GENIUS FORUMS

i've wondered all those things, and really it can all come down to 'does anything matter?' we're all flesh (for a bit) and bones in the ground in the end. it's a depressing life if you think about it like that. we will never know the answers to any of these questions, yet we still ask them. i've ask...

didn't muck up the impression at all, you still hit the nail right on the head. it stood with what i believe quite closely. i didn't articulate properly or use the right word i guess. what i meant more was that you're trying to explain yourself and such to others, but there's nothing wrong with that...

since the beginning of time (yes, i went there for the sake of irony), we have postulated how we came to be. without sparking a debate on the origin of our existence, i wish for others to put forth their OWN ideas on WHY we are obsessed with our origin. why must we have an origin? why do we theorize...

To simply rebel against whatever society accepts is to remain in the mind-control of society. And it is easy to accept or deny a system, but the real, difficult challenge is to change the system itself, and to create a system that is firm but flexible, solid but adaptive, accepting but challenging....

people on this forum are so condescending and self-righteous. get your heads out of your asses. it was a simple question. if you don't want to answer it, then don't. smart is defined by society, so adhere to it. if you wish to redefine it, then it is no longer the same word for it bears a new meanin...

i feel like i have told a salesman that his product is useless and his ego is bruised. as a result, he attempts to belittle my intelligence whilst maintaining his obnoxious arrogance. then, along come the little followers who sniff out the power and side with those who possess it in an attempt to fe...

the entire forum is riddled with hypocrisy.

i feel as though i have written this. i'm currently in university, and i feel trapped to be completely honest. i've completed three years, and i feel no different. i've gained a lot of knowledge, almost none of it because of schooling; but instead, on my accord. i would've dropped out already if not...

i can apply logic to this problem, but i feel that it doesn't sufficiently encompass this 'dilemma'. firstly, nothing is the opposite of something. zero (nothing) is the opposite of any value (therefore has infinite amount of opposites). apply this basic logic to the ideas proposed by tristram (and ...

a fine display of stroking one's intellectual ego

the clock is simply a symbol of perception. ideally, the velocities of the observer and the observed would have to combine to equal the speed of light in a hypothetical space (in a vacuum). if we are moving away from the clock at the speed of light, then light (the clock and its hands) does not seem...

what if you're moving toward the clock?

i would think that he has accepted he is a goat, therefore he is a goat. on a metaphorical level, maybe we are all 'goats' and our main obstacle is believing we are a 'lion' because of our external perceptions instead of our internal ones. we are what we feel, not what we see. No, we are what we ar...

i think the answer is much more basic, although the idea that women want to be 'loved' regardless of who is giving the love is accurate in my opinion. but on some level, women are more sexual in nature. in our day and age, women are more desired...men seek women and women decide if the shoe fits. i ...

fanciful. consciousness is defined, in some way, by the constraints of our physical world. it may have evaded the three tangible dimensions of our world, but i find it incomprehensible that consciousness is devoid of time, albeit a conceived dimension--more appropriately; it is confined by a certain...

Once there was a lion cub lost in the forest and found by a goat herder who brought him up with his goats. The cub grew up to bleat like a goat and eat grass. One day a lion passed by and saw this strange phenomenon. The goats ran away leaving behind cub. The lion asked the cub what he was doing wi...

i'm skeptical on whether we can ever truly know how each sex differs in their inner lives for our outer lives are far too influential on who we are. society plays a role inevitably in all aspects of our lives, inner our outer. am i a man because i have a penis, or because society knows i have a penis?

without comparative means, nothing has meaning. pursuit of enlightenment is akin to the pursuit of happiness--usually the pursuit itself is indeed a subtle, yet vastly integral, obstacle. enlightenment seems to be dependent on abandoning human nature, abandoning what makes us the beings we are. it i...

so...he loved men you say? makes you wonder about christianity and its stand on homosexuality. one is no greater than any other, but simply different. society dictates the rest, unfortunately.

we do not know when we know that which we should not know.

a gift is wrapped with the sole purpose of being opened.

if we do not understand through experience, we will not.

join me in this void we consider meaningful existence.

the only way to win at war is to surrender. see, i can do it too.

my point is still valid. how can one grasp reality-which is different from each individual-when they are focused on others' views? you are no closer now than you were when you started this forum. actually, i think you are further from understanding 'your' reality than you were before. it's very iron...

i have realized many of you, like many 'common' folk in society, just recycle the views of others. the only difference is that most of you have read many books, so your views of others aren't as confined. not all of you, but many of you. this is not a genius forum. it's a 'well-read' forum. with bru...

gold consists of thrusting and finishing.

because men don't have the confidence to not give it to them.

as for murderers, based solely on differences in beliefs and rationality. when instincts overpower how we learned to behave. it's just a matter of how tightly the mask is fastened to cover up the monsters we are hiding.