GENIUS FORUMS

Laird wrote : "Alex, just briefly, having recently awoken from a day sleep: I actually don't take serious issue with metis as you describe it, I even think it has merits, with one (big) qualification, that it be practised within ethical boundaries. So, when you list "stratagems of war, fr...

You're becoming more and more incoherent, John.

"The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know." The object of Zen training (to place...

Not a typo but a rather hard to catch---for a non-native English speaker as is Señor Bobo---need for the subjunctive: "What does that make you" not "makes" as is the third person present indicative. "The subjunctive mood in English grammar includes particular verb forms that...

Is it just ever-so-slightly, politely, possible that you would take this over to another thread, John, or start a thread on 'thinking without a brain' or whatever?

I find I am forced to accept what you say as true. I have no counter-argument.

I can only thank my lucky stars for that!

Master, no! You've busted me with your 717 posts of incisive, illusion-shredding wisdom. You've nailed me. Us! The world! But your work is not done! For the rest of us here it will require 1428 posts ... and perhaps 2856!

Master. Thank you for not giving up on me and possibly us. You are the Perfect Embodied Nineteen Year-Old Swami and these Truths, offered so freely, are having an effect on us all. More especially on all the others here who, truth be told, really and truly need some help. Where will your World Missi...

Look into the issue of Greek metis and Homeric honor ... and answer your own question. Or you might focus just on Odysseus to gain a sense of what the Greeks meant. I am attempting to speak about real and practical facts about this life, as it really is, and so these ideas are relevant. And certainl...

Laird wrote : I must have grown complacent - I no longer (if I ever did) think like a predator. I try to value directness over trickery, although admittedly there are exceptions, such as returning to this forum under a new name. I mentioned two titles: 'Trickster Makes This World' by Lewis Hyde (re...

Laird writes : "...and you who seems to have a "need" to reassert and defend it. To what end? I have to wonder why it would be important to you to assert and defend such a thing in the first place. What benefit does it offer you, me or anyone else for such an idea to be advanced?&quo...

Our beloved Swami wrote: In case you didn't notice almost all your posting has had no relation to philosophy, no contribution... Swami, it is possible that you might want to consider getting an education. With it, you would see that everything I write stems from modern currents of philosophy. And m...

Oh Pye you are not reading correctly! I share agreement, with about a thousand qualifications, with QRStianity's realization that man's mind carves out of chaos the worlds of possibility (though they do not state it as eloquently!), but I am opposed to those decisions they take in the face of their ...

Laird wrote : "...any sufficiently skilled human being, man or woman, can survive in the absence of civilization." You are not thinking things through. In a circumstance of rapid or catastrophic absence of cultural systems, women might be able to survive, true. But when it happened that t...

Do you notice Pye how when it comes right down to it we both recur to the most essential aspects of our discourse? Isn't that trippy? For you it is your (I think false but cherished) notion male redundancy upon which your whole discourse hangs. Women depend on men to construct the whole world in whi...

Skipair wrote : For my part, the 'control' mentioned has nothing to do with her fidelity and all to do with how she treats me. All women misbehave in relationships, and if suggesting or even commanding better behavior doesn't work, then a real guy will say goodbye. It happened that some of the thin...

The realpolitik of power-relations. It is a good place to start for any level of analysis. If one fails to trace back to the basic, fundamental truth(s), one's discourse spins out lopsided, or spins off into realms of abstraction. I would add to the above one other core and essential fact: women as ...

Dennis: 'Politicking' meant: aligning with others or teaming up with others (of like mind but not always) to resist or block some other poster. Neanderthal world: I live in a place where I am forced to see the very raw facts of power-relations. The straight facts about power. It has changed signific...

Master, thanks for having patience with me! I am a tough case and I know it. But Master I have one question and answering it will surely help me. You say that 10% of what I babble about is non-bullshit. Would you be so kind as to quote me back some of that 10% so that I have a model to work with?

It's actually a form of grandstanding. My goal is independence so I avoid politicking. I say what I think. When you use the word 'inquiry' what you really mean is the assertion of your foregone conclusions. I am often surprised that you and others who operate similarly don't seem to be able to see t...

[Funny. In my vision of things, if someone were to speak to me with the sort of pretension just addresses to Laird, they'd deserve a smashed up face. And hopefully theyd then turn the other cheek to get more of the same. Stoned hippy talk. Politically correct do-gooder hiding subterranean aggressive...

Pye writes : "I think you retreat into these speeches about speech to avoid the thing-at-hand. The last time I responded with pressure to you, you went on about a turgidity of my writing style or something. These things are why I find it largely unedifying to respond to you. You ask for respon...

Swami Sock-it-to-me:

Oh Master mine and friend divine! :::sheepish look:::

As you see I am having a relapse!

Too many restrictions! ;-) I don't need to be given a platform to air unpopular views. I seem to be fairly good at assuming that platform without any help. For the record you cannot offend me unless you were to get irrationally aggressive which is not in your nature. I accept and work within ambigui...