GENIUS FORUMS

David: It's no surprise, really. Religious belief is violent (it blindly asserts its articles of faith), suicidal (it kills off all higher aspirations), and orgiastic (as anyone who has ever attended a church service would know). You can't have a society engaged in such a massive form of irrational...

Yeah Dan why not just remove her from the board instead of creating thread for her. I guess because she just comes back with a new identity. I really believe you need to get rid of folks like her, Unknown and perhaps even Sevens. any potential spititual genius who visits this site from some link, an...

By coincidence, I'm reading Human, All Too Human atm, and this is what I read this evening (coincidences seem to happen a fair bit with good ol' Nietzsche, you read a bit of his work or some topic on a forum, which evokes a few henid thoughts and somewhere over the next few readings, there those hen...

Dicks? How do you equate wisdom with penises? Ask the QRS what they think about, care about and what they want to see last – and they’ll say wisdom Ask any masculine man what they think about, care about and what the want to see last – and say their wife/mistress/girlfriend/family and kids. I...

Well, I think you're too easily caught up in his theological upstream to be unbiased in this matter. I personally find his ideas too boring to give any sustained attention to, and hence I pulled out of that discussion after a short while. - This is true. My mind continues to be very flowy. I flit f...

I just read this thread. To me as a reader, David was absolutely slaughtered in this debate. Gutted. His first posts were quite good - a real see-saw of a discussion - but deteriorated in the second half due to TM's more rational responses. Fascinating discussion which clearly outlines the limitatio...

Some lyrics I came across today from a Nordic Heavy Metal band called Spiral Architect. Worth reading 8. Adaptability Words, all words worth nothing with you Mistaken meaning, a constantly spreading, dreaded dark disease Truth itself untrue to those who stop to think Fluently fluid, subjectively in ...

I think it is entirely natural to be angry with this site when you first come across it. I know I was. It has deteriorated as fair bit - people have lost interest and a new crop of learners hasn't really come along. Too much crap is allowed. I have no doubt that a bitterness towards women was a stro...

How about we rephrase it a bit first. If something wonderful/terrible/ordinary happens something wonderful/terrible/ordinary must happen in that place – the event is balanced by a greater source of power, that is, all that which it is not, known to some as a "god". In universal terms, th...

These provide clear evidence that consciousness has material causes, but they are not the kind of commonalities that I am seeking -- as you probably realise. I guess I want to see something that can 'join the dots' from matter to consciousness, rather than just evidence that the dots are indeed joi...

Like the rest of the universe, the human moral code is one of destruction, for only be destroying can the growth of a particular temporary dominant pattern occur. War is nothing to worry about - BUT that which can destroy us all is another matter. All efforts should be towards making those who are m...

even when applied to emotions. Divorce? Let the computer be the judge By Adele Horin September 21, 2005 She wants the cat and so does he. He wants the car and so does she. And they both want the kids. After a marriage breaks down, couples can spend a fortune in legal fees wrangling over property and...

I think he said somewhere else that he hadn't slept for 3 days. He seems to be trying to induce philosphical hysteria.

BrianT: Non sequitor. Just because I'm not aware of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Not for certain, at least. If a tree falls without witnesses, does it make a sound? You're saying no and I'm saying not no and not yes. It would be interesting if I were the totality of all that exists, though. Li...

Marsha - don't have time to go into detail just at present, but here are some comments I made elsewhere that are maybe a little relevant. And yes - separation of powers between religion and government is paramount. "I’m one of these people who more or less believes in the motto's “whatever ...

Brian said: I'd say that we are included in "everything else" for you and I are clearly not the totality of all that exists. Can you advise me of any existence that you are not aware of in some fashion? No, so therefore we all can say: I am the totality of all that exists. My fleeting exi...

As a person who dislikes greed, this little disaster makes me feel better. It is a terrific little disaster to bring into focus the stupidity of modern times.

Trouble is I want a few million dead, not just a few thousand, not just 150 billion damage.

The sort of person Bush appoints to KEY jobs Brown pushed from last job: Horse group: FEMA chief had to be `asked to resign' By Brett Arends Saturday, September 3, 2005 - Updated: 02:01 PM The federal official in charge of the bungled New Orleans rescue was fired from his last private-sector job ove...

I hear ya, man. But there must be a distinction between objective and subjective truths, and definitions. The perfection that is being discussed is defined as an objective truth: based on the laws of causality, perfection is the process of uniting with the Infinite (known by many names). There is a...

Logic is a language Actually is it not http://www.cs.odu.edu/~toida/nerzic/content/logic/intr_to_logic.html Logic is a language for reasoning. It is a collection of rules we use when doing logical reasoning. Yeah, OK, I admit the above statement was somewhat nonsensical - I make lots of these :). T...

No way, PFTH might be a disorganized mish-mash, but it's not crap. Well OK, I was too harsh - I'm kind of on a anti-QRS semi-crusade atm. I think I am purposefully trying to hurt their feelings - which is OK by me because they reckon they don't have any*. Much of PFTH is fine, i probably agree with...

Logic is a language Actually is it not, it is a preset physical program in the mind. Communicating logic requires language, but the mind actually does not use mathematical type logic (not that all logic is not ultimately binary). The mind calculates in a binary fashion, and binary processing is not...

I'd personally recommend Hakuin, Huang Po, Kierkegaard (on my site there is some excellent material of his), Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra), and Kevin Solway's "Poison for the Heart". But there is plenty of other good stuff there as well. I'd recommend Genius News and the The Hour of ...

The only kind of memory that really matters is the memory associated with identifying things (ie, A=A). A=A is just basic spatial memory (stage 1) working in combination with basic language memory (stage 2). The penultimate kind of memory is concept learning memory (stage 3) which comes about from ...

The Uncertainty principle is for 'real'. It decribes a physical actuality, not a limitation of perception.

Rubbish. It is meaningless to philosophy. It is only meaningful to physicists, because it is about accuracy and predictibility, which by default means it is about appearances.