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- Tue Jul 10, 2018 8:07 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Confucianism
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6825
Re: Confucianism
The Chinese culture causes madness, especially in women. Women are not only not valued, but in many ways, seen as a liability. Women are expected to work harder, longer hours. Female infants have been seen as such a liability that China's one child policy caused most female infants to be abandoned, ...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 11:22 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 216696
Re: Global Warming
much of humanity, certainly almost all Americans, have way too large of an ego to listen. And yet you appear to see no problem in eating its current major fruit like its various political-scientific conclusions on climate? Perhaps you think science safeguards us all from ego? Either I misread that,...
- Wed Dec 06, 2017 1:34 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 216696
Re: Global Warming
Things do change, and significantly, outside of human influence. This does not negate the fact that humans have had, are having, and can continue to have an impact. You, Deebs, seem to be supporting the unconscious flow of nature, while I am supporting the conscious planning and wise intentional act...
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 4:10 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why study philosophy?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 55460
Re: Why study philosophy?
Sounds good. Basically change the topic to philosophy.Pam Seeback wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2017 11:50 pm
Someone having a strong opinion about politics is the perfect place to start, not in the context of debating content but in the context of questioning the nature of the "I" that feels so strongly about this (and not that).
- Sun Oct 22, 2017 12:41 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 216696
Re: Global Warming
A few months old, but still relevant: When Will Climate Change Make Earth Too Hot for Humans?
- Mon Oct 16, 2017 12:41 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 216696
Re: Global Warming
While no one storm is a pattern, and many people have made excuses about why so many record-breaking weather events have happened recently. how many weird events have to take place this year before just about everybody, including most Americans, start believing that this is real, and that since we c...
- Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:27 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Impermanence and meaning
- Replies: 50
- Views: 48730
Re: Impermanence and meaning
Impermanence is permanent.
- Mon Oct 16, 2017 8:35 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why study philosophy?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 55460
Re: Why study philosophy?
Is anyone here good at explaining why we should care about philosophy to someone who knows nothing at all about it? No idea about enlightenment, metaphysics, ultimate reality, or anything like that? Start by discussing something that they are interested in. Don't get too heavy too quickly. I find t...
- Sun Oct 01, 2017 1:15 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 216696
Re: Re:
Too bad we can't just use Harvey water and Bangladesh water to put out the fires throughout the west coast of the US. Good luck with Irma, people. Did you actually ask why "we" can't just "use" Harvey or Bangladesh water to put out fires throughout the US west coast? Well, I gue...
- Thu Sep 28, 2017 12:26 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 216696
Re: Re:
You' seem dishonest here Elizabeth. just changing the goal posts at will > you always win! My post was not addressing any "fires" and neither was yours. You say I seem dishonest, and as evidence you flat out lie to me? Found my timeline prediction (March 9, 2007, this thread). Okay, I kno...
- Wed Sep 20, 2017 2:03 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 216696
Re: Global Warming
Deebs, good job at totally ignoring the fires, and reclassifying the pattern of worse conditions as "one event" I didn't bother to update to include Katia, Jose, or Maria, but if you want an actual single marking event, seems like we've really done it this time: https://www.forbes.com/site...
- Mon Sep 04, 2017 2:27 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 216696
Re:
Found my timeline prediction (March 9, 2007, this thread). Okay, I know now that the tidal wave theory was off, but I was on target for when we would see major effects from global warming. Too bad we can't just use Harvey water and Bangladesh water to put out the fires throughout the west coast of t...
- Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:16 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Statement about Solway and Trump
- Replies: 757
- Views: 391889
Re: Statement about Solway and Trump
Trump is a disaster, and Kevin's support of him makes me wonder if Kevin has gone mad. The notion that Trump will drive out the feminine does not fly with me because I see precious little about Trump that this forum would call masculine. I see greed, self-absorption. and an undisciplined temperament.
- Sat Sep 17, 2016 3:43 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The nature of consciousness
- Replies: 259
- Views: 159467
Re: The nature of consciousness
OK I will revamp 11. There is infinite energy propelling all things. I think you are creating a false dichotomy. You are proposing that there is an "infinite energy" that is separate from all things, which somehow still leaves room for all things. Things and energy are ultimately one, and...
- Sat Sep 17, 2016 2:59 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Consciousness Only vs. Causality
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11635
Re: Consciousness Only vs. Causality
Diebert, would you please explain your perspective more fully, as I don't see how anything, save possibly the Absolute itself, is uncaused. Even the Absolute could possibly be argued to be self caused, thereby not uncaused.
- Thu Sep 08, 2016 7:05 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The nature of consciousness
- Replies: 259
- Views: 159467
Re: Explicit Absolute Truths
OK I will revamp 11. There is infinite energy propelling all things. I think you are creating a false dichotomy. You are proposing that there is an "infinite energy" that is separate from all things, which somehow still leaves room for all things. Things and energy are ultimately one, and...
- Thu Sep 08, 2016 4:22 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Consciousness Only vs. Causality
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11635
Re: Consciousness Only vs. Causality
Consciousness exists (insomuch as anything exists), but it is caused.
- Thu Jun 30, 2016 6:18 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Death of Philosophy
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15385
Re: Death of Philosophy
Not only is there nothing that is True behind the scenes, there is no lower-case truth that we can all agree on. And it should be that way. No, yes but irrelevant, and no. There is Truth behind the scenes, in front of the scenes, in the scenes. The scenes are Truth. Lower case truth does not requir...
- Sat Jun 25, 2016 7:28 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 216696
- Fri Jun 17, 2016 11:27 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 216696
Re: Global Warming
Thanks for the better article about the reef. Yeah, about the same planets theory, although Dan's birthday is the day after mine, due to the international dateline, our birthdays do overlap, so maybe you have something there ;) I'm fine. I was in a shelter a couple of months, and am in transitional ...
- Tue Jun 07, 2016 2:02 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 216696
Re: Global Warming
Actually have not heard from or about Dan in years. How's he doing? And anyone else for that matter. Anyway, one eye-opening proxy for the past temperature is the most recent GRIP2 ice-core analysis in Greenland. Some of the most recent reconstructions... Interesting that you would use the term &quo...
- Sun Jun 05, 2016 8:23 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 216696
Re: Global Warming
I was looking for my original prediction because this looks kind of like what I think I remember predicting, but I can't find it. Oh well, this is interesting anyway:
Climate Catastrophe Will Hit Tropics Around 2020, Rest Of World Around 2047, Study Says
Climate Catastrophe Will Hit Tropics Around 2020, Rest Of World Around 2047, Study Says
- Tue Apr 28, 2015 11:22 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?
- Replies: 149
- Views: 108245
Re: An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Very close, but I can't completely agree. Man's immaturity is not self-incurred, but caused by preceding factors. Although there have been individual exceptions, mankind has not ever been a mature species. Immaturity is the inabili...
- Thu Mar 20, 2014 5:16 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is spirituality?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 36702
- Wed Mar 19, 2014 2:14 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is spirituality?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 36702
Re: What is spirituality?
Urizen, I think that we are saying basically the same thing, but using different language. I just want to clear up some semantics to make sure. Spirituality certainly involves experience, but the Absolute as such is beyond all experience. One can not experience the whole of the Absolute without bein...