GENIUS FORUMS

It's possible that we hallucinate everything, and that what we experience as A is actually B. But I think that line of thinking would get old very fast. Life is ultimately subjective because the only thing we have to go on is what we ourselves experience. IMO the only things that matter are whether ...

Causal determinism isn't the explanation of all the wonder in the world, it is a tool to question the validity of any beliefs we might have about it. This is important if you want your beliefs to be fact-based and not just made up. We examine the causes of the beliefs because the causes are what we ...

It is 100% possible to reach the top of the mountain of delusion-free axioms. Anyone who understands the interplay between causation and our definitions will see that when you inspect the boundaries there's not an inherently existing thing, but the "infinite" behind it and supporting it, l...

Humans have the ability to recognize facts, but the truth is that we are also emotional at all times. Philosophy and logic answers the question 'what can I absolutely know', and facts are neither positive or negative. Feeling better on the other hand means STOP following the fear and start following...

Tomas, I dig that SnoCaine nickname. I have good memories of the Minnesota border, portaging canoes in the boundary waters. Foxes and eagles. Good country up there.

Sup Laird. I would define higher level masculinity as LOGIC, specifically about reality=self=inner beliefs/structuring. It's a mistake to attempt or pretend that this would be one's only value - there will always be more than that - but it is the FORUM's only value. It does feel good to know you're ...

Exercise 1: Pretend you are an alien. Use your imagination, zoom out into space and look down upon the earth as if you were this alien. Observe all the happenings without any cares or bias that humans have - as if humans were ants. Apply this thinking to everything, as in, bring everything you can t...

The essay was kinda badass but so negative - comparing ideal to reality. Much better to find things that are already good and celebrate them! Only through that frame can gentle criticism actually be constructive. Only through that frame will people WANT to listen, when you are their bearer of more s...

Lentitudo wrote:I have no specific goals in reality, just wants. I want power, I want control.

Are there not a few favorite ways you envision yourself getting more of that?

This in conjunction with the risks I take in order to relieve myself of my boredom may lead to this.

Like what?

What are some goals you're working toward?

For example, where do you see yourself in 10 years?

Originally I assured myself that I completely understood my mind but as of late it appears I was wrong, I wish to discover as much of myself as I can. So, what's on your mind? However I will ask you to remember that it is my hardware which is damaged, not my software. Frankly, you seem 100% reasona...

I'm basically just wondering why the idea that there is no ultimate purpose is so important to you. I find it important that causation proves no universal morality. To me it's a guiding light in terms of being a reference point for how I take action. All values including truth are brought down to g...

What about the possibility of slowly growing into it? I think it's possible to the degree a person can care about nothing at all and still stay alive. I don't think it's possible, unless it's a robot, to have goals and values and not care about them to some degree. And this causes lapses from those...

Well, I wasn't really talking about the process of adapting to the scaffolding (although you're right, this can be organic and amazing in its own right), but rather of climbing to the very top of it and launching oneself into the Void. This wisdom of the Void doesn't have a paradigm. It is always t...

Given your idea that "logical consciousness" is nothing more than a dry intellectual template (of 1s and 0s), I can understand why you would say this. But you couldn't be further removed from the truth if you tried. Far from becoming robotic, the immersion into wisdom is the very opposite...

The idea that everything is bullshit is just one way of looking at things. There's no reason for you believe this idea, one which upset you so much as to cause you to drop out from your spiritual journey, is all the truth has to offer. So I have to ask, why on earth would you build your life on pur...

For the record, if I had David's values, I would agree, and I would make exactly the same assessment.

Might have to ask for an extension on that one. Hopefully they accept email. A formal letter would probably be better received, or better yet, a face to face. I know a lot about milking academic authorities. Though, I remember seeing a picture of Erik and remember him looking old. If he's dead, you...

I simply meant having the ability to trust one's mind, I mean really trust your mind, the kind of trust one can only gain by exploring the deepest and darkest depths of it. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. I have no idea how I got so lucky. I don't doubt that you've been through an extraordinary journey....

Yes I think so, but I was taking you at your word in assuming that you knew yourself well enough that the only way for you to take a risk now would be to bet on someone else. Or is it the other way around, and you only think you're living a risky life by engaging the world in the manner you do beca...

I'm sorry, but both are to be taken utterly literally. Hopefully, you will come to recognise the world you live in, which is seamless, and where everything is you. All the emotions of antagonism and desire which you are currently experiencing, are built upon the delusion that you are indeed intrins...

There is a valuing of consciousness and functionality, and a disvaluing of dysfunctionality. Why do you think that is? So, if I really stretched what you are saying, I could describe the disvaluing of dysfunctionality to be aggression against dysfunctionality. Yet if I compare your story of feeling...

Nick Treklis wrote:And here I thought you were a risk taker....

I bet on myself so this to me makes sense. But to most would this not be the riskiest thing one can do?

What did your intuition reveal about reality that logic couldn't?

Maybe a more intimate acceptance of that logic.

But expressing aggression and lust is not about meeting biological needs, because you would not die if you didn't express them. Therefore, when you talk of being "happy" when expressing those emotions, you are talking of satisfying a psychological need. As I see it, aggression and the wil...

I'm not convinced that you have actually reasoned long enough about the fundamental nature of reality to be taken seriously. I don't take anyone seriously. Maybe casually. To me it appears you have latched on to the idea that the there is no ultimate purpose (a mere appearance) and made a hedonisti...