GENIUS FORUMS

Every once and a while one comes across a quote that shines with its simple and profound wisdom. I came across such a quote this evening by Rumi: "Close your lips and let the maker of mouths talk, the one who says things. " Can you hear Rumi's simple wisdom of what it means to be one with...

There's the possibility that the same thing happened in the US at the same time due to the Great Depression though. “According to the US statistics, the US lost not less than 8 million 553 thousand people from 1931 to 1940. Afterwards, population growth indices change twice instantly exactly betwee...

1. -- Trick question - you can't eliminate anything without eliminating it all. 1. a --Although that's a good question - would you happily eliminate it all? 2. -- Let's discuss the human bias against life. 2. a --Almost everyone seems to want to eliminate something, be it violence, lying, fallacies...

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Its a free country and I'm within my rights.

Yeah, the Vietnam experience fades somewhat but every now and then

Too far out, man.

Death

GodsDaughter1 wrote:When one loses Self-control

The contemplations of intuitive knowledge

When one loses self-control even momentarily, it is vitally important to regain composure for sensibilities sake, so others can see sensibility for it's value!

The only time I lost control was when I was sent to Vietnam.

Diebert van Rhijn wrote:
1. -- As recent moderator (well now you know

2. -- It's just that I feel so powerful moving things around, I suppose :)

1. -- Congratulations. What I've always admired about you is your blunt honesty.

2. -- Yup, I've that Leo power.

Cahoot wrote:“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”

1 Corinthians 13:11 (KJV)

Sounds too roman catholic for my liking.

Dennis Mahar wrote:absence of something (inherent existence)
doesn't mean absolute nothingness.
bliss.

Where's Dennis go?

Scenario A: State of Nothingness Scenario B: If there was anything beyond nothingness it would be some kind of eternal life stream. You would be re-incarnated as "energy" and not the physical matter as we are now. You'd flow as energy through the cosmos, no longer as an individual but as ...

Also, when the only options at the ballot box are big spending Republicans versus big spending Democrats, it's hard to see things changing anytime soon.

movingalways wrote:You took the time to quote my script and answer my script to tell me you don't care about my script. How does that old saying go? Oh yeah, thou doest protest too much.

Circle jerks are everywhere and nowhere.

Dear duality, your saviour of comfort gives me the sweetness of joy. I need and cherish this your tender flowing touch, for in the deep where your sweet touch come to life, my unflinching conscience knows of thought's eternal hunger for life and death and of its blindness of being made of this hung...

My wife prefers that I take her from behind but all is fair in love and war.

Grabbing (holding) her boobies turns her on when doing the doggie style.

We've been doing the wild thang for over 45 years why jump ship in the middle of the ocean?

1. -- I've heard that we're not too far from being able to upload our consciousness to a substance with greater durability than our withering brains. Just think of the implications of a new world that can allow our consciousnesses to live forever without the strife that we endure as human beings. 2...

-Urizen writes- 1. -- You can use your mind. 2. -- The Absolute transcends and includes, it does not abolish, rational thought. 3. -- To reach higher than reason is not to abandon reason, 4. -- any more than to reach higher than sensation is to abandon the senses and devolve into non-sense. -Tomas (...

Diebert van Rhijn wrote:Tomas, if you'd have clicked, you should have arrived at the Editor's blog and noticed it was re-instated here.

Found it, thank you.

The last of the Semites is an interesting opinion piece with a solid historical basis which shows how the antisemitic can be defined as actively applying or supporting policies to uproot Semites from their homelands because of a belief that they would belong somewhere else. A tragic irony! AL Jazee...

Good videos. Thank you.

windhawk wrote: This is likely solace for the 12/21/12 folks.

December 21, 2012 was nothing more than Earth being at the center of the Milky Way.

Where planet Earth is ultimately traveling to I'll let you know sometime in the future.

If an alien came to our planet looking for redeeming qualities of our societies, would religion be one? Is a religious society further advanced than a pre-religious one? Does religion have a point? If so, is that point still relevant? If we lost all religion, would humankind suffer? Is a post-relig...

When in doubt
Whip it out
Whip it good

Wall Street Orders Obama To Kill Glass-Steagall "In a matter of weeks, Obama and his Congressional Republican cohorts, on orders from Wall Street, are going to unleash absolute Hell on the American public through even deeper killer austerity cuts than the sequestration of the past months."...