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- Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:21 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Normal and paranormal:
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2251
Re: Normal and paranormal:
There's a reason physicists don't call much of Quantum Physics "paranormal", even though it's full of weird shit we don't fully understand. In a nutshell. Despite the antipathy I have seen at GF toward hard science - which is after all not philosophy - it remains true that those engaged i...
- Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:09 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Mystic....
- Replies: 249
- Views: 227542
Re: The Mystic....
What do you know Basil? You know nothing. I think I have admitted as much. I know nothing. I will bet my nothing is bigger than your nothing. You'll come up with sentences and paragraphs that amount to zilch. Less than zero, in fact. And because you are intelligent and consistent, you are aware the...
- Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:26 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
- Replies: 405
- Views: 78373
Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
Good link, Deebee - that one page sums up a lot of my own take on things.
- Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:03 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Mystic....
- Replies: 249
- Views: 227542
Re: The Mystic....
I'll thank you to speak for yourself.Dennis Mahar wrote:All is empty.
Every thought, feeling, sensation is a play of causality.
- Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:02 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Mystic....
- Replies: 249
- Views: 227542
Re: The Mystic....
How can it be possible to trivialise someone whose tonic note is that everything is meaningless? Your bite is meaningless, and so is your boat.Dennis Mahar wrote:love to you dear.
apologies for hurt.
don't trivialise me.
I bite back.
we're in the same boat.
forget it.
- Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:29 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
- Replies: 405
- Views: 78373
Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
I have made it clear that my primary evidence is personal experience. Books and third party stories are simply corroboration of that personal experience, particularly useful for demonstrating that other people have had similar experiences. It is the same with me, Laird - the experiences always seem...
- Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:24 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
- Replies: 405
- Views: 78373
Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
But what sort of mischievous spirits would communicate via a child's toy? Here's an idea - get a group of Asians who do not speak English and have them touch the glass - then have an English- speaking person query the spirits. Or have the group touching the glass be deaf-mutes who do not hear the qu...
- Thu Apr 05, 2012 11:25 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
- Replies: 405
- Views: 78373
Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
As always, what he's really doing is pawing around, sniffing out truffles.Laird wrote:Your response, dear, wilful Diebert, has been entirely dreary: to focus not on the forest, but on the trees!
- Thu Apr 05, 2012 8:37 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Otto Weininger on MTV
- Replies: 171
- Views: 74529
Re: Otto Weininger on MTV
If a fool be associated with a wise man even all his life, he will perceive the truth as little as a spoon perceives the taste of soup. - That is rather pessimistic. SOME of what I say MUST get through. Even if no one lets on. I even think you are beginning to learn a little. The schlemiel spills t...
- Thu Apr 05, 2012 8:28 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
- Replies: 405
- Views: 78373
Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
What I was trying to say is , that it is consistently documented [paranormal activity]. Whether it is true nor not, is not so much the point, as it being something humans have been experiencing for thousands of years, in all cultures. But humans have also been superstitious for thousands of years, ...
- Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:59 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
- Replies: 405
- Views: 78373
Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
Yes, but you did bring up the coffee pot scenario - also not a common occurrence...Kunga wrote:Dogs writing poetry is not a common occurrance. People seeing or experiencing ghosts or demons is very common, and has been reported/recorded throught history.
- Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:08 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
- Replies: 405
- Views: 78373
Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
No. But my daughter had a dream, that one was trying to get inside her body, and the same night her children had the same dream. So what is your logical explanation ? To me it sounds like, A=A. Say K - you're a grandma? Congrats! But how and when was it determined that the dreams were the same? Rec...
- Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:47 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Absolute Reality
- Replies: 122
- Views: 21638
Re: Absolute Reality
Sho 'nuff...Jehu wrote:...and we can only enlighten ourself if we is mentally sound...
Sorry, Jehu, I couldn't resist.
- Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:43 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Absolute Reality
- Replies: 122
- Views: 21638
Re: Absolute Reality
What does "right" mean in any of those 8 edicts? I first encountered these eight "rights" in college and thought them immensely helpful, primarily because they weren't edicts. They seemed so much more constructive - more like thou shalts instead of thou shalt nots. They also see...
- Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:37 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Otto Weininger on MTV
- Replies: 171
- Views: 74529
Re: Otto Weininger on MTV
I do a few things here: One is to use your own rigidity and lack of understanding of the present to force myself to articulate 'essences' I consider more.relevant, i.e. more essential; and too attempt to build a bridge to your tendentious belief-system. One of the main reasons you likely resist thi...
- Sun Apr 01, 2012 12:34 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Otto Weininger on MTV
- Replies: 171
- Views: 74529
Re: Otto Weininger on MTV
First of all, David - thanks for taking the time to see what I'm on about. I see you understand my problem: Okay, so basically you are having difficulty reconciling free will with causality. You believe they conflict with one another. To my mind, they don't conflict at all - but then again, I don't ...
- Sun Apr 01, 2012 12:13 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Otto Weininger on MTV
- Replies: 171
- Views: 74529
Re: Otto Weininger on MTV
cousinbasil: Everything may be connected, but the A in A=A is not everything. If it were, the meaning would suddenly vanish. A=A implies and not something else. Which of course acknowledges that there is something else. Well let A equal oneself; in other words, there may be reasons aplenty for one'...
- Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:36 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Youtube stuff
- Replies: 420
- Views: 241434
Re: Youtube stuff
Funny Farm "Hey Mack, ya know the way to Redbud"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD8oGkTYpwc Funny farm, a second visit with Mack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2-kMyeR4pE "Hey Mac, this road go to Redbud?" "Been here 50 years, and it ain't moved yet." Pause- "S...
- Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:08 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Absolute Reality
- Replies: 122
- Views: 21638
Re: Absolute Reality
Actually, enlightenment is dependent upon our abandoning who we think that we are, and surrendering to our true nature – as authentic human beings. An erroneous metaphysical view of the phenomenal world is all that keeps us from our goal. Once this "wrong view" is fully overcome, there is...
- Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:38 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What does it mean for a woman to be "strong and independant"
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4463
Re: What does it mean for a woman to be "strong and independ
I think it's because women are so anxious and insecure that they require all women to "play the game" - the game of being charming slaves to the ideal of womanhood. In this way, the shared illusions on which their happiness depends can be maintained. We should note here that you are using...
- Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:57 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Otto Weininger on MTV
- Replies: 171
- Views: 74529
Re: Otto Weininger on MTV
Well yes, it is a type of acquiescence in that one is accepting the truth for what it is. But it isn't a passive act. Attaining that kind of acceptance requires a courageous act of heroism, as it involves completely breaking away from the human race and cultivating a true independence of mind. This...
- Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:40 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
- Replies: 405
- Views: 78373
Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
However, in the latter event it is no longer useful to consider the original two events as independent, because they are dependent on each other as being two parts of a whole. It's not only useful but crucial to continue considering the events as independent. Otherwise Laird's main point, which is ...
- Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:58 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Where's my offset?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2234
Re: Where's my offset?
It hit a few nerves. Physically, in construction, what is the offset if it can be measured in meters? When you said "The cut/fill part isn't that important, I can reestablish that in seconds. The offset, however, is a different animal. It's not something I want to be liable for, so I use a lega...
- Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:52 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Otto Weininger on MTV
- Replies: 171
- Views: 74529
Re: Otto Weininger on MTV
Any time a blue-eyed kraut (such as me) ventures a criticism to a Jew about any Israeli policy...TA wrote:Jewish decensiveness about Gaza? Really? (*scratches head*). In whom did you notice that? ;-)
Some day I will tell you about the time I almost won an argument with a Jew...
- Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:46 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
- Replies: 405
- Views: 78373
Re: What is reality, what is a 2x4?
Given two events, E1 and E2, each with a high probability, say 0.9 (a 90% chance), of having a supernatural explanation, the four possible scenarios and their probabilities are: E1 is supernatural and E2 is supernatural: 0.9 x 0.9 = 0.81 ; E1 is natural and E2 is natural : 0.1 x 0.1 = 0.01 Let me f...