GENIUS FORUMS

Ron Paul's idea of going back to the gold standard is nuts. It made sense back when the US was a global exporter of gold and silver. But now, the major producers are regions like Russia, South Africa, and South America. Putin would just love to be able to manipulate the supply of gold at the expense...

Ron Paul is the new savior of the Social Darwinist constituency. "Smaller government" is code for "no taxes and no rules," and in terms of social policy, a "libertarian" is a Republican who wants to smoke pot and/or take advantage of permissive social (often sexual) mo...

I see that with the each progressive generation our intelligence seems to increase. The school syllabus for the same grade of 10, or 20, or even more years ago was far too simple than today. What I learnt in the fifth grade is now being taught in the second and children grasp it quite easily. Based...

I woke up with this dialogue in my head: The Goddess:"What's that noise?" Chaos:"The Big Bang." Goddess:"oops." SO- where did this come from? Neurological and psychological studies reveal that infants "know" a lot they were never taught, but born with. You can...

Gibbon: while the morals must be kept to maintain a republic, every effort to restore them once lost, has failed. But lets understand the terms here. The morals have been given by received authority, namely religion. Which however has become increasingly discredited. The historical accuracy of scrip...

Lawyers make laws.
Lawyers also make billions off defending drug dealers.
All this is pissing in the wind. The lawyers are never gonna kill that cash cow with legalization.

day, That's an interesting analysis. I don't agree with it, but at least it was thoughtful. "The successful gene pool has the right balance of alphas and betas." day True, but misleading. I don't think it's a matter of genetics. Even the flukiest of attrition can affect a population. But ...

Hominid evolution suggests alpha and beta males. The alphas put their bodies on the line defending the tribal resource base, or trying to expand it. The betas manage what they have, but also sire the nurturant daughters who grow up to be effective mothers, while the daughters of the alphas are bitch...

Plato's cave metaphor is better understood as the now obscure, camera obscura , literally, a dark room in which the light of the outside world passes thru the keyhole to project upside down on the opposite wall. We are trying to figure out what the moving shadows mean. Quite literally; the new parti...

Steven Coyle wrote:

daybrown wrote:

Steven Coyle wrote:Mitosis.

The Goddess was beside Herself when She invented sex.

You have captured the essence.

:-)

Not me, I am merely translating what was already understood. I picked it up from Campbell and Gimbutas.

<If they were in high clearance positions, their vow of silence continues to the grave or until the matter is officially declassified.> They dont havta be in high clearance positions, nor need they stay in the USA where prosecution for testimony would deter them. But Hsandman is correct, that 911 wi...

Anyone who answers that question faithfully automatically has genius. There is no one. We are all just Turing machines. But if you wait long enuf, the right answer will randomly appear. We are not all just Turing machines, d.b. I'd ask you to speak for yourself. I haven't seen Vicdan around for a w...

Nevertheless, the progression from Judaism to Christianity, to Islam gets ever more mysogenistic and violent. Islam has 99 names for god, but none of them are "our father". They all pander to a kind of dementia, but consider how much worse the case has to be to follow a prophet with a 9 ye...

Goes without saying that Roe vs. Wade will be repealed in the near future. My guess is that people will be disappointed with the results. The very people who advocate pro-life will not like the results. Illegal abortion is ten times uglier than legal ones. The very people who oppose welfare and Med...

Exciplex wrote:Anyone who answers that question faithfully automatically has genius.

There is no one. We are all just Turing machines. But if you wait long enuf, the right answer will randomly appear.

Steven Coyle wrote:Mitosis.

The Goddess was beside Herself when She invented sex.

Another psychological factor that tends to open up 911 is group think. Specifically, the group think that was going on among the personnel in government and the miitary on 9/11/01; they were told what to think by the powers that be, and for the sake of their own careers, went along. But now, the boo...

The only case I know of where the followers of a great Goddess were violent social predators is the Thuggee of Kali. but- if you actually look into it. Which Rushby did in "The Chidlren of Kali", you find out that the thugs were impersonating pilgrims headed to a Kali festival. They were, ...

Seems Kunstler has another book out, and nearly every week we see another by some other author saying it is all going to hell in a basket, and perhaps outlining why. But what are these guys doing with the money they make off these books? Does any author have a plan of what to do after TSHTF? I see t...

There is a way to resolve 911 and get to the bottom of it, but as Hsandman inferred, we are dealing with Turing machines or some other such system in which only certain ways of thinking are possible. But as an academic exercise, consider the new lie detection technologies. FMRI brain scans of the oc...

With clear reasoning Russell explains the objections he has towards Christian faith. He shows the unsoundness of traditional arguments for the existence of god as well as for the reasons for believing in it, and goes on to reveal the stupidity and cruelty of some aspects of Christian morality as we...

The educated female mind is more capable of intuiting what a client needs and providing the software to do it. The characteristically self educated male geek doesnt giva fuck what others think or need, but sees a software problem more abstractly and sets out to solve it- art for art's sake. The geek...

To return to the topic, I see powerful cultural changes coming, but cant tell how fast. There's been quite a bit in the last 50 years, obviously in racism and sexism. For the first time in its history, the nation is likely to not have a white man as president. But whether that is mere tokenism is a ...

Responsible parents breeding are not the problem. There are too many dysfunctional having kids- who then grow up to be a drain on the system for the economy to remain competitive. Inasmuch as there will be no political mandate to deal with this, responsible parents are voting with their feet, or a U...

In any case, what Aristotle referred to was the impulsive emotionality. And, it turns out, that as the melanin level goes up, the level of adrenalin tends to, while the dopamine and seratonin levels decline. These have been demonstrated to have powerful effects on behavior. But genetics is always a ...