GENIUS FORUMS

To be or not to be... hmmm. That's pretty cliche I know, but maybe you have to be in order to not be and vice versa? Don't mind my banter.

Artists have to train long and hard to see things, as opposed to describing things mentally. Even then, they simply learn to apply a new, much more detailed, set of descriptions -- where most people see ' a face with XYZ facial features ', artists learn to see geometric shapes which would allow the...

My main worry with Ron Paul is that he is so for this reducing government spending that I feel like he is the Republicans' back up plan for retaining power. I think this because of the fact that we are in so much debt and now the Republicans are trying to win over some liberals by having this guy p...

Brain doesn't create pictures. Brain creates semantic descriptions . This is why, for example, our memory is so easy to fool, why we can do a mirror-flip on the remembered image and not even notice it, or change the color, etc. When we imagine, it's not like drawing a picture with fixed visual char...

My object is not to display an encyclopedic grasp of history, but to show that when you read enuf of it, you come across obscure examples that show you can replace the initial "all" in the above with "most". There's a more general point there, which is that when you get an expla...

vicdan wrote:Which ones? labor theory of value goes against the very fundamental precepts of the free market.

Oh no, the poor free market. Is the free market your deity or what?

Damn, I as actually trying to avoid hyperbole. I guess it was primarily this sentence that sent up a flag for me: Thus a great many Americans are stuck in a crazed world of impractical and mostly shattered hopes and dreams, self-loathing, envy, despair and ultimately a festering hatred for life and...

The essay is very insightful, although perhaps a bit hyperbolic at times. I'm not counting that as a flaw, though. An essayist's goal should be to support or compel some conclusion, and one can rarely do that with dry, "objective" language. American architecture is also an interesting sym...

I only watched the very start of it, and it looked very dodgy right from the start. It's not an established fact that individuals were outright "lying" about their belief that there was a WMD program in Iraq. So when he started his talk with the conclusion that people were outright lying ...

The way we measure intelligence is biased towards American culture, and American definitions of intelligence. Beyond that you have to take education and culture into consideration. And how on earth are you supposed to know which babys are gay? Good point, another point is that environmental factors...

My main worry with Ron Paul is that he is so for this reducing government spending that I feel like he is the Republicans' back up plan for retaining power. I think this because of the fact that we are in so much debt and now the Republicans are trying to win over some liberals by having this guy pr...

"Stupid moles with their little twitchy noses, I hate them!!! Bang Bang!".. Blackadder redifined. Moles 12 units of carbon.. 12 in a dozen.. a dozen redifined. No, it really depends on the molar mass of the element or compound. You are right in the sense that because carbon's atomic mass ...

Let's not and say we didn't. The "Ron Paul Revolution" will come at the expense of health care, education, and social services. Ron Paul is a hardcore libertarian capitalist who will not hesitate to slash public spending across the board. The few extra dollars the average American will sa...

I think this thread is a waste of time. We shouldn't be asking is one group inferior to another, we should be asking why do we ask such questions? What is it about us that makes us feel the need to ask a question of inferiority and superiority? Is it a need for power or domination? Do we need to dom...

Dawkins and his fans don't impress me much. The seem very impressed with themselves for figuring out atheism. Wow. That's just the first step on a long road. Let's see them tackle free will next, just for openers. I bet he loses 80% of the crowd right there. They are very self-assured people for ha...

Since the dangerous thinkers here do not care about political correctness, do they agree with this statement? Now you say that women are inferior since no great philosopher has been a woman, and very few have been great artists or scientists, and of course one would be hard pressed to find women be...

Here is a video of a guy named Michael Tsarion talking about 2012, among many other things. I don't necessarily buy into the 2012 theory, but I'm more interested in what he says about Carl Jung, Freud, and humanity in general. It is quite a long video, but if anyone has any interest please look into...

Neil Melnyk wrote:The teaching at this forum is basically the will to death, the will against life. You fit in well. "Life is suffering, therefore we should renounce all life because suffering is bad."

Isn't this basic nihilism?

I mean, I'm not against the notion, but that doesn't mean that I agree with the machines taking over. There is one thing wrong with the film however, and that is that they would probably kill us, and not keep us as batteries. So I prefer that humans put us here instead. You're not against it, but t...

There is no kingdom of God or Heaven, no Nirvana and no Absolute Truth, No Samsara, No Salvation and no Damnation for you You do not persist long enough to call yourself wise, enlightened, holy, profound, truthful. What you refer to was never there. You can not enter the gates of nirvana because th...