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- Sat Mar 26, 2016 11:07 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Object & subject through genderization
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12803
Re: Object & subject through genderization
Nothing is subjective.
- Sat Mar 26, 2016 2:08 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Talking to the wall is not Genius
- Replies: 262
- Views: 144718
Re: Talking to the wall is not Genius
Interesting. However, this presupposes time, which in my Platonist view, may be a mistake.Diebert van Rhijn wrote:Logically however beginning and endings themselves are "finites" and do not exist.
- Sat Mar 26, 2016 2:06 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: 'Outward' And 'Inward' Contemplation Are Lightyears Apart
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12131
Re: 'Outward' And 'Inward' Contemplation Are Lightyears Apar
Let me tell you a story:jupiviv wrote:Don't take this the wrong way, but you should calm down a bit with the posting.
A man uses forums for thirty years. He comes to recognize certain toxic behaviors and their root.
He also develops a counter-strategy: accelerate past comfort zone.
:)
- Tue Mar 22, 2016 6:34 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: 'Outward' And 'Inward' Contemplation Are Lightyears Apart
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12131
Re: 'Outward' And 'Inward' Contemplation Are Lightyears Apar
Group-think creates a false target, a replacement for reality. No bueno.movingalways wrote:I also have experienced a lifelong distrust in group-think.
- Tue Mar 22, 2016 6:34 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Hegel's Problem
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14487
Re: Hegel's Problem
But now look- he applies this to history and now calls everything a progression to the realization of this idea. This is necessary to maintain the fallacy that what we need are "new" ideas, not qualitative improvements, because the new ideas thing can be applied to an egalitarian mindset.
- Tue Mar 22, 2016 6:32 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Females and Genius
- Replies: 36
- Views: 31907
Re: Females and Genius
Another term is unconsciousness : a surprising lack of realizing why they do things, say things or which or whose purpose is really driving them. To mask the unconsciousness a habitual lie needs to be in place which ends up filling up the whole of consciousness: the self is born! Reminds me of Fred...
- Tue Mar 22, 2016 6:27 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Talking to the wall is not Genius
- Replies: 262
- Views: 144718
Re: Talking to the wall is not Genius
A thing + everything else (duality) = Non-duality. One describes reality, the other the realm of theory. Non-duality creates a duality in the world of theory, but does not impose one on reality. Also relevant is that monism describes union between the physical and metaphysical, which is a more comp...
- Sun Mar 20, 2016 5:31 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Females and Genius
- Replies: 36
- Views: 31907
Re: Females and Genius
Does anybody else find it strange that so many beliefs about genius say females are really incapable of it? Women's thinking operates in a different way; adaptive/inductive might be one term for it. Many possess a form of genius by intuition, to which they are more closely connected than men. Also ...
- Sun Mar 20, 2016 5:29 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Cycles of Civilization
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7132
Re: Cycles of Civilization
Civilization collapses because it succeeds, and thus does away with the Darwinian filter that determines that only people who are independent and realistic can be included. Universal inclusiveness, or "equality," is the sign of death.
- Sun Mar 20, 2016 5:17 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why I Am So Clever
- Replies: 119
- Views: 117764
Re: Why I Am So Clever
Because it fools other people, and therefore conveys power, which is not greatness but leads to more immediate personal comfort.jupiviv wrote:But why do humans seek human greatness in unreal things?
- Sun Mar 20, 2016 5:15 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Humans.
- Replies: 44
- Views: 45745
Re: Humans.
Pam - I think he offers just one thing and that is the power of no-mind. I am fascinated by this concept as I have never experienced no-mind myself but I have read enough about it to make me wonder if this state is real or imagined? How experienced are you with transcendental meditation, of any form?
- Sun Mar 20, 2016 5:13 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The necessary context of action, purpose, and ambition
- Replies: 177
- Views: 110268
Re: The necessary context of action, purpose, and ambition
Philosophy informs us about what is real, and what we ought to do about it; our momentum carries us in some direction; philosophy may be mere corrections to that course.SeekerOfWisdom wrote:I no longer believe there can be a point to philosophy without the context of a real and ongoing action based on purpose.
- Sun Mar 20, 2016 5:11 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: A compatible definition of genius
- Replies: 0
- Views: 22554
A compatible definition of genius
The central insight of the book is its description and definition of genius. A genius is someone who makes an insight or discovery that has a significant effect on his group’s fortune and evolutionary success. This kind of insight could not be made by regular people thinking in a regular way, becau...
- Sat Mar 19, 2016 8:20 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: On the Alienated Westerner Developing the Pagan Mindset
- Replies: 19
- Views: 25906
Re: On the Alienated Westerner Developing the Pagan Mindset
The root of what is pagan seems to me as: not written down.
In other words, a living philosophy, not an exoteric one.
It seems like a broad category in which much variation can occur.
In other words, a living philosophy, not an exoteric one.
It seems like a broad category in which much variation can occur.
- Sat Mar 19, 2016 8:18 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Squawk!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19351
Re: Squawk!
The only thing I can advice is to take as well a lot of time to understand where some others on this forum are coming from or where they are talking about. Yes, but that's not logical. I've been using forums for 30+ years and this is a human trope that means "respect the extant culture." ...
- Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:59 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: 'Outward' And 'Inward' Contemplation Are Lightyears Apart
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12131
Re: 'Outward' And 'Inward' Contemplation Are Lightyears Apar
"Inward" contemplation being when a person contemplates one's own emotions, mistakes, thoughts, beliefs, views, actions, and so on. I agree that most are incapable of this, but I tend to see inward contemplation as use of logic and intuition to understand the world, so it is not merely se...
- Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:57 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The problem of a perceived centre
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7558
Re: The problem of a perceived centre
Great question. Because the order is cause, and its results are effects. A good argument to that effect here: All order is local — which is to say the negation of the universal. That is merely to re-state the second law of thermodynamics, which ‘we’ generally profess to accept. The only thing that c...
- Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:55 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Squawk!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19351
Re: Squawk!
What do you mean "giving him a chance"? I'm dropping the rest of your message, since without understanding the above -- which may be colloquial -- my message would make no sense. By giving him a chance, I mean: take some time to understand where crow is coming from, before assuming that v...
- Fri Mar 18, 2016 8:34 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Talking to the wall is not Genius
- Replies: 262
- Views: 144718
Re: Talking to the wall is not Genius
Philosophy is entirely personal. I might say instead: The understanding of philosophy is entirely personal. There is no such thing as a direct communication of "philosophical" understanding, all you can do is provide some pointers, some vague signs through language, and if the traveller d...
- Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:46 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Altruism
- Replies: 42
- Views: 39334
Re: Altruism
The problem with altruism, in my view, is that it is self-interest that disguises itself. I do not trust the disguised.
I see a future for the human species, just not most of it. Ashes to ashes and all that.
I see a future for the human species, just not most of it. Ashes to ashes and all that.
- Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:40 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The problem of a perceived centre
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7558
Re: The problem of a perceived centre
To my mind, "there is no center" suggests an architectonic order. That is, all the parts support and modify one another, and through the interaction of them, order emerges.
- Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:38 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Squawk!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19351
Re: Squawk!
I have known crow for several years and, while he expresses himself in a unique way that is initially foreign to me, I think he makes some very good points. 1. Absolute Reality exists and can be perceived through meditation (of sorts). 2. The intellect -- the calculating, self-based mind -- inhibits...