GENIUS FORUMS

Dan Rowden wrote:I haven't met many people who have a half decent understanding of him.

1otherS
What's the steppingstone to understanding him correctly?

Agreed, Dan. If you were a highschool-educator, how would you go about 'installing' this Reason-meme?

Which specific philosophies would you teach?

Do you also find this solution possible to realise?

That's the stuff I'm looking for. I hope to witness many creative outbursts around here...

Instead of only satisfying our Bodily needs, all Mankind will gradually pursue more intellectual goals. Imagine people all over the world adopting Gandhi's main mentality: Peaceful resistance and vegetarianism causing a serious diminishing of human and animal suffering. Now combine that with Kierkeg...

Which philosophies get discussed here? Old-fashioned or contemporary?

Well, "let's hope" you got properly fucked up?

1otherS If you renounce the aesthetic, then the woman you are so intent on being loyal to, won't be loyal to you. 1otherS At least you should renounce the aesthetic appeal of other women. Do you follow this? Ok, but that's much different than renouncing the aesthetic altogether, which I think is wh...

The Earth will survive in a more cerebral, less instinctual way when we are to follow Kierkegaard's advice.

Do you agree?

" Renouncing the aesthetic and being loyal to one woman seriously reduces STD's and global population. If you renounce the aesthetic, then the woman you are so intent on being loyal to, won't be loyal to you. 1otherS At least you should renounce the aesthetic appeal of other women. Do you foll...

"Nothing is more certain. Coming close to God brings catastrophe. Everyone whose life does not bring relative catastrophe has never even once turned as a single individual to God; it is just as impossible as it is to touch the conductors of a generator without getting a shock." -1otherS- G...

Form is Emptiness. Emptiness is Form.
100% Unity, 100% Diversity.
Right?

I've went through both of these works. I've also read Seducer's Diary, Philosophic Crumbs, Banquet and Stages on Life's Way. You want to discuss excerpts? Here's one: "Nothing is more certain. Coming close to God brings catastrophe. Everyone whose life does not bring relative catastrophe has ne...

I did not know that Nietzsche excerpt, thanks David. I prefer studying Kierkegaard now,however.
If you had to pick 3 Essential Kierkegaard pieces to aid everyone, what would they be?

I've went through the women-issue thoroughly. Now I want to stay loyal to The One.
The tricky part to this(again): How do I go about this?

Fulfilling God's works: generosity to all, endurance in extreme hardship, near-perfection, eternity What do you think? A more general, more encompassing list in my view is captured by this forum's banner: truth, courage, honesty, logic, masculinity, wisdom, perfection. You'll notice that there's no...

1otherS wrote: "If I Marry her and have kids I'm not living the Word of Jesus Christ, who trusted me in becoming a perfect image of God Almighty. I need to break this tie, however precious it may be." Funny how we can deceive ourselves and think we are doing it 'for God'. Good point, I mi...

1.Blaise Pascal
2.Plato
3.Sören Kierkegaard
4.Baruch Spinoza
5.Walter Kovak
6.Socrates
7.Friedrich Nietzsche
8.The Comedian
9.Otto Weininger
10.Herman Hesse

Hard to say really: you start with watching Teletubbies, you end up here... duking it out with the 'geniuses'.
BTW Have we gotten to the bottom of this?

Why go back to the dregs when you've made it to cleanness?

"What do you prefer, which one is your ideal?" Why is it not possible to promote a balanced relationship? 1otherS: Like Diebert said: you can not serve two masters. other maxim: You must shut the door behind you completely, in order to unlock the front passthrough On what precise basis is...

Loyalty to one's wife is stepping-stone to supporting your dearest and also your people. Dedication to something bigger often takes away from the smaller, like ourselves, or our extended kin. It would be like serving two masters at the same time, and the smaller master has normally different concer...

Why do we need to come down to the bottom again?

Hey Renaissance: just remember when you demand something for yourself, equal recompense is expected of you...

Now the rub is: which path is the right one? Right now I prefer to divide my time between the ethical and religious. What do you prefer, which one is your ideal? You ask that on a forum dedicated to enlightenment, truth, wisdom, absolute etc? Or do you see those as a possible loyalty to marriage to...