GENIUS FORUMS

Cory, But too often he just seemed to be rambling on and on pointlessly. Yes he seems to ramble a whole lot. There is no denying how much he tries to make nothing out of his responsibility to what has happened. I expected him to be somehow broken so that there would be nothing but he rambles in such...

Charles Manson interview:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 659258319&

This could make an interesting thread. Never heard him talk before and I must say I was quite surprised. The end is priceless. Which one makes a better human: Manson or Bush?

Tharpa, If there is no linearity in nature how come: you do not wake up as a different body/person each day? Also, sometimes the person finds herself in a 'junction' where they are not quite sure, who they really are, anyway. For some there is enough discontinuity present for them to be diagnosed wi...

"Put no barriers between you and where you are." "A spark lights the flame but the candle will only burn as long as the wick." "Because it is so clear it takes a long time to realise it. If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, the meal was cooked a long time ago.&qu...

"This being present, that arises; without this, that does not occur."

clyde, tooyi; You heard "do no harm," . . . so it was not too late for you :) Now, you missed it by being too busy playing games. It is not important to have "Do No Harm" or "Harm well" (either would do just fine for the same thing). Also, the latter was in response to ...

clyde,

"Do no harm"

... is too late.

Harm well.

Magic the Gathering is an RPG played with collectible cards that have properties (spells) that give the owner power.

Arete, the Greek ideal.

Nordicvs, What you are thinking is Arete. Can you trace that from ancient Greece into its soon homosocialized caricature of today? (Mr. Bond, I presume.) Arete is a sort of Magic the Gathering pack of rule-of-thumb enlightenment cards. Can you tell, why it would suck if Achilles was... you know, per...

Fat is fat in any language. Despite efforts to conflate terms, change vocabulary and how people use them, Fat will still be there. What happens then is that the consciousness in people automatically self-organizes to match a new slang term for Fat thus accurately representing the way things really a...

Vincent - by Tim Burton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqS4-zlJLS8

"The river tells no lies.
Though standing on the shore
the dishonest man
still hears them."

Why would some guys rather live in a world of deceipt where on the one hand they think their buddies are going to be there to empower them but on the other hand they know that guys lie about their abilities? Wouldn't it be better to know for sure who could do what and who needed help so where one w...

So are you against clothing other than briefs? (Oh, you changed this.) No. I am saying use your better judgement. Just don't try feel good about it. You can't. Slighly longer... Wear for weather or wear what suits you but when you consider it harmless and not a lie, you also instantly agree to cons...

...that some silly social constructs are harmless, and not lies. Social constructs or not, they are harmful and lies as much as they compel others to follow suit. That no one around was the first one to do so gives a handy excuse to regard oneself innocent, while in fact, one is exactly the first o...

About philosophy and philosophers: "The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman ...

It is not random but very much in context.

One could start talking about semantic spooks et. al. but that would already be like explaining a joke; There for a brief moment for anyone to take but already gone. Remaining are the wails of missed opportunities.

It is some old folk rhyme.

Sometimes a poem is just a poem. Sometimes it has the answers to all the questions you dare to ask.

...how do you interpret...

don't

to some extent, yes. Not there. No, I mean the other left. ----> I was pointing to the tv-camera/set rather than someone watching (No one is). Also, colorblindness would be a problem in the camera, anyway. But yes, there is understanding. Many ways to go there. Ever ridden at night with a driver wh...

In a class society the move from lower to upper class is not possible. One must have been born there. If you make wealth you are sociable and your children or children's children can one day become a mix of the real deal. To live in a class society is to die with the class you were born with. To den...

Alyosha, Just to note... The russian hermit didn't turn a donut into a sphere. What he did was take any crumpled sphere tied into knots. He opened and ironed all of them back to smooth ones (Monk head smooth). He didn't invent the idea. He was the one who could show that it can be done without probl...

Something old in a new dress:

Who is the divine being that makes the tv-camera and the tv-set understand red?

If you tune the picture into black and white, is there still understanding?

Elizabeth, I did realize there was propably a long history of discussion on this forum that you are a part of. The reason why I did comment the discussion was that the nature of the problem was so apparent. I do agree on the need to use clear communication in philosophical discussion. You seem to be...

Dan,

was it Fred? I had already forgot where that came from.

It becomes meaningful as long as one considers the intended audience. Proverbial cane.