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by RZoo
Sun Jun 29, 2014 2:11 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Spontaneity
Replies: 10
Views: 4202

Re: Spontaneity

There is a great deception afoot in the world of 'truth' seeking which is the idea that it is both possible and desirable to be free of causal influences, to be "wholly in the moment", to transcend meaning making and instead, BE "God's" meaning. I once believed this myself and only through paying c...
by RZoo
Sat Jun 28, 2014 4:47 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
Replies: 104
Views: 27504

Re: Shakespeare nailed it

* You are drawing a distinction between knee-jerk reactions and ones that go through the consciousness, but let's not overstate such a distinction: we aren't in control of our emotions any more than of our knee-jerk reactions. But that's not true! Your knee jerks without hesitation or control. But ...
by RZoo
Sat Jun 28, 2014 3:45 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
Replies: 104
Views: 27504

Re: Shakespeare nailed it

The unseen cause (thing-in-itself) made me do it! You misunderstood my meaning of "unseen". "Unseen" in the context of my statement meant discovery of no-thing, no first cause. I looked for a thing to release me from my thing-ness, realized my folly, end of looking. Thanks though for your query of ...
by RZoo
Sat Jun 28, 2014 3:16 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
Replies: 50
Views: 16210

Re: Why pursue enlightenment?

Ah, a question of values. Which is better for who? For the lazy, tired, weak and suffering, passiveness, restraint and detachment, and for the energetic, creative and healthy, passion, activity and attachment, perhaps? Life is pointless. Options: A) Live it anyways - why not. B) Make pretending you...
by RZoo
Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:08 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
Replies: 104
Views: 27504

Re: Shakespeare nailed it

The unseen cause (thing-in-itself) made me do it!
by RZoo
Fri Jun 27, 2014 5:55 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
Replies: 50
Views: 16210

Re: Why pursue enlightenment?

Enlightenment is for drop-outs, hardly for "geniuses". It's pointless to be passive, restrained, detached and shut off your emotions completely. It's equally hard to sublimate your emotions and to do something productive and meaningful with your life (to change the world). Why favor dropping out? T...
by RZoo
Fri Jun 27, 2014 5:53 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: No Enlightenment for me thanks.
Replies: 13
Views: 6447

Re: No Enlightenment for me thanks.

Every creation is also a destruction. It's only a matter of perspective. Why not let other people or generations worry about their own interests in changing the world?
by RZoo
Fri Jun 27, 2014 5:50 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
Replies: 104
Views: 27504

Re: Shakespeare nailed it

Dictionary.com: Reasoning: the process of forming conclusions, judgments, or inferences from facts or premises. Why does anything/life/consciousness exist? I reason that this question has no definitive answer. Why? Because my mind is an effect of an unseen cause. An unseen cause? Is that kind of li...
by RZoo
Fri Jun 27, 2014 5:42 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
Replies: 104
Views: 27504

Re: Shakespeare nailed it

Do you think that desire or fear could exist without emotions? A better question would be if emotions could ever form without desire and fear. But since I had already defined emotions situational , as social passions, the answer on your question would be yes because many instances of primal desires...
by RZoo
Thu Jun 26, 2014 7:25 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
Replies: 104
Views: 27504

Re: Shakespeare nailed it

movingalways wrote: You may have, as I once had, a misunderstanding of what it means to "dwell in the absolute." It does not mean you have all the answers or that you no longer need answers or that you have found the permanent right answer, rather, that you know the right answer will come, for now,...
by RZoo
Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:39 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
Replies: 104
Views: 27504

Re: Shakespeare nailed it

Do you think that desire or fear could exist without emotions? Would a man without emotions still desire a woman? Would a man without emotions enjoy sex?
by RZoo
Wed Jun 25, 2014 2:04 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
Replies: 50
Views: 16210

Re: Why pursue enlightenment?

It's not a question of passivity or activity. It's living like the subjective part of you, or the "unconscious," is in complete direction (as opposed to control) of your life. You deal with control as your conscious, waking self, but it is only an illusion. Trust is the key, leading to natural flow...
by RZoo
Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:23 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
Replies: 104
Views: 27504

Re: Shakespeare nailed it

You do realize that if you were speaking the truth as you know it to be when you pressed "Submit" after completing your answer that you were doing the will of The Absolute? "The Absolute" = ??? And it has a will? And it cares about "truth"? How do you know any of this? Or did you simply define it? ...
by RZoo
Wed Jun 25, 2014 7:59 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
Replies: 50
Views: 16210

Re: Why pursue enlightenment?

It's not a question of passivity or activity. It's living like the subjective part of you, or the "unconscious," is in complete direction (as opposed to control) of your life. You deal with control as your conscious, waking self, but it is only an illusion. Trust is the key, leading to natural flow...
by RZoo
Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:01 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
Replies: 50
Views: 16210

Re: Why pursue enlightenment?

I haven't read Hegel extensively so I don't know where I stand in relation to him, sorry. As I said, I consider enlightenment to be a deception at least insofar as it's linked with an arbitrary set of values or morality. For instance, if the preaching of Jesus and Buddha are part of their enlightenm...
by RZoo
Thu Jun 19, 2014 7:17 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
Replies: 104
Views: 27504

Re: Shakespeare nailed it

Your thoughts above are perfect examples of the mind's natural urge to divide and conquer taken to suffering's peak, that is, into the expression of hatred. Do you envision a consciousness beyond hatred that integrates its necessity to reject but no longer requires this necessity? And if so, do you...
by RZoo
Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:56 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
Replies: 50
Views: 16210

Re: Why pursue enlightenment?

The sentence you replied to was only a side remark of minor importance. I'll take the blame for this particular miscommunication as I should have been more clear about that.
by RZoo
Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:47 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Music that moves
Replies: 1086
Views: 225335

Re: Music that moves

You're right about equipment, why bother if half the frequencies are muddles or cut off? And the answer is "emotion", people listen to songs for other reasons than sonic qualities, duh! As I said, that works fine for some types of music (ie. radio quality music and pop music) where cutting off half...
by RZoo
Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:44 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
Replies: 104
Views: 27504

Re: Shakespeare nailed it

A fine and fashionable counter-argument from the masses (who are stupid, inconsistent, and generally don't matter that much), but not from geniuses. There you have it, a primal suffering (inconsistence) defined as ignorance, as lack of understanding. But how much do you "suffer fools" or that the m...
by RZoo
Wed Jun 18, 2014 3:55 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Music that moves
Replies: 1086
Views: 225335

Re: Music that moves

I hope you geniuses realize some day that there's a whole world of music out there beyond what's played on the radio. ;-) One of the main barriers to good music is poor quality speakers/headphones. This isn't too important for popular music as it tends to cater to low-end equipment and is carried by...
by RZoo
Wed Jun 18, 2014 3:17 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
Replies: 104
Views: 27504

Re: Shakespeare nailed it

I would go beyond acceptance of the necessity and say that we can embrace our suffering as equally valuable - if not more so - as our joys, and secretly hope to preserve or strengthen it. Perhaps our greatest fear should be that we will not suffer enough, that we find comfort too soon and fail to re...
by RZoo
Wed Jun 18, 2014 10:44 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Bliss
Replies: 106
Views: 33531

Re: Bliss

I was about to say something useful, but then I realized my post was too long and had to shorten it a bit.
by RZoo
Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:41 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Shakespeare nailed it
Replies: 104
Views: 27504

Re: Shakespeare nailed it

The arc of suffering and contradiction, such is the game of the thinking sentient man. Thank God for those moments when suffering is given it momentary reprieve! For the moment logic saves us, imagination saves us, prayer saves us, beer saves us, coffee saves us, sex saves us, compassion saves us, ...
by RZoo
Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:30 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Bliss
Replies: 106
Views: 33531

Re: Bliss

The subject is contextualized into a semioticist dematerialism that includes truth as a totality

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by RZoo
Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:21 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Email to Sam Harris:
Replies: 94
Views: 25639

Re: Email to Sam Harris:

... Nietzsche at least understood this problem (thought he never found the correct solution, which of course is traditional metaphysics; for modern Westerners, the solution had to wait until the arrival of Guenon and Schuon).... On the contrary, Nietzsche correctly ascertained the flaw of metaphysi...