GENIUS FORUMS

Nietzsche is seized by the delirium of the Redeemer, Jung argues, and yet is unaware of the inner problems that led him to develop a doctrine which has greatly influenced the culture and politics of the twentieth century. The minute he states that 'God is dead', without realizing the profound relig...

Quoted from the site you linked to: "This is the very pinnacle of the sublime secret approach. Do not speak about it to those of lesser aptitude, but keep it extremely secret. By being misinterpretted, the teachings concerning the heart essence will be distorted. Exaggeration and underestimatio...

Surely you jest! ;-) You're cute when you want to be. Okay, okay, the 'hero' resolves to return home. I'm leaving on my 'journey'. Long and arduous! Struggles, setbacks! And then: I see the Promised Land! One giant obstacle remains. But I defeat it! I cross over. I'm home now. Thank you Diebert! But...

This goes out to those who finally get their definitions right! Good Luck!

Peculiarly, you explain and 'defend' this 'enlightenment' as if you 'know' it, but then you evince all sorts of confusion, discomfort and even pain about existential problems. About 90% of the conversations (those endless, abstract battles over definitions which, in the end, seem to get no-one no-wh...

I'm an ass of many questions and a many questioned ass...and thank you, btw.

"While at some level this all may be seen as an embarrassing jest..." though IS DEFINITELY a keeper no matter what! Could you/would you ever just articulate what it is that seems to bother you so much about what I write and think? It really seems to rub you the wrong way. I have often felt...

Was that the best advice, Diebert? Do you really think it was? I have seen you attempt longshots but I really think this one will win you a prize! I'm going to be strong, with Weininger, and resolve to stay in 'my' diaspora! As to Colombia, as much as I have and still have my doubts, the place and i...

One thing I note---by way of criticism---in Breese's exposition, and I think it is an important one, is that she seems to refer to a 'state of being', this thing called 'enlightenment'. As you know, I consider this term very flawed and problematic. There is only 'enlightenment' of a given person in ...

Since the subject is 'monomyth' and since, Cathy, your vision and approach, from what you say, is very 'mono-', what exactly do you do with this knowledge? What activity does it inspire? I am genuinely interested to know: With your views and focus would you, will you, have children (or have you alre...

What you have done with your time is your problem, not mine! The way I see it---and you are very free to do this mind you---you yourself subverted potential communication. As to 'opportunities': we make our own opportunities. The question, though, was a very good one: are you driven? I assume you ha...

Then perhaps you will be able to say: "I went on a trip to Hell and in that place, a poisoned place where great lies were recited and held up as great truths, my soul came under that influence and I felt and knew what it is to die alive. I drank the poisons they called 'liberation' and felt the...

My referen e to the 'entire Biblical tradition' was to show that Luke 12:49 fits within an even broader context of religious definition that includes the specificity of that single sentence. ;-) To say that those who compiled those traditions, who thought about them, dealt with them, did.not 'unders...

You ask What is the context of Luke 12, but the fuller question is What is the context of the whole Biblical revelation, what are the core Biblical themes, and what is the Biblical vision for a transformed individual and world? Luke is said to have been an associate of Paul, and if that is so it sug...

Thanks for the response, Pye. It is not hard to build bridges with you. There is most definitely on my part a kind of obsessive quixotism to my being here and staying here. I am actually a very alow learner, or the things I have learned here have been 'leasons' so fundamental to my incarnation that ...

Pye wrote : Weirdly, Alex, this rolls around to you, and why I sometimes find it angular to talk to you. I'm thinking you are caught up in language systems as systems; types of thought as types, and that you don't want to do anything with philosophy. As much healthy skepticism as you apply, your fo...

Cathy, you are operating within Christian categories with no enunciation of your specific relationship to those categories. Can you please describe to what 'world' one must perform allegiance to? If you quote Luke, will you also quote all parts of Luke and the other Gospels to? Or, as with Quinn, do...

You are alone. Except there is a donkey munching daffodils in the field behind you who gets it! Literary allusion, gotten! Ma would be proud... Paranoid, over-fastidious rodent mapping his own territory, expanding ever-deeper into himself, then coming to the surface for hyper-paranoid self-serving e...

Pye, I already know what he [David] means! The existentialist with the Gauloise is Sartre, not Dennis! But I get you point. I promise to make greater distinctions. Again, you are dealing with a farm animal , Pye. Did you ever read the Kafka story A Report to an Academy ? Now there's an [ape] that kn...

Is there something higher than the Ipod? [Just a wee bit of a joke since it meets the criteria you mention. But not to make light of the topic (Diebert tossed 19 pages of Campbell at us in another thread) since it is really quite interesting, and not at all discussed here.]

David wrote: "There is an eternal aspect to change, to becoming, and uncovering that aspect is the key to all wisdom."

Pye, in order to get this you have to have (shhhhhhh!) 'religious imagination'.

David wrote : "I don't think you do understand why I consider you to be ignorant, to be honest. But in any case, the point I was making had nothing to do with you personally. I was addressing a deep spiritual matter." Oh, I think I do. I once suggested that we 'paraphrase' each other, a m...

I didn't ask such a thing. My first post in this thread was a statement , as usual. But if you are explaining your views as arising from French Existentialism, yes that makes sense. With the lovely Marxian underpinning too! It is inevitable. You got me all wrong, ALL wrong. I am soft and furry and r...

You and Diebert share that natty characteristic. "For a fellow who likes frisking around linguistics, you might have recognized the rhetorical opportunity I took to turn your word into the point". My complaint is that what you have written (as a tirade of sorts) is just not related to what...

I see your point. But that isn't why Dennis irritates. If some day Dennis articulates 'terror', I will jump up and applaud. Also, you are launching into an argument against a whole windmill you have in your mind. I am not opposed to those definitions, in se . My 'theology' could just as well functio...