GENIUS FORUMS

From a Wiki page on Nagarjuna : "According to a biography translated by Kumārajīva, he was born into a Brahmin family, but later converted to Buddhism. This may be the reason he was one of the earliest significant Buddhist thinkers to write in classical Sanskrit rather than a prakrit ." T...

The Buddha, Nagarjuna and Hakuin are all from different cultures, and different times. Yet, they are all Buddhists. And Jesus lived in culture that was very different from Western culture. How then can he be considered as the founder of a religion that has been present in Europe for two millennia? ...

I think we are getting to the heart of the matter here.... Is that supposed to be an argument, David? Isn't that nothing more than an insinuation? Dennis, as resident monkey, seems to approve. ;-) Ideas have consequences. Ideas mould the world. Ideas mould how we live and act. Ideas, and how we liv...

They appear to have in common a form of aiming beyond the notion of "human" in each and every delivery. Humans here solely appear as parable of being, of existence or as the wise finding out about existence. Which is philosophically correct: human perceives human through thought, ergo he ...

Ya think? I read it quite differently. You seem to have projected into Tomas your own 'divination' (par for the course, naturally). Too, Tomas is quite capable of his own 'downgrading'. Perhaps we all share that knack? ;-)

Have you considered an examination of the undercurrent of your anger, Tomas?

One has to take into the account the rather obvious link between any social system of "constraint or repression" and the types of analysis made available through certain linguistic tools by that very system and even more importantly the idea of what it is to be human as defined through th...

You summarized your views with that speech last page. Normal people without a taste for the divine aren't concerned with existential problems; normalcy avoids difficult thoughts; there is the appearance of madness in deep thought; one who does enter the realm of thought can be optimistic or paranoi...

Because you don't know what it means to break free of all social contexts and ground your mind in ultimate reality, you can only ever judge my actions in terms of historical narratives and social contexts and the like. Yet in doing this, you misread everything that I do. It is why you still have no...

I don't think we have yet exhausted the topic, this Divenely Inclined Person. While moving still along that Way, I have been struggling to interpret this song.

Does Alexis Jacobi, the Talking Ass, have himself some different reasons for communication؟ As many as 22 different reasons have been identified so far. However, I am myself only cognizant of seven. I wonder if the right combination of paranoid optimism would lead one to believe that they have the ...

It is absolutely NOT irrelevant. The point is, you see, that you extract the Jesus you wish him to be and you deny the context. Ah right, I forgot: you don't care about context. Which is also part of my point. Like John and this branch of early Christians who fashioned this Christology, you similarl...

John is the Gospel that most radically departs from any sense or connection to 'the historical Jesus'. It has virtually no relationship to the other 3 Gospels. It is the document in which the 'christology' is constructed and defined. It is strictly non-Jewish and extra-biblical. According to some, a...

Ah but Jupi: now write a poem about something that actually MATTERS to you (I assume there is something, somewhere in this universe that matters to you? Don't be afraid to say there isn't though). Then the whole enterprise takes on a radically different cast. I suggest you'd give up after about 20 m...

With some other changes, and the mysteriously capitalized Lie with its suggested double entendre, we can further extend the Barb and Bite of this devilish, Jupiesque pOeM : A man I saw in the woods tonight, Was skipping about in great delight. I ventured to ask him, near him going: "Where doth ...

[quote=" TREVOR : 'I THINK THAT comprehension of that "something" would be the only way to leave the magical (and hence religious and scientific, and possibly even philosophical) modes of thought; it would genuinely take one to a higher plane. Genius is too weak a word. But since we'r...

• A man I saw in the woods tonight,
  Was skipping about in great delight.
  I ventured to ask him, near him going:
  "Where doth lie your home and calling?"
  Gushing forth, he replied he had none,
  Except all that lies beneath the sun.

I modified it just a hair.

Hi Thomas, it is easy to make identity mistakes. I know, I've done it. I have been in communication with both BH and CB for the last year and I assure you they are different people. Different email addresses, located in different cities. (Myself, I used to think Ryan and Nick were the same person). ...

THE Genius Forum POETRY AWARDS! To come down to the world of the dead and recite poetry was all I thought to do. How wonderful, really really special it is that some have begun to WRITE their own poems on the insides of those hellish caverns! Remember : to write good poems you must sincerely wish up...

In the last days of the fourth world I wished to make a map for those who would climb through the hole in the sky. My only tools were the desires of humans as they emerged from the killing fields, from the bedrooms and the kitchens. For the soul is a wanderer with many hands and feet. The map must ...

And it was, more or less, a commentary on what you, Trevor, had written: "I'm not sure that awareness of the bewitching, subtly Holy, power of words shows fear, but rather is a call for caution. Wizardry, like science, is strict and solemn. It is almost tangential to the point that this strict...

Now, there is a strange verb that we might throw in here: to adjure , as in 'To command or enjoin solemnly, as under oath', and if one were to ask me I would say that Revelation, defined as 'revealing or disclosing; something revealed or disclosed, especially a striking disclosure, as of something ...

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Well thank you Bob! Not many recognize what an excellent listener I am, and how much, how VERY VERY MUCH I hold back from outrightly stating. I have in my files 3,526 unposted posts! Just imagine! Actually, it's a wee bit of an irony: a mindless man will have no words since word-making requires a hu...

If David tells on himself, may I know what I do? Don't be fearful to tell me the truth. I can take it.