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by frank
Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:02 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Romance(the new religion)
Replies: 41
Views: 7528

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
by 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...
by frank
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...
by frank
Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:17 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Romance(the new religion)
Replies: 41
Views: 7528

I would have thought Shopping became the New and popular Meaning for folk...
...as, quite correctly, the priests are being laughed off the Stage...

frank
by frank
Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:53 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Romance(the new religion)
Replies: 41
Views: 7528

ankit:
It appears to me that romance has taken the place of religion and other metaphysical ideologies such as communism in the west at least.
I didn't realise 'religion and other metaphysical ideologies' had been replaced...

What are you smoking?

frank
by frank
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......
by frank
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...
by frank
Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:01 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Romance(the new religion)
Replies: 41
Views: 7528

sky:
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hahaha...good answer!

Spontaneous.

Zen.

frank (enjoying it)
by frank
Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:18 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: To The Mystical Geniuses
Replies: 227
Views: 44281

Subjectivity is Truth.
Truth is Subjectivity.

Kierkegaard.

Yes Soren...we make it mean what we make it mean...hahaha

frank
by frank
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...
by frank
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...
by frank
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...
by frank
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...
by frank
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....
by frank
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...
by frank
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...
by frank
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 ...
by frank
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...
by frank
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...
by frank
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...
by frank
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...
by frank
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...
by frank
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 ...
by frank
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...
by frank
Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:28 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Postmodern Meaninglessness: genius or foolishness?
Replies: 74
Views: 15128

david:
Sorry to disappoint you, but I have a full and complete understanding of Ultimate Reality.
OK, that's exciting.

Now what is it?

frank