GENIUS FORUMS

I have to run right now, but I was going to come back in 2 or 3 hours and reply to your post. So stop by later.

needhelp, Look, I'm not a kid. This is serious and your not helping. What is your purpose on here? (trolling?) That is far from being true. I have compassion for you, and I am trying to help. Your mind was psychotic the first time you got here. It is you who have failed to take your mental illness s...

leftinruins, If you are who I think you are, may I remind you that Dan Rowden advised you more than once to not think philosophically while you did not have enough control of your mind? He told you to get your brain medically stable, and then do philosophy. It was sound advice from a sage, and did y...

What an idiot.

Broken, I remind you that you have not answered my questions.

broken, I have always loved and respected her and I always will. I meant talked out of moving 2,500 miles to be with her. I meant that too. A person in love cannot be talked out of moving or doing anything else to be with their lover. I have had few reasons without it. Reasons to what? He's okay, bu...

broken, So far no one has talked me out of it. I would never try. A person in love cannot be talked out of it. If I told him (you) that his lover is a serial murderer and eats people's pets for breakfast, it could not change the way he feels about her. That is because there is no reasoning with love...

read,

From what broken said, he has been in love with the same woman all or most of his life. Sounds to me like it's pretty easy for him.

read, It's easy to be pessimistic about love, but it's hard to have enough confidence in yourself and your judgment of others to take a chance on a relationship. It's much easier to let yourself be carried by the high produced by love, and take the big risk, not because you're bold, but because the ...

Romantic love sucks. It will come to an end and you will pay a price for it.

Take your elk with you.

Alex can go, but the elk stays!

Tomas,

He's pretty cut-and-dried with his responses. I'll mull over his response and prolly respond tomorrow (Friday).

I'll be here to read it.

David,

From my observations, the task of using reason and introspection to eliminate all delusion from the mind and comprehend the ultimate truth has hardly been attempted by anyone in history.

Not even by the Buddha?

BTW, the analogy you wrote in your last post is wonderful.

Victor, Just to clarify, the segment you quoted was not written by our dear Tomas, but by an Ayn-Rand objectivist forum blogger named Ed Huggins. You made an honest mistake, caused by Tomas' poor habit of quoting other websites without making it awfully clear who he's quoting. As a rule of thumb, yo...

Trevor, how did you reach that conclusion?

Thank you, Broken. It does fascinate me how easily I can get in trouble for saying something everybody secretly thinks. The whole of society is based on deceiving people, including yourself (general you, not broken). Also, people will condemn others for doing something they themselves do all the tim...

broken,

I think I know what he means, Shah. Not very many people will come out and say it.

I'm good at coming out and saying things that nobody else will come out and say. I just hate hypocrisy.

Then how do you know that most people want a police state, if nobody has told you they do?

If that's what you think Carl, why did you act so surprised when I "argued in favor of a police state"? You said you had never heard someone do that.

I don't know exactly where I draw the line. I actually left it very wide.

I think you need a nervous system to perceive pain as real. Plants don't have one -- end of story.

Ryan, Free speech allows for a chance at rationality, order and stability, which is the ultimate goal in any society. Right. That's why we need to kill a cleric for speaking his mouth. Trev, I find your analysis of liberalism and its contradictions pretty enlightening. I have nothing to add at the m...

I'm glad you're being entertained, broken.

Trev,

If you do not cherish any of these values, you are not a liberal: individuality, personal property, pleasure, tolerance, equality, and free will.

Would you say that Ryan has all these values? If not, which ones do you think he has?

Eliza, When a mimosa plant is touched, it curls up its leaves immediatly, and does not uncurl them for quite some time. Would you then say that this plant is conscious? If so, how would its ability to react indicate more consciousness than a plant that does not have the structures to react in the sa...

Ryan, There are a few clerics who speech regularly to younger audiences, and in their speeches, they incite hatred, violence, and intolerance towards the very country that they live in. As a government, guys like that should be arrested, and even privately assassinated in secret, if they have a lot ...