GENIUS FORUMS

Genius never runs in the family. The potential for genius does. Let me guess: no geniuses in your family? Believe what you need to, but don't claim it's true. It's just your personal religion. I have to say that it is so many times the case that people will religiously hold undue significance to DN...

Well, Genetics certainly isn't enough by itself, do you agree? No. I suggest The Blank Slate by Stephen Pinker for a good introduction to biological determinism. I know you suggested the Blank Slate once already, but I was kinda fishing for merely talking about this plainly and simply. I'll still k...

Genius never runs in the family. .. good point actually. edit: It's just that we are bound to get entangled in different ideas of what intelligence means. Especially those who don't have a grasp of what 'genius' means here. A family can have an academic approach to things, and people born into the ...

Hey, i don't wanna clutter up all sorts of threads, but thought I'd atleast explain what I was trying to convey. Hello Alex, First, let me explain this sentence: "You are hooked if you get attached to the words, for those who don't, there is no hook to be hooked on'," Basically im saying: ...

Alex.. If it ever happens that you want to engage in a conversation (with me) that is not a child's game of mathematical posturing and deals on substantial existential issues that are relevant to the actual way life is lived and the importance of these questions, I'd be happy to do it. Any part of w...

Well, Genetics certainly isn't enough by itself, do you agree? Can't you think of other causes that cause intelligence? to me one thing is obvious, if a person has the potential for using his logical ability, but finds no deep need for it, there will be no deep reliance on his logical ability. Howev...

A lack of evolutionary progress, since intelligence is mostly genetic. Well, intelligence is not isolated to genetics, you could argue that there could potentially be enviromental causes for the very occurence of intelligence, not just the flourishing of it. The DNA might be right, but if the indiv...

Get miley cyrus on the reasoning show?

It's a scientific endeavor and hence always an uncertain one. You'll never know if you're egoless, because there may be some experiences that make you upset. To find out if you're really egoless, you'd have to endure more and more terrible or elating things, which seems silly to do. Know what I mea...

Well, u could throw him in a woodchipper, or put him in an institution if he hasn't got the will to actually care to pay attention and avoid being a fool, but wouldn't you waste your time with so many fools around? maybe you should try and get to the source of all these fools, since they seem to kee...

Your entire interpretation and your analogy of what I described with 'ultimate family of god' is warped & banal for obvious reasons too tedious to list. I've lived both modern & traditional ways of life, so this is one of those moments in discourse when your credibility as a thinker rests o...

Anders, extended family represents the genetic IMMORTALITY of its founding ancestor especially IF he is remembered. Clan-based cultures retain immortality and blood-feuds fortify it. Neurosis/individualism/fear of death is transcended bc your personal death is not the end of you since you are your ...

@ Anders - It depends on the proportion of well-adjusted individuals to neurotic ones but we may also have a semantic issue with the word 'neurosis' blocking consensus. I'll elaborate later on what family means to me and why it should be so for all. @ Pye -- Fuck your Jew commerce, I prefer Indo-Eu...

Pye, you're misguided because Family doesn't serve to either create or prevent neurosis, it's just a biological necessity and whether it promotes or prevents neurosis depends on the genetic potential of the individuals that compose it, so the problem is absolutely not the institution itself, it tak...

If i may jump in; an existence is what it is, it's hot because it's hot. A hot object is not intrinsically hot, so does not carry the meaning of hot intrinsically, but only relatively, when somebody, in this case, touches the object and receives appropriate signals. If nobody was alive to see the su...

Anders: "All perspectives, and indeed, all existence, is subjective, how can anything appear outside your mind, by definition, what appears is consciousness, and the subject too is consciousness. Now, if you say that by definition, a subjective mind cannot realize absolute truths, is that an ab...

A.S. wrote : "...but I say that everything can be boiled down to the infinitely simple, if one wants to go there." You can DO anything you wish. But you do it subjectively . The point is that you cannot 'boil down' perspectives of all people to one 'absolute' perspective. But, you could j...

I think it's obvious that you, Alex, enjoy keeping complexity in things, you say that there are very few places where things can be 'simple', rather than complex, such as pure mathematics, but I say that everything can be boiled down to the infinitely simple, if one wants to go there. It's not that ...

I liked the article about autism. The EQ test however, was more focused, I thought, on egotistical relationships, and thus selfish questions, rather than geniune compassion. I scored relatively low, but about average. It's natural, atleast for me, to put things into logical systems. It helps to cata...

Real 'freedom' then, is not relative, it does not come and go, because that is only relative to the amount of slavery in our lives. It is in a sense not freedom at all, but just 'being' without anything added ontop of it. Being free from samsara then, is not freedom as one might think, but is pure,...

Freedom only has meaning relative to attachment. But if freedom means attachment to attachment, it's not freedom. Non-attachment isn't detachment from attachment. It's not some other ledge to perch onto. People can talk til they're blue in the face about emptiness, but they don't live it. ... I thi...

you're right Diebert, freedom only has meaning when you relate freedom to freedom 'of'. or freedom 'to', although, these are two sides of the same coin. Once you have freedom of attachments, you also have freedom to not get angry sad, anxious. Somebody who says they have freedom in the world, somebo...

thanks. I think you're right about the fact that people don't 'stop struggling' and settle down without any more problems. After Uni people are struggling to find their job, the right partner, they struggle for promotion within their job, their children's educations etc. But there's no struggle inte...

what Kunga hoped i didn't hope for anything...just making a point and maybe over dramatised the word adore to indicate the type of immature boys that are influenced by her unusual behavior towards her own gender....it probebly sounds refreshing to immature boys to hear of a woman putting women down...

i.e. Values determine whether you think of yourself as the mind being a nightmare or as a dream in any particular moment. It's like heaven and hell, really. For example, if you want to protect your physical body, and your sleep is producing an image of you being pecked to death by birds, it can be u...