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- Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:48 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Language: Thinking and Communicating
- Replies: 3
- Views: 714
Language: Thinking and Communicating
The English language is unlike most other languages in the world today. Most languages are used primarily for communication. English, though, is geared more toward solitary thinking and philosophizing. Most languages can handle both functions, of course, but English is much more suited to thought pr...
- Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:03 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: the great HOAX of 'Evolution'
- Replies: 235
- Views: 39799
Re: the great HOAX of 'Evolution'
If the species do actually evolve in a way in which one species really becomes another, then it happens in spurts of reorganization, not accidental. By all accounts, those "spurts" take millions of years. Doesn't the theory say something about "punctuated equilibrium?" Consisten...
- Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:33 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Plato: On Truth and Falsehood ( Texts: Phaedrus)
- Replies: 56
- Views: 10626
Re: Plato: On Truth and Falsehood ( Texts: Phaedrus)
Things can only be understood in relationship to other things, but Plato believed that one thing can be understood metaphysically by understanding its essence, which is total rubbish…. Essence and relationship aren't divorced from each other. The essence of all things are the same, in a very real...
- Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:40 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Are Blacks Inferior to Whites?
- Replies: 165
- Views: 37204
Re: Are Blacks Inferior to Whites?
Rhett, have you read or heard about this book? Book Link
Someone recommended it to me, and I see it got a lot of good reviews despite the knee-jerk 1-star reviews. It seems it's a litte too countercultural, but a lot of it sounds interesting.
Someone recommended it to me, and I see it got a lot of good reviews despite the knee-jerk 1-star reviews. It seems it's a litte too countercultural, but a lot of it sounds interesting.
- Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:02 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Emotional Fixation
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3351
Re: Emotional Fixation
The emotions we should try to resolve are the "negative" emotions: anger, bitterness, etc. Emotions in general are not a problem. They are just gauges that tell you about your alignment with yourself. The more off-balance you are, the more extreme the emotion. Usually when you're calm or r...
- Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:16 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Thoughts of Others
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1532
Re: Thoughts of Others
Thoughts of others are important, but is it not more important to understand why a person may think in the way you may think they think, instead of assuming...? In other words: Listening. The thoughts of others are not important. What's it to you? You can naturally tune into someone's mindset witho...
- Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:54 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Are Blacks Inferior to Whites?
- Replies: 165
- Views: 37204
Re: Are Blacks Inferior to Whites?
I fully acknowledge that the aborigines have been deeply weakened by being conquered, but more importantly point out that they have been conquered culturally, by a superior culture. The aborigines are a different sort of people altogether. They do not see themselves as lesser or worse off or weaken...
- Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:16 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Society for ego validation.
- Replies: 103
- Views: 10221
Re: Society for ego validation.
All true, but no need for harshness.
- Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:51 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Spiritual Life
- Replies: 110
- Views: 12284
Re: The Spiritual Life
There's no maybe to me. But if you look at what her happiness is built upon, who could envy it? May as well envy the happiness of a serial killer lopping the heads of children. i.e. happiness is not virtuous of itself. lol I doubt their happy when they're doing that. They are seeking that, though, ...
- Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:41 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: "Things don't exist", plus observations
- Replies: 55
- Views: 4721
Re: "Things don't exist", plus observations
So we should really hate nature, as we do. There should be no sense of being one with nature, but of being one against nature. Although everything we like or dislike about nature is within ourselves, our own nature has been caused by nature, and is thus is not really "within" ourselves. W...
- Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:17 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: I've found the sentience machine.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4697
- Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:16 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Are Blacks Inferior to Whites?
- Replies: 165
- Views: 37204
Re: Are Blacks Inferior to Whites?
James Watson says that he is "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really." Africa's problem is more a question of getting over raci...
- Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:55 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Isn't death more wonderful than life!
- Replies: 70
- Views: 8086
Re: Isn't death more wonderful than life!
When i was in science class in primary school the term universe was presented as a quandry, as being that people don't know whether the universe has a boundary or is infinite. My mind flipped back and forth between thinking it as being infinite and wondering how it could possibly go on forever, tha...
- Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:45 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: "...Ultimate Reality and the path to Enlightenment"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10245
Re: "...Ultimate Reality and the path to Enlightenment"
David Quinn, Is that not egotistical thinking? Forgive me, but I think I may have lost your meaning with this... When a man has perfect virtue, fire cannot burn him, water cannot drown him, cold and heat cannot afflict him, birds and beasts cannot injure him. They cannot do him harm, only because h...
- Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:20 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Why do I feel pain?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2478
Re: Why do I feel pain?
That is true, but only because we don't pay attention to ourselves. The pain exists not just "because." The reason may not always be intellectualized, but a lot of times it isn't necessary.Dan Rowden wrote:Mostly we try to merely escape it rather than understand it.
- Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:58 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Universe: Intelligent?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 4773
Re: The Universe: Intelligent?
True. I just think of all those causes as unified, though maybe not apparently. Imaginative, maybe; but simple, too.
- Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:36 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: "Things don't exist", plus observations
- Replies: 55
- Views: 4721
Re: "Things don't exist", plus observations
[You do.]~You're "out" when you ask this question, because you already know!nitty-gritty wrote:[Now tell me if I have a vague understanding or not.]~Does it change with this question?
- Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:27 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: "Things don't exist", plus observations
- Replies: 55
- Views: 4721
Re: "Things don't exist", plus observations
He was speaking to skipair earlier. You can't speak to everyone as if they're the same person.David Quinn wrote:Yes, all good points. I like this kind of focus in your writing much better.
- Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:46 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Dialectics 101
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4836
Re: Dialectics 101
Where is his evidence that we are 'freer' as humans than we were in the past.We do less manual labour?-big deal.How does that constitute 'freedom'? Socially and economically we are more free. At least more free, globally, than any other time in recorded history. Technology does play a big factor in...
- Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:28 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Universe: Intelligent?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 4773
Re: The Universe: Intelligent?
Circumstances become ripe when the circumstances are ripe! In other words, the sorts of causal conditions which produce, say, a localized pocket of order are themselves the product of causal conditions (which, in turn, have been produced by causal conditions as well). And so on back forever. Meanin...
- Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:59 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: I've found the sentience machine.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4697
Re: I've found the sentience machine.
The most amazing thing however is that your door is a hexagon!!! The perspective squashes the bottom, and widens the top. You can measure it with a tape, but the tape will scale down at the same speed as the door, so you will get the right measurements for a rectangle. However I can show a diagram ...
- Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:41 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Liberation
- Replies: 55
- Views: 5241
Re: Liberation
Neil is right this time. The "transcendental" is just that. It's oxymoronic to talk about something like "transcendental consciousness," because you're attaching a concept (consciousness) that which transcends conceptualization. For that reason, it becomes superstition, as Neil ...
- Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:33 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Isn't death more wonderful than life!
- Replies: 70
- Views: 8086
Re: Isn't death more wonderful than life!
Yet you say [Our current experience is only a fraction of what's actually there, physically] which contradicts ["universe" is all that can be perceived, all that can be experienced] I'm saying that it's possible to see or hear or "sense" things that aren't included in our normal...
- Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:48 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Isn't death more wonderful than life!
- Replies: 70
- Views: 8086
Re: Isn't death more wonderful than life!
Or are you saying now that you don't know if the universe has limits, and therefore you don't know whether it is limitless or not? What we would consider to be the universe has a limit. Beyond would be considered chaos in our current scientific framework. I guess what you're saying is that what peo...
- Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:56 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Isn't death more wonderful than life!
- Replies: 70
- Views: 8086
Re: Isn't death more wonderful than life!
The properties of the physical universe far exceed what we know of in cosmology. I don't know if there is a "boundary," per se, or what would be on the other side of it. Even if I did, explaining it would probably take a rewriting of all of physics. The point is, though, that everything is...