GENIUS FORUMS

See the incongruency here. You are still a mother, but you are a mother like I am a mother, although I have never had children like you have. I should add more, but I'm tired and not feeling well. Well, I suppose it is all how "mother" is defined. My definition of mother was one who had c...

I think the general question of this topic is: can a substance enlighten us? I can only imagine that there are some substances out there that may seem as if they cause “enlightenment”, but the fact is that enlightenment isn’t something we can attain, it is something we are given. We like this...

[Alcohol, street drugs and prescribed drugs…] damage areas that were working well in addition to helping areas that needed repair. A wise man once told me that you have to pick your poison. Those that have been through psychological disturbances may understand the meaning behind this wise saying....

Passthrough, How old are you? I am older than you. As a curiosity, why is age of any importance? Please do not judge yourself unconscious. You are at least partially self-aware, or you would not be shining a light upon this incident. Conscious vs unconscious. When you have been unconscious for the ...

CarlG: But you might want to ask yourself why you are so bothered? I shall, but I could ask the same of him. Funny thing is that he is just as obnoxious about trying to get me to come to church and see his line of thinking. I went one time. His line of thinking sends me running the opposite directio...

A and B in conversation at work. A: Yeah, I just got back walking down by the river. It is such a beautiful day. B: It would be great to get on my bike and ride into the mountains today…but I won’t get home from church until 7:30. By then it will be too dark…and cold. If B believes that God cr...

Soul is knowing our connection to the Universe. Few people have it. Universe = God [established definition] ? To follow is something you stated that I intend to think about for a while. We had discussed a follow-up thread, but this is the heart of all that matters, so there will not be one posted. ...

K: However, it wouldn’t make sense to dispose of all unconscious things, In fact, it wouldn’t be possible since conscious things are made of unconscious things. For example, a conscious mind is made of unconscious cells and atoms. Which is proving your first statement: K: All things are disposa...

Trevor: A patient enters a doctor’s office, complaining that one eye is much stronger than the other. What is his treatment? Why, the doctor covers the stronger eye, so that the weaker eye may strengthen in the meantime. The doctor puts glasses on the guy. The lens acts as an assistant so that the...

K: Everything we do creates life and death. A wise person does so wisely, and an unwise person does so unwisely. This is clear. The point I was trying to make is this: In this forum, is a notion that the word “woman” is not only a definition for a gender but an ideal - similar to the confusing ...

K: I don't see any difference. Ok, let me try to see this from your point of view…creation of life occurs if it is done the natural way or done in a test tube. True. Either way, they are making decisions to create life, and playing God, so to speak. True. Either way, nature can stand in the way o...

K: Imagine there as a community of spiritual, scientific men living happily on the moon, and reproducing through genetic engineering. P: Playing God? K: If a couple decide to have a child in the normal way, or if they decide not to have a child, or if they decide not to decide anything, are they no...

Kevin: Imagine there as a community of spiritual, scientific men living happily on the moon, and reproducing through genetic engineering. Playing God? Do you seriously believe what you are stating? What a trick to be played on women. In their desperate attempt to conceive a child [if they are barren...

I think once a man has given his life over to being a slave - once he is older than about 24 and entered full-time employment - then he has largely sacrificed any potential for consciousness he might have had. Before that time there is sometimes a hope that he might become his own person. Pye’s a...

Matt: On the “Benefits of Beauty”…and this is not a sarcastic comment, but was Bill Gates beautiful in these terms? I have always seen him as a geeky, awkward young man in his early days, and yet, although he is somewhat cleaned up now because he can afford to be, how has this changed his wort...

Elizabeth, What I was trying to say is this, what is your intent when you put that make-up on and a certain set of clothing? If you don’t care and afford no effort of thought into it at all, the point is moot…but if you calculate, what is your motive? You said: It's silly, but it's harmless enou...

David: "Make-up" needn't just apply to lipstick, mascara, and the like. It also applies to the style of dress one chooses to adopt, to the image one wishes to convey to others. It also applies to the ideas one picks up and displays like a nice pair of earrings, and to the social and profes...

We do not know what the future holds - if we did, we wouldn’t need to make choices. It is our not knowing what will happen in the future that gives us the sense that we have choices to make – which in turn gives us the sense that we have ‘free-will’. So, if you knew what the future held, yo...

I was reading a little on the Internet about Kierkegaard’s subjective truth in order to gain a better understanding of the excerpt you quoted. One site made the comment that his summation “…amounts to acceptance of something like the slogan, "It doesn't matter what you believe, so long as...

First of all, I must sincerely apologize for not answering you [Leyla] in another thread. Until I went back to reread something another person wrote within “Christian Conundrum”, I had no idea you had an unaddressed post. But onward: Fundamental to a few threads at the moment is the idea "i...

Oh, fair dinkum... ??? Not being from Australia, this term eludes me. From what I read, this could either mean, “get real” or “fair enough”. Two diametrically opposed notions, I suppose you can enlighten me as to which it is. W. D. Hart stated: In philosophy there are no facts. It is all ju...

You can see the religious mind in dialogue on any and every subject, including science, religion and philosophy. Given that the Universe is the totality of everything there is, would you agree that science, religion and philosophy are a part of the Universe? Are scientists forbidden to engage in di...

You like hanging around with men? Is this how they speak? In your lengthy dialogues with Elizabeth, do you "know where you stand"? . I don't "hang" around with men. I work in a very male oriented profession. Surprisingly, when men are not threatened by you, yes, they do talk thi...

As far as "saving face" there is a difference between reframing something and misrepresenting something. I guess I need a real life example of how one could manipulate by lying in order to move someone toward enlightenment. I have been thinking and thinking of a counter, and you just won ...

Without physical/material purposelessness you would not exist, so really you can't complain. Things have no objectivity, so the objective purpose you seek cannot exist. You are part of everythings flow regardless of what you may think or desire. "Two infinities"? I'm afraid you have gone ...