GENIUS FORUMS

Hi Kevin, Sorry to be a troublemaker but I think your view of Buddhism is wrong, try thinking more along the lines of Plato's Noble Lie. With some being initiated into the secret that the lie is a lie, and others not. Setting up an inner circle and therefore "insiders" and "outsiders...

(We're almost there :)) This is coming very close to the phenomenological truth: consciousness is always consciousness-of. But we are never looking at two separate entities - not consciousness-itself, or the things-themselves. The two happen together, make each other, if you will. Yes. In existenti...

Apart from the Jungian cosmic consciousness flavoured language the 10 points are pretty good advice.

LOLZ at some of those other articles, though. Eg. http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j ... ifr=hp-edt

Carl G wrote:[twitter] Just ate a whole quarter watermelon. Appetizer before dinner. [/twitter]

hahahaha. Twitter is setting unimagined new lows in mans penchant for the banal.

Somehow, Caine dying from auto erotic asphyxiation in a Bangkok hotel, just doesn't seem right. (grasshopper)

The Camel represents the taking on of the apparent burden of a Truthful existence, representing a sort of dark night of the soul where all things toiling and heavy are taken on. The water of life that is truth will sustain the Camel through the barren land of finitude which has been sucked dry of t...

Just another God-botherer, when push came to shove. Albeit a well read one.

Ataraxia, thanks for that Hume quote. It's funny with most Western philosopher's though. To them, the philosophical issues are merely conceptual, just something they think about, and then have dinner, or whatever. Never do they bring the reasoning into themselves in a transformative fashion, as is ...

Show me the I. If it exists, you must be able to demonstrate it; it must be analytically findable. I've looked everywhere, but haven't found it. I'm still open about the idea though, so go ahead. Even David Hume was fairly sceptical: For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself...

The_Epicurean. I haven't posted much recently, but I don't mind reading it from time to time. As you said somewhere, the materialists are tiresome in their smugness at times.

Hmmm ,thought provoking post "Is", welcome to the forum. You too, "Little idiot", I quite enjoyed a number of your posts over on Dawkins.

Society Society We all know there's something wrong and we've known it all along Sincerity You may think there's no one else till they put you on a shelf Society Pay your taxes stand in line help them plan for your demise Society Crush the weak to get your share cause nobody's playing fair And no o...

Alan Watts says some interesting things from time to time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLrMVous0Ac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aufuwMiKmE

Prometheus played a prank on Zeus, so he sent Pandora, the first woman, as revenge. It's been all downhill since then....

Tomas wrote: It doesn't lead so much to physical blindness, but it is a foolhardy act leading to spiritual blindness.

In Antipodean vernacular, there is no more grievous insult than to be called a wanker. ;)

Didn't Atum's masturbation give rise to two further Gods, Shu and Tefnut?

Enough already, with the Gods. Besides, didn't your mum tell you it would make you go blind?

The Damned: Antipope I'm going back to church tonight Just like back when I was eight But I don't mean to pray I'm gonna nick a collection plate I've got nothing against church Only people that go there and show they're Plain ignorant and don't understand A congregation at weekends will change thei...

That's extraordinary, isn't it.

if nothing else it proves categorically that it is possible to have too much time on your hands.

Well in my view he rewrote the book (at least in the West) on how people could think about the world.

It would probably be better if you investigated that for yourself, however. You don't really need him to be sold to you, do you?

It could've been a number of things. Syphillis, change in brain chemistry, overstressed with the concepts he was dealing with, or a combination of all those. He was in a lot of pain and didn't sleep much as well.

I don't see that it has much relevance to his body of work, personally.

I'd say he is some manner of new age-kabalist-christian gnostic conglomeration. It's the thing to be, don't you know.

I watched the first 30 or so. Not bad. Entertaining if nothing else.

Although it calls back to a time long past, I do not consider it "conservative." Freedom and rights are not a matter of "left" and "right," at least how they are generally considered in America. Fighting for freedom and individual human rights are properly called Liber...

I'm an ass and I have to point these things out? It is absolutely obvious that you make 'Jesus' into what you want or need him to be, which requires that you negate so much else of what he in fact 'was'. Is there a theist( both hominid and equine) on this planet who doesn't do that? Everyone claims...

I just did argue it. David made a statement and I countered it. You countered by making an unsupported claim(God loves us). That isn't an argument. So I respectfully asked you to support the claim. That you declined is duly noted. If you are going to ask me for elucidation, why do you not also ask ...

[ So this clip indeed shows how the average emotion-ridden mind can be put into a mode of "make believe" and even one of "make up shit as it goes along" when put in the right circumstances. Makes one wonder about hypnotic regression into childhood memories though. For sure. I'm ...