GENIUS FORUMS

I thought Dan's website was abandoned on the Future Philosophy forum, having seen it there in March.

Ah, I recall you mentioned adding blogs and stuff, so I guess you were going to re-launch it.

Fictional Final Goal Classical Adlerian Psychology assumes a central personality dynamic reflecting the growth and forward movement of life. It is a future-oriented striving toward an ideal goal of significance, superiority, success or completion. The early childhood feeling of inferiority, for whi...

But how does one know that one's value system or long term plans are unattainable. I don't know that it's impossible for me to experience formlessness without any delusion whatsoever. But, by experience, I can judge it to be highly unlikely for me personally. That doesn't make an inch of difference...

bert, we have no direct experience of personality. Well, if you're determined to be a "we" then you are directly experiencing the very common, and tremendously boring, personality of the people. And this personality is also tremendously effusive. I'd personally like to meet Bert, not this ...

What's the point of just agreeing, bert? Why not say something truly oppositional - since pretending that confusion is uncommon is just agreeing wit Dan's aphorism. It is sometimes said colloquially that if women didn't have vaginas men wouldn't want to know them - this is regarded as a base and vul...

I am a true hypocrite, one who is frequently thinking about (and occasionally voicing) ideals that I do not, and cannot, live up to. But why should something I am able to live, necessarily be what's right and proper for me? All about me, people endorse the easy and comfortable life, as well as livin...

They are, too. They seem new. Perhaps part of me wishes to forget them.....

http://infinite.futurephilosophy.org/aphorisms.html

The way I would normally think of it, the opposite of vulgar would be polite rather than noble. I just don’t usually think in terms of nobility. Nietzsche had a background in philology and classical studies. He is using words with particular connotations: Vulgar means popular (of the people); Nob...

When someone says, "Do whatever you like," I've always thought it sounds like, "Leave me alone". I see psychology as repairing one's intellectual dysfunctionality. It is hard for an individual to do it, and hard on everyone else if they don't. I think the core problem is an embar...

Truth is the understanding of the root nerve of thinking. It is the willingness to disagree with whatever status quo, no matter the cost, when that status quo has become stale. I'd be careful about interpreting truthful disagreement as being purely oppositional. Conventional politics is just gratui...

Something's harsh when it hurts. Feeling angry comes from psychological damage that hasn't been healed. There is no point in being harsh out of retaliation for being damaged. There is plenty of unconscious reacting on this forum, stemming from unaddressed issues. It would be better for such damaged ...

No, without the testing and striving, I wouldn't have found out the flaws. I have "spiritual osteoporosis", but I'm in much better shape now to deal with the damage. For the first time in my life, I'm looking at what my life really is, and what needs to be fixed. It's better I stay off the...

Terry/Suergaz:

Any emotion, like love, comes at the expense of clear and accurate reasoning. This appears to be the case without exception. This could change, though is unlikely.

I am taking a sabbatical to work on sorting out dental issues (then I'll get my teeth into philosophy).

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I apologise. The slightest error turns to mash here. I am not strong enough for it, not strong enough to speak without corruption.

I will NOT come back, not until I am alone and love nothing.

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I am not eager to discuss genius, especially given that I keep associating it with "intelligible ego" and stuff like "the highest reality is the hyperempirical reality". Vanity, vanity.

Good time to pay heed to the ethical imperative.

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Very few people are serious.

Should we kill the seed because of its heritage,
because it will improve future seeds only a bit ?

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I'm taking some time off to visit the trolls.

Kelly: Is he correct, or is the lowest woman an utter good-for-nothing? If she were, it would not make it any worse to judge her! Therefore, it can only make her better to reprimand her. Is Weininger wrong, or is he distinguishing between judgment and "causing to become less conscious"? M...

. Notice that Weininger says that "the lowest woman" can be crushed . This means, she is not utterly, 100%, unconscious of her mediocrity. She is not totally incapable of thought. Hard to believe.... Is he correct, or is the lowest woman an utter good-for-nothing? If she were, it would not...

A person might initially observe that everything around him seems to be causally-created, and this could lead him to infer that all things in the Universe are causally-created. In doing this, he is performing an inductive step. At this point, he doesn't know whether it is actually true that all thi...

. How cunning is ego. If a woman says, "I am lazy and not pushing myself enough", it is to others, and about others, because she is all show. She blames others for not helping her, or say, "I am better than them" to avoid conscience of her weakness. Then she asks, "Why doesn...

Kelly: I ride a bike, and my helmet fits better with short hair. This is very true, and you avoid "helmet hair". Women don't ride bicycles because they have *hair*. And for some reason, don't like to be seen making an effort at anything. They can't even make an effort at being smelly, it ...

A very minor nit to pick: You can make inferences about sets based on a limited number of representatives Definition for inference: an abstraction assumed to represent all cases of a particular appearance. It is logically impossible to use inferences about the Absolute (all possible abstractions/ap...