GENIUS FORUMS

<t>Voce Io wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> DQ: I will keep saying this to the day I die, but there is only one path to Truth and that is the path of abandoning delusions. And the path of abandoning delusions is one that is primarily powered by reason. There is no other way.<br/> <br/> VI: I compl...

<t>Voce Io wrote: <br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> DQ: Okay, let's focus on this issue since it is an integral part in your world view - namely, that no opinion can express truth.<br/> <br/> Imagine you are in a foriegn city and you want to vist the museum. You ask a local for directions and he says, "I...

<t>Bird wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>The only reason we have a world and universe and a brain as we have them, is because of boundaries, and because all systems recognize them, and act upon the delusion of their existence. It is only partially true that the boundaries are nonexistent. It is a r...

<t>Voce Io wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> DQ: How can your words be pointing correctly if everything you say is false? Even now you're still mangling the law of identity with your self-contradictory statements.<br/> <br/> VI: I claim that I'm not mangling that law, and I'm not actually being sel...

<t>It is interesting to analyze the role of lying in the mind of the perfectly truthful individual. Contrary to what one might expect, telling a lie needn't be at odds with being perfectly truthful. Sometimes even the perfect sage has occasions to lie. <br/> <br/> A person who speaks the truth at al...

<r>Here are some of Kevin Solway's thoughts on karma and reincarnation. They have been garnered from a series of posts in which Kevin responded to the traditional/populist views of reincarnation put forward by a conventional Buddhist: <br/> <br/> <br/> - The word "karma" can mean many different thin...

<t>The question needs to be asked as to why men constantly need to praise to the skies women's multi-knobbed nature. It can't be for intellectual reasons. Women very rarely produce anything of intellectual interest. Whatever thoughts that a woman expresseses, it can be guaranteed that they have alre...

Transcendent consciousness transcends both one-dimensionality and many-dimensionality.

Thomas wrote:

Quote:Quote:<hr> Wet dream? Killing souls for my pleasure? Seems you are getting a bit huffy, David. <hr> Just speaking the truth.

<r>Thomas wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> David: This is classic misogny, of course - reducing woman to the status of a toy. For most men, that's all that women are - multi-knobbed bits of fun. The evil of this outlook lies in the way that it pressures women not to develop consistency in their th...

<t>Bird wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> DQ: In other words, life is necessarily a product of non-life.<br/> <br/> B: Why is life a product of non-life, and why is there no such thing? <hr> I went into all that in my book. <br/> <br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> DQ: My observation has nothing to do wit...

<t>Bird wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>DQ: You're still approaching these issues in a limited dualistic manner, which is causing you to misunderstand "QRS thought" and indeed the nature of wisdom itself. The very idea that Nature (God) is either alive or dead is deluded. In truth, it is neither.<...

<t>Thomas wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> I imagined being offered those two devices at the same price. I would definitely buy the one with the colorful buttons, because it seems better value and more fun. <hr> This is classic misogny, of course - reducing woman to the status of a toy. For most m...

Quite a good illustration.

Man: austere, pure, simple, straightforward, cutting to the core, non-duplicitious.

Woman: decorative, all over the place, conflicting desires and intentions, incoherent, never really achieves anything.

<t>Bird wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> DQ: If the Universe itself is the spiritual realm, Kevin would in fact be a spiritualist, and all those who posit a supernatural soul would be materialists.<br/> <br/> Bird: You are saying there is no division, which is good enough for me, but I call him, o...

<t>Bird wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> DQ: It is evident that you conceive of spirituality in a supernatural, Christian sense, rather than in the pantheistic sense of enlightenment. Kevin is probably the least materialistic person of the lot of us.<br/> <br/> Bird: The post was to Biggie. There ...

<t>Bird wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> DQ: Your "richness" is a result of you not knowing how to discriminate. <br/> <br/> Bird: I discriminate all day long. <hr> I'm sure you do, but nevertheless I don't see any evidence that you are able to discriminate between truth and falsity - at least not...

<t>Bird wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>Bird: but at this time I can say from what I have studied on the topic, that we are considerably less conscious and less spiritually evolved and aware than many tribes.<br/> <br/> DQ: Speak for yourself!<br/> <br/> Bird: I was not speaking for you or me, but...

<t>Otto Weininger on the nature of comedy:<br/> <br/> The essence of comedy seems to me to be an undue stressing of the empirical, thereby to reveal its unimportance. Everything realised is in principle laughable, and comedy bases itself on this, and so is the counterpart of the erotic. While the la...

<t>Bird wrote: <br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>David this is a huge topic, although one I am quite interested in. There are several reasons I think he was talking about ancient tribal ways that included ancient sages, but society as well. He (and others) made several comments about how people once lived...

<t>For the sake of other readers of this forum, I'd like to analyize the belief that "everything is open to error" or "our every thought is false". It is a fairly widespread view in our society today and, even though it is easy to expose, one comes across it all the time. It is popular with aimless ...

<t>Matt Gregory posted in this interesting essay from Soren Kierkegaard. I've edited it slightly for the sake of brevity. <br/> <br/> <br/> --<br/> <br/> <br/> THE ROTATION OF CROPS<br/> <br/> A VENTURE IN A THEORY OF SOCIAL PRUDENCE<br/> <br/> <br/> People with experience maintain that proceeding f...

<r>Huz Heng's outpourings contain some excellent stuff. He's a real find. He has that wildness of thought which is needed for wisdom; all he needs now is some discipline and he'll really go places ...... <br/> <br/> Anyway, these are some of my favourite bits:<br/> <br/> <br/> ---<br/> <br/> <br/> -...

This thread will be devoted to archiving those posts which are high in quality and wisdom, as decided by Dan Rowden or myself. Its purpose is to prevent the gems from sliding down the thread board and disappearing into the ether. It should be noted that it is not a discussion thread and will be clos...

<t>Matt wrote:<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr> Well it was stated that the statisticians are studying populations, so presumably their results would be constricted by the populations they are studying, but what if there was some uncaused component of human behavior? Couldn't the restrictions of human ab...