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hehe. Honesty Sasquatch I have been testing to see whether you were emotionally attached to this body modification thing, however your answers do illustrate a certain emotional stability/sanity. so overall I'm indifferent to what you do, carry on. lol...pecker. A test it was, and a fair and deserve...

As far as happiness in relation to truth, I can't speak to that. I haven't read anything on this relation. I know that happiness exists as a state of mind, and that I enjoy it. Attempting to take someone's happiness, however one defines it, is what I meant by 'suppression of the spirit'. This relat...

When I what to be aesthetically titillated, I go for a walk in the woods and it isn’t painful at all, it’s actually quite enjoyable. That seems like a matter of preference to me. That walking in the woods is enjoyable is a judgement that many people, including I, would make. Someone who does no...

I'm new to this forum...to forums in general, in fact. I see no way to register a vote in the system. I vote they were high.

Yes, but for how long will you chill with them before they start trying to influence your destiny? No too long I daresay! If you were/are commited to a life of wisdom, you will not stick around too long. You're right man. That's a sad story you told about the girl in the trailer park. I wouldn't ke...

My experience with body modification is pretty limited. I had my left nipple pierced back around 1997. They insisted that had to come out for a surgery I had around the end of 1998, so I lost that, but a year or so later I got the right nipple pierced and I still have that one. If your piercing was...

Cosmic Prostitute, I don't modify myself. I hire professionals to do it for me. It wasn't just a strong act of will that allowed me to get this modification. It' not simply that I forced myself to sit and feel the pain. It's that I was governing my mind's reaction to the pain, ignoring the impulse t...

Things which everyone can agree are evil. Succinctly speaking, a violation of another's human rights. Such rights including, but not limited to: free will, the search for happiness, self expression, the right to live and be healthy. That's a weak definition because it's based purely on consensus of...

It took quite a lot of discipline to lie still while nine cones of incense burned out slowly across my shoulders and chest over the course of about 45 minutes, leaving me with nine circular third-degree burns (my most recent modification). From this I learn to stay calm no matter what is going on a...

I called you a narcisist because I felt that anyone who seems to proclaim that they have found the secret to absolute security and offers a helping hand should have to undergo testing. ... In my opinion, you are taking on a lot of responsiblity. Helping people is not something I take lightly. I am ...

You can’t really have insecurity without first having desires, so one could also say that desires are the root of evil (and good of course). Certainly there are things that preceeded and caused insecurity in our lives. Insecurity was neccesary for survival in (and of) a social group. Survival mad...

Who is Diebert apart from his logic? Don’t be euphemistic here Sas-Q. If you say Diebert’s logic is flawed, you are basically saying that Diebert is flawed. You are telling him that he is inferior in regards to what you believe is true, which if fine, but don’t euphemize and emasculate the is...

Cory wrote: Aside from your mishap, there were some good questions and comments, and I await sasQ's reply. SasQ is an intriguing little narcisist indeed. Well, since cosmic prostitute aparently retracted whatever it is uh...he or she? wrote I never got a chance to read it, therefore no chance to rep...

Evil is a very broad word and encompasses a lot of things; different things to different people. Certainly those differences arise from the different minds who place upon things the judgement of evil or virtuous. For example, I am a member of the Church of Body Modification . Any Christian (and prob...

CP: Yes, human knowledge is fine as long as one isn’t attached to it meaning it doesn’t become intertwined with the ego. Sue So “human knowledge is fine as long as one isn’t attached” ------ What the? You wouldn’t happen to be attached to that ‘thought’ in any way - would you? Clearl...

DavidQuinn000 wrote If you strip away every perceiveable attribute from an object, what do you have left? The answer is - nothing. To our consciousness, yes there is nothing. My point is that there must be more to reality than that which we experience, therefore stripping away every perceivable attr...

Cory Patrick wrote: How could you possibly be addressing the 'wrongness' of Diebert's logic, without seeing, believing, feeling that your logic is more superior? You know what I mean? I believe his logic is flawed because it serves to place the wise in higher status than the unwise, as though the un...

David, In short, ask yourself: can there ever be form without an observer? If 'form' is the mental image of a thing, then no. But is a mental image really a form? I wouldn't say so. It is an illusion stimulated by the form. Form as I would define it is an atribute of reality. So abso-f'n-lutely ther...

Diebert, Often order is just that: an order. When a dolphin catches a squid, will he feel superior? I doubt it. In this analogy you place the wise above the unwise in the food chain. I don't know about dolphins man, but I'm sure taking down a single antelope didn't make an early modern human feel su...

DavidQuinn000 wrote: SasQuatch9585 wrote: Yes, everything we experiense, including our own bodies, is illusion; a mental representation of the thing, but not the thing itself, but I believe 'consciousness' is the name we give the illusion. It is the physical reality colliding with the physical aspec...

Wild Fox Zen in discussing the deffinition of the word 'master': You can try and get by on technicalities, but the *connotation* of the word implies 'control' or something like it -- that's the symbolic and emotional charge it carries. The word itself is just a set of letters, or a pattern of sound....

DavidQuinn000: The very fact that you are asking where the laws of physics come from, and thus implying that you believe they are temporary entities (and I agree they are), immediately disqualifies them from the definition of Reality. True. The physicists say the big bang that gave rise to our univ...

DHodges, SQ: The truest understanding of the difference between fiction and reality would then require an understanding of the difference between the physical world and our perception of it. DH:You seem to be advocating a Correspondence theory of truth, which I think has some problems. Most generall...

Diebert: My cult uses the following to achieve its roundabounds. Elitism: people differ in all aspects, and the wise men differ even more significantly. The enlightened ones are the elite and all others, since they don't even know what reality actually is, are dangerously deluded and should at leas...

Millipodium: Of course we should look at ourselves, but calling others on their evil bullshit is helpful to that person and society as well. Judgement is good. Pointing out someone's flaws is only benificial to that person if they are open to accepting criticism and look into themselves. Most often...