GENIUS FORUMS

The animal is - by definition - not intellectual. It's not rational. Thus, what reason do you have for regarding the expression of primitive drives, as rational, when they're just chemical drives for the purpose of manipulating an irrational creature to procreate? No, it's not what we'd call ration...

The thing is, what on earth has expressing that animal drive got to do with philosophy? Nothing. No, nothing in the usual sense. I see philosophy as everything - as how people think about all things. I am backwards compared to most people. I got smart first and am just now figuring out the animal s...

Very true.

Skip, you say you're interested in furthering enjoyment. Earlier, at least as I understood it, you said this enjoyment was biochemical and not intellectually driven, because you believed it couldn't be abandoned at all --- unlike how one abandons an intellectual error. In that case, you would be ta...

Maybe I don't quite understand what you mean here, but if getting high is what you care most about, and high is what you are; is that really something you're going to care about? I'm not sure I would call it getting high so much as feeling natural. Originally I was talking about expressing aggressi...

Nick Treklis wrote:Are heroin, ecstasy, and/or cocaine an option for you?

No because:
1) I like to be self-willed with them to the degree I can
2) Bad for the body
3) Downtime between them makes hell, whereas I don't feel hell between the naural chemicals as is, it's just chill time

One thing I think Anonymous could take into consideration is that sometimes the fight is not futile at all. Maybe it is in some metaphysical, missing God sense, but we live in a world that has a definite history and it is being played out TODAY. It's better than any literature or story: it is OUR st...

I reckon it's a case of the spirit (or rather, the soul) being willing, but the body not being able to keep up. Nietzsche and Kierkegaard were the same. The bodhicitta mind is uncompromising, but the body cannot necessarily handle the demands or the pace. So one has to find ways to help the body to...

But pain is always attached to those feelings. You won't avoid them. I think that's a mistaken meme. If a person doesn't have a connection to reality and doesn't really know what they're doing when they do it, I can see how it would be hard to exert any kind of direction toward maintaining pleasure...

Yes, I've thought about this a lot. Since there is no logical reason to do anything in particular (logical as in taking ultimate reality as a reference), I choose to do what I think will bring me long term happiness. I try to cultivate a life that will make me feel great tomorrow, next month, next y...

That does suck, though.

Prince aren't there 3 billion women in the world? Upgrade.

What I meant was that the philosophy seems really desparate. The guy who wrote it is trying to sound way freer than he is. He is deceiving himself. In that way, it's different from your Braveheart example. :) I see. Yeah, there is a sense of 'eating leftovers' and trying to make something good out ...

So true. Like William Wallace in Braveheart. He yammers on and on about freedom, yet his wife was killed, his country is under attack, he's always at war and knows no peace, and in the end he gets killed.

Clearly, he knew nothing of freedom for all his lip service. :)

Kelly, if it wasn't already obvious, I feel very good releasing those chemicals. I enjoy them and seek ways to get them more. I've already talked at length about how I think some instincts are separate and not deletable like some emotions are. You can do a search if you're interested. The reason Hak...

The world is meaningless, there is no God or gods, there are no morals, the universe is not moving inexorably towards any higher purpose. All meaning is man-made, so make your own, and make it well. Do not treat life as a way to pass the time until you die. Do not try to "find yourself" ,...

E.g. "my lower abdomen is the absolute, inexpressible truth, and the source of the Dharma" may sound shocking. Personally I was shocked to realise I was so foolish as to think it's not literally true. I find this interesting. I wrote a post a while ago called Feeling not Thinking, and in ...

Skip, please elaborate. I'm not sure how you can say that humans are (necessarily) in a constant state of emotion (with which I agree) and then claim that emotionlessness is not a false ideal. What exactly is it that you think I'm refusing to understand? It IS false as an ideal. You can't live in a...

Hi David, I would be interested to hear how you have determined that everyone is having emotions all the time. The way I see it, I am having emotions all the time. And I think it's part of the human condition to feel where other people are emotionally in social situations. For example, if two friend...

Hey bro, It doesn't concern me, but it does make me want to generally clarify that this ideal is impossible as an ideal, but it's the opposite of false. It's the one true thing there is. IMO, Laird doesn't understand this and doesn't WANT to understand this (and sometimes that's frustrating), but I ...

I suggest that these doctrines will never allow anyone to achieve any level of physical mastery of their domain. They may lead to inner states of awareness that could very well have 'value', but they will destroy one's 'outer' life. That is fine, of course, as long as one knows what one is choosing...

You can get a sense of the infinite when you examine a concept and see that you can never really define it absolutely. Instead what you see is an infinite web of causes that run smoothly both inside and outside the concept. For example, some people say that genes are what create humans - that they a...

Tomas wrote:Much love, Skip. May the force be with you.

Thank you, Tomas. And also with you. Lettuce and tomato, let us pray.