GENIUS FORUMS

Cahoot references: The Stupidest Generation by Larry Eubank (November 2013) Yeah, like that too, ta. Cahoot: is literacy necessary for awakening to the absolute? Most exactly should that be a pointed question - the very question of the relationship between linguistic acuity and consciousness, logic...

jupiviv writes: I have no idea who Popper is. Marx's claim that the class struggles in society are always neatly divided on economic lines and have a dialectical nature is clearly an absolute empirical claim that denies the existence of any other valid perspective. That's why Popper called Marxism ...

Leyla queries: Pye, I wonder if you've come across Wallerstein and World System Theory? Have now, ta :) Leyla writes: isn’t a refutation of the truth that dualisms are not mutually exclusive opposites, but rather constitute interdependencies I reckon all of this is owed to phenomenology: that philo...

Seeker writes: I'm sure you didn't mean it as an absolute statement, and I'm just one after all, but despite my life-long use and exposure to screens I can only bare to read little on screen and much prefer books. good for you/good for thought. And of course it's not an absolute statement, hence th...

Leyla writes: Let me just say, for one-way dialectics or a monolectic, I always prefer a pointed polemic. O jeez, feel free to jump in and interrupt me. It is just as difficult to cleanly confront the nature of an environment in which one is already embedded and conditioned, as it is difficult to u...

Leyla writes: This, to me, is not a “one-way dialectic”. Rather, it’s a total absence of opposition, of material and metaphysical dialectics. You're right, Leyla. "one-way dialectic" is oxymoronic for sure. You know, I thought about putting "monolectic" instead, but that seemed ...

Yes, Dennis, we could discuss (again) the nature of the armature, but right now I'm interested in what's hanging on it. The invasiveness of the corporate business model as suitable for an educational model is not a hidden affair (See anything 2011 and beyond written by Diane Ravitch). This model car...

It's going to depend, isn't it.

Yes, familiar with Carr. Diebert writes: It's interesting you mention the stimulating "vibrations" and light waves emanating from the various display screens. There might be a whole different "hypno" effect to screen flicker, intensity and movement. [ 1. ]Usage and addictions mig...

Diebert writes in the start-a-fire thread: Personally I haven't much faith in the language of video. Those projects seem a step down in effectiveness as such medium would confirm more than challenge the illusion (of "watching" for example). This subject has been of intense, if not consumi...

. . . just saying that Nietzsche's later axe-grinding repudiations of this entire dynamic isn't as good an address to the dynamic itself that it could be, and for the aforementioned reasons Nietzsche-scholaring would be suspect of such as an 'argument' here as well. And yeah, nietzsche-wagner themse...

[ I'm crying foul, Diebert. Nietzsche carried the pain of his break with Wagner to the very ends of his concretized sickness, madness and death. It was a 'sickness' to him, this original rent-from he suffered from, an original fusion (w/Wagner) that required repeated repudiations-of-it, most especia...

Oh, and one other thing, jupiviv.
I think I'm living rent-free stuck up somewhere in your craw
and that you should begin eviction proceedings immediately.

Two people/two 'things' looking at being similar ways
and this is what you guys fall-to?
That's the best you got?


jesus h.christ. I'm stuck in the sophomore locker room.

jupiviv: An ironic fixed principle, hinged on to nothingness. yes, exactly! :) what any-and-all here also live as ambiguity in the making of themselves in the securing of their being/sense of being from nothing. jupiviv: It's either you or the boulder up top. No! :) it's both/neither . . . .

jupiviv writes: "We can't roll upwards can we?" they say

Not what Sisyphus says. :)

Seeker! you don't need to word-panic over things like 'matter' and 'energy' This is one of the ways we have concretely come to apprehend and manipulate World feel ourselves both-as and in it rests this morphic ambiguity of both coming-to-be and passing-away into each other whilst still being (existe...

the spiritual is the physical
the issue's in the tissue
of self and world.

this, in my estimation, is where the mountain
smacks you upside the head again
in its thereness
of the both-ness of it and you
in the seeing-thus.

Seeker asks: So you do get it. I was under the impression existentialism thought in terms of body/"fleshy constraints" and death being an end, guess my impression was wrong? Not so different to Buddhism then? no, death is the end of any given locus-of-being, but does-not imply the end-of-...

Diebert writes: But yeah, how would you know, mr. puppy zen shock collar. like this. The acid of champions, esp. when Dennis came here in bareopen authenticity about what he learned/from us in the exchange, let this go no-ego right in front of everybody, but it's still fermenting in your store of p...

Diebert writes: But I'd prefer any cardboard cutting over the pouring of scream of consciousness milk into the little mouths of school kids :-) Your urbanity, Diebert, sometimes has a way of belying just how self-corrosive is the taste of this humor in the mouth that delivers it. just-saying, you k...

And finally in the category of existential angst, Sartre refutes many bummer interpretations of the philosophy but accepts that anguish, abandonment and despair are fundamental experiential qualities. Anguish as in: responsibility - at the most abject level - for what we choose/affect and no flippin...

Cahoot: Based on another conclusion, that truth exists and is not changeable, then not all existence is changeable, i.e., becoming. Yes, based on another conclusion. Ambiguous, isn't it? not intending to be annoying with it, but it's multifarious manifestations helps see it as foundational. btw, am...

Cahoot: It follows that, because truth exists, truth is becoming, which makes truth changeable. Ambiguous, isn't it. But is this any much more different from a world-itself that is 'perfect' with things within it that are not? Again, no need for recommended paths from anyone if what-is couldn't als...

Self-consciousness is a[n ambiguous] circumstance of becoming something of an other to oneself more not-this; not-that whilst being this and that. In self-othering like this - acts of [examined self-] consciousness - we perform upon ourselves the same irritating and beneficial, if you will dynamic a...