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- Thu Oct 31, 2019 12:47 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 228135
Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
jupiviv: Like all things, consciousness may increase or decrease depending on various factors. But there is no special absolute truth/s that can transform a consciousness of the sort described above into a deeper, more robust form. Which is to say, one that doesn't flinch before pain, loss and suff...
- Wed Oct 30, 2019 3:08 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 228135
Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
vishesh: I've tended to decouple masculine and feminine drives from notions of consciousness and unconsciousness (I find it more appropriate to reserve 'unconsciousness' for the metaphysical construct of the hidden void). Instead I see both drives as conscious drives with generally different aims, ...
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 7:13 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 228135
Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
jupiviv: No I'm wise because I recognise that in human life the motivations underlying truth are rarely if ever distinct from those underlying untruth, hence the concept of truth as it really exists cannot be the basis of absolute honesty and is in fact its mortal enemy. Truth is *far worse* than b...
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 2:20 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 228135
Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
Pam Seeback wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2019 4:52 pm I believe your words above reflects the absolute truth of view relativity, which is lived only when we have given up the delusion of absolute view. Vishesh: Uh huh. *nods sagely* Not sure how to read your response, so I won't try. Instead, I'll take the ...
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:04 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: The Real Climate Debate
- Replies: 25
- Views: 46938
Re: The Real Climate Debate
Diebert: Fair enough. Do you think there's any viable path towards goals like the New Green Deal which proposes reduction to zero carbon emissions around 2040-2050? Or the extinction movement talking even about 2025 for the same? If these paths are delusional in economical and practical terms, they...
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 7:52 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 228135
Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
jupiviv: Anything at all is a correspondence with reality. There's no way to measure such correspondence because any instrument wherewith done would itself be engaged in that same correspondence. Perhaps you meant "the measure of conscious correspondence with reality". But how does one di...
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 3:42 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: The Real Climate Debate
- Replies: 25
- Views: 46938
Re: The Real Climate Debate
David Quinn: In your daily eagerness to strike conventional enlightenment poses, you seem to forget that the act of sounding the alarm has had a long spiritual tradition, going right back to the days of Buddha, Diogenes, and Jesus. Kierkegaard was another one who believed in sounding alarms, despit...
- Sun Oct 27, 2019 1:26 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: The Real Climate Debate
- Replies: 25
- Views: 46938
Re: The Real Climate Debate
David Quinn: Normally, I would just let this sort of drivel slide by. I mean, who can be bothered dealing with it? It's just Pam being Pam. But since she keeps insisting on being a spiritual judge of "others", her words probably do need to be addressed every now and then. But Pam, before ...
- Sat Oct 26, 2019 5:47 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: The Real Climate Debate
- Replies: 25
- Views: 46938
Re: The Real Climate Debate
David Quinn: We need people to work on the solutions (technological and otherwise) and we need people to keep sounding the alarm (because too many people are still asleep). I don't see the reason for bashing the second group. If you are genuinely concerned about the state of the environment, then y...
- Sat Oct 26, 2019 2:48 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: The Real Climate Debate
- Replies: 25
- Views: 46938
Re: The Real Climate Debate
@Pam, So in light of what you wrote, could you expand on what you mean by "Infinite thinkers are not distracted by false thoughts of 'other', instead they are ever seeking new opportunities to cause forms." about the INFP bit, yes I had my suspicions lol. I've always been under the impres...
- Fri Oct 25, 2019 3:23 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: The Real Climate Debate
- Replies: 25
- Views: 46938
Re: The Real Climate Debate
Infinite thinkers, by contrast, are not distracted by false thoughts of 'other', instead they are ever seeking new opportunities to cause forms. Solving the issues of climate change is an ideal opportunity for form-making. This is why logical thinkers belong to the ACT group (i.e., they act 'purely...
- Thu Oct 24, 2019 1:08 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trump
- Replies: 352
- Views: 1436156
Re: Trump
Each of us is connected to our reality, the rational and irrational alike.David:.. seriously, is there any part of the right nowadays that is even remotely connected to reality? Just asking.
- Thu Oct 24, 2019 6:48 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: The Real Climate Debate
- Replies: 25
- Views: 46938
Re: The Real Climate Debate
The real rebate is between two groups: 1. A confident, non-political group that believes technology, informed investments, rational decision making, and the use of the best scientific information will lead to a solution of the global warming issue. An optimistic group that sees global warming as a ...
- Thu Oct 24, 2019 3:21 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 41095
Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
Vishesh: This sentiment partly reflects my perhaps naive frustration at understanding that there are typically only certain kinds of people who predictably do get involved with wisdom, and that is mostly due to nature's conditioning. If the whole world were to be comprised of just these kind of peo...
- Tue Oct 22, 2019 7:41 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 41095
Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
Vishesh: What has not been addressed in this forum adequately despite a lot of discussion (as something that is realistically abstracted and generalized enough to provide a consistent guiding framework) is the issue of morality, which pretty much has to be grounded in masculine and feminine psychol...
- Tue Oct 22, 2019 3:46 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trump
- Replies: 352
- Views: 1436156
Re: Trump
David Quinn: Kierkegaard also spoke about the limitations of formlessness. He spoke about the knight of infinite resignation, for example. The knight of infinite resignation is someone who understands that, from the absolute point of view, nothing has value, and he gives himself over to this unders...
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:28 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trump
- Replies: 352
- Views: 1436156
Re: Trump
Hi David, I am not going to address your critique of Diebert, however, I am challenging some of your wisdom premises that came to light in your critique of Diebert: David Quinn: Kierkegaard also spoke about the limitations of formlessness. He spoke about the knight of infinite resignation, for examp...
- Thu Oct 17, 2019 2:34 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trump
- Replies: 352
- Views: 1436156
Re: Trump
Pam Seeback wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 12:14 pm Of course, I have no way of knowing if Diebert is unconsciously or consciously alluding to philosophical (conscious/temporary) suicide when he refers to nuclear annihilation or if his apparent desire to eliminate all ethical boundaries is related to the...
- Wed Oct 16, 2019 3:14 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trump
- Replies: 352
- Views: 1436156
Re: Trump
David to Diebert: I'm finding your fixation on nuclear annihilation to be of interest. Clearly, this has been a deep concern of yours for decades. I remember being concerned about it myself back in the eighties, particularly during the Reagan/Thatcher era. But I am wondering if this fixation goes t...
- Sat Oct 12, 2019 2:42 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Another view of Consciousness
- Replies: 17
- Views: 32613
Re: Another view of Consciousness
10 Ego Every manifestation contains an unknown factor, which – when known – becomes another manifestation - thus multiplicity is born. Multiplicity is the cradle of differentiation – differentiation is subject to the R/P modes - their viewpoints cause restrictions - restriction retards Selfrealisat...
- Sat Oct 12, 2019 1:24 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Defining Racism
- Replies: 36
- Views: 53029
Re: Defining Racism
Rhett: These days i am seeing two poles, people that call any distinction regarding culture, religion or DNA as racist, if they so choose, and people that say there is no such thing as race and therefore no such thing as racism. I dont see value in either of these. Philosophically speaking (this ma...
- Thu Oct 10, 2019 1:08 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: A view of the birth of Self-love
- Replies: 5
- Views: 19611
A view of the birth of Self-love
Being conscious of the eternal, restless nature of God or Nature desiring to birth Itself is one thing, it is entirely another to allow this truth to be fully absorbed into consciousness. After all, perception of other-as-cause of pain and suffering is the core of pre-enlightened conditioning, even ...
- Sun Oct 06, 2019 1:21 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Another view of Consciousness
- Replies: 17
- Views: 32613
Re: Another view of Consciousness 6
There is the individual Point of View which is indivisible (lat: individualis) and represents a singular state of ConsciousNess - and there are the viewpoints of intellectual operations or collective conventions. I concur. You do address the truth of relativity of consciousness - would you say that...
- Sat Oct 05, 2019 3:03 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Another view of Consciousness
- Replies: 17
- Views: 32613
Re: Another view of Consciousness
There is the individual Point of View which is indivisible (lat: individualis) and represents a singular state of ConsciousNess - and there are the viewpoints of intellectual operations or collective conventions. I concur. You do address the truth of relativity of consciousness - would you say that...
- Thu Oct 03, 2019 2:35 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Another view of Consciousness
- Replies: 17
- Views: 32613
Re: Another view of Consciousness
In the 18th century, Carl von Lynne, a Swedish classifying specialist, came up with a new category of Homo, which he labelled Sapiens – “wise” – probably to distinct it from the former and to give it a superior touch. If so, erroneously, as being wise was applied to the one who has common sense and...