GENIUS FORUMS

Oh Jason, my apologies, it was Mr. C whom I called a fake.

The C word is derogatory, and that is why women don't like it. Pretty simple, and you sir, are a fake. Just another juvenile. You'll do fine here.

was for him. The rest was to you.

It is odd that I have not found our conversation tedious, dry or dull, and yet find most of philosophy to be so.

Jason said, You wanna really fuck up foreplay: keep in mind that what you're about to do might end up costing you 18+ years of your life chained to a massive unwanted responsibility and a huge loss of freedom. Oh, you poor, poor dear. Kinda reminds me of when, in the early 80s, they had decided that...

Jehu, Ignorance comes about in much the same way as when we sentient beings laps into a dream state, and in doing so, forget all the details of our waking lives. Our sentient awareness, having become cut off from the normal mode of accessing the faculty of memory, simply gets confused, and then imag...

Jehu, As the mind goes, so the body follows. For this reason, the quiescent mind gives rise to a wide range of physiological changes, wherein the elements of the body come into harmonic balance, and all stress related disease is eliminated. That sounds plausible. I was asking though, about your comm...

Jehu, I expect that with time (and continued contemplation) all traces of the erroneous view will disappear, and you will find it just as difficult to see why you ever held the old view, as you now find it difficult to accept the new view. I have some experience of that, where I now see things quite...

Jehu, While I fully acknowledge the existence of the relative world, and marvel at the wonder of it all, I do not make of it more than it really is – an illusion. The more I think about it, the less I can accept it. Perhaps it is just jargon, and we are quibbling over words. That all is not as it ap...

Jehu, Another form of dualism is to think that the creation is not the creator. Of course! Yes, but do you see why I made the point? I always get the sense that you go back and forth between acknowledging the profundity of the relative world, and dismissing it. When you say that the nature of things...

Mansman, I must object, for as a little boy i actually conversed fluently well before entering school and learning the basics of this here language. Those many early D's in English grammar Despite the D's you have suddenly increased your abilities to that of a native speaker. Quite a remarkable feat...

Jehu, While the nature of reality is “two-fold”, it is not “dualistic”, for dualism hold that there are two “independent” principles underlying the appearance of things, while cognitive awareness and knowledge are “interdependent and complementary” principles. Another form of dualism is to think tha...

Goodness me, it seems that mansman has dropped the silly pretense of being a foreigner.

You know, mansman, when I was a little girl, I thought adults were fools, because it appeared that they laughed at things that weren't funny and made no sense.

One way that I am different from the Absolute is that I am a separate being. I do consider my 'self' to be the underlying awareness that allows me to perceive, and yet, this awareness is captured in a net, and lacks power. Nor do I dispute that I am not really a separate being and that all things an...

Jehu, I cannot accept your use of the term “actually real”, either things are real (absolute) or they are not real (relative)[Law of Excluded Middle], and only if they are not real, then they may be either actual or imagined. Well, first of all, aren't you claiming that the actual is also imagined, ...

Well, OK, although I reserve that I do not really know of what stuff is made or how, nor am I convinced that there is anything unreal, since I suspect that everything is made of God, which takes on these appearances and forms. Things appear to be contingent and dependent upon the coming together of ...

Jehu, Very well, so long as it is clear that the Absolute is the only true existent, and that it is always present – even in the absence of any kind of thing. Yes, we agree, although as I recall, you seem to say that the absolute is in empty space, whereas I think it makes no difference. Water is “a...

No, he's a master waffle maker, using a waffle iron.

Well, I'm left-handed, so I think that settles it. It also explains why I'm brain damaged, since I have to conform to a cruel, right-handed world. Interesting, that the sperm donor for my children was left-handed, but his ignorant parents made him switch. He has hideous handwriting with his right ha...

Jehu, We agreed that there is no such thing as nonexistence, yes, but in the minds of people it exists as a concept. And even when we do know, as I know, that there is no nonexistence, yet if you asked me, "What is in that box?" I might answer "nothing" without thereby referencin...

Jehu, When we say, for example, that there is “nothing” in a box, we do not mean the interior of the box is non-existent, we mean only that the interior of the box is devoid of any sort of thing – thus it is not incorrect to say that nothingness is the absence of any thing. Now, the Absolute is that...

Dan,

Why do I feel like a pervert ..?

Perhaps you are one.

Marcothay,

None of your points address the question I asked. Or at least, I am not sure the word perception applies. At any rate, it is a truism of Buddhist philosophy (perhaps others) that the perceiver cannot perceive itself.

Jehu, As I have said repeatedly, the term “nothing” does not signify that which does not exist, but rather, that which exists, but which is “not a thing” (the Absolute); all things having only a relative and contingent existence. It is one thing to use the word 'real' in its philosophical sense, and...

Jehu, Indeed! Perhaps if I had the least clue how a dream is made, I could extrapolate as to whether it is miraculous. But that the mind is able to fool itself into thinking it is experiencing sensations is not all that surprising. I think the brain has many capabilities, and, as we now know, even t...

Jehu, My dreams and the dreams of the absolute may in some fashion be of the same pattern, I don't deny it and have always thought that reality is made up of repeating layers of the same patterns, but nonetheless it doesn't seem useful to say that there isn't a difference between the absolute who ca...

Jehu, Well this seems a bit anticlimactic. I can't seem to pin down what the actualized world is, and why you think it consists of nothing, and although it is not real in the same way as awareness is real, I find it far too intelligently wrought and amazing to dismiss as consisting of nothing, or as...

Jehu,

Well!! I disagree with everything you've written, except that animals do have some imaginary capability.

Now what?