GENIUS FORUMS

Has anyone posting here ever put their name on a ballot? Just curious. I vote in every election, but you pick your poison. The types of guys you want in office can either make more money taking advantage of those who are in because they own them; Or they see the futility of it all. I keep hoping to...

If nothing else, you'd think the good guys would want to figure out how the bad guys keep getting their hands on the steering wheel, after which it's damn difficult to pry them off. I have found through frequent observations that: 1. Good guys are usually not really "good" guys either...t...

Carl: At root all those religions have the same values, I would say. For instance, I have seen many versions of the saying having to do with treating one's neighbors as one would have them treat you. The branches, or manifestation of these religions do vary. Especially the outermost branches, onto w...

To rise above humanness, to be the perfect buddha, is to be able to live in the world using both arbitrary segregations and the knowledges of reality in a conceptual tandem. This is a skill I do not have. For the toy you describe this means that the post-human being can see the bird in the cage wit...

Elizabeth: It is possible that Jesus lied. I could only offer my opinion and not fact, but I would say it was a contextual matter. It is something I am trying to work through. In addition to the sheep in another lot, here is another… Matthew 10: 34-42 states Do not suppose that I have come to brin...

Reed: Before we even begin, I led you somewhere I didn’t mean to go. The point to all of this was good and evil and how it could be defined. I agree with you that one does not have to die to realize this epiphany, but the fact remains that the conception of good and evil are irrelevant in this wor...

I was watching a movie called the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Johnny Depp, playing the part of Ichabod Crane, made a statement to Christina Ricci, playing the part of Katrina Van Tassel, explaining a childhood toy he had which was a round card on a string. On the one side was a cage and on the other a ...

Reed: The classic rejoinder is (can anyone attrribute this quote?): If God is All Good then He/She is not All Powerful, if God is All Powerful then He/She is not All Good. This is a tough one to refute, logically. God’s omniscience would make free will illusory. Contrarily, if he did not know, he ...

Except that it was over a hundred continuous characters wide, and therefore distorted the post box so that this thread was over two screens wide. Both pages of it, thanks to your quoting the same link. This required the annoying back and forth scrolling by one to read any and all posts. Ok, now tha...

Alas, unmasked as a poseur and not a true genius who would have know such things beforehand...unconscious, as it were. Passthrough - would you please similarly fix where you quoted reedsch so we don't have to scroll back and forth on this page, too? I suppose someone beat me to it, however, I have ...

reedsch wrote: Check out "The Spectrum of Consciousness" by Ken Wilber, which I believe is one of the seminal books on the subject... After finishing this book by E F Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed, I decided to look up Ken Wilber. Wilber has a dot com, so I perused some of his writ...

What does Schumacher has in common with Lorber in your view? While on a holiday a couple of weeks ago, I ran across one of his books, A Guide for the Perplexed, in an antique/used bookstore. The title of the book grabbed me, so, on a lark, I picked it up to glance through it. It was interesting eno...

For those who have not been there, some things are also more "contagious" than others - like eating disorders are much more "contagious" than child molestation. Most people who can work with child molesters ("can" meaning can muster enough forgiveness to be therapeutic...

Arrrhh! Consign thou to the dregs of the world I shall! Very well. However, who is this guy? The others he listed were equally as obscure. Perhaps the reason for banishment to the world realm is the very reason they are obscure, but it still affords me no explanation. I only scanned a bit of it las...

He is referenced in a book I am currently reading, and I have never heard of this man before.

http://www.jakoblorber.co.nz/Extracts.html

Has anyone here studied his work?

Maybe this is something that you really don't want to understand fully, like you don't really want to fully understand why serial killers or necrophiliacs are the way they are. Can you really understand it without getting a little bit of it in you? I think it's unhealthy to dwell on it too much. Bu...

Check out "The Spectrum of Consciousness" by Ken Wilber, which I believe is one of the seminal books on the subject... Link I shall add it to the ever growing list. I am working on another by someone a little more obscure that I found by accident while wandering through a used bookstore o...

passthrough, What is this Hidden Void you say David speaks of? Have you linked to that quote of his? What is the context for your reference, why do you bring it up? By Hidden Void do you mean that which is beyond the Totality, or in other words, no thing? If so, why are you concerned with "it&...

I know your post was directed at Sue. I hope you don't mind me commenting, as well. I always appreciate others insight. Actually, most of us are unaware of our conciousness. We not self-aware. We are effectively unconscious, most of the time. But we can be self-aware which makes us different than o...

passthrough wrote: And yet, he goes on to give an example of the mysterious cancer where an answer exists but we have not gained enough intellect to grasp the answer. Because our current doctors and scientists are enlightened more, cancer is recognizable as a form. Therefore, it can be diagnosed, e...

Here’s an interesting exercise to do: try with all your might to get outside of your own mind. What happens? We are animals first, then creatures aware of our consciousness. Animals live. Plants have no consciousness at all, and yet they live. However, I suppose without awareness of consciousness...

Kevin wrote: Finite things are the body of the Infinite. In the same way that you have hands and feet, God has finite things. And just as you are not apart from your hands and feet, God is not apart from finite things. And just as there is no you without your body parts, there is no God without fini...

Sue, I hope you are around to respond because I have been thinking about what you said and would like to explore it a little more with you (and others): There can be no separation between thinker and thought, for the ‘thinker’ is also only ‘thought”. The thinker has no existence other than a...

I have also never heard men make a clearly stated goal of removing women from the reproductive equation. But you have to imagine that turnabout on this particular issue is fair play. And since men are the vast majority of scientists and engineers, you've been warned ;-) Kevin Solway envisioned it.....

By whom? I’m assuming you will say God. How do you know enlightenment is given, though being unenlightened yourself? On that note, how do you know it’s not something we can attain? Attain is a word you used, and one that I don’t think is applicable. Enlightenment is a state of being. But even...