GENIUS FORUMS

I think that's kind of a cop-out, trying to put the responsibility on men. Do men try to excel in sports, or business, or whatever, just to impress women? No, they like to compete with each other. It may have something to do with women at some level, but really, they enjoy the competition - they wan...

I was always very disappointed to wake up, and I thought the reason I didn't die was because I hadn't prayed hard enough. I think that's how I first figured out that the Christian God wasn't real, because the God they talked about would not be so mean to make me live or make my parents have me. Aft...

I was trying to get it clear. Clear communication means the transmission of information from one to another and ensuring that it was received as sent. Some people find this process annoying, but it is a good tool for imperfect humans to get closer to the truth. I asked you to assist me in finding t...

Elizabeth: If you sort through all the confounding vocabulary, that's basically what David wrote in his Woman: An Exposition... work Well that is kind of scary. I haven’t read that one. When I first came here, I found the men to be a little rough on women…but after reading, writing and thinking...

More often than not, a woman is more concerned with appearences, than working to maintain an ideal state of being. And I will never understand it. I am not particularly attractive, so rather than try to turn a sow's ear into a purse, I chose to work on the inside. However, my other siblings and mot...

Where is the exact original quote, identified by date and timestamp on the original post? It is in this thread. Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:18 am Right after the sentence you commented about: If we are just like robots that are preprogrammed, what fun would that be for God? For context: If we are just like ...

passthrough wrote: Does the Ultimate Reality exclude Christian ideology? Yes, includes it, but is not composed entirely of it. Fair enough. I did place a caveat in the statement I made, to the effect: Although it is entirely wrong of me to personalize God. It was more of a tongue-in-cheek response,...

Elizabeth wrote: between that and talking about children as you did, I'll assume you mean the Christian depiction of God rather than Ultimate Reality (for which enjoyment is likely not a factor, for all things would be experienced at all times, as all times and all experiences would be experienced s...

Yep. The alternative is that we are just like robots doing what we were preprogrammed to do. The idea that we have a choice is only part of the programming. Ok, now I know my former response was way out there because someone questioned its value, so I am going to respond again hoping that this time...

I think part of the reason we enjoy things, a large part of it, is because we do believe they are real/permanent, because that belief makes it easier to forget about the suffering we will experience when the thing goes away, so we can dive more deeply into enjoyment without being plagued by that wo...

The question I want to start with is: Is the realization of something a choice? So, at what time would the choice occur? Did he even make a choice to have the realization? Is it even possible? You might need to examine what lead up to the realization? How did you get from point A to point B? As you...

Millipodium: I take it you are Christian, and "anti" everything else? Do you belong to a particular denomination?

In answer to your question: The end is union with God, the means is beyond my current comprehension.

Men can “size” each other up because each man stands alone as testament to his thoughts and actions. This is a major difference between men and women – women do not possess an inner life, so they can only be judged by the things they surround themselves with: men, children, friends, fashion, ...

The people that come out against violence in Islam are people placed in the west as part of the propaganda machine of Islam to create the false perception that Islam is peaceful. They are liars. It is never the leaders of the actual Muslim world that come out against it. I suppose the first questio...

Your thoughts are rambling and your conclusions generally tortured and invalid. I don't have time to explore this in depth, but you are right...that was my point. These ramblings are floating as truths out in the public. The average public does not study. The average public just listens to the ramb...

Your experiences may therefore be examples of men sizing up you and your ideas against there own knowledge, and deciding that neither interests them. This, of course, is no disparagement of either you or your ideas, unless you decide to take it that way. I used to care, but it takes too much energy...

Nothing you can know that isn't known. Nothing you can see that isn't shown. Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. ~ John Lennon I was out around town helping my daughter gather up items for her project in college, and happened across two signs in two different parts of town. One ...

I choose Jesus as my mentor because of my upbringing. I have found it difficult to work with other philosophies and religions (I am to begin some studies next semester…imagine me debating online with college students, for a reason given in the Judaism thread elsewhere) to understand what it is I a...

Trevor, thank you. I am still picking from the low lying fruit on the tree...another post. I can understand why Plato may have done a lot for the progression of logic and reason, but "Christian theology"? Perhaps we can draw and state that Jesus Christ started the idea leaving Paul and oth...

Learning how to use your brain effectively is still a part of knowledge, and has little to do with wisdom, except that it functions as a prerequisite to becoming wise. Logical skillsets are in the realm of clocks, calligraphy and cars. No matter how much one learns, there is more to be understood. ...

Traditional Judaism is a horrible, elitist, segregationalist religion. Because there's a lot of stupidity in the ancient texts, Rabbis have become farther removed from reality than even the worst academic philosopher. It's backward. Christian theology is centuries ahead. Nothing is new under the su...

I had been watching a television program the other day, and a man made an off the cuff remark when someone told him to "Go to Hell", he replied in words to the effect, I'm a Jew. Jews don't believe in Hell. This remark got me very interested in the philosophy of Judaism. I have never studi...

Who said anything about God? You threw that in there. I throw in the Flying Spaghetti Monster. You cannot PROVE he does not exist, and thus we should teach the controversy. Anything that cannot be PROVEN to exist, must necessarily be considered possible and thoroughly discussed with our children. I...

Every time I begin to discuss your book in order to grasp YOUR philosophy not just on existence of nature but spirituality, I talk too much and lose what grasp, if any, I had. I went back in time and found the following quotes that I edited for continuity of thought, the thread got way out of contro...

David used language to explain his philosophy that he knew would be inciteful (pun not intended, but noted) His forum might be obliviated into obscurity without it. Think about college. I absolutely hated anthropology and sociology, and yet for my degree, it was required that I take them. We had a ...