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by Talking Ass
Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:06 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On consciousness
Replies: 255
Views: 99901

Re: On consciousness

David writes : "It doesn't matter if everything I experience is a neurosis or a demon-inspired dream or a simulation or whatever - the mere fact that everything I experience is a part of existence means that it is a direct experience of reality. / This point is very difficult to explain to tho...
by Talking Ass
Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:15 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On consciousness
Replies: 255
Views: 99901

Re: On consciousness

Diebert asks : "But the neurosis at least would be real. Or is that provisional?" I have the sense that much hinges in this area. If 'provisional' is taken to mean: "Arranged or existing for the present, possibly to be changed later", we would likely be compelled to answer that ...
by Talking Ass
Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:52 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: How Joe Biden became America's favorite punch line
Replies: 263
Views: 151142

Re: Biden: 'The president has a big stick'

An interesting article that points to the aggressiveness of Pres Obama and quite a few significant accomplishments in the field of agression. Dude is a smooth operator no matter how you look at it. From a Machiavellian perspective, he manages to appear differently from what he is, which is sometimes...
by Talking Ass
Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:35 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On consciousness
Replies: 255
Views: 99901

Re: On consciousness

David wrote : "But this uncertainty doesn't really matter when it comes to spirituality and enlightenment. This is because no matter what the scenario, no matter if solipsism is real or not, what we experience in each moment is a direct manifestation of reality. And with this realization, we g...
by Talking Ass
Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:30 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On consciousness
Replies: 255
Views: 99901

Re: On consciousness

Sandy: what if we are not God's children but God's vermin? What if what we are and do is simply not worthy of any sort of bother? When you scrub between your toes you displace whole societies without a second thought. What if we only become relevant to 'God' when we begin to see and act radically di...
by Talking Ass
Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:56 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On consciousness
Replies: 255
Views: 99901

Re: On consciousness

Sandy: Mejor dicho: No sabemos COMO creer en 'el'. En ese sentido estamos perdidos en un mundo que ya no sabemos como interpretar. Pero, también de otro perspectivo, no hemos separado nunca de 'el' y nuestro sufrimiento es ilusiorio. 'El' sigue siendo lo mismo y nada ha cambiado. En esencia el probl...
by Talking Ass
Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:11 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On consciousness
Replies: 255
Views: 99901

Re: On consciousness

A more interesting and immediate perspective is that 'he' is torturing you right now (that is to say all of us) and you-we just don't realize why. From one perspective we have gotten ourselves into a terrible jam: we have fallen into the depth of a dangerous entanglement in materialism that at any m...
by Talking Ass
Sun Apr 29, 2012 5:45 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On consciousness
Replies: 255
Views: 99901

Re: On consciousness

Okay: thermodynamics. End conversation. Now GET TO WORK!
by Talking Ass
Sun Apr 29, 2012 5:10 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On consciousness
Replies: 255
Views: 99901

Re: On consciousness

Being...Entity...The term I am forced to employ is What-The F*$+*@#??? Just as we are engaging, in oh-so-human a manner, in fantastic speculations, of some God existing eternally and 'ouside' 'beyond', so it is possible to work the angle of captivity by this god within a cruel and malicious game. To...
by Talking Ass
Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:33 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On consciousness
Replies: 255
Views: 99901

Re: On consciousness

When you think about it, this 'god' who origines and origened this world and all possible worlds must be a really strange 'being'. To have somehow existed, in ways that can only be fantasized about, to create all manner of terrible and marvellous 'worlds' and play almost sadistically devilish games ...
by Talking Ass
Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:58 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The Mystic....
Replies: 249
Views: 186621

Re: The Mystic....

"Why" things are, and why it is particularly fleshy & bloody, and what it is that drives us in all this as potentially distinct from other possibilities we envision or intuit, seems one of the very GOOD questions if it is conducted carefully. Even science fiction is a restatement in ot...
by Talking Ass
Sat Apr 28, 2012 11:28 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On consciousness
Replies: 255
Views: 99901

Re: On consciousness

I just want to take a moment to get something straight with the snakes and vultures who lurk around here looking for innocent victims: we've got a youngun here who's just sharpening his wisdom teeth. Now, I have put up with all sorts of shennanigans, all sorts of serpentine ambushes and mercilless f...
by Talking Ass
Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:10 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On consciousness
Replies: 255
Views: 99901

Re: On consciousness

Diebert 'Dream-Walker', Actually, I was thinking of a kind of mysticism that might be compared to a 'dance', and by dance I mean an integrated physico-psychico-rational use of self to arrive at understanding. I was not though excluding the Dervishes. I was not however meaning to detract or to outshi...
by Talking Ass
Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:33 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The Mystic....
Replies: 249
Views: 186621

Re: The Mystic....

You essentially invited all this yourself Pye-Becoming. You really should have picked up where we left off. Though I do comprehend, and appreciate, and value, charity.

;-)
by Talking Ass
Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:23 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On consciousness
Replies: 255
Views: 99901

Re: On consciousness

Inevitabilities. Just TRY to edit a post on a f*#$@+g Droid!
by Talking Ass
Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:15 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On consciousness
Replies: 255
Views: 99901

Re: On consciousness

But that, Oh Bluerap of Clear Morning Light, is exactly what it is hinging upon: some rather old, and certainly to us rather archaic if also 'quaint' means of organizing and expressing some intuitive-revelatory ideas about a divinity which is essentially indescribable. The Sufis, I think it must be ...
by Talking Ass
Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:46 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jung speaks of Christianity and Nietzsche Law
Replies: 11
Views: 3139

Re: Jung speaks of Christianity and Nietzsche Law

Though peculiarly, along with Jung, comes Eliade, and with Eliade whole ('new') dimensions of living out the god-relationship. Which again brings me back to you: what happened in your spiritual life? Did your Christianity remain always intellectual, doctrinal, rational? Or were you 'taken up in the ...
by Talking Ass
Fri Apr 27, 2012 4:54 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jung speaks of Christianity and Nietzsche Law
Replies: 11
Views: 3139

Re: Jung speaks of Christianity and Nietzsche Law

Really! I thought the quote said it all. Siezed by a redeeming god! Nietzsche was captured in his processes much like a religious zealot! In complete resistance to and yet so wound up in! If one proposes that a god had died, it immediately introduces the possibility of a rebirth of that god. And if ...
by Talking Ass
Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:40 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The Mystic....
Replies: 249
Views: 186621

Re: The Mystic....

Pye, I am now working on a new Hair musical that will star my fine self as a neurotic Jewish donkey who awakes in a.hyper-contrived suffering of alienation (as he sees it...) from Self. I have a role for Dennis (who will come up out of underground compartments and trash recepticles like in a Beckett...
by Talking Ass
Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:59 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What is the the value of being a genius?
Replies: 84
Views: 36430

Re: What is the the value of being a genius?

Esteemed Liberty Sea, I am not deliberately following you around or anything, but it would be dishonest if I did not confess that I am 'trying to stir up trouble', or incite interesting conflict (I write fiction and Conflict is essential to good narrative). Please consider the following: when Dan [h...
by Talking Ass
Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:43 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On consciousness
Replies: 255
Views: 99901

Re: On consciousness

Esteemed Colleague Liberty Sea, I propose you'll have a difficult time understanding what David means by his Everythin/God non-divinity. I see no use or value for the term myself since this God is only the sum-total of everything. He has carved out for himself a kind of 'atheist's God' and as with t...
by Talking Ass
Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:18 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On consciousness
Replies: 255
Views: 99901

Re: On consciousness

Curiously, one branch of Hindu hyper-theism offers a conceptual model that seems to resonate with that of the Sufi mentioned above: the notion of The Lord's 'internal' and 'external' energy. In this view, which allows quite spectacular imaginary-intuitive flight, there are infinite numbers of create...
by Talking Ass
Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:40 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The Mystic....
Replies: 249
Views: 186621

Re: The Mystic....

[Diebert, that line is so fucking good! "Was I ever alive...or was it all an embarrassing jest". "I live, I see, I think I understand...or is it all an embarrassing jest?" When you're good, you're GOOD!]
by Talking Ass
Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:05 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The Mystic....
Replies: 249
Views: 186621

Re: The Mystic....

If it were not all an embarrassing jest...I'd have to agree by disagreeing with you. On a serious note, that is seriously-ironical-ironical-didactical. It doesn't matter if one is in Europe, the Near East, or South America. What is nourishing to people (as in the sense of The Well) is eternal, const...
by Talking Ass
Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:43 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Monomyth
Replies: 34
Views: 9833

Re: Monomyth

"I think we've beat this horse to death..."
Cathy! Some of my best friends are horses...