GENIUS FORUMS

<t>No-one is perfect, but at least they express it in a manner which is readily understood, if one is open enough to understand it. I find most old texts are open to far too many interpretations, and where there is a consistent interpretation it is more like religious fever dominating the way people...

<t>Agreed. The authentic wisdom is found at the source. Science and even philsophy often favor modernity, but I think that spiritual insight becomes more pure the closer one gets to its origins. We could do a lot worse than to skip the middleman and go all the way back to the ancients who ushered in...

It still seems to me though from the way people say things here that most people still 'think' about yin/yang as being some form of perfect natural balance.

<t>Is it possible that you misunderstand the I Ching?<br/> <br/> Yep, it is easy to misunderstand something I haven't read. In fact I haven't read in their entirety or to the degree of studying any traditional philosophical texts.<br/> <br/> I don't mind, in that way I don't get attached to any of t...

<t>Isn't it suprising that the two possible allele combinations are almost always found at a 1:1 ratio.<br/> <br/> don't know what an allete is, but anyway.<br/> <br/> But the ratio fluctuates, even if only to a small degree. If yin/yang were not merely observed coincidence then the ratio would be c...

<t>Yin/yang is just duality. Yin/yang as you see it exists only by coincidence.<br/> <br/> However, duality exists because of emptiness versus fullness. Opposites attracting, emptiness attracts fullness and fullness wishes to expand into emptiness. It is the nature of space versus non-space.<br/> <b...

<t>Granted they don't create or contribute to the greater good as much but they also don't cause as much destruction and catastrophe either<br/> <br/> I think if males thought like women and were merely sperm producers, we would still be apes.<br/> <br/> This is just a quirk in nature whereby the ma...

<t>Jim: The ultimate end for any species that does not try and bend nature to its will is death. As all we do is nature we have no choice in that matter.<br/> <br/> Birdy: A bizarre remark. No species, including QRS, is intelligent enough to interfere with the devlopment of nature, and none has ever...

We like to be played, if we didn't we would go back through all the previous threads and try and ensure our questions were original or some enhancement of the discussion, but for the most part we like the entertainment of conversing in the present.

<t>with self-awareness comes a burden of responsibility <br/> <br/> I have to agree with your statement. Trouble is are we really doing anything about it. We are in some small ways but I sense it will be too late, particularly as developing countries where much of the worlds population reside are li...

<t>for a species that does not live within nature is death<br/> <br/> The ultimate end for any species that does not try and bend nature to its will is death. As all we do is nature we have no choice in that matter.<br/> <br/> If humans had not developed and bears had, would not they now eat us.<br/...

<t>If the opportunities and achievements of both men and women were placed on a scale, men on the left, women on the right; the scale would balance out perfectly.<br/> <br/> In the most basic sense that could be true, but only as we are all born to women. On the other hand, many great achievers had ...

<t>For example, I feel black people, and they are different than white people. Lately, for some reason, there are Africans in America. When I saw them, I was horrified at what we have done. But the best of the American blacks are still retaining something of their African magnificence, and their rac...

<t>Don't worry David, females are not nearly so smug or happy as you think<br/> <br/> It is hardly surprising Birdy. As young females in the way they chat with each end up 'festering' their emotions. They make more of them than they need to. They do this because it excites them and it is something t...

Re - the picture At first it was mostly just a joke picture, as like you when I was first here I rejected most of the principles that the QRS believe in, but then after reading a bit of Weininger I found it to be a reflection of the feminine/masculine traits that we all share, so I left it there. It...

You and a few others do not seem to know the meaning of the word 'inherent'. A thing of course exists in itself, ie. inherently, but not of itself, ie. by itself alone.

I must say I am inclined to agree with this.

<t>It is pointless trying to attack David with insults. Read at some later stage your comment would have been read as I did. <br/> <br/> In any case the fact that you are willing to make that statement even if just sarcasm for the purpose of attack, creates in me a sense that you view yourself as su...

lol, Krussell your statement defines you as a misogynist.

<t>The 'ultimate men' want to be the 'ultimate man' for as much as they want to call themsleves themselves! An end would be all! And what end isn't?! But they will not know a beginning also! It is illogical and is conceived in dreams only. But a vision, An infamous 'first cause', A self from ones en...

<t>David: Nonsense. One should assume nothing; otherwise, one will fall into the habit of accepting things on blind faith - such as the latest scientific fads. <br/> <br/> Disagree. As we cannot know anything completely through empirical observation, the only way we can understand anything is via th...

<t>Paul, No I'm not. Nor do I ever think I'll be a genius as described by QRS.<br/> <br/> Nor do I consider myself to be a particularly great thinker. At the same time I often feel I can cut to the heart of a matter. I think this is because my brain is not encumbered by other, mostly irrelevant thin...

<t>In Zen, the importance of abandoning the concept of 'improvement' is stressed.<br/> <br/> Yes, but probably only so as to gain a sense of contentment by containing the destructive emotions. It is the destructive emotions/instincts such as greed, envy and hate that create evolutionary improvements...

<t>we can hardly fault them, lest we be like the ignorant mob who demanded Socrates' death for similar reasons.<br/> <br/> Agree, there is no fault and they do warn people in the introduction to the forum. They do what they do and the fact that people are curious and ignore that warning is not their...

<t>I neglected to say what that harm is. It is that their theology makes us reflect more deeply on our relationships with others, causing us a degree of emotional turmoil. Much of this turmoil is indirect. They increase the degree our non-acceptance of societies/loved ones irrationality, resulting i...

I think the truth is that the QRS harm us all, male and female, and that is why they are not misogynists. As an aside mental harm to me is little different to physical harm. However, it is harm we accept by coming here. The choice is always ours. We come here because we are drawn to some at least so...