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by brad walker
Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:51 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Drug life
Replies: 185
Views: 10678

Re: Drug life

I think that one of the most non-addictive but dangerous drugs is psychadelic mushrooms. Such mushrooms are non-addictive because they are not very pleasurable, and probably don't contain a highly addictive chemical like nicotine, but they are so extremely mind-altering that the mind may never come...
by brad walker
Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:04 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Enlightenment as paradigm shift
Replies: 125
Views: 10670

Re: Enlightenment as paradigm shift

Right... he certainly could not have actually been a fat man, cuz it wouldn't fit your precious ascetic model. Christions will not accept that Mary Magdalene was Jesus' lover/partner either... just wouldn't be right according to church dogma on the 'evils of the flesh'... much like your own, it app...
by brad walker
Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:04 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Problems with GF
Replies: 45
Views: 13276

Re: Problems with GF

That sounds like the CSS file didn't load. Clearing browser cache and/or refreshing the page typically fixes that.
by brad walker
Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:22 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Enlightenment as paradigm shift
Replies: 125
Views: 10670

Re: Enlightenment as paradigm shift

mikiel wrote:I've joked about Buddha's big belly in refence to enjoying eating. "What is over-eating?" is not for you to judge.
Buddha wasn't fat. The "fat Buddha" is something entirely else.
by brad walker
Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:00 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Who wants to kill the elderly?
Replies: 151
Views: 15264

Re: Who wants to kill the elderly?

David Quinn wrote:I'm not so sure about that. With advances in medical technology - disease prevention, drug therapy, organ regeneration, etc - elderly people are going to be living far longer than they used to be and their vegetative phase is going to be longer.
The future looks bright for vegetarians.
by brad walker
Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:07 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The most rational social system.
Replies: 36
Views: 3560

Re: The Call for Debate Thread

Whereas, under freedom, everyone is their own sovereign ruler. They cannot seek domination over others.
Unfortunately some people quickly seek others to dominate them and power once again centralizes.
by brad walker
Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:08 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Welcome to a faster forum (hopefully)
Replies: 12
Views: 985

Re: Welcome to a faster forum (hopefully)

Kevin Solway wrote:You should now be able to access this forum using the normal URL:

http://theabsolute.net/phpBB/
It doesn't work on my machine. DNS changes can take up to 48 hours to propagate.
by brad walker
Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:20 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Welcome to a faster forum (hopefully)
Replies: 12
Views: 985

Re: Welcome to a faster forum (hopefully)

The transition lost most of the avatars.
by brad walker
Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:59 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Oprah, Eckhart and Enlightenment
Replies: 160
Views: 12443

Re: Oprah, Eckhart and Enlightenment

"It's my fate to steal," pleaded the man who had been caught red-handed by Diogenes.

"Then it is also your fate to be beaten," said Diogenes, hitting him across the head with his staff.
by brad walker
Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:55 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Living in Hell for the Ultimate High
Replies: 29
Views: 3838

Re: Living in Hell for the Ultimate High

The "heaven" is only in their minds. If you get to be as enlightened as Kevin, you would also begin to notice what is going on inside people's minds. Oh dear... and here I just told someone in chat the other day that it seemed like you were making progress, Elizabeth. Not much chance of that if you...
by brad walker
Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:54 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Error message when posting
Replies: 48
Views: 14387

Re: Error message when posting

Kevin Solway wrote:What is worse, the problems our current webhost is having are so bad that I am unable to backup the forum database at all.
`mysqldump' doesn't work?
by brad walker
Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:46 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: China Inc
Replies: 15
Views: 1810

Re: China Inc

by brad walker
Sat Feb 02, 2008 6:49 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Who should you vote for 2008 U.S. President? (recovered)
Replies: 119
Views: 35299

Re: Who should you vote for 2008 U.S. President? (recovered)

Study: Presidential Frontrunners Would Boost Federal Budget by Range of $7 Billion to $287 Billion Annually The eight candidates proposed a combined total of 189 items that would increase federal spending, 24 items that would decrease it, and 238 items whose budgetary impacts are unknown -- in addi...
by brad walker
Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:49 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Responding to potential Societal Collapse
Replies: 66
Views: 5832

Re: Responding to potential Societal Collapse

According to the Federal Reserve Board website , U.S. non-borrowed bank reserves have gone from $37B to $199M (nope, that's not a typo) in the last month. We have been discussing this with Sitka Pacific Capital's Mike 'Mish' Shedlock for the last two weeks. He concludes: "Banks in aggregate have no...
by brad walker
Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:37 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: China Inc
Replies: 15
Views: 1810

Re: China Inc

So many questions... and maybe some of them will be answered after China calls in our debts and takes ownership of Earth. The $1.4 Trillion Question The Chinese are subsidizing the American way of life. Are we playing them for suckers—or are they playing us? A Balance of Terror Let’s take these...
by brad walker
Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:10 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: China Inc
Replies: 15
Views: 1810

Re: China Inc

What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state? Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions and compute price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, like we do. We no longer live in a world of nat...
by brad walker
Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:34 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Responding to potential Societal Collapse
Replies: 66
Views: 5832

Re: Responding to potential Societal Collapse

Obviously, governments desire to prevent " resets ", because they are terribly disruptive to the economy. They destroy those who have chosen to employ leverage in their financial lives, both corporate and personal, almost without exception. They contract GDP severely as the monetary velocity slows ...
by brad walker
Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:20 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: An interesting political development: Iran respects Ron Paul
Replies: 44
Views: 2411

Re: An interesting political development: Iran respects Ron Paul

I'm curious what country you live in that doesn't have a welfare system. I would have thought most civilized nations do. Also interesting that welfare would decrease crime, never though of it that way. [quote=" Welfare's winning "The Surge", at least temporarily "]Some 70,000 former insurgents are ...