do you care what others think it means though? what if they were wrong? you couldn't know unless you thought about it logically too. That is a good question. One part of it is serious. I genuinely want to know what such a statement can mean in the context of hyper-rationalism. The other r...
- Wed Jul 06, 2011 7:46 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Qualities of a Divinely Inclined Person.....
- Replies: 670
- Views: 126835
Re: The Qualities of a Divinely Inclined Person.....
What is enlightenment? It is returning to what you were before the earth was created. I really would like some more information about this statement. I also would like to hear what others here take it to mean. 'Doing philosophy'---how does one 'do' this statement? Alex, why do you care what others ...
- Wed Jun 22, 2011 5:37 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Faith and Courage.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4186
Re: Faith and Courage.
I should add: Courage isn't just facing death, because it's just as hard to face life. Courage isn't just living, because it's just as hard to let go and die. Most accurately, courage is a willingness to die, be reborn and live anew many times in your one life. If you define a willingness to die an...
- Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:31 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Qualities of a Divinely Inclined Person.....
- Replies: 670
- Views: 126835
Re: The Qualities of a Divinely Inclined Person.....
Performing holy rites seems to be to be the selfish way of trying to, hopelessly, attain the qualities of the enlightened because they have no idea of what enlightenment is about. It happens in hinduism, christianity, and buddhism, where the few very wise texts of people who were enlightened, if yo...
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 3:10 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Qualities of a Divinely Inclined Person.....
- Replies: 670
- Views: 126835
Re: The Qualities of a Divinely Inclined Person.....
Ah, interesting. There's two ways, there's the one where you sacrifice your attachments with a love of truth, although motivated by the ego, your sacrifices lead you to undermine the ego and destroy it. However, then there would be the other way where one is attached to sacrifice rather than truth, ...
- Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:02 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Qualities of a Divinely Inclined Person.....
- Replies: 670
- Views: 126835
Re: The Qualities of a Divinely Inclined Person.....
what is "performance of holy rites" meant to help? although somebody with a lot of wisdom may tend to have many of these qualities, It's a problem that people usually only see these qualities, and not the cause of them, so they will think to themselves, I can do many of these things, but t...
- Wed May 25, 2011 4:49 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Awareness, realization, and non-duality
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3215
- Thu May 19, 2011 7:51 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Felling the axiom of identity
- Replies: 50
- Views: 18778
Re: Felling the axiom of identity
The question is can there exist a thing which does not appear to any mind? Here I am leaving the qualifier mortal out, like leaving the lid off Pandora's box. you do need to define what you're talking about, but let me try..: by the usual definition then no, mind is what appears, that which doesn't...
- Tue May 17, 2011 6:38 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Felling the axiom of identity
- Replies: 50
- Views: 18778
Re: Felling the axiom of identity
The question is can there exist a thing which does not appear to any mind? Here I am leaving the qualifier mortal out, like leaving the lid off Pandora's box. you do need to define what you're talking about, but let me try..: by the usual definition then no, mind is what appears, that which doesn't...
- Sun May 15, 2011 12:26 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Felling the axiom of identity
- Replies: 50
- Views: 18778
Re: Felling the axiom of identity
The question is can there exist a thing which does not appear to any mind? Here I am leaving the qualifier mortal out, like leaving the lid off Pandora's box. you do need to define what you're talking about, but let me try..: by the usual definition then no, mind is what appears, that which doesn't...
- Fri May 06, 2011 2:30 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Can someone confirm my understanding the QRS philosophy?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 28970
Re: Can someone confirm my understanding the QRS philosophy?
You're definitely overflowing with something, but it isn't Truth. Not yet at any rate. What might it be then, David? You're not in a position to speak about "going beyond" logic and reason, when you haven't yet travelled the path of logic and reason to the very end. One can only go beyond...
- Thu May 05, 2011 9:09 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Can someone confirm my understanding the QRS philosophy?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 28970
Re: Can someone confirm my understanding the QRS philosophy?
okay.Bob Michael wrote:No, it's simply a matter of stating the facts of one's experiences as one understands themAnders Schlander wrote:Don't you think the sharing of one's personal experience of life, death, and rebirth are an act of reason?
- Thu May 05, 2011 8:31 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Can someone confirm my understanding the QRS philosophy?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 28970
Re: Can someone confirm my understanding the QRS philosophy?
Let's say for a moment you could leave Logic and Reason behind. What would that be like? And how would you explain it without logic and reason? Via the sharing of one's personal experiences of life, death, rebirth, and the developing of a living relationship with the Infinite. Don't you think the s...
- Tue May 03, 2011 10:08 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Can someone confirm my understanding the QRS philosophy?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 28970
Re: Can someone confirm my understanding the QRS philosophy?
Seems to me that no one herein has gone beyond the limits of logic and reason and has thereby entered into that rare mystical and all-knowing dimension of existence. That place of being in full living relationship with the Infinite. Let's say for a moment you could leave Logic and Reason behind. Wh...
- Sat Feb 05, 2011 1:45 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: One and ninety-nine sheep
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5827
Re: One and ninety-nine sheep
The one sheep is the most important, because the kingdom is One. He has to abandon all the *things* to find the kingdom, which he does only when it is possible to love God more than the perceived concrete things of the world. That's why I think he talks about the 99 as opposed to the One sheep. Imag...
- Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:55 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The genius of Ted Kaczynski
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7798
Re: The genius of Ted Kaczynski
Ted Kaczynski is actually, when I think of it, a bit like the solitary philosopher that has seen enough of life to make it seem retarded and in some ways atleast incredibly stupid and illogical, but still far too egotistically attached to becoming wise. He makes some interesting points that however ...
- Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:49 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: On Women, by Artur Schopenhauer
- Replies: 48
- Views: 15480
Re: On Women, by Artur Schopenhauer
About solitarity; A wise man is at home alone, and in a crowd; it does not effect him to the degree that god is with him. Those who went mad with pathology certainly never really became wise. All the people who have supposedly gone crazy in periods of extended solitude went to one egotistical extrem...