GENIUS FORUMS

I can't see how anyone would want to live their lives with the idea that women are a curse or something. Since I was about 3 fucking years old I have looked for a bond with a female counterpart in order to feel complete. I did not look for sex or power, but rather understanding and a wholeness that ...

Nick, Please clarify some things: when you suggest reality is illusory and only mental constructs, are you specifying that reality is the construction of human mind, or any sentient being's mind? Because before humans existed, I would venture that reality blissfully cavorted on the earth, and before...

David Quinn wrote:It isn't evasion when you consider that all boundaries are mentally created and not objectively real.

I agree that of all the phenomena I have ever seen, the boundaries have proven illusory. However, that doesn't mean that there cannot be a sub atomic particle that is indivisible.

But Ok David, what about sub atomic particles? Isn't it possible that there is some sub atomic particle out there that cannot be broken up? Anything that exists can be divided by the mind. True. But that's different. When I break apart a stick into two, that is not my imagination. When I use my min...

prince wrote: Something deep inside you tells you that there is some essence, something that is actually real, tangible, no matter how much its whittled down? There isn't. Everything whittles down to nothing, in the end.

How do you know this for sure?

First off, I just want to apologize for my rude outbursts directed towards the moderators many months ago. The truth is that I am made very anxious and upset by the philosophy that is promoted here, and I lashed out in anger. I was just blowing off steam. A conversation I had with David has been occ...

The color red has always existed in different forms.....

Shahrazad wrote:Dan,

None of us were ever born.

What?

Dan's Birth

Dan claims he wasn't born. I'd like him to explain how this makes sense in light of what he said to me a couple months ago: Dan: As to qualia: where is "red" in your perspective? A bunch of neural pathways and synapses that light up when a person says they see "red" isn't "r...

Maybe not like buffoons, but based on what I've read here, it just seems awfully simple and un-powerful. Do you object to that? Why? I don't object to being simple and unpowerful. But I do object to the indulging in simplistic words games, and calling it 'Genius'. That's the impression this forum g...

Isaac, a world of sages would not behave like a world of buffoons. Maybe not like buffoons, but based on what I've read here, it just seems awfully simple and un-powerful. All of the important work would get done; and, all the wasteful and destructive work would be left unattended. What work do you...

If one comes to know the truth about something, anything at all, it would be impossible not to value it to some extent, if for no other reason than the fact that it isn't false. I think that's the nature of consciousness. Comprehension and immersion in truth builds and alters consciousness in a way...

It's going to happen whether we like it or not. Except those in charge of the engineering won't be the fab-five sages, it will be business tycoons, politicians, actors, etc. Well, actors and business tycoons are ok. Politicians? I would hope that the world becomes a free market anarchy by then. Pol...

If he wants to come up with super humans, I'm ok with it, but making it a gender issue makes him look pretty retarded. If by super human we mean someone who is physically and intellectually super-powerful - then I think the female species is an impediment to creating such super humans. I mean, what...

David, The problem is when flawed temperaments cook up grandiose fantasies. Once they get addicted to their grandiose image of themselves, then it's impossible for them to be happy doing ordinary things like everybody else. They become jealous and envious of everything. Hence they have to demonize a...

Diebert, Others (the undesirables) organize and join religions or cults, pick fights, steal, rape, wage war, verbally abuse others, or they wallow in depression because they aren't geniuses. Religions, cults, theft, verbal abuse or war mongering, taking anti-depressives....... My god, that must be 9...

Do you think it's reasonable to want to eliminate feelings? I mean, I really enjoy films, video games, sports, science, literature. Do you think that the human race should outgrow all of that? I don't have much of an opinion about what humans generally should do. For myself, emotions do exist, but ...

Sue He glorified suffering is what he did. I don't understand why he and others think it's necessary to try and beat out the zest and enjoyment of life. Isn’t suffering also a part of life? And - if you have spent your life thus far escaping suffering by coping with it in the ways I mentioned above,...

"Genius, Truth, Wisdom, Spirituality........words like these will always attract abnormal, downtrodden people." What brings you to this outerspace canteen, Isaac? Ever here of cyclothymia? It's mild bipolar disorder. My lack of competence socially and scholastically caused me to desire at...

As you're probably well aware, mentally ill people tend to secretly believe they are geniuses, or believe that they are fated toward that general direction. They also tend to believe that they possess the Truth, have attained some secret wisdom and are uniquely 'spiritual' Genius, Truth, Wisdom, Spi...

Unwitting? I believe Rick Roll knew his special destiny - he sensed the intimate relationship he would have with humanity for trillions of years to come. Such was his greatness.

If someone desires to continue scientific inquiry after achieving enlightenment then all the best to them. I still consider myself competitive and even enjoy certain types of inquiry, I just don’t like to immerse myself in worldly matters to the point that it diminishes my ability to maintain a cer...

It seems to me he is onto something that is real and he is sincere, but that he is taking shots at it with a shotgun, and blows things to peices. The psychological angle, especially pharmacological suggestions, seems rather grotesque. I think our genetics and brain chemistry has a lot to do with ho...

"Blessed is he who has a soul Blessed is he without one But woe to him who has it in embryo" ~ G.I. Gurdjieff To my mind, this sort of idea is a self esteem booster for those who suffer due to their inflated egotism. It really should be no secret that mystics are very similar to manic dep...

Isaac, What I'm saying is that consciousness is not caused by something other than what it already is. Consciousness, in my view, is equivalent to a subset of physical brain activity, that exists by itself. It's not caused by anything other than physical forces that shape molecules and chemical rea...