GENIUS FORUMS

So, my friend meditates a little bit and says, "if you aren't trying to empty your mind, it isn't meditation". I disagree. What is this unending emptiness in the topic quote? Compared to a blank, empty mind? Hi Bud, a belated welcome. Emptying a "mind" would be a sometimes seen ...

The Weiningerian criminal has no original will at all. His wills himself into things outside himself i.e. nothingness. This is about desire and belief in some origination, something of definite substance outside himself, which is then internalized as "her being". The only way to not commi...

Or rather than being an instance of it [power], simply the nature and extent of "power" in a specific instance, distinct from other instances and yet not, because of the underpinning awareness of time. If power is time then will to power is the passing of time. How is that distinct from v...

Whatever we are, we express it. Whatever we are, and we are not , we express. How am I going to address the enlightenment process if I don't use terms such as 'consciousness' and 'expressing?' You'll never address it or what it isn't. You are not in the position but inside a dialog like this some c...

Even in that case, there is still the assumption of an innate power-lust causing desire for the continuation of 'x'. And in that case I wouldn't say "causing" but simply being the same thing: this "will to power" and any deeper craving for continuation of a thing, which can incl...

Surviving is struggle against opposite forces, overcoming, asserting: to remain fit . While the acts of valuing and strengthening are simply expressions of power . Even rational thought is a will to power, to overcome and subdue those forces opposing the rational construct, personal or shared. All ...

When a 16 year-old child begins to question everything and expands his consciousness through reading, joining different groups, taking drugs, sexual experimentation, etc, he is not necessarily being motivated by reason. The Buddha was spurred along by the intellectual culture of Hinduism. Socrates ...

Kevin: This planet doesn't do trade with other planets, and yet capitalism can work on this planet. The same can be said for individual countries. Jupiter: The point was that your analogy between countries and planets is wrong. The earth doesn't enter into unions with other planets, but countries d...

[Renaissance culture] was the soil out of which the progressive rational culture in Europe emerged and flourished over the following centuries. Over time, this rational culture came to adopt the deep-seated belief that the Christian God could be fully understood by reason, which (a) ignited the ris...

Diebert, you can't reduce Spirit by deductive reasoning just as you cannot localize God. Understand that all conflicts must be settled within your consciousness, this is why I stated to if you declare deductive reasoning can add or take away from what is, Again, you are clearly not reading my state...

My point was that in saying that "Consciousness is all about the waffling and the culling of our mind" you have created two points of conversation origin, consciousness AND our mind. There is only consciousness. If consciousness "never stops expressing" then where or how does it...

As I use the term, the Dark Ages refers to the lack of an entrenched and evolving rational culture in Europe, a lack that more or less began with the collapse of Rome, or arguably with the collapse of the golden era of ancient Greece. The Renaissance signaled the reawakening of such a culture. I do...

Any sagacious man who doesn't find himself in complete opposition to whatever he once knew or believed simply never went that far from safety. This is only true if the sage in question was previously 100% nuts and only knew or believed nonsensical things. Otherwise there is only the increasing clar...

But one thing is certain: *not* using the cerebral cortex is guaranteed to lead to insane policies and social disaster. Without the cortex not even the most basic position will be possible to cause any significant blessing or disaster. You speak against the cerebral cortex, but what is the alternat...

I have to point out that the premise both of you are working from is totally unrealistic. Sages recognised in the Genius "tradition" are not only extremely rare compared to other types of historical figures, but have appeared among very different cultural and economic backgrounds. Thus it...

There is no 'our mind', there is only consciousness thinking 'our mind' (ignorance) and consciousness realizing there is no 'our mind' (wisdom) - this is the culling of consciousness of its own belief in dualism. Then and only then does every thought of 'outside' disappear within consciousness. And...

Being it is stated "Everything can be reduced to a bowl of something[" and "it's called "reductive reasoning" then reductive reasoning should pinpoint that "bowl of something" giving the reductive reason to reach a concrete conclusion to stand upon. I see no such ...

Some comments on this mutual roasting effort. Cynicism is a philosophy unto itself, a kind of blanket attitude which derives pleasure from dismissing anything and everything. That's not what the naked term cynicism means. While it can be used to highlight problematic attitudes in a very specific con...

Trump's latest two "national emergencies" stand out in that they are major policies implemented without any external input from the likes of Congress. He is using it as a thin end of a wedge, getting the American people accustomed to the idea of his ruling by edict. Not sure why you count...

. In truth, spirit or consciousness never stops expressing Itself, in truth, spirit or consciousness is never stagnant or waffling. Hui Heng's words via David Quinn via jufa via Pam are always now and new because there is no other experience but now and new. Everything can be reduced to a bowl of s...

The world has been shifting towards corporate oligarchy for a while, with bipartisan accord on fundamental premises. This was recognised decades ago, e.g. Wolin, Chomsky, Gross. Just dropping a link to this entry I spotted on the BBC Blog: Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy which is comment...

Yes this tendency of the mind to abide, the will to rest somewhere, results in waffling to obscure the light, in words of others or our own.

That made me as curious creature look for what the original fuel to the quotation might have been. It sounds Nietzschean enough. Best candidate: There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice. From: Beyond Good and Evil, section 184 (1886) But the price for the sickest laughing malice goes to...

As for Dan, without his Trump derangement syndrome he may well be the sanest of all three. Ah, another alt-right term. You’re on a roll. Using an alt-right term doesn't make one alt-right. Not recognising that tends to throw the whole "I'm a sage" thing into serious doubt. You're letting ...

I don't think he has anything left in his life anymore. He has long abandoned the spiritual path and now fills his time being absorbed in these kiddie culture wars. It is the only thing in his life nowadays that gives him emotional pleasure. It looks to me that he plans to be engaged in it for the ...