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- Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:30 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Look! A human on TV!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3784
To me it must ever remain one of the wonders of the world- the fear and loathing people have for philosophy. From High School to the present, the only topic that I needed passionately to discuss with friends was philosophy and truth. Granted, my mates from H.S. ultimately drifted away due to the one...
- Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:16 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Women talk more than men: official
- Replies: 113
- Views: 18035
FTA: Men, on the other hand, beat women hands-down in one area: contemplating rumpy-pumpy. Brizendine noted "that while a man will think about sex every 52 seconds, the subject tends to cross women's minds just once a day". To put that in perspective, "men have an international airport for dealing w...
- Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:19 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Temporality - Quoted from Poison for the Heart
- Replies: 49
- Views: 8162
So respond to my points that differ from my one misunderstanding. Which at no point invalidated my response regardless. I could have saved my time and just written you off like you're attempting to do here. I prefer to read and every now and again participate in good topics, but you are like a weed ...
- Fri Nov 10, 2006 3:28 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Temporality - Quoted from Poison for the Heart
- Replies: 49
- Views: 8162
You mean that as an implication of what I wrote above? The seeming permanence of enjoyment makes the permanence of the ego seem real? Or did you approach it from a different angle? Enjoyment is nothing more than stroking the ego, thereby affirming its existence. The ego craves this type of attentio...
- Fri Nov 10, 2006 3:08 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Temporality - Quoted from Poison for the Heart
- Replies: 49
- Views: 8162
Kevin wrote: temporal means not real. I disagree. Just because something is temporary does not detract from its reality. It is real in the moment, and the moment is real. Experience is irrefutable even though the things in experience are not ultimately real. Each "moment" brings subtle change. No d...
- Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:59 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Temporality - Quoted from Poison for the Heart
- Replies: 49
- Views: 8162
EI : The point was whether or not something is real just because it is temporary. You stated a belief in your control over whether or not you enjoy things. The point was that in temporality, there is no control. The only control over the illusion is to see past it. BJM : Irony, anyone? You can talk...
- Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:00 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Temporality - Quoted from Poison for the Heart
- Replies: 49
- Views: 8162
I think whether or not we enjoy things is up to us, but deeply realizing how temporary things are affords us the opportunity to recognize what is important in life. So if a serial rapist/murderer busted through your door and set about his business with you, you would control whether or not you enjo...
- Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:49 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Temporality - Quoted from Poison for the Heart
- Replies: 49
- Views: 8162
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...
- Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:16 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Temporality - Quoted from Poison for the Heart
- Replies: 49
- Views: 8162
Temporality - Quoted from Poison for the Heart
The following is cut and paste from Kevin Solway's Poison for the Heart . It's a worthwhile read. Any thoughts? Temporality It is said "All our attachments and joys are temporal," and "you can't take anything with you when you die." Such advice achieves little, as we do not understand the meaning of...
- Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:21 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Can we accept defeat in Iraq in order to move forward?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5923
- Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:15 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is alive?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8231
Love of Wisdom. I thought everyone knew that. Yeah but each person has different notions of what love is, and what wisdom is. A person can parrot the definition of philosophy and yet know nothing at all. I was being a bit sarcastic. But each person has a different definition of what sarcasm is. Etc...
- Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:07 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is alive?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8231
Re: What is alive?
Someone on another thread said: "I suppose I was thinking from the point of view that most people are not alive – for they are not conscious of the existence of Truth." Most, O. K. all followers of organized religion would claim "alive" status, don't you think? Under the condition stated above th...
- Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:56 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is alive?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8231
- Sat Nov 04, 2006 1:41 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Richard Dawkins V. Ted Haggard
- Replies: 68
- Views: 15357
Richard Dawkins V. Ted Haggard
The following video linked below is outright frightening, considering the stranglehold the weed of religion has on the people of America, and the world at large. A hero might say something must be done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmNjfpoRZpE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmNjfpoRZpE
- Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:19 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Spike's passionate mind.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3297
Erotic Love What is the experience called love but the experience of emptiness; a momentary escape from loneliness into merging with another? Yet such "relief" is no better than an illusion. She knows your lusts, not your mind. You create her mind, not her lust. Her lust is for your mind, what other...
- Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:09 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why is truth?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 11461
Hello A.C., You seem confused, and I take it, either you are young or English is not your first language. Regarding your post, it is all over the place and I cannot find a point to respond to. But since you have taken the time to contribute here, I ask you, what do you think about the truth? What do...
- Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:56 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Doctrine of Innumerable Meanings
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1321
Sue, The very thought of hell motivated much of my early thinking. Convinced I was a sinner destined for the infernal depths, I can't count the number of times my little knees were buried in the dirt, hands clasped in pleading for a deal blubbered out from tear-ringed lips. One of my luckiest attrib...
- Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:02 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Doctrine of Innumerable Meanings
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1321
Doctrine of Innumerable Meanings
The following is excerpted from the Threefold Lotus Sutra: The Buddha addressed the Bodhisattva Great Adornment and the eighty thousand bodhisattvas: "Good sons, there is one doctrine which makes bodhisattvas accomplish Perfect Enlightenment quickly. If a bodhisattva learns this doctrine, then he wi...
- Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:25 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Causality & Correlation
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2783
Cory's Coin
Hi Cory, I generally agree, but, as to the other side of the coin: "The great path has no gates Thousands of roads enter it. When one passes through this gateless gate, He walks freely between heaven and earth. "Controlled or not controlled? The same dice shows two faces. Not controlled or controlle...
- Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:54 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Everyone who gets frustrated believes in God unconsciously
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2411
Frustration is the result of an ignorant ego born to a finite body. Before birth we are formless, not blinded by form just yet. Being thus, we have no lack in fulfillment, as without form there is no room for desire to breed. Tossed into this world, we are confronted not only with the limiting sensa...
- Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:13 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: what does this bible quote mean in terms of this forum
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1241
Hi Ryan, This quote suggests that the sage is much like a child; the characteristics of a child that resonate with the sage is the child’s innocence, humility, sense of wonder, curiosity and never-ending interest in further understanding the world around him. I think a sage's humility, much like a...
- Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:55 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Alien Encounter as Fear of Wisdom
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14163
Carl, The above post was an acknowledged "reach," written from the perspective of the average person's fears. Although, I think Diebert was closer when speaking on a fear of technology, which implies a fear of intellect. On the other hand, a sage would appear quite alien to the average egoist. Not ...
- Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:48 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Alien Encounter as Fear of Wisdom
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14163
Carl wrote: This is exchange is like communicating with an extraterrestrial. I pick up a message broadcast through the vast universe known as Internet from an entity which calls itself BJMcGilly. I decipher it as best as I can, formulate a response in my own language, and beam it back out into the c...
- Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:59 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Alien Encounter as Fear of Wisdom
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14163
Carl, The above post was an acknowledged "reach," written from the perspective of the average person's fears. Although, I think Diebert was closer when speaking on a fear of technology, which implies a fear of intellect. On the other hand, a sage would appear quite alien to the average egoist. Not ...
- Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:48 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Alien Encounter as Fear of Wisdom
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14163
Carl wrote: A primordial fear of the wisdom of space? Fear of timelessness? Dream on. "From the stars to the earth, is there any thought more feared than this?" Get real. How about death, how about suffering and pain? How about the possibility of not being loved? How about going to hell when one die...