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by RZoo
Wed Jun 18, 2014 12:40 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Bliss
Replies: 106
Views: 33531

Re: Bliss

TheImmanent wrote:
RZoo wrote:
TheImmanent wrote:The negative is merely the absence of the positive.
WHAAAAAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU. LA-LA-LA-LA!

That sounds like a happy delusion. ;-)
You're more fortunate than you suspect.
Good news from afar may bring you a welcome visitor.
by RZoo
Wed Jun 18, 2014 12:25 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Bliss
Replies: 106
Views: 33531

Re: Bliss

TheImmanent wrote:The negative is merely the absence of the positive.
WHAAAAAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU. LA-LA-LA-LA!

That sounds like a happy delusion. ;-)
by RZoo
Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:57 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
Replies: 50
Views: 16210

Re: Why pursue enlightenment?

But wisdom is not about rejecting everything, it's about embracing the things found to be right and live and die for those. Wisdom is not about having no value and no identity (and as such ego-function). Just to clarify: nothing is objectively "right" or "wrong"; such value judgments are highly per...
by RZoo
Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:32 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
Replies: 50
Views: 16210

Re: Why pursue enlightenment?

The doer who once did was never anything but an incorrect conclusion. He never actually did anything. There is no activity but awareness, i.e., enlightenment. Passive awareness is a contradiction. There is no awareness, either. All dualities are illusions, not just the ones you are biased against. ...
by RZoo
Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:19 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Bliss
Replies: 106
Views: 33531

Re: Bliss

Positive emotions consist in the expression of one's own nature. Negative emotions consists in the conception of some hindrance or opposition to the expression of one's own nature. This leads the ego to form the belief that it is the suffering that gives rise to pleasure and vice versa. For every t...
by RZoo
Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:27 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
Replies: 50
Views: 16210

Re: Why pursue enlightenment?

Your life is worthless, is that enough for a plausible reason? Your life is worthless - so what? We need more, for example: A. Your life is worthless. B. You dislike your life being worthless. C. You view "enlightenment" as providing worth to life. Conclusion: You view pursuing enlightenment as a c...
by RZoo
Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:44 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
Replies: 50
Views: 16210

Re: Why pursue enlightenment?

"Self" is defined as answer to the ultimate question of life. (What is life, why does it exist, what is absolute?) A great many human beings (perhaps all?) have been conscious of the ultimate question of life and of our lack of an answer. Some define the answer as "God", others as "Self", others as ...
by RZoo
Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:39 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
Replies: 50
Views: 16210

Re: Why pursue enlightenment?

Enlightenment is active (that by which everything is), limitless (cannot be captured by any form), wholesome (complete in itself), blissful (in perfect expression of its own infinite nature). Thank you for the metaphysical nonsense and stringing together of meaningless grunting sounds taken outside...
by RZoo
Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:50 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Movies
Replies: 51
Views: 25478

Re: Movies

Simply seeking clarification of your meaning. Since you’re saying that consumption of entertainment based on your qualifications for that entertainment correlates with enlightenment, then other consumables such as computers, automobiles, fashion, and so on are also likely indicators of enlightenmen...
by RZoo
Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:08 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Movies
Replies: 51
Views: 25478

Re: Movies

Not unless he communicated with God via email. Let's cut to the chase....
by RZoo
Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:46 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Movies
Replies: 51
Views: 25478

Re: Movies

None, or ones that were specifically requested of him.
by RZoo
Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:15 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Bliss
Replies: 106
Views: 33531

Re: Bliss

Buddhas Bliss was permanent. The bliss I have experienced is impermanent. Is it the same bliss, only the quality and quantity of it relative to the proximity to Enlightenment ? The quality of it is inversely proportionate to the proximity to "Enlightenment". The stronger the suffering, the stronger...
by RZoo
Tue Jun 17, 2014 3:52 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Most Logical After Death Scenario
Replies: 181
Views: 53357

Re: Most Logical After Death Scenario

So you 're saying being dead is some kind of feeling or emotion, like to be in love, to feel like a king or a chicken? But dying is not the same as being dead! Well, I thought this thread was about "after death" or about "being dead". In my view death only exists as suffering: for those fearing its...
by RZoo
Tue Jun 17, 2014 3:37 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Movies
Replies: 51
Views: 25478

Re: Movies

Ouch, you geniuses like mainstream American movies? :-\ Ouch stems from a bent view. Stems bent until slanted. It stems from a cultured view. I'd find it as difficult to conceive of a wise, intelligent, conscious or "genius" person who likes books like 50 shades of grey , as I find it difficult to ...
by RZoo
Tue Jun 17, 2014 3:16 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
Replies: 50
Views: 16210

Re: Why pursue enlightenment?

My understanding of enlightenment is something like: Living in conscious awareness of one's position as part of the world. It is in opposition to the view of oneself as a separate entity in the world. The goal of enlightenment is to fully renounce one's ego. One will no longer experience shallow emo...
by RZoo
Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:33 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
Replies: 50
Views: 16210

Re: Why pursue enlightenment?

Bobo wrote:Because things appear in contrast to one another. By putting dropping out first one can achieve the effects of the opposite of it.
What are you saying? By dropping out, one can achieve the same effects of staying in?
by RZoo
Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:45 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Most Logical After Death Scenario
Replies: 181
Views: 53357

Re: Most Logical After Death Scenario

You have a point there. But I do believe it might be possible to understand the fuller meaning of death or how that occurs, generally, to the human mind. Do you know what it's like to be in love? I imagine you've experienced it first hand. Do you know what it's like to be a king? Maybe you've read ...
by RZoo
Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:36 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
Replies: 50
Views: 16210

Re: Why pursue enlightenment?

As a flip through any dictionary will reveal, human language is extremely vague. Perhaps one ought to attempt to create a well-defined subset of the English language sometime.... Until then, communication is more of an art than a science. The listener or reader has to attempt to understand the words...
by RZoo
Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:40 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Movies
Replies: 51
Views: 25478

Re: Movies

"Criterion Collection" releases many foreign films for American audiences. I'd recommend sticking with things earlier than 1995.
by RZoo
Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:09 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why pursue enlightenment?
Replies: 50
Views: 16210

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? To...
by RZoo
Mon Jun 16, 2014 5:44 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Most Logical After Death Scenario
Replies: 181
Views: 53357

Re: Most Logical After Death Scenario

There is no such thing as more logical or the most logical.

"After death" is an intangible concept. It's practically meaningless to discuss.

We could hypothesize that loss of consciousness occurs after death. This is about as good as a shot in the dark.
by RZoo
Mon Jun 16, 2014 5:33 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Movies
Replies: 51
Views: 25478

Re: Movies

Ouch, you geniuses like mainstream American movies? :-\