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by Luke Breuer
Wed Dec 29, 2010 8:26 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Helping people:
Replies: 96
Views: 7087

Re: Helping people:

This is like asking - "is a cat based on cats to the core?" It's a meaningless question. If you cannot say that it is rational to be rational, then you must either stop at a faith statement, or continue the discussion with something other than rationality. If you stop at a faith statement, you are ...
by Luke Breuer
Wed Dec 29, 2010 8:07 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Blessed are the poor in spirit
Replies: 206
Views: 23709

Re: Blessed are the poor in spirit

Lets try to trace it back and point out it was you making assertion couched in language of certainty and the factual. How careful are you to insert exactly the correct protocol words into what you speak? I can play that game, but it isn’t very much fun. If I “couch” my statements in certain/factual...
by Luke Breuer
Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:14 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Blessed are the poor in spirit
Replies: 206
Views: 23709

Re: Blessed are the poor in spirit

In 9 years of considerably heavy internet discussion forum activity, I've run across no one who I feel was genuinely and fully reborn. I may be wrong here but this is my best feeling on the matter. Would you be willing to dig into the “reborn” idea some more? It is interesting that you later use th...
by Luke Breuer
Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:07 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What blind spot to men have?
Replies: 137
Views: 11184

Re: What blind spot to men have?

Apparently men are blind to the gross injustice of typos! Those vile heathens! Can they not see the evil caused by the improper spelling of a word? Even if it is a typo! Those blasphemers might as well have put an extra -o on and made it as absurd and offensive to truth as possibly can be! Lockheed...
by Luke Breuer
Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:30 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: BBCode: superscript and subscript
Replies: 0
Views: 4392

BBCode: superscript and subscript

I believe that addition of [super][/super] and [sub][/sub] BBCode would be quite helpful; the corresponding HTML tags are <sup> and <sub>. Superscript would allow for footnote-type material to be more easily extracted from the main flow of text; subscript would allow for technical, mathy description...
by Luke Breuer
Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:22 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Word-to-BBCode converter
Replies: 1
Views: 5519

Re: Word-to-BBCode converter

Whoops, I should have made this post in here, it seems—that is a much-enhanced version of the macro you found. Anyhow, I think the two threads can be merged.
by Luke Breuer
Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:20 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Offline BBCode editor
Replies: 6
Views: 14206

Re: Offline BBCode editor

Another option is the Word2BBCode Word macro that I found and heavily modified. It allows you to compose posts with rich text, which is something that the editor posted above does not do. See this screenshot for an example of what the text looks like pre-conversion. Now, the macro only supports cert...
by Luke Breuer
Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:34 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Blessed are the poor in spirit
Replies: 206
Views: 23709

Re: Blessed are the poor in spirit

And I know of no one personally who has been genuinely reborn and is consciously and painstakingly rehabilitating either of these things. Do you know of anyone non- personally who has been genuinely reborn? Perhaps someone on these forums? It is hard to understand a phenomenon when there is only on...
by Luke Breuer
Tue Dec 28, 2010 4:45 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Blessed are the poor in spirit
Replies: 206
Views: 23709

Re: Blessed are the poor in spirit

Have you any idea what the divergence/convergence of various people's "sixth senses" are? How are they similar and how do they differ?
by Luke Breuer
Tue Dec 28, 2010 4:21 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Blessed are the poor in spirit
Replies: 206
Views: 23709

Re: Blessed are the poor in spirit

Bob Michael wrote:A fully rehabilitated sixth sense or intuitive faculty.
How well can you describe/define this "intuitive faculty"? That is, can you describe your intuition in any way other than "magic"? I have some ideas of my own, but I want to hear yours. :-p
by Luke Breuer
Tue Dec 28, 2010 4:19 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Helping people:
Replies: 96
Views: 7087

Re: Helping people:

It depends on how you define "delusion". Anyone who isn't rational is deluded, in my book. Is rationality based on rationality all the way to the core? That is, are the most fundamental axioms of rationality, themselves rational? I think you’re playing with fire that may burn you by how you speak. ...
by Luke Breuer
Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:33 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Blessed are the poor in spirit
Replies: 206
Views: 23709

Re: Blessed are the poor in spirit

Don't jump on the Diebert bandwagon too quickly. He is intelligent and makes good insights of his own, but he has never quite understood exactly what QRS are on about, so he can't speak for them very well at all. Actually to be specific, there is no exact QRS philosophy as Dan, David, and Kevin are...
by Luke Breuer
Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:03 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Blessed are the poor in spirit
Replies: 206
Views: 23709

Re: Blessed are the poor in spirit

[PS: Diebert was, at one time in his life, a Christian. For all kinds of different reasons he does not attach that designation to himself now. He consideres certain writers, perhaps CS Lewis, to be 'baby's milk' in comparison to what he now understands.] Perhaps this is not the thread for it, but I...
by Luke Breuer
Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:00 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What blind spot to men have?
Replies: 137
Views: 11184

Re: What blind spot to men have?

One could argue either way, frankly. I would appreciate seeing you defend the statement, “Women are necessarily not equipped to make major contributions to the world of reasoning and science and philosophy.” HIS tory. HER story requires the invention of a special language. The etymology (or here if...
by Luke Breuer
Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:52 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The "Kingdom of Heaven" and the "Kingdom of God"
Replies: 111
Views: 12396

Re: The "Kingdom of Heaven" and the "Kingdom of God"

Beingof1 wrote:When the understanding arrives that the center of consciousness is everywhere and its circumference is nowhere you are very, very close.
You devalue the words "center" and "circumference", among other terms. That, or you probably could have chosen a better analogy.
by Luke Breuer
Tue Dec 28, 2010 11:14 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What blind spot to men have?
Replies: 137
Views: 11184

Re: What blind spot to men have?

What it means, in my understanding, is that the mental and conceptual world, the world of reasoning and science and philosophy and so many things, is a world men have created. The impetus to plunge deeply into this world has been, almost exclusively, a 'man's project'. Is this necessarily the case ...
by Luke Breuer
Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:10 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Blessed are the poor in spirit
Replies: 206
Views: 23709

Re: Blessed are the poor in spirit

No, you don't know that at all. You're making it up and trying to get away with lying like all that calls itself "Christian" these days. Please articulate and defend this statement. You're in the wrong forum, mate, if you thought for a moment the existence of Jesus, Eckhart of their translators and...
by Luke Breuer
Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:06 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Blessed are the poor in spirit
Replies: 206
Views: 23709

Re: Blessed are the poor in spirit

I am sure you will soon get a grasp of it, but the Quinn-Rowden-Solway (and it seems also Kelly Jones) position is that, somehow, one can mentally reason in such a way that one grasps the nature of the Totality (an odd an incomprehensible term that is crucial to them), and when one achieves this, w...
by Luke Breuer
Tue Dec 28, 2010 9:52 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What blind spot to men have?
Replies: 137
Views: 11184

Re: What blind spot to men have?

Women can participate with man's project but---and I challenge you to propose differently---cannot and will not instigate her own project. What does this even mean ? Do you consider the project of raising children to be somehow “lesser” than the things which men statistically do more often? How doe...
by Luke Breuer
Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:14 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The "Kingdom of Heaven" and the "Kingdom of God"
Replies: 111
Views: 12396

Re: The "Kingdom of Heaven" and the "Kingdom of God"

We agree that there are absolutes. We agree that there is some kind of force drawing us to them—at the very least, it is a good model. Now, supposing the power of this force depends on the purity and comprehensive nature of the absolutes, the most powerful delusion would be almost pure truth combine...
by Luke Breuer
Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:04 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What blind spot to men have?
Replies: 137
Views: 11184

Re: What blind spot to men have?

Men tend to disrespect emotions, which leads to emotional naïveté, which causes all kinds of damage. Two categories: How you treat other people really does matter, in the mental realm as well as the physical realm. If you dare doubt this, I challenge you to attend a 15+ hour suicide prevention train...
by Luke Breuer
Tue Dec 28, 2010 7:49 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: A definition of Personality
Replies: 17
Views: 2542

Re: A definition of Personality

Yes, yes, I am aware at poking fun at Hasselhoff. I find that much less interesting than the actual topic at hand. I have trained myself to gain nothing out of such mockery; perhaps I haven't yet to find the key where I am not building myself up by tearing someone else down. I will add a small perso...
by Luke Breuer
Tue Dec 28, 2010 7:32 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Blessed are the poor in spirit
Replies: 206
Views: 23709

Re: Blessed are the poor in spirit

Eckhart Is anyone here fooled into thinking that Eckhart’s statements are well-supported by the Bible? There is a saying, “never read a Bible verse”, and I sadly think it applies to what Eckhart is saying. Now, I could be wrong in how I am interpreting him, given that what we have is a translation ...
by Luke Breuer
Tue Dec 28, 2010 4:47 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: A definition of Personality
Replies: 17
Views: 2542

Re: A definition of Personality

cousinbasil wrote:Uh... I was joking...?
I'm sorry, sometimes I get locked into serious-mode...
by Luke Breuer
Mon Dec 27, 2010 6:29 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: A definition of Personality
Replies: 17
Views: 2542

Re: A definition of Personality

He would have to fail sometimes or else there would never be "surprises." It would have to be a matter of timing. Otherwise, you would "expect the unexpected" from such a person. I was looking for a way to say that there was not a time T, past which the person never surprised you again. I’m not ent...