GENIUS FORUMS

Actually none of the actual writers of the NT or other writings of that age that mention Jesus seem to have been eyewitnesses or even contemporaries. 1 Corinthians 15: 4-8 1 John 1:1-3 Certainly the authors claim to have eyewitness accounts and are contemporary That's to be expected since the autho...

Already we can hear discussions about how to spot extremist 'anti-Western' thoughts and their spreading on schools or Internet boards. For now the focus is on Muslim variants but how long before they'll cast a wider net? What if a regular poster from this board would get involved in a bombing or oth...

(...) Because Jesus was seen and heard by thousands of eyewitnesses. Actually none of the actual writers of the NT or other writings of that age that mention Jesus seem to have been eyewitnesses or even contemporaries. Too many errors and borrowing of fragments from clearly older records have been ...

analog57 wrote:David Quinn was invited to the NPU forums and then abruptly vanquished. Why? I don't know. Very Ironic.

Analog looks a bit lost.

Expulsion from Ne Plus Ultra

Sadly, they quickly closed the forum to outsiders in the aftermath of kicking me off and are now hiding behind closed doors.

MKFaizi wrote:Drama Queen.

Empty drama queen.

Hey yeah. The thin red line between a mental disorder and the path towards enlightenment?

Faizi, since you asked: I live in the Netherworlds, one of those faded trade empires from the Age of Plunder. It's too flat and tempered to qualify for either heaven or hell, in every aspect. "1984" happened in 1976, by the way. I remember it precisely. Where do you live? It is still trick...

....you fail to notice a state of unknown.... Hmm, there's something remotely interesting about someone simulating non-being and believing in his own simulated state, refusing to see the contradictions arising and the still present urge to be noticed. This is why Reason is so important because logi...

quoting: "The twin towers were unusual in that the outer cladding of the building actually carried the load for the structure" That is misleading. The towers were built around a central steel core, which was load-bearing. The external structure was designed to deal with the wind loads. Ok...

Patmos read this, and tell me if you see arbitrary pattern recognition here. The pattern I see here has to do with a rise in information-saturated minds trying to digest and interlink chaos into order. You meet them a lot on the Internet these days, forming a more psychological pattern. Boring, mun...

you know the lines of code that run down the screen from the matrix. well depending on your pattern recognition ability, you see life or lines of code. Yeah. But our brains are highly specialized in pattern recognitions by design. Illustrated by the famous '11' - knock-knock. It's a gift or a curse...

sevens wrote:Do physicists know that the universe is 1?

But is it still '1' the moment this knowledge arises?

Hyperqube, The numbers you choose for your calculations are not impressive. You are not aware of that what you're leaving out. The mind is basicly a high frequency filter. You seem to filter out possibilities but not realizing that you're operating in such manner. This way the patterns you see are y...

unknown wrote:You are wasting time. You can't solve anything with words. Only round and round....Keep babbling.

That idea would be more convincing if you'd shut up yourself. :)

Dhodges, even while I'm familiar with most theories on this subject, I think some counter arguments are needed here for the sake of discussion. But compare those to this story: An hour after being hit by planes, the twin towers suddenly turned into dust before hitting the ground, dropping at near fr...

To me, the question now becomes: why does a fully enlightened Buddha live? Ask Faizi. She seems to know what real philosophy is about. If you can get her nose out of other peoples diapers so she can answer you.... I'm not so sure. And I must conclude that his faith must be derived from a reason for...

Leyla, it isn't the question to have faith or not; I don't believe in faithless. In what does the fully enlightened Buddha's faith lie? As you wrote before: "as it has been stated here as a necessary component of the path to enlightenment through reason". As for the faith of such Buddha, ...

Dan, I don't think it's by definition illegal, for example when we're talking about 'state terrorism'. But I get your drift that it makes no sense to talk about legal prohibitions only. The problem lies more in the practical 'war' on terror, or the attempts to make it technicaly impossible to commit...

So you're saying it's your faith in your experiences and perceptions, and what you think they mean, that make you feel to be in a safe position? It's not different from 'most religions' then, they have their own set of hefty experiences and their explanations of them (faith). Diebert, I am struggli...

sevens wrote:That door leads to madness.

Novelty isn't decreasing, spirit is.

Madness is already the case, in worst case one changes just the form. It will always take unspeakable courage to overcome it.

Diebert: Through having such personal experience one can understand the relative nature of reality in the big sense of the word. This gives one experience of their own spiritual nature and solves the issue of faith that is central to most religions. In other words, you know you are not your body if...

The only way we could fight back would be through terrorism, but since we have made terrorism illegal we would not be able to fight back! For sure any counter measure put in place in the War on Terror, like monitoring communications, tiplines, linking databases, and circumventing civilian courts wi...

infinity=0 anyone care to discuss this? It doesn't look like a logical statement at all. Infinity encompasses all that exists. Zero points to that what not exists or is lacking in a certain context (a relative non-existence). To equal them is saying that existance is equal to non-existance, or that...

sevens wrote:Diebert,

'Fun' as deeply embedded in Samsara? Can you see through Samsara? Nirvana is Samsara - with its true nature lit. The highest pleasure rests in your true nature. Do you desire not to have fun - as a child beneath his stars?

What is there, to desire? Some good times coming your way? Hah!

Once you see clearly it's a game through a memory of how you joined it the fear goes away and no safeguards are needed. It seems you didn't understand my point. How do you know you aren't still immerged in the game, perhaps an aspect of it you don't remember yet? You already know you're capable of ...

Interesting questions. May be seriousness is contextual. Once anything is recognized as a game by a player, his consiousness transcends the rules of the game (he remembers). How in that condition can it still be serious :) ? Games where the main objectives include competitive survival (accepted by ...