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- Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:12 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Jordan Peterson
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15251
Re: Jordan Peterson
Glostik responded on my earlier remark in this thread about Jordan Peterson seeking treatment Peterson had been prescribed clonazepam—a type of anti-anxiety medication of the benzodiazepine class—to help manage the stressors associated with the recent devastating news of his wife’s cancer diagnosis....
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:02 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trump
- Replies: 352
- Views: 1430981
Re: Trump
This now former Republican is also long-time member of the Xenu-worshipping organization called Scientology. He should speak out on that first!David Quinn wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 5:21 pmHere is a rarity. A Republican speaking the plain truth about the despicable state of the modern Republican party:
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 9:41 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Jordan Peterson
- Replies: 93
- Views: 160820
Re: Jordan Peterson
...usually a mix of academic long-windedness, incoherent reasonings, bluster, angry rages, extreme political bias, and waffling self-help platitudes. And this is just when he is discussing his so-called expert subjects of clinical psychology and political correctness! It is even worse when he start...
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 8:12 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 227018
Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
First off, it needs to be recognized that all things are mentally constructed. Everything that we experience and know is a momentary construction that involves the use of mental processes like memory, categorization, attention, desire, conditioning, emphasis, exclusion, etc. And also it is the mind...
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 7:57 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Homo-Sapiens
- Replies: 2
- Views: 14831
Re: Homo-Sapiens
Human being as product of linear time. The created horizon is the needed canvas to birth all things and with that purpose and fate are introduced.
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 7:35 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Notions of 'objective reality' that keep me troubled - temporal events
- Replies: 11
- Views: 26837
Re: Notions of 'objective reality' that keep me troubled - temporal events
I can imagine the vibrations exist as a part of the 'hidden void' construct a butterfly that flapped its wings and whipped up a nasty storm. Is to know the storm to know the butterfly? In both cases, things are still being defined, hidden in a void or at the other side of a globe. It's not really a...
- Fri Nov 08, 2019 5:47 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: The Real Climate Debate
- Replies: 25
- Views: 46408
Re: The Real Climate Debate
It just goes to show you how high peak delusion can get. The roller coaster has climbed to unbelievably blistering heights. There's a moment when you're right on the edge looking down. Some roller coasters even stop there and let you get a real good look at it. I feel like that's where we are right...
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 1:33 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 227018
Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
.... a wisdom-based perspective. Our brains have evolved to function as cohesive, autonomous units, so that doesn’t change. Only the focus of this cohesion changes. A Buddha, even though he no longer believes in the illusion of his own existence, still behaves as a cohesive being. But instead of pr...
- Sat Nov 02, 2019 6:22 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Jordan Peterson
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15251
Re: Jordan Peterson
Recently at this forum this thread was started on Peterson. Perhaps, if you agree, I can merge this one as there are some interesting views collected from members on the topic. His work also touches on many philosophical themes. The recent story about his addiction on some strong anti-anxiety drug, ...
- Sat Nov 02, 2019 4:19 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Science news to briefly consider
- Replies: 17
- Views: 32159
Re: Science news to briefly consider
This case has been going on for some years now and I've been following the developments of this topic quite closely. Havana Syndrome: 'Emotional trauma' caused illness at US base, not sonic attack (Sky News) The interesting part for me was that it's now potentially a case were neurological complaint...
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 8:53 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 227018
Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
The first thing that pops out is the phrase" "motivations underlying truth" - what does this phrase mean? Is jupiviv trying to say that truths such as "1+1=2", or "all things have causes" have underlying motives? This doesn't appear to make any sense, or have any ...
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 6:17 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 227018
Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
Previously on "Serious discussions about important issues" we tried to figure out what truth is, and failed miserably. The occurrence of failure has a strong relationship to the possibility of truth. Truth is the measure of correspondence with reality. Anything at all is a correspondence ...
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 5:39 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: The Real Climate Debate
- Replies: 25
- Views: 46408
Re: The Real Climate Debate
What do I perceive to be the most reasonable way to approach climate change? To continue using (as wisely as possible) the non-renewable energy sources of fossil and nuclear while investing aggressively in renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. (For those who are surprised to find nuclear...
- Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:12 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: The Real Climate Debate
- Replies: 25
- Views: 46408
Re: The Real Climate Debate
And so there you have it. A scientist openly and shamelessly equating scientific consensus with religious dogma. Oh my, what degenerative times we live in. You must have missed the finer point again as I was quoting a leading climate scientist who supports the "scientific consensus". Othe...
- Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:08 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trump
- Replies: 352
- Views: 1430981
Re: Trump
A Buddha differs from a mathematician in that he applies his logical skills more broadly. Buddhas and mathematicians differ from the perverse inhabitants that dwell in the current right-wing universe in that they practice logic. Yes, the rationality employed by Buddha is therefore not like (e.g. di...
- Sun Oct 27, 2019 8:51 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: on the notion of beginless past and endless future
- Replies: 15
- Views: 28429
Re: on the notion of beginless past and endless future
The only boundary between an "experience" and an "experiencer" is conceptual. The labels "experience" and "experiencer" occur, and conceptually create a division, but that division ultimately does not exist. For example, there can be an experience primarily o...
- Sun Oct 27, 2019 8:51 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 40718
Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
In any case, I wouldn't say that my boredom with women is due to age. I mean, I've been fundamentally bored with women's minds and women's talk ever since my early twenties. But you wrote that it’s not a work you could produce nowadays because you "no longer experience the kinds of issues and ...
- Sun Oct 27, 2019 3:03 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: on the notion of beginless past and endless future
- Replies: 15
- Views: 28429
Re: on the notion of beginless past and endless future
Diebert: Your definition of Totality is a concept right? And if it's experience, there's still the experiencer by logical necessity unless you cleverly hide. Well, if you think the experience and the experiencer are separate from each other, how do you experience both? When I wrote "if ... the...
- Sun Oct 27, 2019 1:49 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: The Real Climate Debate
- Replies: 25
- Views: 46408
Re: The Real Climate Debate
“It’s time for Bernie Sanders to retire, He truly doesn’t get it. India and China have no prayer of phasing out coal without the help of nuclear power. We burned much of their share of the global carbon budget, and yet we refused to help them with modern nuclear power. Thousands of people PER DAY a...
- Sun Oct 27, 2019 1:40 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: The Real Climate Debate
- Replies: 25
- Views: 46408
Re: The Real Climate Debate
And so there you have it. A scientist openly and shamelessly equating scientific consensus with religious dogma. Oh my, what degenerative times we live in. You must have missed the finer point again as I was quoting a leading climate scientist who supports the "scientific consensus". Othe...
- Sun Oct 27, 2019 1:33 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trump
- Replies: 352
- Views: 1430981
Re: Trump
The rationality employed by Buddha is not like the rationality employed by a psychopath or mathematician. Actually, there are a lot of similarities to the mathematician. Both Buddhas and mathematicians exercise the same rational faculties. But whereas a mathematician is usually only capable of appl...
- Sat Oct 26, 2019 11:23 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trump
- Replies: 352
- Views: 1430981
Re: Trump
But for you, being the new Hillary Clinton of the Liberal Enlightenment establishment, Ugh! Eeww! Now come on, Diebert. That is below the belt. True but we're in Worldly Matters here, in a way below the belt by definition, as we discuss matters largely defined by chemicals, drives, circumstance, in...
- Fri Oct 25, 2019 4:40 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trump
- Replies: 352
- Views: 1430981
Re: Trump
I would have thought a genius forum would be well above that. The quoted anonymous post from a cloaked anonymous place demonstrates only further the break down of coherent, intelligent exchange between people holding radical different views. People are rarely able anymore to argue. It's now all abo...
- Wed Oct 23, 2019 9:35 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 40718
Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
It’s not a work I could produce nowadays because I no longer experience the kinds of issues and frustrations that I did back then. Woman loomed large in my mind during that phase of my existence, but nowadays she is exceedingly small. This partly due to the fact that I have increasingly become more...
- Tue Oct 22, 2019 7:33 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 40718
Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
I think you missed a preposition there (of) after 'implications'. I don't really see his words as 'disvowing' earlier wisdom. Perhaps he's simply tapped into deeper recesses of his psyche that have shifted his priorities. Fair enough. Personally I read some strong judgement in terms like "horr...