GENIUS FORUMS

Interesting series of YouTube videos made by the user named Evid3nc3 - Why I am no longer a Christian I explain my life as a born-again Christian, my deconversion, and my life as an atheist. In the deconversion section, I show how evidence, reason, and experiences related to prayer, morality, deconv...

[...] I just want to clarify that I'm critcizing the atheism movement, more than just the collection of all its arguments. And yes, there is a certain amount of limitation in each group, but athesim as a momvent has been coined as the most rational, and I don't see it as that much more clear-minded...

Worth a thread all of it's own I reckon:

R Kelly - Real Talk Behind the Scenes

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"I ain't gave nobody no damn money girl, is you tweakin'?"
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"And the next time yo get horny, go fuck one of your funky ass friends"
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Judging by the bit hitters that are currently making the most noise on the subject on YouTube these days, I'd say the most common definition of atheism is in reality more accurately defined as agnosticism, since an actual consistent definition of God never reaches consensus, nor does it seem ever li...

Hmm, I'd always imagined you, Alex, more like the big fat gay guy in Modern Family, Cameron.

I think the term 'altered states of consciousness' isn't really all that well defined, I've never really understood what a non-altered state is. Arguably, if you're alive, your consciousness is constantly in a state of being altered in some way or other - which seems to me to be part of the basic fu...

I'm not in disagreement with you Alex, I do see the functioning on a 'myriad of levels', the 'eneffables', absolutely. You guys, I sometimes feel, want to turn the eneffable into a group of factoids. You seem to render the most sophisticated in the crudest and most blatant of terms. I think that's a...

My only criticism (for the sake of argument) is a little stale by now: it's adolescent. It is part of juvenalia. It is not a mature enough idea. It's a partial truth (which may be the worst kind, lamentably). Hmm, I think that's a little too harsh, and a little too romantic there Alex. In my own ex...

The artist has breathed the world in so he can to breathe it out; for the philosopher it is breathed out and he must breathe it in again. It is the very ideal of an artistic genius to live in all people, to lose himself in everyone, to emanate in the plurality; meanwhile the philosopher has the tas...

No need to stop Steven, just take part in an actual developed dialogue now and then when you feel like it instead of the minimal one line word riddles.

Kelly, 5. All of our values (?): Not an atheist but a political video, promoting a constitution representing all values. Gives the argument that America's constitution included God to strengthen its capitalist government, which doesn't actually address the argument for or against God in the first pl...

Hi KRWoods Many people who joined here, no doubt, typed in something along the lines of "Genius Forum" on a search engine. If I'm wrong, destroy my arguement, as most of you lovely people like doing on here. I found it through a post Dan Rowden (one of the board admins) left on the Sam Har...

dejavu wrote:Lentitudo is not me you gross petard.

I walked right into that one.

It is quite possible that Lentitudo is 'ripe for a conversion experience', and what is not, at the end of the day, mundane? You see, sometimes I see the 'life-raft' you-all define as rather 'predictable and mundane'. Not all the time, but sometimes. You seem to paint yourselves as quite special, tr...

Ripe, isn't he Alex, for a conversion experience? Oh how mundane yet predictable that would be.

Alleluia! An illusion!

Maybe otiosedodge will get his thread back...

Robert: Like the chair example in the other thread, the chair is inherently a chair because of, um, infinity. Without infinity, there would be no chair, ergo, the chair inherently exists. Carmel: Do you have a quote to confirm that he said a chair is inherently a chair. I don't recall him saying th...

It would kill all humans, starting with you. (<joke. And this thread is headed for worldy matters)

dejavu wrote:Emotive tripe.

If I were to make a robot machine that was perfectly logical, perfectly rational and totally emotionless, it would come to the same conclusion as the one I quoted. I'd name it BuddhaBot.

Mine is important enough to be found in the dictionary Nick, you oaf. Wow. Any philosopher worth his weight in salt would have no problem providing a simple definition on their own terms. I hope you don't consider yourself one. It's like you're trying to sustain indefinitely an altered state of min...

The second link from Stanford was more thorough and thought provoking than the first, but both links confirm that the theory of sunyata, 'emptiness' contain inherent contradictions and is, therefore not an "absolute truth". Keep in mind that it's not really a contradiction, when you take ...

Not only for you dejavu, but for anyone else interested, a few choice sources: The Meaning of Sunyata in Nagarjuna's Philosophy Fairly comprehensive, a little dense but easy enough to read Nāgārjuna at The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy More complete, respected source among academics (for whate...

Let me rephrase that for you. --How can anything lack inherent existence for the same reason it has it? Again, the failure to grasp deeper interpretations and defintions of terms is limiting you. As it is, I did go on to explain what I meant, as an attempt at reconciling your singular usage of the ...

Robert: Is that "everything" mountain #1, or #3 ? Carmel: It's both. If mountain #1 is an appearance, and therefore an illusion, then #2; 'no mountain' is also an illusion which is why #3 appears again ...and it cycles thusly. The question is what number is it for dejavu, is it du déjà vu...