GENIUS FORUMS

<t>David Quinn:<br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>If you want to know my definition of Reality, it is this: Reality is that which is unchangeable, permanent, beyond life and death, everywhere and everywhen, absolute in nature, and responsible for the existence of all things. <hr><br/> Ah, thanks. I notice that y...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>You want me to prove the obvious fact that only the undeluded mind can perceive the Truth? <hr><br/> For a second I thought you were being snarky, but then I burst out laughing.<br/> :lol <br/> <br/> Definitions, definitions, definitions! When all else fails, go back to definition...

<t>Okay, this is my first attempt at expanding David Quinn's "reality is not nothing whatsoever" into something fancy.<br/> <br/> I decided that, if I were to drop the word "is", I could pull an awesome definition of Being from that sentence.<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr><br/> 1.) Definition of Being:...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>An object in thought[mental reality] does not always exist in the larger - more inclusive [perceptual] reality.<hr><br/> What is this magic? You've separated reality into two halves!<br/> <br/> I expose your fraud: this is nothing more than the old mind-body dualism come back to h...

Hahaha, you're partially right, DHodges. There is something really fishy with my premises. You can indeed define something 'into existence' if you define it properly, and few Christians would argue that my argument is invalid. In fact, God is one of those rare concepts that you can do it with, given...

Quote:Quote:<hr>I can imagine many things but "many of the many" don't actually exist. Therefore [1.] is valid.<hr>
Wrong. It exists in your imagination, which is part of reality. Stop trying to separate thoughts from reality. Thoughts REALLY exist.

Oooh oooh, let's see what else I can prove! Piggyback this upon my last argument. [1] The vast majority of people are lazy idiots. [2] A lazy idiot is not an intelligent person. [3] An unintelligent person cannot understand explicit definitions. [4] The definition of God is explicit. [5] From 1,2,3,...

Here's my own thought experiment: [1] God, by definition, exists. [2] The definition is really explicit, right at the start of the Bible, written so simplistically that even a child could understand it. (He in whose own image man is formed. He even gets His own pronoun.) [3] from [1] we can infer th...

<t>Heh. With things like this, it's simply a matter of figuring out where the person made his first mistake. Of course, you made it right off the bat. :)<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>[1.] An entity can exist in the understanding but not in reality <hr><br/> The understanding is part of reality. If som...

<t>Ah, I give myself away! I do not seek happiness, but greatness. But in admitting this much, I suddenly understand that I do not have an intelligent way of striving after greatness, nor any way to measure greatness. My way of life makes sense in this context: in knowing that I cannot strive after ...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>The philosophic path to perfection is twofold - firstly, reasoning oneself into the ultimate understanding and, secondly, changing every aspect of one's existence to conform with this ultimate understanding.<hr><br/> Oh, I see what you are saying, and I can really see where my sub...

<t>Sapius, you're making me blush.<br/> <br/> I don't know if what I do is wise, but I enjoy myself. I'll let you boys figure out the value of it.<br/> <br/> David: I don't strive for perfection. I strive to grow as an individual, and become better than I am. You judge too hastily: who's to say that...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>If one doesn't plant deep spiritual roots in the early phases and really commits ones's whole life to becoming a sage, then it is very easy to start wavering at this point and fall away. <hr><br/> Uncompromising, I see. Isn't there more than one way to sagehood? Can things be lear...

<t>David<br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>What else could it have been, do you think?<hr><br/> A mixture of solitude, ignorance, and excessive pride.<br/> <br/> A delusion is something inconsistent with one's upbringing. I do not see the psychosis as inconsistent with what I had been doing, or with my fatherles...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr> it is generally an unacceptable thing to overtly change one's opinions radically. It seems like an undermining of your past convictions.<hr><br/> I believe you are treading a fine line here. Changing too many opinions at once may be unacceptable to others, and it is certainly dan...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>In what way did you think yourself into insanity? Are you able to talk about it? Is it a case that your mind becomes too energetic and you no longer have any control over it? <hr><br/> I am able to talk about it, but I could furnish a million unlikely interpretations so I'll try t...

<t>Absolutely. I've come to accept that every word I say is no better than a lie, so I play with it. I watch how a few well-considered words can bring someone to tears, or make them adore you. But even that is a lie: they don't really adore you. They just love having their ego stroked.<br/> <br/> I'...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>I was curious if anybody has had this problem with staying true to one's path. Or lack of path. Or paths. It doesn't matter how many.<hr><br/> I have that problem all the time. Not trying to give a solution, but I circumvent it by giving myself more time. You are being honest abou...

<t>David Quinn, I was reading your Non Plus Ultra thing and there is something you said that struck home. A person with a high IQ can indeed think himself insane: I have done it before, and it has become a source of concern for the females in my family. They literally go out of their way to keep me ...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>But on a different level (assuming that these levels still exist or used to exist in everyone), awareness that you're doing something in life on the basis of a choice over which you had no control, that will never turn out to be the best of all choices to any objective or higher s...