GENIUS FORUMS

"Would you perhaps consider adding Thomas Jefferson to list of geniuses?" ZMD Well, they let me in. So they don't seem too particular. Tell this Jefferson fellow if he wants in, to just start posting. If his cyber-company becomes objectionable, I'm sure the Mods. (if any) and the Admin. c...

Shahrazad wrote:I'd rather ask than assume.

The concept of a personal deity is not genius worthy.

How can you possibly judge the man, or anyone on that one thing?

Shahrazad wrote:I'd rather ask than assume.

The concept of a personal deity is not genius worthy.

What makes you feel you have some kind of authority to make that claim?

Shahrazad wrote:Who is the King of Kings?

Who would you suppose that is?

Dear site moderators, Would you perhaps consider adding Thomas Jefferson to list of geniuses? Here is a link to site with fragments of his writings. It appears that he was able to see past the limited knowledge of his time and see a much larger picture. http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations...

So you're saying that women aren't really oppressed like they want everyone to think? I mean I think this little comic illustrates a lot of what is wrong with relationship dynamics in general. It's not about love or anything, it's about a game and control, language games.

TheSourceCode wrote:A douchebag is a vagina and do you what what we do with one?

Lol a douchebag, technically, is a syringe for douching, cleaning, the vagina dumbass.

The problem is not redefining per se. The problem is equivocation over different definitions -- and redefining for the purpose of enabling such equivocations. This is why you folks get accused of trying to win through redefinition. This makes sense. It's like playing a game that already has rules -...

Dan Rowden wrote:

ZenMuadDib wrote:Generalizing leads to false conclusions in my book.

Do mean that universally or just generally?

What is the difference between universal and general? They are defined using the same words...They mean the same thing.

Dan Rowden wrote:Not from me; I already cop too many accusations of redefining things.

Where would we be, though, if we stuck with the very first "meaning" of a word and never expanded it from there?

You can tie all these together with absolute truths. Truths that apply to all things. Learn how to generalise. . Thats really excellent advise in my view.I often give that to other people who are having trouble focussing.And often say it to myself,when I am having trouble. It's information overload...

No, melange wouldn't have meant anything like caffeine. Melange had some kind of psychedelic properties, if you remember. The Space Cadets or whatever they called them used it to enhance their navigational skills. The Fremen used it as some kind of group bonding experience. Wasn't there was a scene...

A douchebag is someone who refuses to admit they were wrong, mostly to themselves. It is someone who is afraid to admit they do not know what they are talking about because they do not know the history of a thing. Any further definitions from anyone?

hsandman wrote:

Dan Rowden wrote:About what? You appear to have a caffeine addiction.

I guess, it took him by suprise... lol.

Obviously, I'm talking about the idea in the story. Are you kidding me, or are you just retarded?

Ultimately, their practice of their religion has nothing of threat to Western Culture There is a potential threat to Western Culture if the practice of Islam involves the destruction of Western Culture. That goal may well be a fundamental part of Islamic belief. This is the most ridiculous thing I ...

I've been drinking a lot of caffeinated stuff like soda and coffee recently, but today I didn't have a chance to have any. The day started off ok until about 1:00. I started getting a headache at first and almost didn't go to class, which afterwards I wish I hadn't. Anyway, during my first class I c...

Actually mister rowden, now that i think about it, you aren't correct. The first sentence was not a continuity error at all. There was, in fact, not much known about the species. Not that they were mysterious: it's just that they only have two databanks worth of information and everything else is h...

I am particulary interested in Colour at the moment. I feel that colour information has a hidden particle, or somehow uses the quark. It's not really a known concept, but I don't think I believe any known concepts at the moment. Have you heard of Goethe's Theory of Colours. I haven't read it, but a...

I just want to make clear that I am not a "PoMo", whatever that is and however someone is I don't know. As to postmodernism being contradictory, modernism is a specific time in human history, very recent, that had specific goals and principles. Now that we seem to be emerging from those, p...

vicdan wrote:Yeah, we science geeks tend to see the PoMo crowd as brainless poseurs. Deal with it. You children can do nothing but babble.

I'm not going to fight with you since it seems you are happy to leave understanding at 1+1=2 instead of delving any deeper.

That's the answer, dude. It works equally well in both capacities. :) Wait till I analyze social struggle using quantum mechanics! Each power-group, you see, is a state vector of indeterminate dimensionality, and if you define your observables in phallic terms, then you can figure the mutual orthog...

I am particulary interested in Colour at the moment. I feel that colour information has a hidden particle, or somehow uses the quark. It's not really a known concept, but I don't think I believe any known concepts at the moment. Have you heard of Goethe's Theory of Colours. I haven't read it, but a...

Hahaha. Having grown up in a marxist country, and having studied marxism in school, I think i have a rather more realistic understanding of what marxism is, kiddo. You PoMo social studies types might as well be arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, for all the relationship t...

What are you scared of? I guess I'm "scared" of some kind of flavorless world that we've created and don't even realize it and that we'll come to a point where it will be impossible to get out of that. Interesting. What constitutes "flavour" for you and in what sense do you find...

Ah yes, the wonders of marxism... who could forget the Labor Theory of Value, or the idiotic historicism, or the naive economics, etc?.. Excuse me for being unimpressed. Look you can snigger in your corner, but you will always be facing the wall, away from reality, with your nose to a notebook and ...