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- Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:35 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Absent Mindedness
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4070
Absent Mindedness
Not sure if anyone here has this problem. I live with a roommate. It's been about 3 months, and gradually he picks on me more and more for little things I do, and I find it very distracting in my quest to see the big picture. I experience a lot of inner freedom, I don't feel much psychological pain ...
- Mon Feb 21, 2011 12:24 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Mysticism
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5092
Mysticism
So what is your theory on what it is? Lately I have experienced what I could only describe as mystic states of consciousness, and I'll try to explain what I think they signify. Mystic states of consciousness are simply the result of the brain and it's neurons producing an abnormal quantity of though...
- Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:06 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Spirit
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7955
Re: Spirit
If we value the free, inward, creative life of man, then some practical applications may undermine the physical stability required to generate such free states of consciousness. Indeed, in terms of priority, some measure of security, shelter and food come first. Physically as well as psychologicall...
- Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:48 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Spirit
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7955
Re: Spirit
Conquest was not the best choice in word. Consciousness has various levels, and the situation in Egypt was clearly a war between different abstract perspectives. There was a victor. It was a conquest to some degree. The spirit of it was certainly poor and small relative to the highest flights in con...
- Mon Feb 14, 2011 4:46 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Spirit
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7955
Re: Spirit
but I was only using Egypt as both an analogy and a concrete example. Yes, obviously, as was I by suggesting another outcome which would make it an example of a different line of reasoning about this. The main thing is that the individual moves inwardly, in other mental dimensions. If he feels phys...
- Sun Feb 13, 2011 2:43 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Spirit
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7955
Re: Spirit
If the changes in Egypt will not turn out for the better, if social unrest, economical decline and lack of ideas how to turn it around will cause lots of misery in the coming years: would it change your outlook? No, not at all. This is hard for me to explain... but I was only using Egypt as both an...
- Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:30 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Spirit
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7955
Spirit
I find it remarkable how concepts and ideas, as they depend on our private conscious experience, can drive so much change all around us - the world is fashioned after the level we are at psychologically. I know many like to reduce human activity down to hormones, pheromones, atoms, particles, neuron...
- Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:31 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Defining Truth
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6863
Re: Defining Truth
Well, I will say this, and I think it is quite obvious: Truth is simply what is . I realize then that I would have to define is , which I could define by saying that which is, exists. But that needs definition, and soon we get endlessly circular, and it soon becomes apparent that we've reached the l...
- Sat Jan 08, 2011 4:58 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Defining Truth
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6863
Re: Defining Truth
I know that silence, bored of it. Moving on. The whole man woman thing is a bit silly at this point, too. Male-female couples can be very moral and intelligent together, it's really a matter of intelligence and conscience in people, some couples have it and live good lives together.
- Sat Jan 08, 2011 4:03 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Defining Truth
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6863
Defining Truth
There is apparently (in most people) an instinctive and intuitive sense for what truth is, in relation to falsehood. I would like to examine not so much the truth, but the logic behind the intuitions and instincts people have for the idea of truth. If a child asks, "is it true?" what he's ...
- Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:06 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Evil of Charm
- Replies: 83
- Views: 33144
Re: The Evil of Charm
No. Unlike a narcissist, I have an awareness of another persons mind, I listen carefully, I find out what it is they like, and I present my views in a way that is palatable to their tastes. This is in contrast to the narcissistic way: where you pay no regard to a persons level of maturity or interes...
- Mon Nov 01, 2010 5:37 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Evil of Charm
- Replies: 83
- Views: 33144
Re: The Evil of Charm
I don't see the big deal about being likable, charming or charismatic. I enjoy people who put a bit of personality into their actions, it makes life funny. Also, a great deal of charm arises out of an awareness of another persons psychology, whereas an anti-seductive person just rambles on narcissis...
- Sun Oct 24, 2010 6:39 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Underrated Scientists/Philosophers.
- Replies: 126
- Views: 74749
Re: Underrated Scientists/Philosophers.
David, I think you are a very interesting person with some exceptional qualities - I for one have learned important things from you, and I have much respect for you. But I'm growing a little concerned that you're life purpose is a tad.... well, it seems, to some signiciant degree, like escapism. As ...
- Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:00 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Man and Woman's Evolution
- Replies: 234
- Views: 46172
Re: Man and Woman's Evolution
Setting fire to yourself, setting fire to others....what's the probability here that your attempt at egolessness is in fact highly egotistical and that you are just fooling yourselves? I'd say the chances are pretty high.
- Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:26 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Man and Woman's Evolution
- Replies: 234
- Views: 46172
Re: Man and Woman's Evolution
Men will always worship women. You don't really think that is ever going to change do you? Either men are going to have to stop worshiping women or our species is doomed to premature extinction. Only time will tell which comes first. But Nick, extinction is utterly inevitable no matter what. Sure, ...
- Wed Sep 22, 2010 7:37 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: How Can a Thought be Infinite?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2830
How Can a Thought be Infinite?
Here's a quote by Kierkegaard, a writer whose meaning has often eluded me: The case with most men is that they go out into life with one or another accidental characteristic of personality of which they say: Well, this is the way I am. I cannot do otherwise. Then the world gets to work on them and t...
- Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:18 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Noam Chomsky on Mind/Body Problem
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9955
- Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:04 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Jared Diamond: World's Worst Mistake?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8437
Re: Jared Diamond: World's Worst Mistake?
Oh yeah, and one more thing... the idea of egalitarianism back in the good ol' days? I think that's bunk too. Consider infanticide. It reportedly happened pre-ag, seemingly more prevalent before agriculture. So think of it as retroactive birth control, I guess. No one seems to asked how those enligh...
- Fri Sep 10, 2010 8:05 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Defining Truth
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6760
Re: Defining Truth
They aren't any more important. I'm just demonstrating that these analytic truths do very little in terms of useful information. You're god damn right they're useless! What is the virtue in uselesness? We are constantly challenged by our changing environment and we have desires that perhaps should ...
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 3:38 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Defining Truth
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6760
Re: Defining Truth
Neither do they negate the fact that our joints stiffen, senses dull, and breathing becomes harder as we turn into a weak and shriveled abomination of our former youth. So what? What you're talking about there is science, though. And neither science, nor analytic thinking can tell us what truly is ...
- Tue Sep 07, 2010 7:36 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Defining Truth
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6760
Re: Defining Truth
I don't understand how absolutes really do anything useful, they all seem trivial and many of them overly simple, to the point of inanity. Understanding how absolutes work is essential if you want to free your mind. But once you have accomplished this there's no reason to cherish or hold on to them...
- Tue Sep 07, 2010 6:56 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Defining Truth
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6760
Re: Defining Truth
My contention is that a prior reasoning, or the premises that comprise such reasoning's, are based on world experience. Take "all bachelors are unmarried". Each word is defined by drawing from experiences, so there is an empirical component to all a priori truths. The logical framework be...
- Mon Sep 06, 2010 12:11 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Defining Truth
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6760
Re: Defining Truth
Isn't logic a form of demonstration?
ugh, I need some sleep, talk about this more tomorrow hopefully.
ugh, I need some sleep, talk about this more tomorrow hopefully.
- Mon Sep 06, 2010 11:51 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Defining Truth
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6760
Re: Defining Truth
So how did I come to this conception of truth? I just observed my own mind and the behavior of others. This means that there is an empirical component to my definition of truth. I think what you're really talking about here is consciousness itself. We can be conscious of many things, empirical or n...
- Mon Sep 06, 2010 11:24 am
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Jared Diamond: World's Worst Mistake?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8437
Re: Jared Diamond: World's Worst Mistake?
Someone brought to my attention something interesting, when you analyze bone densities you get this: http://www.anthro.ucdavis.edu/facult...nry/ajpa29.pdf In periods of malnutrition, you get bands of different bone densities, but they tend to even out back again when you get enough food for a few ye...