GENIUS FORUMS

Steve Conte - Living Inside the Shell (Ghost In The Shell Stand-Alone Complex 2nd GIG Sountrack) Roaming inbetween the worlds of sleep and awake Seems so far away from where I've been and untrue but unafraid Intrusting -- my soul -- I know I must be taken to see the world that is Not so far from no...

Autamata - Out of This I will confront you at last you dreaded empty When I met you in others I fell in love From the cradle, to the bottle, to the needle to the bed We all need something to deliver us from dread But I believe in truth Out of this noise, here comes the stillness Out of this chaos, ...

Roger Whittaker - Why Somethings going wrong With the singer and the song And the music isn't gentle anymore There's a mist across the moon And the sun's too hot at noon And the house is dark behind the broken door Where the flowers used to grow With their leaves are hanging low And the constant sh...

Modest Mouse - We've Got Everything We've got everything We've got everything We've got everything down to a science so I guess we know everything We know everything We know everything We know everything was built to expire so I guess we've done everything If we carried it out to sea Pushed it over...

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” - Albert Einstein

I was just referencing that I'd seen an awful lot of references to the GF lately. I know that A was making a point with each one, but that many points from one source started looking like the biased sample fallacy - and I took the vague similarity between what he was saying and what he was doing to...

Your response to the above statement on pros and cons, pens and pencils and the "design perspective": "Mensa says: However we look at ourselves, most of us don't see what others see, some us do see what others see!" My post has nothing to do with what others see, or what you don'...

Genius is genius thought that makes molehills out of mountains, the mediocre-minded makes mountains out of molehills! Whereever that Genius is dumping the dirt is going to be another mountain. And if that Genius spreads the dirt all over the earth, flattening the earth out so that the highest obstr...

Ok, so you can tell the difference between someone referencing an event for the purposes of clarifying a point and someone referencing an event because its the only thing they can think of? If you can tell the difference between a layperson who carries water down a path and an enlightened sage who d...

I'm also working on an idea I'm having trouble formalizing. Essentially it is to take the net result of an individuals relation to the total reality as equivalent to a human interaction. For example, let's say I get rich, make lots of sex with women and become proud. This pride then characterizes my...

My girlfriend wears the garments of a philosopher, but day-in and day-out she proves to me that her primary focus is on our relationship to each other. If I desire to share an insight into the nature of anything from Egotism to the decoherence of quantum superposition, she will find some way of twi...

I can't justify anger. Anger is an egotistical response to faulty expectations. I expect my girlfriend to leave the backdoor unlocked, I get home most nights and it is locked. That is not a cause for anger. I explicitly ask her to leave the back door unlocked, she still locks it, again not a cause f...

"What makes a genius?"(documentary) Here are three definitions of genius 1) Genius makes molehills out of mountains 2) Genius sees opportunity where others see obstacles 3) When despair abounds genius finds inspiration The chief characteristic of Genius is knowing perfection! Genius is ge...

Animus, you know that not all females are the same. There are politically incorrect generalizations that may have some validity (not saying that is the case in this instance) but the opportunity should be there for females so that the door is open for those who are qualified, and if that is the app...

I began a small project earlier tonight which looks at what I'll call denominational quotes. These quotes all refer to some higher order construct such as God, Reality, Nature, and Universe. The purpose is to compare the "meat" of them. The "point" beyond the terms used. Many of ...

Well, some data. First of all, some shady data from looking at Yahoo Answers. The vast majority of Men and Women seem to think Men are much better at keeping secrets. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071230061329AAHmmsf Second a "British study finds that about four in 10 women cann...

mensa-maniac wrote:I've kept shut all my life on two things and haven't uttered a word to anyone.

What things are those?

One additional interesting psychological part of the prodigal son story is the reaction of the other son to the, in his eyes, lavish celebration for someone who more or less fucked up . This envy, this feeling of favouritism, of unjust , is a powerful theme and even hints at the Cain and Abel story...

I just think if you think happy thoughts to escape unhappy thoughts, then you aren't really addressing the problem. Its better to be happy about unhappy thoughts and unhappy about happy thoughts until you can achieve a balanced state. Mensa says: Do you know how ridiculous this paragraph sounds to ...

I suspect it is harder for women to keep top secret information top secret. But that's loosely based on my own experience.

Still there is something about the sheep or the prodigal son or the drachma going astray. Maybe its my own twisted exegesis, but the "independence" of the stray has value in it. That will be hard for me to prove and I guess I need to "prove" that Christianity in general is a pus...

“ . . . here your will is upright, free, and whole, and you would be in error not to heed whatever your own impulse prompts you to: lord of yourself I crown and mitre you.” —Dante, The Purgatorio Dante before entering Paradise, Virgil crowns and mitres him lord of himself. Dante is then led by Beatr...

Don't get hung up over the sheep. Same story in the same book is taught with coins : "...or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it? When she has found it, she calls together her frie...

when a thief meets a saint, he sees the saint's pockets Don't know who you are quoting and I am not sure why you chose this quote. But the quote is true, of course. Reminds me of when a GF and I took in a homeless 15 year old girl in NYC who was an inveterate shoplifter. Not that we were saints by ...

If that is the case though, the parable could read "The kingdom is like a child playing marbles; one of the marbles dropped from his hand and rolled away into a thick grass. The child searched and searched and upon finding the marble; he was pleased." God loves all his marbles... and doesn...