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- Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:26 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: circle-jerk
- Replies: 65
- Views: 7939
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:22 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: circle-jerk
- Replies: 65
- Views: 7939
Then I guess it all hinges on your narrow, religious definition of "wisdom," which no one is obligated to accept, and which is not reflected in the great spiritual texts of the world. Okay, thanks for the sport. :) BTW, extra sycophant points for putting women and dogs in the same sentence. That's a...
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:15 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Core of the Ego
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4393
In the Eastern and mystical tradition, ego is the false sense that one has inherent existence; that one is "independently real" and "substantial" rather than a conditioned, mind-dependent distinction within the infinite. It is the root of all delusions related to separation from Nature. In common us...
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:03 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: circle-jerk
- Replies: 65
- Views: 7939
Nearly everyone in this world spends a great deal of time talking about women. It is a huge attachment in most people's lives. It's just that the talking on this forum has a different focus. Nearly everyone in the world spends a great deal of time talking about women for the simple reason that they...
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:23 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: circle-jerk
- Replies: 65
- Views: 7939
Say a cow is %99.999999999 unconscious and women are %99.999999 unconscious. Um, no thanks. Why don't we say a black man is 99.9% evil and Satan is 99.99% evil? Or a Jew is 99.9% worthy of death and a mass murderer is 99.99% worthy? My, aren't we being generous to blacks and Jews! The %.000000999 d...
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:09 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: circle-jerk
- Replies: 65
- Views: 7939
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:31 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: circle-jerk
- Replies: 65
- Views: 7939
Unidian, Attaching the label "feminine" to worldly consciousness and "masculine" to abstract consciousness is silly. If that's what they were doing, it would be silly. Masculinity is actually attached directly to consciousness as a whole. Since most people are largely unconscious, they are perfectl...
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:03 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Hating the Self
- Replies: 119
- Views: 17576
That's what I mean. For a group of people who think so little of "woman," certain GF participants certainly do spend a great deal of time talking about her. No? The USA thinks very little of terrorists, but they spend a great deal of time talking about them. The Catholic Chruch thinks very little o...
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:58 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: circle-jerk
- Replies: 65
- Views: 7939
Unidian: if "QRS and followers" were to do that, they would be avoiding an issue essential to wisdom. Yep, QRS have been telling me that for years. I don't buy it. Attaching the label "feminine" to worldly consciousness and "masculine" to abstract consciousness is silly. For one thing, as QRS admit...
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:43 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: circle-jerk
- Replies: 65
- Views: 7939
Apart from the obvious ignorance by Unidian of how the 'feminine' has been defined in most discussions here [as the greatest hindrance to consciousness], I'm well-aware of how it is defined here. I think, and have thought for some time, that using the "feminine/masculine" terminology to describe qu...
- Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:00 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: "Enlightened" AND Obese and Indolent?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3785
- Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:39 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Careers for philosophy majors
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6921
Interesting thread.
There is a way to integrate Wittgenstein's fundamental point with an Eastern understanding. I have a brief essay about it here, if anyone is interested.
There is a way to integrate Wittgenstein's fundamental point with an Eastern understanding. I have a brief essay about it here, if anyone is interested.
- Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:28 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Hating the Self
- Replies: 119
- Views: 17576
- Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:23 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Hating the Self
- Replies: 119
- Views: 17576
- Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:44 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Give and Take of Truth
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3992
I was bullied by the Buddha in kindergarten. Instead of my lunch money, he demanded my ego, and I gave it to him. Oh yes, I was the only egoless child in school. Eating Elmer's All-Purpose Paste and construction paper in a state of Nirvana. I was kicked from the Glee Club for singing "Om Mani Padme ...
- Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:13 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Give and Take of Truth
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3992
Ja.
Yep.
- Sat Oct 21, 2006 7:49 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Essay: Freedom, Capitalism, & Work
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6617
- Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:16 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Essay: Freedom, Capitalism, & Work
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6617
- Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:18 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Essay: Freedom, Capitalism, & Work
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6617
BTW, I helped clean up Genius Forum because it is a philosophy board where substantial discussion occurs. To do that for free is better than to clean up sports forums for payment, in my view. Genius Forum has the potential to make small but significant contributions to human development. Most employ...
- Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:14 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Essay: Freedom, Capitalism, & Work
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6617
For the record, I am on a disability payment. But assuming that I was not, and there was no fundamental impediment to doing conventionally "useful" things, I still don't think I would have time for it. The things I value are not immediately useful to the bulk of society, nor is my philosophical work...
- Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:06 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Essay: Freedom, Capitalism, & Work
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6617
Elizabeth, He had a valid reason for ceasing gainful employment, but he still continued his life's work, perhaps because some of us have missions in life that transcend whether or not we get paid. Indeed. For people who value wisdom, he had a mission of far more importance than simply "getting paid....
- Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:38 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Essay: Freedom, Capitalism, & Work
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6617
Carl, Aren't you "ParadiseChild" on EZboard? If so, this level of criticism was certainly unexpected... And it does, for the most part, but in a very pedestrian way, and sheesh, it's nothing we didn't already know. Then it gets creative with some theories purporting to support the idea that maybe pe...
- Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:42 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Essay: Freedom, Capitalism, & Work
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6617
Hi Elizabeth, It describes the unhealthy mentality of most workplaces. I believe that it is possible to have a healthy work environment if the employees are all doing what they like to do and are good at doing (some people like to file, some like to work with people, some like to work with their han...
- Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:44 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Essay: Freedom, Capitalism, & Work
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6617
Essay: Freedom, Capitalism, & Work
Link to Essay What do people here think of this piece? I'm particularly interested in responses from those sympathetic to "QRS" views and/or other unconventional perspectives - I've already had lots of predictable "mainstream" responses elsewhere. Incidentally, if you want an illustrated version, u...
- Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:38 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Spam Attack
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6307