GENIUS FORUMS

"Intention" and "beginnings" are highly anthropomorphic experiences, projected upon an indifferent universe - indifferent to whether it has life to witness it or not. So are non-intention and non-beginnings, actually. Calling the universe "indifferent" is also a projec...

I understand that I'm very late for the party, but I just listened to this and simply had to post this. This show is probably the worst in the whole of the reasoning show series. The show basically went like this: Question - Do you think we are prepared to meet the future? Dr. Hughes - I think apple...

If consciousness arises in bodies and is intimately bound up with them, when the body deteriorates, so does consciousness. Again, you're making the mistake of separating the consciousness from the bodies it inhabits, which is not logically possible to do. Birth and death arise when we attach oursel...

According to the second definition, body and consciousness are 'together', and the one produces the other. The body is the 'cause' of consciousness. This negates the first quote. If the body causes consciousness, then it is part of consciousness. If it ceases to cause consciousness(eg., as Kunga po...

Only delusion, i.e, a lack of consciousness, would lead a person to think that he is a subject of time, instead of time itself, and therefore timeless. So why are you aging rapidly ? How can you be time itself and timeless ? I don't think I'm aging rapidly, but I get your point. Aging, birth and de...

Jupiviv.....Buddha & also Ananda recalled their past lives. You, and millions of other Buddhists, do not understand what is meant by "past lives." Your definition is based on the spurious reasoning that the body is somehow separate from the consciousness. In fact, anything that causes...

@Cahoot, for one thing, she believes in literal reincarnation. I think a Buddhist believing in literal reincarnation is like a Christian believing that Satan died for his sins. At the time of Gautam Siddharth, almost all his fellow Hindus believed in literal reincarnation, and that is probably why h...

Jupiviv, if you are asserting that mind-training practices of Buddhism have nothing to do with a Tibetan Buddhist lama evidencing a trained mind, then your assertion itself lacks the evidence of fact or rationality. Perhaps you have facts or a rational to present that supports your thinking? It dep...

Kunga: You have mentioned an interest in Buddhism. Do you know of Khandro Rinpoche? Here is a video of her spontaneously speaking ... a trained mind manifesting. Meeting her would be an enriching experience, don’t you think? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_36UK2p89U I don't think a "trained m...

It's a surprising observation as the terms intellect and leadership don't cross my mind when thinking about them. So I naturally wonder why they would cross yours, as if you project desired qualities on them? That would point to the mindset of a typical follower. Intellect is something that I certa...

Well, apparently, this forum does need the Q or the R or the S as their unquestioning devotees(read mindless followers) are incapable of carrying the torch. Yeah, it's plainly visible how well those 3 are carrying the torch right now... I think the reason why the mindless followers don't participat...

Incorrect. Though I do understand what you are getting at. What I'm getting at is that almost all of what you've said about David Quinn, Dan Rowden, me and others have been personal attacks. I sort of imagine myself 'debating' Tom Cruise and his certainties about Scientology or having a 'discussion...

It is not so much an argument against the word-construct as it is a blow or a knock against a subconscious mechanism (?) or formulation in your personality that you buy into. In other words, it's an ad hominem attack. Don't bother with addressing the useless word-constructs, just attack the subcons...

^^Is this meant to be an argument against what I said? If it is, then you haven't really said anything, and I think you know that very well yourself.

You seem to hold a narrow view of what maintains a society. I also hold a narrow view about what truth is, and what football is. There is also the fact that I was talking about what primarily maintains a society, viz, what is essential for the existence of a society. And the academic, juridical and...

If it(Ultimate Reality) is a definition, it is a metaphysical definition, even a mystical definition, not one that arises from the dominant scientific view. Reality(i.e, the All) is not a definition. But it can be understood by eliminating delusions, and that requires the use of definitions. The me...

Ask David directly, or I suppose you can go through Dan. David regularly spends time with his family, Sue and his boy, and is therefor involved in a domestic arrangement. Sue Hindmarsh claims to be interested in wisdom, and she does have some good things to say about feminine psychology, so this is...

David HAS a family. A wife and a child that he regularly spends time with. It's really quite simple. He is engaged in precisely the 'domesticity' you decry. It has the effect of rendering the anti-family/anti-woman position a wee bit absurd. But, because you are absurd people, with absurd mental pr...

It's 2010 and here in "affluent" America both men and women maintain society. No they don't. The people who manufacture, build, produce food etc., are still almost exclusively men. These are the jobs which are primarily responsible for the maintaining of a society. Also, you are forgettin...

Alex wrote:Quinn attends to his family

???

Care to elaborate?

Most feminist authors and their followers are highly critical of the institution of marriage, the family unit and all that goes with it, including having children. Many feminists consider it a domestic trap and seek to avoid it, in the same way that some men do. They aren't happy with the current f...

They do, yes, but they do so whilst fully entrenched in it. Kinda weird, really. Some aspects of domesticity are inevitable, but most of it is avoidable. The question then becomes, why don't people avoid it? I think women complain about the aspects of domesticity which they don't like, and those ar...

Memes An interesting concept, but extremely limited. All worthwhile ideas are timeless, as logic is timeless. They are the realm of genius. If you consider things like the size of handbags, the design of radios and the pronunciation of the word "fuck" to be ideas and part of culture, then...

The sexes are so intimately bound both biologically and psychologically that there's no such thing as a book purely about one of them. Moreover, it would also necessarily have to be about things outside the whole problem of the sexes, so that the problem itself can be contrasted with them and bette...

I don't exactly know what a "meme" is, but what you're describing seems to be just another form of deluded religion. Materialism, empiricism, etc.(the most popular versions of these ideas) are deluded religions. Even atheism can be a form of deluded religion, as is obviously visible among ...