GENIUS FORUMS

It is interesting that China did not prevent North Korea from testing its nuclear weapon capability, including the delivery part of the test. China is a country in which there are too many people. Too many could mean expendable. If provoking at least a regional military conflict is not in their best...

If God is apprehensible, what is there to debate? Is God apprehensible? Is Totality apprehensible? That God is apprehensible is open to debate. This can be seen time and again at this very website. I think God is apprehensible, and Totality is not. For me, this is a, maybe the , key distinction. To...

O-oo, I'm scared now! ~ "That's what love is. It's one's own ego that one loves in love, one's own ego made real on the imaginary level" Jacques Lacan And well you should be. Say, that new BF of yours must be keeping the Turk busy since it took you two weeks to respond and this was all yo...

The exceptions, naturally, have a very unhappy childhood and youth; for to be essentially reflective at an age which is naturally immediate, is the depths of melancholy. But they are recompensed; for most people do not succeed in becoming spirit, and all of their fortunate years of their immediaten...

Robert wrote:Google Brain

GB is funny. I can see myself turning into one.

Hendrix doing Johnny B. Goode. Like watching Julia Child make a hamburger.

Still, I stand by my contention that slavery is the cruelest facet of imperialism. I would say the war making aspect is crueler. It dehumanizes one's own population more than slavery, turning one's own citizens into obedient mass-murderers, supporters of mass murder, and victims of mass murder. War...

broken, I will go out on a limb here and state that British- and US-backed Saudi hegemony in the Arab world is by any measure a lesser evil than the slave trade. US imperialism is the problem, and no, I do not believe it to be a lesser evil than the slave trade. The difference is the scale at which...

It's that state of mind that helped me channel my emotions into something that could help. Does that explain a little better what I mean? Since then, I've used that state of mind many times and now it feels almost physical to me. Like I'm in some sort of trance where I can put the pieces back toget...

Why would you want yet another jingle to get into your head? Don't we geniuses agree that such things are a poor substitute for thinking?

broken, John Brown's activities were not military, and he was willing to die for his cause. So was Mohammad Atta, and fifteen or so others. This is not the same as being willing to dupe other young men into believing Allah shares your private political agenda. The Muslims teach others what they the...

brokenhead wrote: Likewise, Diebert, your characterization on the motivation behind 9/11 is vague and meaningless. State clearly the injustices the WTC bombings were a) meant to solve, and b) did solve. Did you live in a cave the last decade or are you just willfully uninformed about Al Qaeda's det...

Your perspective is too zoomed in to see the bigger picture. You need to spend more time seriously questioning your beliefs if you're still interested in what is real and what is not. Or, if you're out of questions, so be it. :) And What I'm talking about is looking at them in a larger context, to ...

Well, there's something still funny about logic as compared to infinite causation that I haven't totally clarified yet, so I'm open to discussion. Infinite causation can be seen to precede any given thing if the thing is viewed as an effect. You might trace some of these causes, and you would want ...

Ryan, Despite its limitations, the human brain is probably one of the most evolved complicated systems to ever arise, if compared to anything else in the natural world, Unless you have traveled extensively to all solar systems that exist in the whole universe, it is ridiculous for you to make such ...

iame wrote:exactly. if god is infinite, then god is everywhere and everything and everything is energy. or god could just be a being with abstract thoughts easy answer to questions that seem impossible to answer. which came first, faith or science?

Superstition came first.

Diebert is correct in that you are not a blank slate. I think what he is suggesting is sound. It is important to know that philosophy is less of a body of knowledge than it is a skill; in order to develop that skill, it is essential to discover what is already written on your slate. It is not an eas...

Ultimately, desires aside, I see everything as equally special, unspecial, and no more or less complex than anything else. So, maybe just "different" would be a better word, and seems to simplify the question. Interesting [non]view, Skippy. If everything is equally complex, why can a seco...

I'll throw in my two cents here. If every man were the last man type, we would not need heroes. I agree with Diebert that heroes often attempt to attain their own personal goals at the expense of others, if that's what his contention is. But there is more of a difference between the planners of 9/11...

Lastely, Dilbert brings up an important point. If there were a real Jesus, a man who existed in time and space, who walked the earth and said the things he said and who initiated the movement in Consciousness that is Christianity, a good question to ask is: What would he have thought of your ideas?...

What makes humans any different from any other system? We respond to stimuli based on cause and effect. There is the occasional mix up that we can't find the reason behind, but it's always there. I don't see how theres anything different between me and the tectonic plate movement system besides com...

Communist talk.

Carl G wrote:I can think of bigger scams. World War II, for one. Democracy in the U.S. for another.

And the Apollo moon landing? Please, gimme a break.

Leyla Shen wrote:For one thing, though I'm convinced you're a blowover, a man has a physical power far superior, generally speaking, to a woman's

I could knock you silly, Shen.

Dan Rowden wrote:Wonder if there's any relationship between macaws and asses. They sure sound alike.

Can't fool you.