GENIUS FORUMS

My ring fingers are about 3mm longer than my index fingers.

If you "desire" something, you think it will make your life better. A wise person, by definition, desires only to live according to truth. Truth is first and foremost the guiding force behind the wise person's life choices. But a wise person knows that truth will not make their life bette...

So an interesting question... Couldn't objective reality be exactly how we see it? What we see is only an aspect of 'so called' objective reality, and not an explanation for it Yes I realize that what we see is an aspect of objective reality. Is it not possible that it is the only aspect? Ie, there...

So an interesting question... Couldn't objective reality be exactly how we see it? (as in... there "is" no more, not there "appears" no more) This would only make sense if what we perceived could explain our perception and consciousness. In this case materialism and idealism woul...

Not much worse than what we've got in North America.

Looks from that page as though anything circular with patterns inside it is called the "incomplete flower". It is no surprise that it pops up all over the world. In fact, I have a carpet with the incomplete flower on it. I dare not ponder it though or the aliens will abduct me to protect t...

I try not to be fatalist here. Why make the decision to try to spread truth to other people though? If they want it they will find it. Perhaps you should just help those who come knocking? Is there any real value to spreading truth? Particularly something from the letters pdf from Kevin: My hatred f...

It would seem that we can only discuss how we should use the term 'hidden void'. There is nothing else to say. You are right. Talking about "objective" whatever on this level is really just creating conceptual models. I think they are useful for understanding, we just have to recognize th...

It depends on what you mean when you say 'it doesn't exist'. When I say it doesn't exist, I'm merely saying that it is not capable of appearing, or emerging. I'm not saying that it is 'nothing'. On the contrary, it is somehow responsible for our sense of existing. Like David said, "it's wholly...

The etymological meaning of 'exist' is: to emerge, to appear. The hidden void doesn't emerge or appear, so it doesn't exist. So I think your question is: "How do we know the 'hidden void' is causing our perceptions of appearances and emergences? My question to you is, "Why or how could it...

I have thought... existence requires an observer. However, how do we know the observer exists? Does the observer exist if we don't observe it? No. Thus we have arrived at the "nothing exists" phase. This seems somewhat at odds with my consciousness and the reality I created, both which see...

I don't think truth or honesty is objectively good. You subjectively value them at this point in life.

How can anything be good or bad when everything is perfect?

I believe I have figured this out.

The world we see is contingent upon our consciousness and thus not real. Ultimate Reality is not contingent and is real... whatever it is.

Thanks for the insight.

I think complete isolation from society would be more inspiring and useful at least for me personally. However survival would become more difficult and time consuming and thus thinking time would suffer.

Of society I mean. I saw Kevin mentioned it briefly in a bio page and David in one of the podcasts. Nietzsche is pushing it too, and of course many other people have in the past. Who else on here has tried it? Is it the way to go?! There seems to be 2 options... just living in poverty amongst societ...

I'm thinking that what you guys mean is that an objective reality (as in the "hidden void") does most likely "exist" (cannot be validated) though the term "exist" is wholly misused/meaningless in this application (outside our construction). But conceptually speaking....

The only problem is that what I fear most is likely to kill or poison me.

But I think I'm getting the moderate metaphysical exercise. :)

The scenario was given of you sitting down beside a large sum of money. If someone grabbed the money and you had an attachment to it you would be sad or angry. However if you had no attachment you would be indifferent to its vanishing. So let me ask you... if you had something vital to the survival ...

This is my current understanding of this... Objective reality: - Existence != appearance. - Consciousness created by the "real version" of what we perceive to be a our brain. - Other human beings within my construction of consciousness who appear to be conscious themselves could actually b...

Some searching of google will show that many people report similar problems when upgrading this phpbb version of losing posts and/or members. There is a lack of solutions though. The browser crashing during whatever shouldn't cause the post tables to be deleted from the database.

P.S. (prescript): How do you pronounce this guy's name? Okay I started reading this book an hour or so ago. Intriguingly beautiful book, most of which I intuitively agree with. Must be critical though. I tried to cut these questions really short for you. I read the first 30 parts and figured I would...

A "wrath of god" type disaster is what we need; floods are good, but we tend to survive those and pick up where we left off. Rapidly increasing the temperature of the planet is something humans will adapt to anyway, depending how rapid (increasing it a hundred degrees in a single day, how...

Elizabeth Isabelle wrote: Trevor - I signed up for that board; I'll be over in a little bit.
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And I signed up for this one. :)

They love banning my accounts there so axxx113 has gone bye bye. :(

Looks like I have lots of reading to do for here though. -.-

Trevor Salyzyn wrote:Okay, someone uploaded "Circular Questions" to YouTube. It's my favourite of the two.

Now that it's not vandalism, it's lost its pizzazz

That was a good laugh. :)

edit:
I can't post links but all his videos are here... :)

[Edit: Here it is ]