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by avidaloca
Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:26 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Girls Playing Rugby in Prom Dresses
Replies: 124
Views: 40795

A stroke of genius.
by avidaloca
Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:23 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: OIL, STRAIGHT FROM THE BOWSER‘S MOUTH
Replies: 3
Views: 1707

From an email from a friend of mine in Ohio: I bought an old Nissan pick'em up truck. 201000 miles and 20 years old. I have been tuning it up because today I will take a long trip to the country. It is 4x4 and stick shift. It has a 4 cylinder 1.9 liter engine , I think it will be good on gas. These ...
by avidaloca
Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:34 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Iran nukes?
Replies: 205
Views: 65437

Kind of sounds like he needed a scholarly translator who is familiar with all the nuances of the language; someone neutral but whose knowledge of German is beyond rapproach. I know he asked around at the time to German academics like Claudia Grinnell but she and others said they didn't have the tim...
by avidaloca
Sat Apr 15, 2006 3:43 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Iran nukes?
Replies: 205
Views: 65437

I am struggling to understand your meaning. I speak only English. Yet, I can read Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and understand their meaning, even if the usage is not modern. It is modern enough to be easily understood by a twenty-first century intellect. Weininger writes from both a different t...
by avidaloca
Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:54 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Iran nukes?
Replies: 205
Views: 65437

If your knowledge of German is modern, did you have difficulty interpreting Weininger? Is that what you are saying -- kind of unclear from your writing above. The only German I knew when I started looking at Weininger was modern German, like most people. It didn't help a lot. It's not so much the n...
by avidaloca
Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:09 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Iran nukes?
Replies: 205
Views: 65437

I do think that Kevin is much better at wisdom than he is at understanding politics and the root causes of war. I don't think I'll forget for some years trying to translate Weininger with Kevin in 1999. I spent hours every day for months reading Weininger in German after some years experience with ...
by avidaloca
Thu Apr 13, 2006 9:29 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
Replies: 130
Views: 45505

I can't imagine taking a razor to my face each and every morning. That's why I switched to an electric with a soft foil years ago. I didn't like all the cuts and blood, even if they were only on the surface. I only need a disposable razor for my neck area because it is a bad shape for an electric, ...
by avidaloca
Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:27 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Porn
Replies: 73
Views: 27745

Sex and Character: Male and Femal Psychology Chapter

This sums up Weininger's entire thesis: In short, this is what it pivots on. It has been found that the logical and the ethical phenomenon, linked together as one in the concept of truth as the highest value, compel the assumption of an intelligble I or a soul, as an existence of highest, hyperempri...
by avidaloca
Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:33 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Porn
Replies: 73
Views: 27745

Weininger: There is no man, in whom not yet somehow something supersensual lives, none, who could be not at all good; and there is no woman of whom that would in truth be valid. Es gibt keinen Mann, in dem nicht noch irgendwie Übersinnliches lebte, keinen, der gar nicht gut wäre; und es gibt kein ...
by avidaloca
Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:28 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Porn
Replies: 73
Views: 27745

Notice that Weininger says that "the lowest woman" can be crushed. This means, she is not utterly, 100%, unconscious of her mediocrity. She is not totally incapable of thought. Hard to believe.... It's a salient point you make. Weininger wrote about everyone (excepting the absolute Woman [W] who ca...
by avidaloca
Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:14 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Porn
Replies: 73
Views: 27745

Ego and woman

This passage by Weininger contains his famous line about the "lowest standing man being superior to the highest standing woman". It reminds me of Nietzsche who said "Woman is ego personified". I read in it that women have no higher essence, they are pure ego, which is lowness, of the world, of body ...
by avidaloca
Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:11 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
Replies: 130
Views: 45505

Sometimes I fear that my lack of facial hair is an indication that i'm not man-enough to be a sage. Take a look at the Chinese sage Huang Po's writings: some of the best ever written. A true genius. As he lived in the ninth century, we can't be sure what he looks like, but you rarely see a Chinaman...
by avidaloca
Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:51 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Quinn and Solways 'wise-man beards'
Replies: 130
Views: 45505

I can't vote either. I'd vote B.

I'd say the beards just suit their lifestyles. They are not "put on" to attract a certain clientele or whatever.

If you didn't have to go to work or weren't interested in women or how you looked, you'd have a beard too maybe.
by avidaloca
Mon Apr 10, 2006 1:59 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Iran nukes?
Replies: 205
Views: 65437

Breaking News....

US 'planning attack on Iran' From correspondents in Washington April 10, 2006 PLANS are under way for a massive US bombing strike on sites where Iran is believed to be enriching uranium before President George W. Bush leaves office in less than three years' time. Both Mr Bush and Vice-President Dic...
by avidaloca
Sun Apr 09, 2006 1:28 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: possible egotisical motives for being here
Replies: 68
Views: 22016

Often, the wildest kids are those who grew up with strict discipline.
If you place sand and dirt under crushing pressure for enough time, you get diamonds.
by avidaloca
Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:12 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Are messageboards addictive?
Replies: 11
Views: 3721

Just out of curiousity Faizi, after nine years writing on forums to QRS, do you ever get the urge to meet any of them? I know that can't easily be done due to the distances, but it seems a long time and I wondered if you ever wanted to do that at all.
by avidaloca
Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:49 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Iran nukes?
Replies: 205
Views: 65437

I believe there would be a lot more hard evidence than there is if a systematic genocidal campaign to wipe out six million people had occurred. I don't deny that 1-2 million were killed in concentration camps, mass shootings and burials, and through starvation and violence in ghettos. I wouldn't den...
by avidaloca
Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:38 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Porn
Replies: 73
Views: 27745

I was speaking generally about the overall body of his work - it seems to be trying to improve or save humankind which he does allude to at the end of Sex and Character, where the book starts looking like Revelation.
by avidaloca
Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:09 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: possible egotisical motives for being here
Replies: 68
Views: 22016

Why?
by avidaloca
Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:34 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: possible egotisical motives for being here
Replies: 68
Views: 22016

A while ago I went to a Zen meditation night and it was very interesting. The whole point was to quiet your mind, sitting in the correct posture facing a wall for three hours with a couple of short breaks where you had to be composed anyway to go through a tea ceremony. It was the hardest thing I'd ...
by avidaloca
Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:31 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: possible egotisical motives for being here
Replies: 68
Views: 22016

the Genius Forum is no match for the backstabbing, ridiculing, deceit, posturing, teaming up, threats, innuendo and hypocriticism you will find 'out there'. It's amazing how little of that goes on here. I'd be out of here pretty quick if it was the modus operandi like on so many other boards, so th...
by avidaloca
Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:11 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: An honest academic being corralled into submission to
Replies: 7
Views: 2170

Funny how the words "honest academic" seem to be oxymoronic these days. The Aussie family were tougher, practical, uncomfortable of expressing anything unusual or witty , mother-lovers, and as bland as animals. People who lack expressiveness are the most boring people on earth to me. It's as if they...
by avidaloca
Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:46 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: An honest academic being corralled into submission to
Replies: 7
Views: 2170

On the subject of racial differences, the article has this footnote: Note that Sailer's definition of "race" as an inbred extended family, means that some such descent groups are closely related, such as Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland while others, such as the classic continental race...
by avidaloca
Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:54 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Porn
Replies: 73
Views: 27745

No. I said "The ego works the same regardless of whether the desire is sexual, psychological, emotional, or biological. These spheres may appear to be different, but ultimately they all have the same conceptual basis." One who is perfectly enlightened doesn't have an ego at all, by definition. Degr...
by avidaloca
Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:13 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: I like suffering
Replies: 18
Views: 7224

Memory is a bitch because it has inbuilt mechanisms for forgetting past suffering, for only remembering the good times. This increases one's desire to strive for more good times, which in the end results in more suffering once the initial excitment of a new experience wears off through repetition. ...