GENIUS FORUMS

You brought up your 'jewishness' before, and you brought it up here on the question of ownership as jews may be seen in some way the opposite to what you were trying to say. "Richard Weaver in Ideas Have Consequences wrote of 'the last metaphysical right': the property that one might own that w...

Spiritual to me, in our 'material world', and as far as our activities go, means 'idea' or 'concept' Cause we are living in a material world and I am a material girl. To live by high ideas, high ideals, high concepts. I don't know what 'non-matter' is. Like any Jew thats right. /jk. Dualism as I wo...

So you want metaphysics (and possibly society) to be under a material hierarchy. Knowledge pose a problem to that since a metaphysical principle as the same thing can be at two places at the same time doesn't apply to material things. Also the material may involve possibilities in the intellect. May...

By the last metaphysical refuge I think you mean the idea that everyone is metaphysically guilty. Yeah that was supplanted in modernity by the idea that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

So... Why have you forsaken me?

All the problems of knowledge still prevail. All you do here is raising a special kind, a logical, subjective or non-verbal kind. That's exactly what I think you were doing. You were saying that only the infinite has the property of being infinite. Something P that has the property P and nothing el...

I'm not sure if I understand this analysis. It seems to be one possible social-historical theory but isn't that beyond the scope of the topic? As for "timeless Reason", I'm not sure if I understand what you are thinking about here. Do you mean timeless and absolute truths? All expressions...

Hi Bobo, it would be nice if David could react on this but I know these texts well enough to be able to give my reading of it in the mean time. Hey, Dieb. David can explain his views better than anyone, for sure, but there is a lot of that format of debate on this forum already, so I thought that b...

Take a simple model from information/data to knowledge/experience to wisdom, that is the bottom-up movement. You have also to consider the top-down movement that goes from wisdom to knowledge/experience to information/data. The bottom-up view says that a man needs knowledge and information to be wis...

Hey Matt, I can't say whether this debate was a major highlight of GF, I'm half through Chapter 1 and I have a few remarks so far: Anyway, I would like to discuss the nature of genius. To my mind, genius is a property which is intimately linked with consciousness. A genius is someone whose conscious...

To complement what I was saying. Reproduction is already a form of make belive and it is a way of exporting suffering and the need of reasoning to other people. The state of things is one that people will reproduce because they are incapable of reasoning or are in a state of suffering (and choose to...

There are two things that come into question on the matter. One is that there is suffering and by bringing a sentient being into existence invariably leads to forms of suffering. The other is that no sentient being opts to come into existence, the decision is necessarily taken by someone other and o...

The ego is the greatest technician in the world. The ego lives on know how. The ego is the very base of all technology. In the East technology could not develop because people became more and more alert to the ego, and the very root was cut. They lived surrendered lives. - Osho http://www.oshobooks...

To seek an "enlightenment" through the death of ego as though ego were some enduring, in-itself identity is nothing more than the sickness of egoistic self-deception: the will to non-existence! So I guess you are saying that for the non-enlightened the ego is something eternal, as space e...

they all seem to refer to a consciousness that is non-dualistic. Consciousness is all about distinction. Only the totality could be said to be non-dualistic but since it cannot be self-aware (there is no "other") the term consciousness taken in any universal sense remains fundamentally de...

We might consider "enlightenment" in terms of the Nietzschean Will to Power. In the "enlightened", causal subjective/objective relations (egoism) arise and fall away all the time as self-overcoming. They arise and fall where? In the ego? As if it where the space where action hap...

While you don't remember anything before you were born, there are things that you don't remember after you were born. Maybe religion is a way to talk about these not so counsciouss sometimes subtle processes. And because it is something subtle that is overblown it can appear to be far-fetched.

Wealth and property can be acquired by work throughout the life time of an individual, it also can be perpetued as if it were an acquired right, that isn't acquired by work, and it is traded in value by work. That is by corporations, sometimes families, that accumulated such wealth in manners that d...

So I was under impression that some claims were conspirational and it seems that there's a conspiracy theory on the issue: A notable 21st century conspiracy theory regards the Frankfurt School as the origin of a contemporary movement in the political left to subvert traditional western cultural norm...

Ego in here? In you, or a kind of super ego floating in the forums? That would be fun but no, I mean that we get impression from other people and appearances don't necessarily equate to facts, being impressed or the will to impress people may come from the ego. Hmm, I never heard any voice in my he...

Maybe this belongs here. Watching stupid things on the mass media more likely to make people stupider:

A Story About a Stupid Person Can Make You Act Stupid (or Smart): Behavioral Assimilation (and Contrast) as Narrative Impact

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1 ... 61#preview

These are great examples of the ego, thanks. But I don't believe that the ego can predict the future. Predicting the future is not enough, it must be shown how it is done and is appliable to other cases something that the ego will fail to do, otherwise it is just another guess, a guess can be used t...

I will try to give an example of what I think it is, take the idea of omniscience, part of the idea would involve the ablity to predict the future, and that would include other ideas as well as prophecies and clairvoyance. If we take a position that knowledge is limited, or that no one is demonstrab...

There are relations between desire and reality. It's not only that miracles could be explained in some way by natural law but if wishful thinking were part of reality then we would not have much of this distinction between what is literal and what is metaphorical. Symbols can be used for communicati...

Agreed. I was thinking about stories that when taken literally becomes non-sense, and sometimes are engineered to be non-sense. If one could look at the amount of non-religious non-sense that the average person believes, in summing up the amount from individuals to populations it wouldn't be surpris...