GENIUS FORUMS

And, is not this doctrine that is percolating within your consciousness, not a "grand abstraction" from simply doing what is needed to be done, right here, right now? Why do we need a doctrine to tell us what needs to be done so that we can be moved of the infinite's silent and invisible ...

Being the fountain of living waters is being the image of the Father, which is the pattern of infinity. The broken cisterns that can hold no water (hold no reality) are the images projected by man of his finite attachment to the infinite Father, symbolized in the bible as the Lord God of the dust a...

If it isn't clear to anyone/everyone who reads here, the essential division between David and myself (and David and many other people, in my view) arises from core initial definitions: presuppositions. In the world I live in, conceive, seek to fathom, this plane of existence, this fact of existing, ...

Yet another irrational response.

I agree, you'd think so at first, wouldn't you? But think it through and you come to see it is, perhaps, entirely rational!

[Today, possibly the first time in my life, I felt like striking a disabled person.]

To me, all I get from this is a rather obvious pretentiousness of the Bulldog of Rhijnsburg. To help on get started...on a path of pretention? You're off to a good start. ;-) If the quote, unattributed, is your statement to me, again I think it is an even more sheer pretentiousness. And thus more of...

God you are annoying sometimes Diebert.

With your synechdoche the Wallace Stevens poem Sunday Morning has other referential possibilities, as do so many other poems, and some that were dropped in here earlier. If you allow synechdoches in your philosophical and existential conceptions, it seems it would open up language generally into so ...

Someone who never deals with the infinite, but only deals with the finite, is not spiritual, but worldly. Comprehension of the infinite is comprehension of reality, plain and simple, and as such, a spiritual being as a matter of course makes decisions about how to relate to finite things in the wor...

It is with a certain, even a definite, respect for you, that I say: Trevor, you are talking out of your ass. I repeat: "The way I see things Infinite is a peculiar word, used in a peculiar sense, by people who have a peculiar will in their use of the word. It serves certain (peculiar) functions...

Alex, the second you denied the word "infinite" its meaning, you denied the word "finite" any meaning, and your entire post collapsed in a heap of gibberish. You've denied yourself the ability to talk meaningfully about reality, by selectively pruning elementary concepts out of ...

Trevor, the way I see things Infinite is a peculiar word, used in a peculiar sense, by people who have a peculiar will in their use of the word. It serves certain (peculiar) functions for them, and it is a term that is 'rehearsed' publically so to reinforce whatever it means (for those people, and f...

Spirituality is the means through which a person tries to relate to the infinite. If I have a problem with the word 'genius' it is somewhat less with the word itself but with the many declarations of the geniuses from the Genius Realms about 'genius'. And, it wasn't the word genius that brought me ...

This is an attempt to extract the various points you have made and set them out clearly. That self-knowledge, self-realization are extreme enterprises requiring extraordinary commitment and focus. 'Artists', which in this context does not so much mean artists or an artist but all humans in society, ...

Diebert, you are like GF forum's bulldog. You appear at the gate and bark and growl! Pretty ferocious! It's not that I don't want to respond, it is that your post is little more than a deviation. The substantial points I want to talk about, the ones that have importance, you choose not to focus on. ...

I want you to know that I have taken your offer into consideration. It occurs to me that we might work out a trade: if you will post, say, three consecutive posts that deal on actual thoughts, or commentary on what is being discussed, I will be more than happy to pick on you. I need some indications...

The issue or question of art in respect to the formulations of GF is pretty apt. If one enters into the question, if one understand why art is thoroughly rejected, I think one will understand a great deal about the program and the goals of GF. First, to put on the table an interesting 'fact'. When c...

You don't need the possessive apostrophe on 'Deeb' since you wrote 'has'.

This one is for you: Jerusalem by Lauryn Hill.

Sadly enough you avoided my direct question of how David would preach a specific praxis: some way to handle affairs, do ones job, clean ones house or manage ones finances, give to charity, help others or not, that kind of stuff. You cannot answer my question because there's nothing there to my know...

Despite appearances, ever so often, as if struck by bolts of lightening (that come one after the other), I momentarily regain my innocent, childlike modesty, and so this morning, well well within that mood, I think I need to take a moment to offer heartfelt thanks both to David and (blessings upon b...

David wrote:If you would do this, the light would be turned on and you would suddenly see how this forum makes perfect sense.

Dennis too?

Don't push me...

Dennis wrote:...the end, its all over rover.

If that is so, can you just pack it up and go home?!

;-)

And as you begin that looooooooooonnnnnnngggggggg trek to your odd planet, take some soundtrack with you.

In your post: You expanded on what Zen could be and is. You amplified my simple definition and described how it can be or is relevant or even necessary and 'good'. I have no argument against it. But the Zen you are talking of, in my view, is very very distinct from the psuedo- or neo-Zen of David et...

...but whether these experiences can cause lasting changes to the individual's biology and the collective biology. It is interesting to consider the close relationship between the use of psychedelic plants and the development of religious and existential descriptions, the way that we define our rea...

Dearly Beloveds: Don't think about it, don't 'ponder', just click here and let it go to work on you. What needs to become clear will become clear... ___________________________________________________ The whole essence of all which has been said about absolute truth is that nobody can "have it&...