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- Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:46 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Wisdom of the law of Relative Infinity
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3152
Re: The Wisdom of the law of Relative Infinity
Your language makes it difficult to discern exactly what you are saying, but you seem to be referring to "I think, therefore I am" a la Descartes. This view, while striking at first, is flawed because of all the underlying assumptions about what existence actually entails. Descartes wants ...
- Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:39 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Sartre
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9241
Re: Sartre
Ha! Try reading Derrida!Ryan Rudolph wrote:What I didn't like about Satre, and many of the other European philosophers of that time period is that their language was often times too intentionally complicated, cryptic and lacking bluntness and insight.
- Thu Nov 25, 2010 1:25 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Sartre
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9241
Re: Sartre
I thought The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness was very good. I couldn't finish Nausea; it was making me sick to read it. (It was a long time ago.)
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 11:14 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Is time travel to the past impossible?
- Replies: 116
- Views: 39260
Re: Is time travel to the past impossible?
If causality is an ultimate law then time travel to the past would be absolutely impossible. You should understand that time is a mental construct, not something that exists in some absolute sense on its own. It is defined relationally. In my opinion, time travel to the past is not possible on the ...
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 11:04 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Trying to be comfortable with death.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12398
Very comfortable in my Death-themed Snuggie
The other option is that there is some sort of metaphysical law, where conscious experience is transferred into another vehicle, perhaps in some hierarchical deeper reality that the human perceiving instrument is not aware of. There's not really any reason to think that might be so, other than you ...
- Wed Nov 17, 2010 4:05 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Sentencing the Human Race
- Replies: 108
- Views: 34056
Re: Sentencing the Human Race
Indeed we are.Bob Michael wrote:Trudging towards Armageddon and perfectly on schedule.
Dust in the wind.
- Wed Nov 17, 2010 4:04 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: the peace of realization
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5024
Re: the peace of realization
At least one definition defined it as the absence of conflict. Is this the key? Is it the fact that peace is not something, but merely the absence of other things? Yes. There will at least be that one less thing to be conflicted about, so you can give it a rest. If we don't claim that peace will re...
- Wed Nov 17, 2010 3:55 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Existence is Primary
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2550
Re: Existence is Primary
Well, what do you mean exactly when you say you "exist" ?
- Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:22 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: the anther
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4533
But a flower looks like a vagina, so I don't know
Well, I had to look it up to know what he was talking about. Paco seems to be confused about / alienated from his own sexuality.
What is lower than animal nature? Plant nature.
What is lower than animal nature? Plant nature.
- Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:00 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Evil of Charm
- Replies: 83
- Views: 33552
Re: The Evil of Charm
So what you're saying is, if I find a woman attractive, I should walk up to her and say I want to fuck her instead of trying to court her? No, the fact is that people simply cannot be blunt about their intentions in realistic social interactions because that is counterproductive. And while it may b...
- Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:48 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Man and Woman's Evolution
- Replies: 234
- Views: 46695
Religion
I think you can understand the importance of religion in human history without getting bogged down in the details of some particular one. Having religious beliefs does seem to be a part of human nature. But the existence of so many competing religions with different beliefs demonstrates that the par...
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 3:24 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Man and Woman's Evolution
- Replies: 234
- Views: 46695
Re: Man and Woman's Evolution
Why do think this is important?cousinbasil wrote:Maybe I am being too serious. I am asking why they picked 3 and not 2 or 4. Better yet, why did they not leave it at 1, since it is an offshoot of a monotheistic tradition?
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:55 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Man and Woman's Evolution
- Replies: 234
- Views: 46695
Re: Man and Woman's Evolution
See, this is where I often lose patience because I can't even tell if you are serious or not. Assuming you are, this doesn't have anything to do with the number three. If you take something like perception, you can name any number of conditions that are necessary for it to occur. To take the example...
- Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:58 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: system of ethics based on realization of ultimate reality
- Replies: 78
- Views: 26623
Re: system of ethics based on realization of ultimate realit
otiosedodge, let me recommend a book for you: Against Ethics
In short, ethical systems are for stupid people who can't figure out what is good or bad without someone handing them a rulebook. True ethical behavior must come from within, it can not come from blindly following a set of rules.
In short, ethical systems are for stupid people who can't figure out what is good or bad without someone handing them a rulebook. True ethical behavior must come from within, it can not come from blindly following a set of rules.
- Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:40 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Man and Woman's Evolution
- Replies: 234
- Views: 46695
What does "is" mean?
What does exist in an ultimate sense, for example? When you get down to it, nothing. "Existing in an ultimate sense" is not actually coherent, if you look closely enough at any phenomenon. "Existence" is conventional existence, nothing else. Is that a perception? Some people wou...
- Wed Oct 27, 2010 3:22 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Consciousness, memory and perception:
- Replies: 126
- Views: 24765
Re: Consciousness, memory and perception:
Again with the rocks.
- Wed Oct 27, 2010 3:20 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is the meaning of life?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 23637
I wanna rock!
Jesus Christ, a rock is not alive, what the fuck.
How can you not know that?
How can you not know that?
- Wed Oct 27, 2010 3:14 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Man and Woman's Evolution
- Replies: 234
- Views: 46695
Perception : no more real than anything else
Perceptions exist in a conventional sense, but not in any ultimate sense.cousinbasil wrote: As perceptions are the only reality we have, illusions or not, they exist.
Similarly for the perceiver, the act of perceiving and the object of perception (which all arise together).
- Wed Oct 27, 2010 3:06 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Whatever happened to all the old members?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4672
Re: Whatever happened to all the old members?
I've gone away for years at a time, and come back. Am I back, or just dropping by for a quick visit? I don't know. What we discuss here is by nature a solo adventure. Sometimes it is a very meandering path. Some few may "get it" and "graduate." There is no longer a need to discus...
- Sat Jan 16, 2010 6:30 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Why so genius?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 23051
Re: Why so genius?
We hate most in others what we hate most about ourselves.
Anyway, there is an ignore function, and it helps quite a bit to make the forum readable.
Anyway, there is an ignore function, and it helps quite a bit to make the forum readable.
Hey Yourself
Jesus Christ!IJesusChrist wrote:Yeah! I'm better then everyone here most of the time anyways!!
- Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:40 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Abolish Guns that Kill...Replace with Vitamin Guns Instead
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6359
Re: Abolish trying to abolish things that can not be abolished
Mine was a tongue-in-cheek response to an old nemesis, Dave. Note his rephrased header... Abolish trying to abolish things that can not be abolished Nemesis? Really? I am honored. Anyway, guns can not be abolished. It is an impossibility. I don't think that many people really want to abolish guns, ...
- Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:19 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: What Would Your Last Words Be Upon Death?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16815
Re: What Would Your Last Words Be Upon Death?
Who was that general? His last words were, "Nonsense, they can't possibly hit us from -"
- Thu Jan 14, 2010 5:33 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Jennifer Aniston cell
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3796
Re: Jennifer Aniston cell
In my limited understanding of the way the brain works, no overall function is dependant on a single neuron. That's like saying a particular transistor on your computer chip does a calculation.