GENIUS FORUMS

Kierkegaard was speaking of the terrible implications of God on the minds of men, fully aware of the full truth imparted but not knowingly written by the author of this statement. That the vast majority of particular conceptions of this answer do not point to truth is no good reason to not use the a...

Some say people never heal the wound left in the psyche by losing the absolute protector and comforter of the mother as they grow up. Some say the fear of death is so great that the only people that live are those that deny death, that prove to themselves they will live forever no matter what, indee...

To Beingof1 and others who find the premise of this thread disturbing, let me ask you this: let's say, hypothetically, we were to discover that last stage Alzheimer's patients, for whatever reason (brain viruses or something) represented a clear and present danger to Humanity's survival. Do you eut...

Killing for the greater good doesn't impress you? Yet, you're so willing, apparently, to engage in it on a massive scale. This is the point I was aiming for, Sam: you are willing to allow me, my mother and all of Humanity to die for your own perceived greater good. Interestingly, your sense of ethi...

Killing for the greater good doesn't impress you? Yet, you're so willing, apparently, to engage in it on a massive scale. This is the point I was aiming for, Sam: you are willing to allow me, my mother and all of Humanity to die for your own perceived greater good. Interestingly, your sense of ethi...

So why is my desk not sprouting wings? Why do you think that question isn't stupid? Define the process or rule that ceases causation and determines the extent, range, form, multiplicity, relative position and constitution of the co-dependantantly originating and necessarilly related entities. My de...

Of course we can. Words are our playthings and we can do with them whatever we like. Again, the point is that when a group of deluded people appropriate a word for their own purposes, it isn't sufficient reason for me to stop using it. Imagine if Creation Scientists were to take over the world and ...

So why is my desk not sprouting wings?

I also like using it because nearly everyone has a lot of emotional baggage concerning it. This applies just as much as to an atheist like Steven (with his allergic Pavlov-like reaction to the word) as it does to Christians or New Age mystics. For a person to able to use the word "God" fr...

Okay, good. You have uncovered something which you believe to be undeniably true and beyond the scope of relativity and sensual bias to undermine. I applaud that. So claiming that a subject that thinks that he exists cannot refute Cogito Ergo Sum is a belief? Is this a belief? the perspective of an...

It depends on whether the other's judgment is rational, consistent with the facts, insightful, profound, throws new light, etc. Just because all judgments are subjective doesn't mean that all judgments are equally valid. As a rule, the subjective judgments expressed by a truthful person far outweig...

I think you need to reinspect your own instrument here. The hostility in your rant above is palpable. And what is hostility but an expression of fear? I do not claim enlightenment, nor do I deny what constitutes me. God-consciousness simply means consciousness without delusions. "God" is ...

By your own criteria, yes. However, I don't agree with your idea that whoever thinks he's right is automatically a fool. He would only be a fool if he was wrong. And who is the judge? Seig Heil! Are you saying that anyone who makes a judgment is akin to being Hitler? That in itself is a judgment. -...

God-consciousness indeed. There is nothing that announces the ego louder, and its slavery to emotion and fear, than the word God. Words have meaning, and no amount of sunny retreats, hard work, relationships, and spiritual dogma will ever hide the fact that your entire philosophy and way of life is ...

There can be no knowledge of anything at all - is that your fundamental point of view? What you appear to be saying here seems obvious to me, but that depends on exactly what you are trying to say. The point you are making isn't very clear. Are you trying to say that everything is a matter of persp...

Time is the *concept* of event duration, not a real thing in any sense but the "elapsed time" it takes anything and everything to happen... always in the present. I suggest you take the "time" to understand precisely what it is that produces the conception of time. Duration is n...

What you appear to be saying here seems obvious to me, but that depends on exactly what you are trying to say. The point you are making isn't very clear. Are you trying to say that everything is a matter of perspective? That all realities are shaped or determined by our perspective as observers? An...

It tells us that all mass attracts all other mass. If there is enough mass to equal "critical density", (i.e., the "missing matter" is found... and that is happening), then the outward expansion will eventually be reversed and the "crunch" half of the whole cycle will ...

Thoughts have the capacity to express the truth. You consistantly fail to understand that there is no thought that is not a creation of the mind. Look, I'm 43 and I've only just discerned that the sky appears to be blue. And if you had stated that reality appears to change you would have had no arg...

All of which relies on the reality of change. The reality of change is only something you think you see. Thoughts have the capacity to express the truth. You consistantly fail to understand that there is no thought that is not a creation of the mind. You need to understand not only that there is a ...

that when learned only of our solitude is a sound personal theology. Poetry, mocked by the egotistical. One word of advice, remove the spiritual phraseology from your posts. when our spiritual and material views of life are one, each tactual to the other, then half our absurdities, fallacies, wrong...

Im still struggling to come to terms with the idea that something related to how I think is not psychological.

All the cosmological models are religious/mystical/magical as they either assert that God did it, or something can come from nothing.....neither of these two options is logical or possible Tough shit if it rankles you, DH, but many intelligent and serious thinkers - myself included - disagree with ...

David Quinn wrote:The human race, all of them his spiritual children.

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None of us has the right to decide the lives of others, only to live as best as we think we can.

David Quinn wrote:By your own criteria, yes.

However, I don't agree with your idea that whoever thinks he's right is automatically a fool. He would only be a fool if he was wrong.

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And who is the judge?

Seig Heil!