GENIUS FORUMS

No one has mentioned The Last Man as yet, although the Übermensch has been mentioned, so I suppose it has been covered. I kind of feel we are so far into the Last Man era, that Trump’s election was just a unconscious way of rejecting that, not so much for the idealism of the Superman. https://www.yo...

Besides all that, I'll reiterate what others have stated in that this thread largely misses the point of wisdom and doesn't belong on this side of the forum. But it does make for an entertaining interlude of sorts. I don’t really get why anyone would care about that nowadays. In fact it is a stupid...

Because Trump and his cohorts are clearly far more unhinged and ignorant than preceding administrations, their behaviour is far odder, the times are far stranger and the normal democratic checks and balances are not as healthy as they used to be. I found the following essay presented well structure...

[Can you understand that when someone campaigns on rolling back the involvements in overseas conflicts and as well announces to roll back government size, it could sound like a good plan in principle?] Like his nuclear..umm..policy/statements/rant/fucked up tweets? http://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/18...

'Cultural Marxism' I’m another one who has not read into many of the labels being used in this discussion, including cultural marxism. These comments may thus lack some coherence. If one looks at the responses to the biased articles written to support Trump they are full of the angry comments shallo...

[And to dismiss some of the supportive people as "third-rate types with unstable mentalities and axes to grind" is just akin to closing your eyes and singing "nananana"] Of the Australian pollies on the Wiki list, 3rd rate is way too kind. Tony Abbott, Australian politician, - PM...

Hi again Diebert (who is trying to make me talk). But what brought you back to the forum? Even just to tell us you're not here? :) What drove you Sentimentality. I’ve still got GF linked on my home page and have a peek every few months to see if things have picked up. My normal “light on depth” poli...

Hi Diebert A bit of a self-deprecating re-introduction isn't it? Are you still posting mostly bored or do you feel actually engaged with a topic this time? I’ve not given the issue the level of thought you folks have, and haven’t followed the forum to know what has already been discussed. I wrote th...

[I shan't be contributing further to this 'debate' but I welcome any contribution you care to make] Hi Dan, I’m afraid I’m just too lazy to do the necessary homework. Too little fire in the views these days, and David and you have already said pretty much all I would have thought on the matter. As a...

Here's the thing - I don't really care about what "holds water" for you, and most probably neither does anyone else posting here. I care about cogent points backed up by evidence. The quoted paragraph isn't so much an argument as it is a string of wild accusations held together by words, ...

I don’t actually have anything of value to add, and I'm not on top of the arguments, so really l am just chatting away below and saying hi. All three of us think you are wrong, therefore we are all brainwashed by KGB propaganda? Not only is this paranoid, but you are effectively calling us stupid fo...

[Edit: oops didn't realize I'd logged into my old account Posted by Jamesh] Well picked up Dennis. There is a direct correlation between me being disillusioned or bored with work, and me posting here. I don't like posting at home much, cos I'm lazy, or don't like going over the same stuff time and t...

<t>What I hate is that these things are always convenient to the ruling bodies. Most probably it is simply natural reactions caused by the event, but they always manage to work it to their advantage. Expectations from G8 of some actual hard decisions were picking up steam quite strongly, due to the ...

<t>Maybe I can.<br/> <br/> Maybe?<br/> <br/> In terms of the universe though, the response to the half way point between Yes and No or Off and On or Positive and Negative or expand and contracting is Balance. Which is precisely what 'things' are, the universe's two opposites temporarily held in equa...

<t>Fools<br/> <br/> that something must exist only after time is created?<br/> not before?<br/> <br/> I am not really saying time WAS created, so there is no after and before. <br/> <br/> I am saying its expansion is self-created and thus infinite, something for which it is impossible for it not to ...

<t>Thinker - can you get anything out of this?<br/> <br/> Time is my god. Not, of course as a mere measure of the spatial change in things, but as an acknowledgement of the fact of the flow of change, of the existence of this effect from the universe on our senses and upon which the existence of eve...

<t>Psychologically speaking, enlightened people do not follow any rules, for the simple reason that they do not bow down to the authority of others. <br/> <br/> No, you have the rule of truth, whatever that might be at the time of recognition. Your assurance of the things that make you react is neve...

Everything is connected

Absolutely. This is prescisely the reason that nothing has any intrinsic value. Without intrinsic value then everthing is subjective, ie personal.

OK. Good.

Perhaps my goal should be to destroy this forum. It is as worthy a goal as any other.

I can't handle the truth :), so why should we pretend others can?

<t> A definition of beauty that sustains the 'instinctive emotions,' perhaps. <br/> <br/> What of beauty? <br/> <br/> Where can you find the land of new values? Can you create a firery heart, capable of burning your sacred 'good' and 'bad' - 'beautiful' and 'ugly'? Could you pierce reality with a ha...

Reading your words it is very much like listening to someone who has lost their mental abilities to determine the appropriateness of what they say. A bit like a handicapped person. For myself, I have a similar vengefulness after partaking in alcohol, but apart from that - Does an understanding of re...

<t>Marsha<br/> <br/> Post venting your mind, do you regret the aggressiveness of the posts you make?<br/> <br/> I certainly do, as I know agressiveness creates a situation where emotionalism takes over the ideas being presented are made secondary to the competition involved in any communication.<br/...

Why?

An understanding of reality means that beauty ceases to exist as an ideal. Beauty only remains as an overhang from the past. ie Instinctually.

<t>What does interest you Dan?<br/> I'm curious<br/> <br/> For a person that claims to be a fulltime sage your output is pathetic.<br/> <br/> From being here, what I do realise is that enlightenment is not a possibility for anyone. I certainly do not regard any of the QRS as enlightened, nor do I re...

Thanks for that, Kevin.