GENIUS FORUMS

And a crazy chapelier.

I saw this and just had to reply... That was quite an interesting interview with Pearce- re the affects of TV, computers and so on on kids. "Researchers found that twenty years ago young people could distinguish between 360 different shadings of a single color category like red or blue. Today ...

For those that haven't been around for the past 4 or 5 years, David, Victor, and Nat are three of the most battle-hardened philosophic posters on the net. Everywhere they go, they leave a wake of destruction all in the name of truth. It's great. And we have all three here, in a single thread. Battle...

Scott's Republicanism is mostly a function of masculinity and assertion as opposed to economic or social philosophies. It is NeoCon at its root. I disagree. You only say this because I support the war. Supporting the war doesn't necessarily make someone a neocon. No, I don't say it only because you...

Nat, And Iran-Contra was a much smaller scale operation that allowed operation under conver of darkness, so to speak. Even then they fucked it up and got caught. With 9/11, you are talking coordinated commercial air strikes with timed internal explosives, in broad daylight, with actors leaving perso...

Scott's Republicanism is mostly a function of masculinity and assertion as opposed to economic or social philosophies. It is NeoCon at its root. Traditional Goldwater conservatism, or even Regan Republicanism, is in almost polar opposition to the current adminstration. NeoCon Republicanism is not ab...

But the Republicans are affectively digging for themselves a desert of power for a decade or more. They wanted that? Their unabashed incompetence is historic in perspective. How can you seriously attribute anyone associated with this administration, or the last 2 Republican Congresses as capable of ...

Unidian wrote, You may be thinking of Zen, which coalesced when traditional Indian Buddhism was brought to China (mythologically by Bodhidharma, the first patriarch) and interpreted in Taoist terms. As author Ray Grigg demonstrates in The Tao of Zen, Zen is basically Taoism with a Buddhist face. Wha...

If our incompetent government, or any shadowy organizations representing it, were capable of successfully pulling off this 9/11 hoax, then they deserve whatever outcome they desired. And to be honest, it is difficult for me to believe that the current situation is anything that anyone would have des...

Yes. However, neither of the official reports from FEMA or NIST maintain that the plane impacts played a crucial role in the collapses. They acknowledge that the towers were built to withstand such impacts and there was insufficient force to cause the kind of structural damage necessary to result i...

Where's Dan?

Ryan: UG wanted people to listen to his words as a means to eventually abandon them completely. So his teaching still have some value for seekers that are at a certain level of awareness. Like all philosophers that speak some level of truth. UG was effective because he called for the total negation...

And yet I posted AFTER you did. Intriguing.

Scott has actually made progress in the sense that he knows that some objective Buddhahood is not real. It is frustrating because of the effort put into it. But really that is all part of the process. There is no becoming , there is only awakening . Part of that awakening is to know that all the sil...

Hang on. Haven't scientists been saying these past few decades that quantum theory is "complete" and that there were no hidden causal factors to be discovered ......? - Decades? Not sure I heard that one. It is a fairly healthy endeavor with much land to discover. Always has been. Certain...

I don't personally have an adversion to the basics of string theory until they throw in additional dimensions to make the maths work. It's a bit like Einsteins universal constant bullshit, which was again just something imagined to make the maths work. But multiple dimensions are all around you, Ji...

Describe this "expansionary force" please. What is interesting to me is just as string theory is seeing a decline from its lofty state as holy grail because of lack of real world applications, an actual solid object arrives that, upon extrapolation, fits nicely in string theory and gives r...

Well, new to human awareness, at least. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325954.200?DCMP=Matt_Sparkes&nsref=fourth-state ...Wen suspected that the effect could be an example of a new type of matter. Different phases of matter are characterised by the way their atoms are organised. In a li...

David Quinn wrote:Here is an interesting question, applicable to both men and women:

If a genie gave you a choice between being extremely attractive or repulsively ugly, which would you choose?

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What are the consequences of not choosing?

I have never actually seen or met Dawkins with my own eyes. I don't trust TV. It's all camera tricks or somesuch.

The measuring yardstick is how desirable she is viewed by other men and women. Simply by possessing sexual features that are desirable, this keeps her trapped in the world of superficiality. This is based on an assumption that other's weaknesses are her own. Am I influenced by a sexy llama? (And I ...

Hi Sher, I recognized you (the Sherazhad derivative and the pic of the Panama Canal gave it away :P). Life is life. I've always been healthy enough to post.

How's everything going with you?

This should be insulting, but it is too true. David's story about the Zen Master denying entry to a beautiful female out of concern that she would be too much of a distraction to the monks tells me that men have never been good at forced celibacy. The story also made me wonder how many men would ha...

Perhaps this spoonful of wisdom will go down better here being served up by a male. From myself, it has fallen on deaf ears. If you are serious about breaking through the fog of unawakened male consciousness, then you have to speak in a tone that says you are willing and able to cut off their balls...

Am I paranoid? Am I being irrational? Odd? Lame? Hypocritical?

Prude.

You should go to class naked one day. Call it art.