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- Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:02 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Romance(the new religion)
- Replies: 41
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sky: i am not unhappy about it i am just not enthralled i believe that is the point of this thread Well, that would be your subjective truth...it just means you're not enthralled. I'll send a 'fax' to God if you like and get him to change it. but blue is the color of truth That would be fiction frank
- Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:39 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Romance(the new religion)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7528
ankit: Of course at least in my view the real emptiness comes from living a secondhand life, through notions given by others. At last some Common Sense...well done. 'Ultimate Reality' has not been discovered yet...there is no model or explanation that delivers. Once that is understood as fact then w...
- Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:46 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Romance(the new religion)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7528
sky: shopping is the prerequisite to the prerequisite (romance) for 'happily ever after' the right genes in the right jeans put you at the head of the group and then you may be granted 'holy' matrimony 'Looking Good' is the way of it...the Winning Formula. but as long as people are bemused by the ma...
- Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:17 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Romance(the new religion)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7528
- Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:53 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Romance(the new religion)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7528
- Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:43 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Romance(the new religion)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7528
We're locked up in these 'skinbags'...equipped with a handful of Senses...and a 3 square inch microprocessor tucked away in the skull... A microprocessor that 'recognises, differentiates, reacts'.... A microprocessor that is driven by instincts... Social Instinct, Financial Instinct, Sex Instinct......
- Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:10 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Romance(the new religion)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7528
sky: why = Who knows? The Atoms that spin in your brain and the Atoms that spin in a salmon swimming in the Atlantic and the Atoms that spin in an orchid just flowering in a Burmese Rainforest...wherever there is a configuration of Atoms... What spins the Atoms? The Tao. There is One Soul (Tao). You...
- Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:01 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Romance(the new religion)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7528
- Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:18 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: To The Mystical Geniuses
- Replies: 227
- Views: 44281
- Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:14 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Romance(the new religion)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7528
sky: no attraction is the function......... Yeah...it's Function. No other Meaning required really. Just Function. I guess the proclivity of the Mind then is to 'cook up' some Meaning about it to give it some 'attachment' potential. Layer some icing on the cake...fool around with it...alter it...mak...
- Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:50 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Romance(the new religion)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7528
sky: in all creatures is a deep drive for genetic survival so often a pair is attracted for purely biological reasons to produce an embodiment of the best possible genetic code available So Romance is a Function put in place by the Infinite Wisdom of the Tao as a means to get the next generation bor...
- Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:45 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Hezbollah and Israel
- Replies: 559
- Views: 110313
jamesh: Not if it leads to a situation where Muslim countries get public support "as a right" so to speak to obtain nuclear weapons. Pakistan is bad enough - at some time in the next 20 years there will be great trouble in this country and who knows what they'll do. but otherwise it is a comedy. The...
- Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:56 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Hezbollah and Israel
- Replies: 559
- Views: 110313
Solway: Both sides are fighting for what they believe is their land, more than anything else. Religion just fuels the fire. Finally, someone's understood. That deluded belief systems is the root cause. The Human design feature that has it 'grasping' a Script and hanging on for dear Life...and even a...
- Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:42 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Postmodern Meaninglessness: genius or foolishness?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 15128
David: Genuine insight into Reality can certainly open up another Way and orientate the mind towards the true nature of the Tao. But never, in any step of this process, is the chain of cause and effect "interrupted" or "discontinued". n the spiritual life an intellectual understanding is not enough....
- Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:16 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Hezbollah and Israel
- Replies: 559
- Views: 110313
The whole thing collapses when the reification of 'things' like Jew, Arab, American, Israel, Palestine, US, UN are discovered to be the actual delusions they are... These 'things' are mental conceptions held in perpetuation by their constant reification. Stemming from the mental insistence that Self...
- Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:03 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Postmodern Meaninglessness: genius or foolishness?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 15128
Without actions, there is no agent. Without those two, there is no effect. Without an effect, there is consequently no subject of experience. Hence, they are all empty. (Nargajuna) Actions originate from self-clinging. (Nargajuna) Afflictions are the cause of actions. (Nargajuna) Are you saying tha...
- Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:00 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Postmodern Meaninglessness: genius or foolishness?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 15128
David, This quest of yours....Activity. Without actions, there is no agent. Without those two, there is no effect. Without an effect, there is consequently no subject of experience. Hence, they are all empty. (Nargajuna) Actions originate from self-clinging. (Nargajuna) Afflictions are the cause of ...
- Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:33 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Postmodern Meaninglessness: genius or foolishness?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 15128
david: What do you think? It's more along the lines of what it means to be Human. Your aim, David, is to 'Rescue Minds from delusion via Reason and Logic'... This is your Meaning. It is empty and meaningless... except that You 'give it meaning'... 'Rescue Minds from delusion via Reason and Logic' re...
- Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:57 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Postmodern Meaninglessness: genius or foolishness?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 15128
Nagarjuna saw in the concept sunya, a concept which connoted in the early Pali Buddhist literature the lack of a stable, inherent existence in persons, but which since the third century BCE had also denoted the newly formulated number "zero," the interpretive key to the heart of Buddhist teaching, a...
- Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:16 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Postmodern Meaninglessness: genius or foolishness?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 15128
david: Quote: 'empty and meaningless' as a notion is my preference....it's an escape...an escape from dogma. Don't be naive. This is your dogma. It's a mental trick that you adopt in order to stop thinking about anything too deeply. Yeah, it's a trick devised by Nargajuna...the Void. ...there's so m...
- Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:21 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Postmodern Meaninglessness: genius or foolishness?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 15128
I didn't delete any post at all...what are you talking about? david: You are only revealing your own timidity here. That's fine, I'd call it caution. Dogma doesn't appeal. 'empty and meaningless' as a notion is my preference....it's an escape...an escape from dogma. just like the Esc. button on your...
- Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:15 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Postmodern Meaninglessness: genius or foolishness?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 15128
frank wrote: DQ: One cannot truly understand the ungraspable nature of Reality without intellectually understanding what Reality is. The two go hand in hand. F: There appears to be a metaphysical substratum there that we can gesture toward or point toward... ....but we can't really say anything defi...
- Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:20 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Postmodern Meaninglessness: genius or foolishness?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 15128
david: Aren't you able to grasp the point I was making in that paragraph? Subject: on comprehending 'Reality.' Predicate: 'is essentially ungraspable.' It's enough. The Heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves, until there are none, No hopes, Nothing remains, It is not to want, It is ...
- Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:21 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Postmodern Meaninglessness: genius or foolishness?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 15128
From Wisdom of the Infinite... When it comes to comprehending Reality, there is ultimately nothing to affirm or deny. To affirm something is to fall into the delusion that a particular appearance is ultimate reality; to deny a particular appearance is to fall into the delusion that Reality has a par...
- Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:28 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Postmodern Meaninglessness: genius or foolishness?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 15128