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- Fri Jan 13, 2017 12:27 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: How does one go about "proving" one isn't a racist?
- Replies: 2
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How does one go about "proving" one isn't a racist?
It strikes me that being accused of racism is one of the worst things a non-racist has to deal with.
- Fri Apr 02, 2010 1:01 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Life cannot have a purpose, because life is a property
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1373
Life cannot have a purpose, because life is a property
of an entity, not the entity itself.
That said, I'll plug my vid.
:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpH9rKZ-Q8E
That said, I'll plug my vid.
:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpH9rKZ-Q8E
- Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:44 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6560
Re: If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that
Existence is meaningless without boundary conditions. Boundary conditions are bound up with existence. Anything lacking boundary conditions cannot properly be said to exist.
- Tue Nov 24, 2009 2:04 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6560
Re: If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that
Cycling back, it seems I'm here again.
- Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:14 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6560
Re: If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that
Trevor Salyzyn wrote:I'm confused about a word choice.
How can something be finite and unbound? What do you mean by finite, if not bounded?
It means that you have only so much stuff in a box whose edges you can't feel
- Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:43 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6560
If the universe is finite, yet unbound it would seem that
the same thing would be true for time as well. If you think of the time-space continuum's borders as the inside of a balloon whose edges cannot be felt, and if it is likewise true that traveling in an imagined "straight line" outward would cause one to arrive again at the point where one l...
- Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:41 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Language Mavens, your assistance is requested
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1135
Language Mavens, your assistance is requested
Is it true to say that two things may be the same without being identical? I say yes for a number of reasons. First, same is a like comparison such that thing A being compared to thing B in the manner of evaluative content so that one may say the same thing, such as "No" in more than one w...
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:53 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What does it mean to "understand"?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2429
What does it mean to "understand"?
Please use words that have precise definitions. I hate soft-headed new-age thinking.
- Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:29 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: On organ harvesting - how would an enlightened person rule
- Replies: 144
- Views: 18294
On organ harvesting - how would an enlightened person rule
Would an enlightened person have any difficulty with the idea of scientists developing a breed of homo sapiens (actually sapien-less) sans cerebral cortex or midbrain for the use of organ harvesting?
Why or why not?
Why or why not?
- Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:48 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Would a TEP be concerned about the enlightenment of others?
- Replies: 107
- Views: 17874
Would a TEP be concerned about the enlightenment of others?
TEP - Truly Enlightened Person
Why?
Why not?
Why?
Why not?
- Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:38 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Would a truly enlightened person decide to have children?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2688
Would a truly enlightened person decide to have children?
I can't think of any reason.
Having said that it would seem that the genes which lend themselves to the pursuit of enlightenment would be weeded out of the genetic pool.
The future > blithefully unaware and inept people deevolving into the chimps from whence they sprang.
Having said that it would seem that the genes which lend themselves to the pursuit of enlightenment would be weeded out of the genetic pool.
The future > blithefully unaware and inept people deevolving into the chimps from whence they sprang.
- Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:52 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Fallacies of Complex Questions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2830
Well now you have given it a context, and here it is deduction, not presumption. All arguments are only artificially deductive as all is inductive. Inductive reasoning is for the future, and deductive reasoning is for past events. If you are postulating that there is no past, then induction would b...
- Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:51 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Paradox of transcendence
- Replies: 67
- Views: 14891
- Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:24 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Paradox of transcendence
- Replies: 67
- Views: 14891
- Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:22 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Fallacies of Complex Questions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2830
- Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:59 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Fallacies of Complex Questions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2830
- Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:30 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Fallacies of Complex Questions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2830
Fallacies of Complex Questions
They seem to invade like a stealthy virus.
For example asking the question:
"Why?"
Is itself a complex question.
For example asking the question:
"Why?"
Is itself a complex question.
- Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:26 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Paradox of transcendence
- Replies: 67
- Views: 14891
- Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:40 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Paradox of transcendence
- Replies: 67
- Views: 14891
- Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:08 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Paradox of transcendence
- Replies: 67
- Views: 14891
Only thing to transcend is your thoughts on transcendence, then you will always be where you have been, seeing things for what they are. Declaring something to be transcendence or redefining it for convenience is not at all the same thing. As for seeing things as they are, that's as impossible as a...
- Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:47 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Paradox of transcendence
- Replies: 67
- Views: 14891
- Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:29 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Paradox of transcendence
- Replies: 67
- Views: 14891
- Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:19 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Paradox of transcendence
- Replies: 67
- Views: 14891
- Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:54 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Paradox of transcendence
- Replies: 67
- Views: 14891
For me to think of a transcendent being, I have to imagine a being that both is and is not, for if this being is not both simultaneously then it cannot be transcendent. But, this being would cease to be fully transcendent upon doing anything besides existing and not existing simultaneously. transcen...
- Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:49 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Paradox of transcendence
- Replies: 67
- Views: 14891
Not at all. The fact that you and I exist give the lie to transcendence.Trevor Salyzyn wrote:Well, excuse the grammar. A concept is a thing, but what the concept points to is not.
However, considering what you just said, you should be well aware that transcendence is not a lie. It's just difficult to explain.