GENIUS FORUMS

We all seem to agree that something is infinite and eternal. I am merely saying that Consciousness itself is that thing.

Okay, I don't quite understand what the significance of this is. So what if God is a "phenomenon within the ALL", isn't this exactly what many claim that God is? Surely if God is the cause of that which he created, he is "part of the causal web". What is wrong with this idea? Da...

Whether women can actually be truthful and insightful is not the point. The current discussion is focusing on Skip's perception of women - namely, that they are unfailingly vaporous liars - and whether this perception is compatible or incompatible with the ability to derive pleasure from seduction....

Well, no, it isn’t. But surely it’s just a different, sordid fantasy away - and I think that’s the essential difference between "sex" and taking a shit. :)

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The Mad Turk

Say, you might not be all that "mad" after all.

Woman: Now that we have it, we can vote for taxes, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, abortion on demand, federal education, managed economics, removing the gold standard, employer provided health care, welfare, policies to encourage single mothers, and we can get militarily involved in world aff...

The actions performed in the experiments are not trained patterns of behavior. They were specifically designed to be what we'd consider to be a "conscious free-choice". In Libet's experiments this involved subjects watching a clock progress while deciding a specific time to push a button....

Interesting information above. If decisions are made and "vetoed" unconsciously, then it appears that consciousness is just "along for the ride." It lends credence to the view that consciousness is an accident of evolution, and has no significant functional purpose. I don't draw...

Shahrazad wrote:To me, the concept of free will is just as far-fetched as the concept of God.

And as far-reaching.

In order to trigger such a buzz, he would have to create the lie that women are truthful beings capable of genuine insight. It thus becomes impossible for him to be truthful and a seducer at the same time. But some women are truthful beings. In addition, I have met many who are capable of genuine i...

But doesn't the very pleasure of seduction involve the act of being accepted by a woman? You've spoken about it in the past - that is, about the buzz a man gets when a woman affirms him as being a top-notch male. The question is, how can such a buzz occur if he truly believes that women are vaporou...

DQ wrote:Alas, it can't be done by mere wishful thinking.

Why not? That's how you "did" it.

Dan, What are you using as virus protection for your comp? I use AVG, but now they want money, and I just don't like to pay for stuff if I can get it for free legally. I appreciate any suggestions / advice. Excuse me for butting in, Shah, but I just switched to AVG Free on my own PC and it seems to...

"And that's exactly the beauty of it, naturally." (David's writing) Ramakrishna's writing (quotes) has that simple beauty, or the writing of Tagore. But neither of these two men ever lost sight of the world. Also, they understood very wide dimensions in human experience, in human spiritua...

When it is the case that one is not heavily dependent or attached to any particular set of sexual circumstances, occasionally masturbating, and like Rebbecca said, getting enough exercise, should be perfectly adequate for body and mind to remain in good working order. You have just described my lif...

You have to understand the history of our exchanges. David is the one who declared he was a king at the banquet and considers others mere peasants groveling for crumbs outside the gates. Anyone can be a king at the banquet. Nothing is stopping them, except their own attachment to remaining a peasan...

The Police State is here and now, it's not in the future. Most people are unaware of this, and actually, subconsciously, prefer slavery to freedom. That's how good the marketing has been. The Moats story only got attention because he is an athlete. Police do this shit routinely. It's not just black...

brokenhead, I've noticed you don't miss a chance to take a potshot at David on these forums. I can only conclude this is your ego talking. Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. Robert The potshot taking is mutual, I assure you. And it was David who set the precedent. You will note that any such activ...

SFC checks to see if all the system files are present in their default locations and are not corrupt. An app might be trying to load a library file (DLL, OCX, etc.) from a different location. I am not sure Dependency Walker is locating the problem. Here is why. When you start up Celestia, the progra...

Dan, this might be like killing a gnat with a howitzer, but I use dependency walker a good deal to pinpoint when an app doesn't do what it is supposed to do. It goes under the hood and shows you which subroutines are being called by the app when the error message is generated. Sometimes a missing or...

You need to examine the question more thoroughly and tease out the underlying assumptions. It is these assumptions which create the issue out of thin air, one that the ego is quick to grasp in its attempts to keep the mind within the realm of duality. It isn't a manifested entity which exists above...

Sue Hindmarsh wrote:Mate, is it possible for you to stop with the dick fantasies?

Sue demonstrating her lack of comprehension of males rivals the magnitude of its counterpart in the female arena.

The very fact that here he must conjure a mask comprised of such “source material” makes me dread to think what lies bubbling below it. It must be something horribly deformed and deranged to warrant such an outpouring of violence. And it is that thought which causes me to question if such a person ...

Of course, he will also be getting his rocks off on the mere fact that we are talking about him. He is someone who loves attention and loves using his cleverness to push people's buttons. So he is a dirty old man in that sense. - You are all missing the point when it comes to Alex. He's a Weisenhei...

Only this way the industry can respond to the real 'market forces'. The longer they postpone it, the more relentless the force of p2p will hollow out their outdated modes of commerce. You are missing the big picture, Diebert. There is music, yes. And there are movies, books, computer software, you ...

I don't have any qualms about downloading music from file-sharing sites. For me, it is like listening to the radio, except in this case I can actually hear the sort of music I want to hear. And then, when I hear a band I really like, I'll purchase their CDs and otherwise support them. Artists shoul...