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- Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:21 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: an entrance to the Way
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2829
What are the odds?
Things are born and then they die, you are a thing, death takes away everything, your fate is to disappear, everything disappears, failure and success account to nothing, nothing escapes death and dust, life is fleeting, you are here now. In my desire to survive forever I've postulated that everyth...
- Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:11 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Progress in Evolution
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4028
Uniden wrote: Increasing complexity in evolution is sometimes thought of as a "leftward drift." This refers to the fact that systems cannot get any simpler than the simplest possible state, so any change in systems will tend toward greater complexity over time. If we imagine evolution as occurring i...
- Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:46 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Global Warming
- Replies: 182
- Views: 112075
- Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:03 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: paths that lead to truth
- Replies: 63
- Views: 9373
Isn't this a problem though?
Having faith in reason is the only path to Truth. Faith in something other than reason is a form of ignorance - it is what Islamic fundamentalists do. Reason without faith can only result in dry, academic intellectualizing. [...] An insane person, an Islamic fundi, or any of us possessing less than...
- Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:30 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The world popluation problem
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4130
Pure clap trap
Nordicvs: Did you ever consider that you're a 'house nigger' trying to convince an escaping 'field nigger' how wonderful it is to be inside? I have invested in a lot of forums over the last 12 years. Please show me that this forum is not populated by a bunch of "house niggers" please. I'm begging y...
- Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:25 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The world popluation problem
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4130
Re: The world popluation problem
Is the world currently overpopulated? What criteria can one use to measure whether this is correct? Well, there might be some moral criteria. Certainly past or present populations are not resopnsible for any sort of famine or any other malidy. There could be one person on the whole planet and he co...
- Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:46 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Dark Force for Dark Matter?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1214
- Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:42 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
- Replies: 85
- Views: 14816
Reed, What I have been tyring to get across is that there is a difference between saying that something is fundamentally wrong with nature and with life on earth, versus saying that there is something wrong with humans. The very fact that so many of us are worried about planetary destruction and ir...
- Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:35 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
- Replies: 85
- Views: 14816
Re: Facts about the Fall
reedsch wrote: I maintain the position that the fact that things are NOT IDEAL does not carry the implication that they are some how WRONG. One needs to plumb further the source of the image of the ideal. The source of the image of the ideal . Coooool way to put it. OK, so...the source being creato...
- Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:58 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Are Humans Actually Evolving?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5641
kennyvii, the only thing stupid about you is your idea that intelligence is dependent upon education; being good at algebra does not make one intelligent---it makes one good at algebra. Sure, I know what you mean. Oh, and actually I didn't mean to say I failed three times but that I took the course...
- Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:47 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
- Replies: 85
- Views: 14816
Re: Facts about the Fall
The whole concept of a "fall" clearly implies that one had been in a previously "raised' (or non-fallen) state. There is nothing factual to support this assertion. FACTS ABOUT THE FALL (1) You fell out of your mother's cunt (end of list) Kenny didn't write that. And I was delivered by a stork, than...
- Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:15 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
- Replies: 85
- Views: 14816
Kenny, Your reply was to Reed but he doesn't believe in a fall. As for me, I think the fall was one of perception, and yet perception has the ability to change reality to some degree as well. So I agree with what you say above. Yes. I think our dissagreement is whether the two "myths" are meant to ...
- Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:21 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Are Humans Actually Evolving?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5641
Civilization's very success is the act of preserving the "doomed not to breed", no? I wouldn't call that its success, but I agree with your point. .... With civilization, people who normally would not have survived due to some birth defect, inability to adapt, or insufficient level of durability ar...
- Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:03 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
- Replies: 85
- Views: 14816
Kenny, I hear what you're saying about the search for non pc truth, but I am not convinced you've got it regarding the lives of animals, mostly because you have accepted that the worst parts are the norm, and I don't think that is so. No, I offered you the results of a study and you won't accept th...
- Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:46 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
- Replies: 85
- Views: 14816
Dogma is only bad when it becomes obsolete for one reason or other. All dogma is obsolete. Dogma is a tool for crafting the social organism. One can't build a meme without it; a necessary evil, as it were. The whole concept of a "fall" clearly implies that one had been in a previously "raised' (or ...
- Sun Jan 14, 2007 3:46 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
- Replies: 85
- Views: 14816
All dogma is obsolete. "dogma" is probably like the word "myth" so we have different meanings in our heads. Mine seems to agree with Webster but I am learning there are philisophical turns to common words in this place. What do you know about this? There is no harsher treatment of minor crimes than...
- Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:54 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
- Replies: 85
- Views: 14816
Kenny, I fail to believe that 75% of wolves are killed by other wolves. Where do I read up on that? Well, I live in Alaska. I read that in our local paper. It was a number of years ago. It was a study of the life cycles of wolves in Mt. McKinnely Nat'l Park. The rest are killed by moose probably. Y...
- Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:44 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
- Replies: 85
- Views: 14816
OK, I'll take the bait (especially after being set up like that): what is the unapparent point to the allegory? ...keeping in mind that the popular interpretation is what rules. Hmmm, but I was just about to conceed your point that it could reasonably be called a myth....a couple of myths (Preistly...
- Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:07 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
- Replies: 85
- Views: 14816
I perceive that GROW is the operative word. Perhaps a young adult new to the working world looks back wistfully at the halycon days of college, but to regard this progression as some kind of decline is navel-gazing nostalgia. The bit of getting down on agriculture also strikes me as revisionist in ...
- Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:43 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: ^
- Replies: 45
- Views: 6873
crazy is telling yourself lies mate. thats what crazy is. I like the idea that crazy people are just liers. It would make life a lot simpler. 'Crazy" being a manifestation of self-deception is probably closer to the truth, though. oh bullshit. if you actually did that, you did it as you, and felt w...
- Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:09 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Are Humans Actually Evolving?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5641
- Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:38 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: ^
- Replies: 45
- Views: 6873
craziness is just lying to yourself. "craziness" may come as the result of lying to yourself or of being unwilling to face up to reality but the act of craziness is simple delusion, such as you can observe in dogs. i reckon that for the dog, it is often the path of least resistance to just allow th...
- Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:49 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
- Replies: 85
- Views: 14816
Iolaus wrote: I have two interpretations of the fall. One, it was not bad, because we must indeed have knowledge of good and evil if we are to mature into an adult race. Innocence is babyhood. The path of knowledge of good and evil is the path to wisdom and enlightenment. So mankind invites evil in...
- Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:03 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: ^
- Replies: 45
- Views: 6873
Why isn't awareness sanity?
Nordicvs wrote: Why is awareness "sanity?" That would seem to make all non-human animals insane, which is funny (and one of the most brazenly arrogant, homocentric notions I've yet come across) since they have a knack for survival that us sane types can't seem to duplicate without messing things up...
- Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:11 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Why bad guys finish first
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3472