GENIUS FORUMS

You have to appreciate the level of Kierkegaard's sense of irony in everything that he said and did. That can very easily be viewed as a cop out. Whenever the philosopher isn't according with our view of what he is 'really' saying we can always attribute it to irony. I've seen it quite often in rec...

God, how wretched a slander. You'll live. If you only knew what I go through to post at all. We all are engaged in our own psychological battles. It's the nature of philosophy, right? Dare I suggest you are playing the martyr now as well? I remember all the criticisms that I post, serving it back t...

Why do you think that? Because it is, in my estimation. One I've tried to describe "these parts" as penetrating thought in the manner of maverick existentialists like Kierkegaard or Nietzsche combined with some Eastern schools like the Hindu Vedanta or Jnana Yoga, stripped to the core. Ex...

Nothing has changed. People go on being lazy and arrogant, preferring the easy, rather than to struggle with the difficult. "Oh," they cry, "we are not made to think! Give us a pamphlet and an aphorism once a day ---- just enough to nurse us back to sleep with a contented conscience....

There is no question in my mind that Kierkegaard fully understood the Infinite, even at the beginning stages of his writing career. I can see it in everything he said and did. The freeness of his intellect, his depth of insight, the way he constructed his conceptual narratives to produce an ever-de...

One has to squint pretty hard to come to the conclusion that Kierkegaard definitively equated God and Totality, in my view. It sounds to me like you are having a bit of a bet each way, Kelly. Kierkegaard was certainly insightful and rather unique as a Christian writer but supporter of the 'house phi...

Hehe, Monkey Magic was pretty good.

Dan Rowden wrote:I stopped watching after the Tom Baker series. Either it or I went downhill from there.

The Goodies were better.

Here's the little known remix, Tomas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8

There's something satisfying about being called an egomaniac by a guy named "IJesusChrist"

Nabokov: You actually sound like David! Good dog! Not just religious, practically austistic. My first thought on seeing you speak on youtube was of giving you a hug! I could feel the emptiness. Kelly, a word in your ear: You are not built for the cold like I am! I'm sorry to hear that. You've mista...

I bet you a million bucks of someone else's cash that the child who will go straight ahead and disobey will be a boy, or a tomboy. Or they will complain and protest, until the parent gives in. Girls don't just learn to be submissive and obedient: it's natural to them not to take risks. I've met qui...

Beingof1 wrote:
Wakey wakey - there is a storm coming and you best know who is your friend.

It is the worst aspect of Christianity: "be afraid, join our flock, we will protect you"

It is really rather simple, painted in this way: If you, David, had existed a thousand years ago and had the core and essential drive or desire for knowledge or to break out of restrictions (however you define yourself, which is not necessarily what you are, but you get the idea), the map of your j...

well i just spent a good hour replying to this thread...and poof !!!! i just want to say i can only speak for myself...i cannot represent all women. My consciousness in tails a bit of everything : Reasoning, logic, emotions , dreaming, idealizing, fantasizing, i am less emotional than most women in...

As Ataraxia agreed, the experience of time is shared and inter-subjectively correlated. To me that implies that it has some sort of existence independent of our experience of it, so that experience is really irrelevant to the issue. Given that we are all of the same species it is hardly surprising ...

A mere 71 million youtube hits ta boot.

Ned Kelly's were rather poignant: "such is life".

I don't see your point. my point is you didn't read properly David's reply and that by conflating time and Nature, you missed his point. I think you basically mean that "time is a bounded part of the Totality, and is not the Totality itself" - correct? If so then I still don't see any rel...

Tomas wrote:.

-A.R-
I have the secret of success….would you like to know how to be success person?

-tomas-
Invest in crude oil futures?

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LOL. Some of your best work.

Laird: I'm not seeing anything in David's answer that might affect the integrity of my analysis. To quantify duration is not to make any assumption that rejects the "seamlessness" of time, Ataraxia: David said the seamlessness of Nature, not time. Laird: Owing to the fact that it's time t...

It's a really good movie that Into the Wild. It got me interested in reading some Thoreau.

Have you ever went into a rabbit hole? I'm stuck in this fucking rabit hole people are talking about, yea it looks all cool and shit from a viewers perspective but once your in it yourself there is no going back, its just disappointment after disappointment. my life right now is way up in the air, ...

dejavu wrote:You don't think the universe is in itself? What's it in?
Why so loose with words?

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My words were fine - I was speaking ontologically. It appears you aren't familiar with the concept of the 'thing -in-itself'.

It seems to me like you are in denial of physical reality. Not denial. Seeing it for what it is. Why would I deny physical reality, it's all around me - it is me. I don't disagree with the claim that our experience of colour is what makes colour colour. However, unless it can be demonstrated that p...