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by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:29 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Intelligence and the desire to reproduce.
Replies: 245
Views: 25674

Re: Intelligence and the desire to reproduce.

Since a society of intelligent beings would always have the global population numbers at their disposal, it seems to me that if the levels reached a very low level, that they would take collective action to reproduce, like the baby boomer movement only more intelligent. It is important to note some...
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:28 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Any thoughts?
Replies: 14
Views: 1337

Re: Any thoughts?

His main thrust -- the premise -- is correct. Various details within are subject to error or disagreement, but with such a big picture these are relatively unimportant. No source is pure. It is one's responsibility as a reader and thinker always to glean wheat from chaff and cut meat from bones. Ye...
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:22 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

I'm going to have to draw the line at this point with the insults. Such descriptions can have their place if used sparingly, but if everyone used insults to the degree that you do then the entire forum would be little more than a forum of insults. This forum is already little more than a forum of a...
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:20 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

I guess that the question is, why do we pursue this technology? Is it simply to create better and better weapons or was there a different purpose to begin with? Technology is just a shadow of science. Science, or at least foundational science, is pursued for the purpose of acquiring knowledge. Bett...
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:18 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

See, the problem with relativism is that your view that relativism is superior, is itself wholly relative. Sorry, I don't see any real problem here. This sounds akin to David's objection that the claim that "there is no absolute truth" is a claim to "absolute truth" (whatever that is) itself. Is an...
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:11 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

And every enlightened person knows that suffering is good -- hence Buddhism, the very purpose for being of which is to maximize suffering. Dude, you are a bloody screaming idiot. I don't know what you are talking about anymore. Buddhism is about evading suffering as is your morality. <claps> My, my...
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:29 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Any thoughts?
Replies: 14
Views: 1337

Re: Any thoughts?

Carl G wrote:I thought it was a decent video. Nothing I hadn't heard before, but generally well put. I'd never seen or heard of Tsarion before, and I liked him.
Which parts do you agree with and which do you not?
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:26 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

You believe knowledge is a good thing because it raises the standard of living, brings about technology, reduces suffering, etc. Are these good things though? I view them as bad things. Don't get me wrong, knowledge is definitely something I pursue, but I don't want everyone else to have it. Why? T...
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:50 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Any thoughts?
Replies: 14
Views: 1337

Re: Any thoughts?

This Tsarion guy talks about the war on the conscious mind and things like that. I thought it might interest some. Hard to find the part that you are talking about. But the part about human, and biological bodies emitting photons was interesting. It is essentially throughout. It would be hard to fi...
by ZenMuadDib
Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:49 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

It has done that in order to perpetuate its influence and maybe domination, hasn't it? It must not be absolute reality then? Huh? WTF is 'absolute reality'? is it like divine grace and Jesus dying for our sins? No, it is the reality beyond the so-called reality people have created in order for civi...
by ZenMuadDib
Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:14 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: (Women) Chapter 31 - Quotations from Mao Tse Tung
Replies: 10
Views: 1407

Re: (Women) Chapter 31 - Quotations from Mao Tse Tung

What I got from those quotes was that Mao needed more laborers to support his nation so he indoctrinated the women. Maybe that has happened in the U.S. too and now families suffer because of it?
by ZenMuadDib
Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:07 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Any thoughts?
Replies: 14
Views: 1337

Re: Any thoughts?

This Tsarion guy talks about the war on the conscious mind and things like that. I thought it might interest some.
by ZenMuadDib
Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:03 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

vicdan wrote:You can say the same about science for example, but science has undeniably made our world a better place.
It has done that in order to perpetuate its influence and maybe domination, hasn't it? It must not be absolute reality then?
by ZenMuadDib
Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:59 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: some help please
Replies: 12
Views: 1390

Re: some help please

This has to do with consciousness and what consciousness itself really is. Is consciousness physical, meaning it resides in the brain and is the sum of firing neurons, or is it non-physical?
by ZenMuadDib
Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:55 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Re: Is there an ideology of knowledge?

vicdan wrote:Yes, and yes.
Err, why? Don't we use our knowledge to exert our influence over other people and not necessarily to express our love and compassion?
by ZenMuadDib
Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:49 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Why is imagination so vague?
Replies: 20
Views: 1545

Re: Why is imagination so vague?

Actually I can visualize things vividly, the trouble comes in when I want to bring that into reality, say in the form of a painting or a story. Exactly. You 'visualize' them conceptually -- but conceptual understanding of an image doesn't translate well into geometric shapes. That's because you thi...
by ZenMuadDib
Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:46 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Is there an ideology of knowledge?
Replies: 136
Views: 15698

Is there an ideology of knowledge?

Will knowledge really make us better people and does it really matter?
by ZenMuadDib
Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:23 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: scientific innovation and political ideology
Replies: 8
Views: 856

Re: scientific innovation and political ideology

I recently noticed that that there seems to be a relationship between libertarian values, and technological/scientific superiority in the world. A wise ruler keeps his subject's heads empty and their bellies full. -Lao Tzu Lao Tzu was no genius nor was he a true leader, unless he was being ironic.
by ZenMuadDib
Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:21 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: When did you first discover you were a Genius?
Replies: 15
Views: 1524

Re: When did you first discover you were a Genius?

Laird wrote:. . . Your brother on the path to Ultimate Understanding,
Laird
The Yin and Yang ...dude. Women have a different type of genius than men. I think to deny feminine genius is to deny any possibility of understanding all that is genius.
by ZenMuadDib
Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:13 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Are Whites inferior To Jews?
Replies: 49
Views: 6497

Re: Are Whites inferior To Jews?

What is it with these projected inferiority complexes? It would be much easier, less tiresome and simply more realistic to confront one's own non-sense and own it, instead of these veiled invitations for others to defend one's delusions. Is a gust of wind inferior to fart in a bath? The question is...
by ZenMuadDib
Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:12 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Are Whites inferior To Jews?
Replies: 49
Views: 6497

Re: Are Whites inferior To Jews?

A higher percentage of Jews seem to have the social skills and intellectual talents necessary to succeed financially, and there have been a few Jewish spiritual geniuses such as Jesus and Weininger. Jesus and Weininger in the same sentence? You gotta be kidding me. Jesus didn't off himself at 23, y...
by ZenMuadDib
Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:07 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: I want to clear some things up here
Replies: 3
Views: 739

I want to clear some things up here

I have come across some very racist remarks on this board. Now I know that this board doesn't care about offending people, but is not racism a pedestrian belief? Is this simply a board for white supremacists or is it for thinking people?
by ZenMuadDib
Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:56 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Easily Confused
Replies: 99
Views: 6688

Re: Easily Confused

Shardrol wrote:Here's a site that could easily be confused with Genius Forum these days.
Anybody who says X hates Y, where Y is a country or a group of people I have a problem with.
by ZenMuadDib
Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:54 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Why is imagination so vague?
Replies: 20
Views: 1545

Re: Why is imagination so vague?

Actually I can visualize things vividly, the trouble comes in when I want to bring that into reality, say in the form of a painting or a story.
by ZenMuadDib
Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:51 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The ideas of Chomsky.
Replies: 0
Views: 2510

The ideas of Chomsky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EksuA4IAQIk Here is a link to Chomsky being asked about his views on human knowledge and philosophy. There are four parts to it. I believe that what he says is that throughout human history there have been lines of inquiry that have developed significantly and other l...