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- Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:32 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Some people
- Replies: 42
- Views: 15703
- Mon Mar 13, 2006 4:43 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Some people
- Replies: 42
- Views: 15703
- Sun Mar 12, 2006 4:18 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Some people
- Replies: 42
- Views: 15703
- Sun Mar 12, 2006 4:17 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Some people
- Replies: 42
- Views: 15703
Cowardice is not an endeavor, but a condition. Fear is a condition, cowardice is an act of will, intent on a particular goal, also known as an endeavor. To turn tail and run, is no different then to stand ground and do battle. Fight and flight are identical in their source, self-preservation. Coura...
- Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:08 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Some people
- Replies: 42
- Views: 15703
- Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:54 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Enigma
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11189
- Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:29 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Female Explorer
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14834
You're "not going to do my thinking" for me - more to the point, you're not going to do any thinking at all. No? Now why would you say that? This forum is for thinkers, not for old grannies who want to have a nice cup of tea and a chat. ...uh huh, okay then. Philosophy is dangerous and life-threate...
- Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:11 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Female Explorer
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14834
- Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:53 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Female Explorer
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14834
You aren't equating Void with Nothingness, are you, because you say that "Nothingness is casually created and dependent" and "The Void is unsupported, unconditioned and boundless" ? Correct, the Void is NOT nothing. Everything that can possibly exist is what appears now, so what exists "always IS" ...
- Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:26 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Female Explorer
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14834
How can the "Void" or "Nothingness" be dependent on anything, since it is everything? And why are parts (.hell, ignorance, wisdom.etc) of the Void "rendered irrelevant"? Again..."The Void is NOT a Nothingness to be stepped out into, or back from. Nothingness is casually created and dependent. The V...
- Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:46 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Female Explorer
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14834
KJones There is a thorn: this looks like worldliness, as if one is really taking hold of the finite as if it is gained. Does one really step off the top of the 100-foot pole, into the void, or back on it again? The Void is not a Nothingness to be stepped out into, or back from. Nothingness is casua...
- Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:59 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Female Explorer
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14834
What is more valuable, a gun or a ham sandwich? Well that all depends on your circumstances. Value is arbitrary and relegated to the mundane. Ultimately the ideas of progress, advancement are ignorant interpretations of impermanence. Attachments and barriers are affirmations of the illusory. There i...
- Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:24 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Female Explorer
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14834
I'm not pretending I'm perfect. There's absolutely no value to me in doing that. I talk about what I'm doing, and how my techniques are helping me, because I can't be the only individual who has ever encountered these difficulties. So, I'm passing on what is working for me. How is preaching the gos...
- Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:24 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Female Explorer
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14834
I could be in any horrible situation, and immediately fly high above the conflict, because there'd never occasion the need to fight. It would appear that you do not seek, nor value Wisdom, but worship your ego and prostitute knowledge as “wisdomâ€. You state that you are seeking clarity, but you...
- Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:52 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Female Explorer
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14834
- Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:22 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Female Explorer
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14834
- Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:42 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: NickOtani'sNeo-Objectivism
- Replies: 236
- Views: 84184
- Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:46 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: ABCs for QRS, X, Y & Z
- Replies: 112
- Views: 40719
Basic determinist thinking states the view that all things in the universe are governed by causal law ("determined by"). By definition, this includes human beings and by that same definition excludes the possibility of any of human act of willing, free from these causal laws. There's a weird spin t...
- Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:41 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Irrationality: a natural inclination?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3474
- Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:08 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Irrationality: a natural inclination?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3474
Which purposes for these same tools would you call rational? I’ll use the example I gave to Dhodges, above. If a village goes to war to protect their families and way of life from invading hostiles, I would consider this rational reasoning, now if a nation declares war on another because they do ...
- Fri Jan 13, 2006 2:25 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: NickOtani'sNeo-Objectivism
- Replies: 236
- Views: 84184
Dan wrote: Also, I don't quite understand why Nox is denying the existence of conceptual unicorns. Unicorns as a concept certainly exist, it's just that they lack any known empircal referent. A concept that exists is a contradiction, it’s like a married bachelor, or a round square. That which exis...
- Thu Jan 12, 2006 3:37 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: NickOtani'sNeo-Objectivism
- Replies: 236
- Views: 84184
NickO wrote: Excuse me. You introduced the issue of contending with options presented. I was merely exploring those options. My post was relevant. And, if there are, in fact, options, even to choose or not to choose, there is, in fact, free choice. Incorrect. You stated that even not choosing is a c...
- Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:49 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Irrationality: a natural inclination?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3474
Re: Irrationality: a natural inclination?
Nox23 wrote in response to Jamesh in the Neo-Objectivism thread: The amount of War, genocide, homicide, suicide, infanticide, misogyny, terror and destruction, generated by people’s blind faith in their archaic superstition and mindless rituals, is the single greatest example of man’s natural i...
- Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:48 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Irrationality: a natural inclination?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3474
DHodges wrote in the NickO thread: I don't think religion is the cause of war, homicide, etc. Religion is what people construct so that they can rationalize those things. If not for religion, they could come up with some other excuse, no doubt. There's always politics, and jealousy. I’m not implyi...
- Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:11 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: NickOtani'sNeo-Objectivism
- Replies: 236
- Views: 84184
Humans by their very nature are irrational and are nothing more than subjectless objects. I disagree with the idea that humans are irrational by nature. I think they are rational by nature. . A tiger doesn’t have to try to be a tiger, nor does a whale have to practice it’s whaleness. Second onl...