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by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:12 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Jordan Peterson
Replies: 7
Views: 14474

Re: Jordan Peterson

Glostik responded on my earlier remark in this thread about Jordan Peterson seeking treatment Peterson had been prescribed clonazepam—a type of anti-anxiety medication of the benzodiazepine class—to help manage the stressors associated with the recent devastating news of his wife’s cancer diagnosis....
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:02 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1417887

Re: Trump

David Quinn wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2019 5:21 pmHere is a rarity. A Republican speaking the plain truth about the despicable state of the modern Republican party:
This now former Republican is also long-time member of the Xenu-worshipping organization called Scientology. He should speak out on that first!
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Nov 09, 2019 9:41 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jordan Peterson
Replies: 93
Views: 157256

Re: Jordan Peterson

...usually a mix of academic long-windedness, incoherent reasonings, bluster, angry rages, extreme political bias, and waffling self-help platitudes. And this is just when he is discussing his so-called expert subjects of clinical psychology and political correctness! It is even worse when he start...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Nov 09, 2019 8:12 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
Replies: 80
Views: 223593

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.

First off, it needs to be recognized that all things are mentally constructed. Everything that we experience and know is a momentary construction that involves the use of mental processes like memory, categorization, attention, desire, conditioning, emphasis, exclusion, etc. And also it is the mind...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Nov 09, 2019 7:57 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Homo-Sapiens
Replies: 2
Views: 13742

Re: Homo-Sapiens


Human being as product of linear time. The created horizon is the needed canvas to birth all things and with that purpose and fate are introduced.
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Nov 09, 2019 7:35 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Notions of 'objective reality' that keep me troubled - temporal events
Replies: 11
Views: 25661

Re: Notions of 'objective reality' that keep me troubled - temporal events

I can imagine the vibrations exist as a part of the 'hidden void' construct a butterfly that flapped its wings and whipped up a nasty storm. Is to know the storm to know the butterfly? In both cases, things are still being defined, hidden in a void or at the other side of a globe. It's not really a...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Fri Nov 08, 2019 5:47 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The Real Climate Debate
Replies: 25
Views: 44912

Re: The Real Climate Debate

It just goes to show you how high peak delusion can get. The roller coaster has climbed to unbelievably blistering heights. There's a moment when you're right on the edge looking down. Some roller coasters even stop there and let you get a real good look at it. I feel like that's where we are right...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Nov 04, 2019 1:33 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
Replies: 80
Views: 223593

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.

.... a wisdom-based perspective. Our brains have evolved to function as cohesive, autonomous units, so that doesn’t change. Only the focus of this cohesion changes. A Buddha, even though he no longer believes in the illusion of his own existence, still behaves as a cohesive being. But instead of pr...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Nov 02, 2019 6:22 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Jordan Peterson
Replies: 7
Views: 14474

Re: Jordan Peterson

Recently at this forum this thread was started on Peterson. Perhaps, if you agree, I can merge this one as there are some interesting views collected from members on the topic. His work also touches on many philosophical themes. The recent story about his addiction on some strong anti-anxiety drug, ...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Nov 02, 2019 4:19 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Science news to briefly consider
Replies: 17
Views: 30483

Re: Science news to briefly consider

This case has been going on for some years now and I've been following the developments of this topic quite closely. Havana Syndrome: 'Emotional trauma' caused illness at US base, not sonic attack (Sky News) The interesting part for me was that it's now potentially a case were neurological complaint...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Tue Oct 29, 2019 8:53 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
Replies: 80
Views: 223593

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.

The first thing that pops out is the phrase" "motivations underlying truth" - what does this phrase mean? Is jupiviv trying to say that truths such as "1+1=2", or "all things have causes" have underlying motives? This doesn't appear to make any sense, or have any ...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Oct 28, 2019 6:17 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
Replies: 80
Views: 223593

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.

Previously on "Serious discussions about important issues" we tried to figure out what truth is, and failed miserably. The occurrence of failure has a strong relationship to the possibility of truth. Truth is the measure of correspondence with reality. Anything at all is a correspondence ...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Oct 28, 2019 5:39 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The Real Climate Debate
Replies: 25
Views: 44912

Re: The Real Climate Debate

What do I perceive to be the most reasonable way to approach climate change? To continue using (as wisely as possible) the non-renewable energy sources of fossil and nuclear while investing aggressively in renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. (For those who are surprised to find nuclear...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:12 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The Real Climate Debate
Replies: 25
Views: 44912

Re: The Real Climate Debate

And so there you have it. A scientist openly and shamelessly equating scientific consensus with religious dogma. Oh my, what degenerative times we live in. You must have missed the finer point again as I was quoting a leading climate scientist who supports the "scientific consensus". Othe...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:08 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1417887

Re: Trump

A Buddha differs from a mathematician in that he applies his logical skills more broadly. Buddhas and mathematicians differ from the perverse inhabitants that dwell in the current right-wing universe in that they practice logic. Yes, the rationality employed by Buddha is therefore not like (e.g. di...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Oct 27, 2019 8:51 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: on the notion of beginless past and endless future
Replies: 15
Views: 27276

Re: on the notion of beginless past and endless future

The only boundary between an "experience" and an "experiencer" is conceptual. The labels "experience" and "experiencer" occur, and conceptually create a division, but that division ultimately does not exist. For example, there can be an experience primarily o...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Oct 27, 2019 8:51 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
Replies: 20
Views: 39482

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?

In any case, I wouldn't say that my boredom with women is due to age. I mean, I've been fundamentally bored with women's minds and women's talk ever since my early twenties. But you wrote that it’s not a work you could produce nowadays because you "no longer experience the kinds of issues and ...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Oct 27, 2019 3:03 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: on the notion of beginless past and endless future
Replies: 15
Views: 27276

Re: on the notion of beginless past and endless future

Diebert: Your definition of Totality is a concept right? And if it's experience, there's still the experiencer by logical necessity unless you cleverly hide. Well, if you think the experience and the experiencer are separate from each other, how do you experience both? When I wrote "if ... the...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Oct 27, 2019 1:49 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The Real Climate Debate
Replies: 25
Views: 44912

Re: The Real Climate Debate

“It’s time for Bernie Sanders to retire, He truly doesn’t get it. India and China have no prayer of phasing out coal without the help of nuclear power. We burned much of their share of the global carbon budget, and yet we refused to help them with modern nuclear power. Thousands of people PER DAY a...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Oct 27, 2019 1:40 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The Real Climate Debate
Replies: 25
Views: 44912

Re: The Real Climate Debate

And so there you have it. A scientist openly and shamelessly equating scientific consensus with religious dogma. Oh my, what degenerative times we live in. You must have missed the finer point again as I was quoting a leading climate scientist who supports the "scientific consensus". Othe...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Oct 27, 2019 1:33 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1417887

Re: Trump

The rationality employed by Buddha is not like the rationality employed by a psychopath or mathematician. Actually, there are a lot of similarities to the mathematician. Both Buddhas and mathematicians exercise the same rational faculties. But whereas a mathematician is usually only capable of appl...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Oct 26, 2019 11:23 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1417887

Re: Trump

But for you, being the new Hillary Clinton of the Liberal Enlightenment establishment, Ugh! Eeww! Now come on, Diebert. That is below the belt. True but we're in Worldly Matters here, in a way below the belt by definition, as we discuss matters largely defined by chemicals, drives, circumstance, in...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Fri Oct 25, 2019 4:40 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1417887

Re: Trump

I would have thought a genius forum would be well above that. The quoted anonymous post from a cloaked anonymous place demonstrates only further the break down of coherent, intelligent exchange between people holding radical different views. People are rarely able anymore to argue. It's now all abo...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Wed Oct 23, 2019 9:35 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
Replies: 20
Views: 39482

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?

It’s not a work I could produce nowadays because I no longer experience the kinds of issues and frustrations that I did back then. Woman loomed large in my mind during that phase of my existence, but nowadays she is exceedingly small. This partly due to the fact that I have increasingly become more...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Tue Oct 22, 2019 7:33 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
Replies: 20
Views: 39482

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?

I think you missed a preposition there (of) after 'implications'. I don't really see his words as 'disvowing' earlier wisdom. Perhaps he's simply tapped into deeper recesses of his psyche that have shifted his priorities. Fair enough. Personally I read some strong judgement in terms like "horr...