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by kennyvii
Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:21 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: an entrance to the Way
Replies: 37
Views: 4289

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...
by kennyvii
Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:11 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Progress in Evolution
Replies: 27
Views: 5654

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 o...
by kennyvii
Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:46 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Global Warming
Replies: 182
Views: 215759

Which is the more repulsive? A woman who mindlessly apes a man and reflects everything he values? Or a woman who is genuinely mannish?
I was always most attracted to the woman driving a pickup truck.
by kennyvii
Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:03 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: paths that lead to truth
Replies: 63
Views: 12276

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...
by kennyvii
Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:30 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The world popluation problem
Replies: 28
Views: 5623

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...
by kennyvii
Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:25 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The world popluation problem
Replies: 28
Views: 5623

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...
by kennyvii
Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:46 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Dark Force for Dark Matter?
Replies: 3
Views: 1688

That was fascinating.
Were you able to read the comments on that article? Seemed reasonable to assume that the unexplained forces were actually regular old fashioned gravity from unidentified sources. It would be much more fun to find it was something else, though.
by kennyvii
Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:42 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
Replies: 85
Views: 19911

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...
by kennyvii
Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:35 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
Replies: 85
Views: 19911

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...
by kennyvii
Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:58 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Are Humans Actually Evolving?
Replies: 35
Views: 7457

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...
by kennyvii
Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:47 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
Replies: 85
Views: 19911

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 b...
by kennyvii
Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:15 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
Replies: 85
Views: 19911

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...
by kennyvii
Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:21 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Are Humans Actually Evolving?
Replies: 35
Views: 7457

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 dur...
by kennyvii
Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:03 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
Replies: 85
Views: 19911

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...
by kennyvii
Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:46 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
Replies: 85
Views: 19911

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 &qu...
by kennyvii
Sun Jan 14, 2007 3:46 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
Replies: 85
Views: 19911

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 ...
by kennyvii
Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:54 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
Replies: 85
Views: 19911

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...
by kennyvii
Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:44 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
Replies: 85
Views: 19911

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...
by kennyvii
Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:07 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
Replies: 85
Views: 19911

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 ...
by kennyvii
Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:43 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: ^
Replies: 45
Views: 10101

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 f...
by kennyvii
Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:09 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Are Humans Actually Evolving?
Replies: 35
Views: 7457

Geneticly, Darwinnicly (smurk) speaking isn't it logical that "we' are devolving? or better, in the process of degeneration? Civilization's very success is the act of preserving the "doomed not to breed", no?
by kennyvii
Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:38 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: ^
Replies: 45
Views: 10101

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 jus...
by kennyvii
Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:49 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
Replies: 85
Views: 19911

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...
by kennyvii
Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:03 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: ^
Replies: 45
Views: 10101

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...
by kennyvii
Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:11 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Why bad guys finish first
Replies: 19
Views: 4670

Reedsch:
Anyway, to make a long story short, the way we determine whose side God is on is to put on the pad and helmets, meet on the field of battle, and whoever is left standing at the end is the one God favors. Am I wrong?
Not if history is written by the victors.