GENIUS FORUMS

This answer too, of course, doesn't make real sense. You mean, it's nonsense? - Nonsense in so far as the initial, extreme example was in my opinion nonsense to begin with. The reason in this case is that the nature of the Buddha represents compassion, while regarding all around him as helpless bab...

Ras866 wrote: DQ: It's the other way around. The world has hijacked the term "genius" from wise people and mistakenly applied it to mere craftsmen. I'm simply trying to restore it to its original meaning. Any movement of genius that is divorced from enlightened consciousness of Reality is...

The sister of clock ? I think I know what you mean. Can you expand on that though? You wrote before: this "illusion", that the material world can be harnessed . That seems a fine summary of what I was trying to say in more words. Just for practical purposes we mentally 'harness' the world...

One could as well say this means there's only man while 'woman' is made up Or there is only woman and 'man' is made up. Either way. What makes a man a man is a pair of testicles and what makes a woman is a vagina. Fair enough, so many men use make up as well. But the question should be: would it be...

Is there really anything we can call mental illness? Lets first define sanity, hard enough I can tell you! Imagination I see as less differentiated thought, less disciplined, not yet cut into with the knife of our discernment. This way we can see it as raw material as well as a strong undercurrent t...

prince wrote:What is money, truely?

"The root of all evil" but only in the sense it's the embodiment of the way we abstract and quantize the universe, while 'valuing" everything we see with it. It's the sister of clock.

Terribly efficient though for the games of the beast of economics.

Hi Ras, Women aren't sheep. But sheep are definitely women, wouldn't you agree? Not sure how far your experience with sheep goes. They seem to have no moral or ethical limits when they find out a man has gotten the best of them That would mean they wouldn't really possess those limits at all, if the...

Marsha, A perfectly enlightened Buddha COULD do anything with no attachment whatsoever. But he wouldn't because doing so wound undermine wisdom. Then, that makes sense. A enlightened being does differentiate between acts. He has a conscience and he has consciousness of wisdom. He could rape a baby ...

This business of singing your message is extremely weird. Imagine a fireman bursting through your door and singing that your house is on fire .... This is the crux of the problem, isn't it? But lets examine this comparison a bit further to see if it holds up in philosophical sense. The problem of a...

Dylan's philosophy could be categorized, at least since the nineties, as some sort of variant of mystical Hasidic Judaism - Martin Buber comes to mind. As a serious student though, not just parading with it. For those unfamiliar with its basics: The teachings of Hasidism are founded on two theoretic...

Hello Whocares, How about emotional shit one cannot get over or come to terms with? That is the cause of alcoholism. A bar would mean nothing if one came to conquer emotional shit. So if emotional shit is the cause of alcoholism, what would you think is the cause of that emotional shit? Is there any...

Dave Hodges, Leaving Hameroff behind, I would go further and state that - in my humble opinion - a Platonic view is incoherent. Philosophically it is a dead end. Platonism is essentialism. Hameroff's work is not philosophy, why are you trying it to make it into one so that you can 'leave it behind'?...

Quantum physics seems to be the answer for everything that we don't understand these days (consciousness, psychokinesis, out-of-body experiences, telepathy, you name it). Could that be because we don't understand quantum physics either? True enough. I should add that the models as proposed on the w...

In my humble opinion - and it is extra-humble because I have not read the book, and don't intend to - Roger Penrose's work is worthless. That's just based on the reviews of the book on Amazon. Waving vaguely at quantum theory just doesn't help understand consciousness. So... instead of commenting o...

As a sidenote, the closest thing to a research into these 'particles of consciousness' would be the work of Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose on so-called 'microtubules'. Hameroff's site is called: Quantum Consciousness . But when I read The emperor’s new mind by Sir Roger Penrose in 1991 I realiz...

War is nothing to worry about - BUT that which can destroy us all is another matter. All efforts should be towards making those who are mentally immature - such as anyone involved in any religion is - weak, by the exercise of power against them. Maybe such thing already happened long time ago, and ...

Interesting but not because of the equality. It's nothing new to know that men and women are equal in the sense that there's only hu-man. The 'woman' phenotype with in her wake the rise of 'man' is a created illusion. To suggest they're really equal is missing the point about female psychology (that...

Bert,

unknown wrote: .... .... ....

Unknown could be called the poor man's U.G. Krishnamurti :?)

Someone who fell into the depth before he climbed all the way.

Essentially there is a certain variation allowed[THINK FREE WILL] FOR the fractal, yet it is guided and parameterized by certain causal factors[attractors] inherent and intrinsic TO itself. In simpler words: you're saying there's a degree of pure randomness in everything that happens. But randomnes...

While philosophers might have supported the formation of a State in earlier times as rational means to support education and law, these modern times are quite different, since the masses and their mass consumption and small beliefs are what rules the State. Now, a philosopher has to be anti-state as...

I take it that by pool you mean Totality. So, the ripple thinks, if there is water, so then let me call this giant circle a pool, but can there be a pool without water? Pool without water cannot exist. And no water means no ripples either, to raise the question. Hence the existence of pool and wate...

Churches seem to do well when they are oppressed. Churches should not be oppressed, but they should not be supported in any way. True enough, the Roman Empire before Constantine and the USSR are two good examples. The Jewish faith seems to have hardened under oppression extremely well to the point ...

Yes, there is nothing else, but wouldn’t Nature, Totality depend on what constitutes it? May be it is dependant not with-out, but “with-in”. Self-dependant to say the least, dependant nevertheless. So the ripple in the pool asks himself if the pool is maybe dependent on the water in it? Or wo...

Intrinsic is the same as inherent: both implying the existence of an essential nature of a thing Well, why the thing exists it is still the "essential nature", the essential group of properties that allow for its appearance to us. You might want to rephrase that first bit. But wouldn't yo...

Some thoughts: Separation of state and church: old crappy tired delusion. It ignores what is really state and what is religion. Think about it: if religion is based on a falsehood, would you want it to have any power at all to shape and form millions of minds in their churches, mosques, websites, sc...