GENIUS FORUMS

The challenge put to you was in a very typical form and your quibbling won't change the fact. What is this, a need for speed game? If you want to debate about Weininger then you can do it right here. The content of our posts will be the same no matter which forum we are in. I'm sure the moderators ...

Jupiviv, The challenge put to you was in a very typical form and your quibbling won't change the fact. Let me alter it slightly. Since you suggested we are gardeners why don't you login at KIR and prove you're our better. (That too is a challenge, one put in an analogous form, and I think everyone w...

Interesting pieces from cousinbasil and Diebert. The suicide is relevant imo since Weininger wrote from the perspective not only of a depressed individual but also of a very conflicted man, a Jewish antisemite, a possible homosexual, and all of which could well have colored his writings. I do not th...

We like to think of the KIR philo forum as no place for a Weininger fanboy like yourself. You're welcome to come show us that we're wrong and that Weininger wasn't the pathetic mentally ill bigot we all take him to be. Wow. You start off by saying that the forum is no place for me and then invite m...

Jupiviv, We like to think of the KIR philo forum as no place for a Weininger fanboy like yourself. You're welcome to come show us that we're wrong and that Weininger wasn't the pathetic mentally ill bigot we all take him to be. Happy (US) Birthday to Dan Rowden, whom I wish well. I don't do that oft...

While Prince/Blair is relegated to a designated area, everyone else is free to post across the board at KIR . With Dan away and with David and Kevin increasingly inactive on the human plane - they shrink an insignificant amount each year - you should feel welcome to come join us until Dan returns, a...

Their aim was to point beyond all such intellectual conceits and devices to which the mind might cling - and they certainly accomplished that - but not for those who would rather cling to their monkey-minded conceptual "superior wisdom." - Unidian If we can't get past our pretty little co...

If you know what is ultimately real, you can use any words to describe it. Anyway, since you know that no words can encapsulate the nature of Reality, yet words are obviously useful in pointing to it, why are you upset about the use of words and concepts in communication? . Unidian and I have repea...

Some people have heightened senses, like blind people have heightened hearing. One could colourfully say, a blind person is a tiny slip of a body with a big pair of ears. A big pair of ears wandering around with a tiny little body. But in the world of the spirit, there are wispy things everywhere -...

Are you saying that the Totality isn't itself? - Kelly Not today, no. It's taken to bed with a headache. The quotation doesn't read Daoism to me. It reads Zen and I'd like to know who said/wrote it. If it's legitimate, then let's see it; if it was just copied without attribution we should know that...

prince wrote:Yeah....Revenge of the Three Stooges..

From the non-dual perspective it is a stoogeness which is in turn in accord with the Totality.

Three Stoogenesses in accord with the Totality would be overdoing it, as would concepts of Moeness, Larryness, and Curlyness (and occasionally Shempness).

'I do not know its name but for title call It "TAO".
TAO manifests both the pure and the turbid, both as movement and stillness. ...'

Alyosha, whom/what are you quoting?

Oh sorry. Apparently it's only valid when the followers of Buddha, Laozi or Zhuangzi advocate it? - Alyosha Nope, what I meant was it wasn't valid for them, right or wrong. I am not going to see it and I suspect you are not going to not see it. :) The nothingness of nothing is also nothing. Sounds ...

All things are unreal in the sense that nothing objectively exists. All things are real in the sense that they are manifestations of reality (the Tao). They are both, depending on how you look at it. ... Since things do not really exist in the first place, how they can be decribed as being real or ...

... You eventually call all your opponents thoughtless, as I said earlier. It's par for the course in your narcissistic world.

- Unidian, of David Quinn

You're lucky; I'm a fundamentalist.

This thread turned out quite well, and last night I had no hopes for it at all. :D Thanks Unidian and AlexTA!

Only an egomaniac would try to reverse an entire millenia-long spiritual tradition and turn it on its head merely in order to present his own attachment to thought as "enlightenment."

- Unidian

That's two plus millennia to you, buddy.

Robert: What I would really like to have, since I am in fact grotesquely ignorant of 'philosophy', is a working sense of what you actually mean by A = A. When Moses talked to God in the burning bush he asked God, when I go back to Israel "who" will I tell them sent me? It was a rhetorical...

It's ironic that RobertGreensky and Guestoflogic are using so many concepts, names and words to defend their position. If they were sincere about what they are saying, this discussion wouldn't occur. If we were sincere we wouldn't disagree with you? Not only do we sincerely disagree with you but we...

(Btw, not once in 35 years reading have I ever come across any source, whether J. Krishnamurti or any voice in Daoism, Zen, or Buddhism, who ever wrote a damned thing about A = A, not once! You're bullshitting yourself about its significance.) Perhaps because most of the logic in those traditions, ...

So if I was to to take a knife to your throat, and slit it open, that would be your throat slit.

Not A=A? Not; your throat slit by prince=your throat slit by prince..?

Do you want to try it out.

- Prince

And where is Dan or David to deal with someone like that?

If nowhere exists not-A then nowhere exists A. Yes, that is the next step, It's true insofar as the Totality doesn't exist as such (isn't relative in nature). Notice that this conclusion is reached using the law of identity. It says the Totality is not something that exists (relatively). And then, ...

Robert, A=A is the law of identity, the basis for the law of non-contradiction and law of excluded middle. Here is my post again, Robert, that you haven't responded to: A=A is about identifying a thing as what it is, relative or in contrast to another thing. But here's the thing. A thing is an &quo...

I don't pretend, that is your domain. I am superior, but I don't make a song and dance about it. Your irony is noted, under douchebag who thinks he's something. Tired is what you are, do you have any idea how many ignorant douches I have met in my life like you? - Prince Oh, all the douches you've ...

I am grotesquely ignorant. Well done! you got one thing right. I was being ironic. I've read several of your posts. You're not worth reading. Try making an argument instead of pretending you're superior. No one will buy it. To know how to stay within the sphere of our ignorance is to attain the hig...