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by Jamesh
Fri Jan 18, 2013 12:25 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The Light Within
Replies: 5
Views: 10694

Re: The Light Within

Jesus was pretty fond of the word light. I haven't given much thought into what I suggest below and might be drawing the wrong conclusions about the meaning of the word to Jesus. I don't bother too much with old stuff like this that can easily be interpreted many ways. It features prominently in the...
by Jamesh
Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:18 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: How to Build a Stronger Ego - Steve Pavlina
Replies: 160
Views: 82917

How to Build a Stronger Ego - Steve Pavlina

Time to stir up the pot again. http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/ - lots of decent self-help type articles on many topics. This one appealed to me. I've come to realise that I'm fooling myself about being ever the type that will Cross the Road as per David's essay. I've never really been convinced th...
by Jamesh
Wed Jan 16, 2013 4:32 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Youtube stuff
Replies: 420
Views: 192921

Re: Youtube stuff

Kevin Solway and Daniel Dennett Dogglegangers? (other than accent)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYVMoF-nQvQ

http://www.edge.org/conversation/normal ... pered-mind
by Jamesh
Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:22 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: In the News
Replies: 855
Views: 284314

Re: In the News

The above is from The Edge and there are other interesting comments to this year's big question.
WHAT *SHOULD* WE BE WORRIED ABOUT?

http://edge.org/responses/q2013
by Jamesh
Wed Jan 16, 2013 2:45 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: In the News
Replies: 855
Views: 284314

Re: In the News

Chinese Eugenics Geoffrey Miller Evolutionary psychologist, NYU Stern Business School and University of New Mexico; author of The Mating Mind and Spent China has been running the world's largest and most successful eugenics program for more than thirty years, driving China's ever-faster rise as the ...
by Jamesh
Tue Dec 04, 2012 2:53 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Derren Brown
Replies: 7
Views: 12819

Re: Derren Brown

Derren Brown - The Experiments: The Assassin. Yep, that was the first of his shows that I'd seen. I'll watch them all at some point, I think his all-round magic/mind reading skills are rather entertaining. I noted a little synchronicity - or set of coincidences relating to what drew my attention on...
by Jamesh
Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:23 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Musings, Critiques.
Replies: 473
Views: 120475

Re: Musings, Critiques.

Diebert I think you have a great point about sensitivity, and how could anyone having less than great sensitivities develop the circumstance where the more subtle forms of thinking could start taking place? As much as I love Alex, his quick wit and his decent knowledge, he looks to me still rather c...
by Jamesh
Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:44 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Musings, Critiques.
Replies: 473
Views: 120475

Re: Musings, Critiques.

Alex What I am speaking against is a limited and fixed group of notions about 'reality' around which a group of choices and decisions coalesce (an ethic). I am also saying that this group of ideas, ensconced within its dogmatic, is very attractive to a certain sort of mind and a certain sort of pers...
by Jamesh
Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:55 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Musings, Critiques.
Replies: 473
Views: 120475

Re: Musings, Critiques.

bluerap wrote: As for your suggestion that this 'system' may be for "pain management," What David and others discuss here (the "path of enlightenment" you could call it) is clearly not about avoiding pain.. what could be more painful than doing away with all worldly desires? Frie...
by Jamesh
Sun Oct 28, 2012 1:13 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Musings, Critiques.
Replies: 473
Views: 120475

Re: Musings, Critiques.

Laird, This could be the launching point for a dialogue, because I don't think anyone would argue that there is not suffering in life, nor that it would not be preferable to avoid that suffering. A dialogue might, though, take place on the extent to which there is suffering in life, the extent to w...
by Jamesh
Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:58 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Musings, Critiques.
Replies: 473
Views: 120475

Re: Musings, Critiques.

[the son of man has nowhere to sleep] Which I suppose, is why even though while out mentally traveling, and one minute I’m supporting the QRS position and the next I’m not, I consistently return to the vision of what seems like more of a permanent home than any other - the solid, safe place of a tot...
by Jamesh
Fri Oct 26, 2012 1:28 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Musings, Critiques.
Replies: 473
Views: 120475

Re: Musings, Critiques.

Here is some more ammunition for you Alex. Whoever wrote it in Wiki seems confused - I don't find the entry to be very coherent. The Redeemer type Nietzsche criticized Ernest Renan's attribution of the concepts genius and hero to Jesus. Nietzsche thought that the word idiot best described Jesus. Acc...
by Jamesh
Wed Oct 24, 2012 6:44 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Your Attitude Towards Gay Rights
Replies: 27
Views: 29748

Re: Your Attitude Towards Gay Rights

Jamesh wrote:The more equality those once weakly organised, lowly gay folk obtain the closer they are to our status, which signifies a loss in mean status. Here, you are saying that if gay folk are to gain status we (the herd?) must lose status. If status can be gained by status deprivation, whoeve...
by Jamesh
Wed Oct 24, 2012 6:38 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Musings, Critiques.
Replies: 473
Views: 120475

Re: Musings, Critiques.

[Specifically, I am a bizarre crypto-Christian gnostic who also has very strong links to a form of Heroic Greek Paganism! ] Wiki: Gnostic systems (particularly the Syrian-Egyptian schools[which?]) are typically marked out by: The notion of a remote, supreme monadic divinity, source — this figure is ...
by Jamesh
Thu Oct 18, 2012 10:22 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Your Attitude Towards Gay Rights
Replies: 27
Views: 29748

Re: Your Attitude Towards Gay Rights

This thread is about the "The trails and tribulations of herd behaviour - the organisation of status". The more equality those once weakly organised, lowly gay folk obtain the closer they are to our status, which signifies a loss in mean status. I think gay marriage will increase the level...
by Jamesh
Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:01 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Musings, Critiques.
Replies: 473
Views: 120475

Re: Musings, Critiques.

Alex wrote a few days ago: It could be argued, though, that the koan-method, included in an aggressive system of mental reform which is quite coercive, represents a breaking down of the reasoning mind, in a way similar to Chinese 'thought-reform' which is socially-engineered and deeply, intentionall...
by Jamesh
Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:16 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Musings, Critiques.
Replies: 473
Views: 120475

Re: Musings, Critiques.

It is obvious to me that you are deeply afraid of God, deeply afraid of opening up yourself up to reality in a direct sense. It shines through in everything that you write... I refer to 'cult-like thinking' and stand by that term. Don't now rewrite me! To some extent David does cast out the bait - ...
by Jamesh
Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:28 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Musings, Critiques.
Replies: 473
Views: 120475

Re: Musings, Critiques.

I’m curious Alex. If we humans progress scientifically to allow many centuries of life (medically not far off it, not so though in sustainability terms), or if you end up in some form of conscious afterlife, tell me what sort of mind you would desire. After a century I’d imagine even you will have t...
by Jamesh
Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:46 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: New blog site: Genius Realms
Replies: 30
Views: 44833

Re: New blog site: Genius Realms

For once I've nothing to say.

The 3 articles to date are very well written, the right length for web readers and should be of interest to anyone who stumbles across the blog.
by Jamesh
Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:56 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Regarding Einstein
Replies: 32
Views: 10579

Re: Regarding Einstein

The reason I have a soft spot for Einstein is his rejection of quantum theories that abandoned causality. To me his strong belief in causality points to a philosophically advanced mind, not a philosophical genius, but still advanced relative to other scientists. I still feel he saw more deeply the n...
by Jamesh
Mon May 14, 2012 1:52 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On consciousness
Replies: 255
Views: 100794

Re: On consciousness

This started off as a response to a comment from someone on one of the threads from a week or so back. Most of it does not relate to what Dionysus said, and I had meant to “fix” some comments in it, but I’ll post it anyway as is as I’m feeling a bit lazy just at present. I've bolded the bits that re...
by Jamesh
Fri May 11, 2012 2:31 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: On consciousness
Replies: 255
Views: 100794

Re: On consciousness

Dionysus - You are completely wrong. There is nothing about consciousness that is beyond empirical reality. Consciousness is the overall effect of certain forms, of certain casual patterns. Consciousness "moves" because causes change. Not that it "moves" as such, rather that as i...
by Jamesh
Tue May 08, 2012 1:29 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: The Mystic....
Replies: 249
Views: 187378

Re: The Mystic....

Good thread this one. I scan read it, and there were lots of points I know I should go back and review properly (I'm closest to Pye's point of view on most things she says) - whether I will or not is another question. Pye - Last time I was out hiking I meet the guy below and I asked him if he was hi...
by Jamesh
Fri May 04, 2012 2:35 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment
Replies: 187
Views: 68701

Re: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment

In some ways the destruction of the current environment might be exactly what humanity needs. It will induce great suffering and from suffering the species is likely to evolve to become less destructive. Personally, I doubt even the probable slow death of the oceans due to acidification will kill ou...