GENIUS FORUMS

If a sage spies a toddler playing with a loaded gun, does he ignore it? David, the point was that there's nothing particular wise or reasoned out about the intervention you were suggesting. There is nothing wise about taking a loaded gun from a toddler? Again back to my original criticism: your ove...

Agreed. That's why I speak against the growing Trumpian war against both the liberal establishment and the Islamic religion. Right, but that is why I do suggest separating out the man Donald Trump, the most inappropriate man ever to gain the presidential office --- and the Trump phenomenon. They ar...

I would be far more worried about the US establishment and the proven dangers it represents when it creates and builds up an *enemy* and then attacks it. The human consequences, if that is one's measure, has been far more extreme. Agreed. That's why I speak against the growing Trumpian war against ...

If a sage spies a toddler playing with a loaded gun, does he ignore it because such a scenario doesn't fit within the neat confines of "promoting reason, identifying passions when they're blocking reason, provoking questioning and promoting doubt"? But such instances have nothing to do wi...

I turned 42 today - I will be back - I have to go help a friend dig a trench to run some cables through. Please excuse my absence - I have still been reading all the posts. @ David - yes I am certain I can provide a couple of examples with space and mathematics. I should not be any longer than 12 h...

Again I am overall baffled that you articulate the position that you do (if I have read it correctly). Individual freedoms. For example, you fall into the view --- potentially false! --- that Russia is some sort of demonic adversary. I am not at all convinced that this is the case. Their treatment ...

Pam to Dan wrote: And as objects are caused to appear, they are caused not to appear, not by consciousness, for as you say, it has no power to cause anything, but by the unknown power or will of the causality. This is why it is important to emphasize will or spirit (to be conscious of) when speakin...

Yet in the coming war... Which is exactly the type of post-Christian, post-evangelical hysterical dystopian prose I think you should be distrusting. On the contrary, it is important that we become fully aware that there is a yearning for war brewing in the minds of many people. There is no point in...

Did Kevin's choices come about because of enlightened mind? It would seem that they only came about because of a rather pedestrian application of common sense. But unless I am wrong, it seems to me that David and to a lesser extent Dan have pegged enlightenment to a certain view of the world, and e...

Yeah, reading through some of the threads on the forum, it's a pretty dismal site. It reminds me of the old KIR forum, and Ducky M's posts in particular <shivers>. It's obvious that Leo Gura knows nothing about enlightenment. Perhaps I won't side with them, after all.

In assessing Leo Gura's level of wisdom, this is not very encouraging - A Description Of Enlightenment.

What about space? Or a mathematical point? Would you be by any chance, referring to: Objects are not only dependent on internal factors, but they rely on external ones as well, which now leads us to the second proof. or have I missed something entirely? Not necessarily. I just wanted to push you a ...

Off the top of my head, there's a forum over at actualized.org ran by a fellow named Leo Gura. Perhaps we could attract some serious seekers from over there. He also has a youtube channel . He seems to have a pretty good sense on what enlightenment is about. Check out his "practical guide to e...

Pam Seeback wrote: Reasoning is entirely a belief based activity.

Is that what you believe?

encode_decode wrote:

David Quinn wrote:Thus, the truth that a thing cannot exist without its parts is really an expression of the more general truth that a thing is necessarily dependent upon other things for its existence.

This includes everything in my mind.

This proof is solid.

What about space? Or a mathematical point?

A sudden massive shift in awareness where one becomes directly conscious of one's ABSOLUTE nature. What kind of absolute nature requires *any* shift in awareness? There is indeed a shift, but it involves realizing that no shift is possible. This is a logical twist that goes to the heart of all Zen....

A sudden massive shift in awareness where one becomes directly conscious of one's ABSOLUTE nature. What kind of absolute nature requires *any* shift in awareness? There is indeed a shift, but it involves realizing that no shift is possible. This is a logical twist that goes to the heart of all Zen.

Consciousness is not a causal agent. It has no power to cause anything. The subject/object duality is not real. Consciousness has no more power to 'cause' a thing than it has to cause itself. Consciousness is what we conventionally describe as its 'objects'. This is not restricted to consciousness,...

Anyway, what ideas do you have for perhaps giving the forum a boost? Facebook page, perhaps? Twitter channel? Those are the only social media I know anything about. I may not be serious about that but am in a more general sense. That's the real nub of the issue, in my opinion - the low number of ac...

It is not true that the human mind invents (causes) things. Why? 'Human mind' is an effect, a thought, and being an effect, a thought, has no causal power. 'Invention' is one of those concepts that fuels the concept 'ego', which, like 'human mind' is also an effect, and being an effect, has no caus...

There is a particular class of logical truth, specifically in the realm of philosophy, which is very meaningful as far as the empirical world is concerned, and yet whose validity is solely garnered by the sheer logic underpinning them and not on any empirical evidence. What would you call this clas...

David: Cause and effect is a useless concept as far as society is concerned. It doesn’t provide any detailed information about the world, you cannot use it to make specific predictions, it doesn’t put food on the table, it doesn't create jobs, it doesn’t generate any wealth, it doesn't help anyone ...

Well, my mind has apparently turned to mush, so you might be onto something there ..... I wouldn't go that far. I personally find your contributions to this thread utterly brilliant and inspiring. Except for the claims that climate change conspiracies and vaccination caused autism are falsehoods. F...

Why isn't it taught in schools? From society’s point of view, the purpose of school is not to develop wise, deep-thinking, iconoclastic thinkers, but conscientious workers who obediently endorse its conventional beliefs and values. So even if, by chance, there were teachers who comprehended the sig...

Good.