GENIUS FORUMS

Screw Wikipedia. ok. From: http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeo.html Many proponents claim that homeopathic products resemble vaccines because both provide a small stimulus that triggers an immune response. This comparison is not valid. The amounts of active ingredients in vaccin...

Statement (3) is not a reasonable statement, it is a religious statement. This is the sort of belief that should be avoided. Statement (3) was that "I believe there are unidentified flying objects" is not a religious statement. The fact is that not all flying objects have been positively ...

if it's BS it sure sounds like a Genius wrote it ! http://urantiabook.org/newbook/ Urantia? Really? Really? There is a tendancy to think something that's really complicated can't just be a bunch of bullshit someone made up. It's the same principle that the Catholic Church lives on. And yet, there i...

Consider these statements about UFOs: (1) While most UFO sightings can be explained fairly easily, there remains a few unexplained sightings by very credible witnesses. The best explanation for at least some of those sightings at the present time seems to be some extraterrestial being or craft. (2) ...

I don't know much about Marx myself, but I encounter him a lot in my pursuits. Can you recommend a text by Marx? I studied Marx for two trimesters back in college, and I would have to say, no, don't read Marx. In economics, what Marx wrote that is good and meaningful is not original (can be found i...

Homeopathy, in principle, is sound reasoning. Holy shit, are you serious? Homeopathic remedies are prepared by serial dilution with shaking by forceful striking, which homeopaths term "succussion," after each dilution under the assumption that this increases the effect of the treatment. H...

dejavu wrote: We're really everything are we? How did you come to this conclusion? Ego is self-conception, and nothing but. There is no individuality without it. You are deluded.

I originally read this as:

Ego is self-deception, and nothing but.

... which seems equally valid.

I'm not 110% convinced that bipolar/psychosis can be pulled apart from stages of enlightenment. I believe that the individual undergoes various stages of awakening and their mind tries to make sense of that in as best it can at the time. This might be something of a clue about depression: Depressiv...

El Dude... abides.

Kunga wrote:
does that mean i should stop beliveing what i feel in my mind/heart to be true and just go along with what everyone else here belives because they are more intelligent than me ?

You should try to stop believing in things.

There were quite some periods in the past years, lasting months to almost a year, were the board seemed less interesting, to me at least, with many good contributors disappearing or my mind focused on other ventures. If I visited at all in such periods I only clicked on one or two threads, ignoring...

There is no need to "explain" impossible things that don't happen.


Kunga, you are a sucker.

I am speaking of genius, not scientist (although every genius must be a scientist in the highest sense). And, I would venture that philosopher without worldly knowledge is not a genius but a savant. Same for a worldly expert without philosophic (some might say spiritual). I agree with this - the ne...

I've been gone for a while. I just stopped in and I agree the place has deteriorated. David Quinn, in particular took on a kind of bodhisattva role. He took it upon himself to act as a teacher, to get people started on the path of wisdom, truth and enlightenment. And he did it for years, in a way th...

mywhitecollar wrote:I have to put up with others

Yay humanity.

Are you suggesting that people will use more energy if it becomes cheaper simply because they can? Yes, exactly. It seems to me that there are types of technology that are more efficient, and if people choose to use them, then their consumption levels go down because each person has a limit on what...

The computational power increases but is quickly filled to the brim with all kinds of application, with varying level of actual usage (meaning: contributing anything instead of just dissipating heat). That was the point, the extra computational power is used because it is there and is very cheap (c...

I would suspect that as electricity drops to pennies per kilowatt hour, It already does cost pennies per kWh. The average cost of residential electricity was 12¢/kWh (DOE) in the U.S. in April 2009. The average household used 936 kWh/mo. in 2007 (DOE) and would pay about $108 for it based on the Ap...

Aristogenics wrote:Take an extreme case: a 50-IQ imbecile cannot have an equal opportunity with a 180-IQ genius of obtaining a degree in astrophysics.

That's not what equality of opportunity means.

Tomas wrote:Guess it's to kill the helpless unborn first, since Americans (like Dave) don't care about them.

You are correct, I do not care about the unborn.

They may be unborn today, but in sixteen or seventeen years they may become some extremely annoying teenagers. Get off my lawn!

Carl G wrote: So, demonstration and even rioting is probable, but actual revolution, not likely.

I agree, it is not likely. It seems wise to be prepared for some level of civil unrest, however.

http://www.thetreeofliberty.com/vb/show ... hp?t=67090 Note: The first post seems to have been quoted from http://www.tactical-life.com/online/exclusives/commentary-four-reasons-why-gun-sales-are-up/ Which leads me to the third fear, that there is a revolution coming, yes, a revolution on the scale...

I wouldn't normally ask about this sort of thing here, but since this topic is already here.... I've been thinking of recording some videos for YouTube, but they would be of me playing guitar. So the sound quality is at least as important as the video. (I don't have much to say philosophically at th...