GENIUS FORUMS

You don't need to be a genius to be a member of staff at the Oxford English Dictionary. Precisely. Don't take their word on what a genius is. Rather, see what geniuses say about genius (there are plenty of quotations from genuine geniuses on the moderators' sites). Without exception, they lean towa...

Jaybee, The dictionary sense - which is the only one that matters. The dictionary definition of genius only matters if the person who wrote that entry was himself a genius, and thus could define genius. Otherwise, there is no guarantee you are being lead in the correct direction. Poppycock. You don...

The empirical evidence would suggest so, that excess pleasure corrodes mental development, and conversely excessive intellectualism precludes the more base appetites, but isn't the greatest genius to flex ones brain in order to maximise pleasure? No, it is to maximize cognizance of truth. Isn't tha...

Though I'm reminded of the two paths in present day Buddhism - Hinayana and Mahayana. The former, as Kevin's ebook illustrates, is concerned with self-liberation and the pleasures of an ego. While the Mahayana is strictly concerned with the liberation of all sentient beings, and the dissolution of ...

The empirical evidence would suggest so, that excess pleasure corrodes mental development, and conversely excessive intellectualism precludes the more base appetites, but isn't the greatest genius to flex ones brain in order to maximise pleasure? Surely the coolest state of being is to be in this wo...

Hi all, first time in this website. I see there's a similar thread running, but this is something I wanted to get off my chest. This is something sparked by that story about the far-right loony-toon brit who was jailed in Austria for saying the holocaust never happened. If somebody denies a "ho...