GENIUS FORUMS

The spirit of Socrates is dead. I arrive fortuitously at a forum that purports to be of people of intellectual concern and sophistication. I share my thoughts in the only way that I know how. Instead of being listened to and met with legitimate discourse, I am called a "wanker" and a "...

Some remarks on the arguments for Absolute Truth: first, they are all very reactionary and defensive. Why is this so? It would seem that the burden of proof is always on the Absolutist, because he is of greater ambition than the skeptic. Is this to his credit? Perhaps. There is no charisma like the ...

For Quinn: Is change illusory, or is continuity illusory? Is the world more fundamentally One or Many? I think that Nature is not formless, or at least, that it could never be experienced by men as such. I fear that you and Mr. Solway will always answer me with words inspired by the ancient orient, ...

you will also recognize, jason and kevin, that although the argument given by me is self-referencing, it does not make implicit or explicit exception for itself. furthermore, if there is an absolute truth, then falsity and error cannot be consistently accounted for. if there is an absolute truth, wh...

Cry, cry, cry. You're almost as dense as Kevin Solway. Let me clarify for you as I did for him: There is no truth but what men are persuaded of; where truth is defined as a thing apart from mens persuasions, it must be said that such a thing does not exist. there is no "internal contradiction&q...

o in italiano?

si je l'avais dit en francais, vous ridicule je?

DQ: I DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THE NON-DUALITY OF NATURE CAN BE CONSISTENTLY MAINTAINED. FOR NON-DUALITY IS ONLY A NEGATION OF ITS OPPOSITE, DUALITY. THE NECESSARY CORRELATIVE OF THE UNITY OF NATURE IS THE DUALITY OF NATURE. ONE CANNOT BE POSTULATED, OR EVEN CONCIEVED, WITHOUT AT LEAST THE BARE POSSIBI...

MR. SOLWAY: WITH ALL DUE RESPECT (THAT IS,NONE) YOUR PRETENSE TO INTELLIGENCE IS HARDLY HELPED BY THIS QUIBBLING OVER PUNCTUATION, NOR BY YOUR INSISTENCE ON APPLYING FALSE AND CONVENIENT LABELS ON YOUR OPPONENTS IN ORDER TO REDUCE THEIR ARGUMENTS TO A CONDITION OF MANAGEABILITY BY A MIND AS INCAPABL...

i confess i am incapable of deciphering it. let us reconcile our former differences and discuss. let me apologize for my arbitrary and ungrounded insults (tho youre still a bit of a heckler...). truth is, prince, i dont know you- or your sexual preferences- from anything at all. am i a homophobe? pr...

im glad to see, prince, that idiocy is alive and well, so that those resolved to eliminate them shall not be left with nothing to do. with that, i - along with the rest of the world - leave you most gladly to your own meagre devices. has anyone anything to say about dylans relationships with his aud...

Hey, DQ! When were you a cow?

further considerations, dq: there is no truth; there is only conviction, of varying degrees of strength. there is no demonstration; there is only persuasion. there is no discernible difference between certain knowledge and infallible guesswork. the mind cannot know, unless the mind is known; but the...

dq: let us clear the ground here. you are wrong if you think that im making the hackneyed old relativist argument, as if im another juvenile disciple of Nietzsche or Sartre; as for my "postmodernist" education, i don't have one to question. those are provisional and superficial distinction...

my loudest applause, dq, for what its worth. no bullshit. splendid, splendid answer.

kitoak, you are correct! but it seems that the question of free will and determinism is absolutely unanswerable because anything can be called determined or undetermined ex post facto. after it happens, how can we say that it could or could not have happened otherwise? also, anything can be called d...

prince you're just a fucking heckler. angry at your father or something? if youve got anything intelligent or funny to say, pull your boyfriends cock out of your mouth for just two seconds and say it. otherwise, keep blowing and spare me the bullshit.

The Totality is not really a unity - that's yet another dualistic category which needs be abandoned. It's neither a multiplicity, nor a unity; neither finite, nor infinite. help my misunderstanding, dq. how is "unity" a dualistic category? how can anything be neither a multiplicity nor a u...

nothing is easier than to insist that it is impossible that truth does not exist; one can, and must, always fall back on what we are conditioned, culturally and biologically, to assume about our experience. matters are complicated, however, when we begin to enumerate actual truths, as evidenced by t...

what is meant by an "ethical eye"?

the logical - as a category- does not exhaust the real, or the true, as a category? that seems problematic, but perhaps it is only problematic on its own authority?

might it not be true that to maintain that nothing is true is necessarily also to maintain that everything is true? if nothing is true then there is no standard of truth or falsity, and if there is no such standard then nothing is false and if nothing is false then everything is true. or did we take...

i just finished spinoza's ethics and will have to read it again, and probably again. and then again, only this time in latin. but one of spinoza's propositions is that "all things are true when they are referred to God". obviously, the import of this statement can only be fully understood ...

dylan's significance, besides his status as an entertainer on the order of elvis, lies in that he is the point of convergence of so many traditions that are so rich. he took them all into himself and, like a prism, has now scattered them brilliantly across the american cultural landscape. dylan is m...