GENIUS FORUMS

I was pleased to hear this again. Although I see mourning as a very private affair that should not be prolonged with circling, I agree with Susan that feelings of affection should not be eliminated. It's the grace with which you handle the changes and transformations of relationships that separates ...

It boils down to this. Currency is worth buying when your country is worth visiting. I travelled to America once. Why? Because there was a situation there that I thought was worth experiencing. I travelled to Switzerland for the same reason. I don't regret it. In both instances I had to buy (trade) ...

A Siren causing a Shipwreck

Song to the Siren (different version)

Do you see why this is problematic to Spirituality?

Reading these long, piping, prancing and presumptuous rivers of misunderstanding, I can't help but think back to a Satyr I once knew who tried to prove his flute was superior to my Lyre. I tend to see things as existing in complimentary contrasts, and anyone who comes into my space with the idea tha...

I guess I responded from my own personal experience where diversity always provided enriching experiences, from my first forays into public school where two cultures clashed, then right into the work force after high school into an industry that attracted immigrants from all over the world. From a ...

I'm not really sure children have much hypersensitivity to segregation. For instance, we segregate human beings based on age and grade. Grade primary, grade one, two three, junior high, high school. What children seem to be hypersensitive to is being compared to children who are much different in te...

There are probably very few people who have not at some time of their lives had some quality of genius. If they have not had such, it is probable that they have also been without great sorrow or great pain. They would have needed only to live sufficiently intently for a time for some quality to rev...

Based on my research in endocrinology, the diversity in human personality is quite steep, with a spectrum starting from red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo to violet. In terms of child raising, I think it would be wise to determine quite early what the child was destined for, approximately. A d...

Yes, be careful with the baby - and be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The way I value romanticism, of course, is quite opposed to the ideal of John Lennon, as he seemed to advocate pairing. I see woman as an inspiring stream to drink from, and then to quickly move on with as l...

"I must first protest against the notion that romanticism can be enclosed within a concept; for romantic means precisely that it oversteps all bounds". - Kierkegaard Romanticism is like a sword. If you're a fool, you'll impale yourself on your own ignorant usage of that sword. However, if...

Memories exist. They're simply subject to the qualities and limitations of memory. The existence of an "objective sense" is questionable. Memories exist insofar as they appear, but how they appear can drastically change depending on the position of consciousness. The objective-existence o...

Considering that duplication is an ideal by which accuracy of reproduction is assessed, digital photos can sure fool you. However, A=A. Copies can certainly be made, and language can be reproduced - at least in matters of appearance, manifestation. Reproduction exists as an appearance, clearly. But...

Apparently, the purpose of awareness is to keep the body alive long enough to perpetuate the species by reproduction, and then to keep the body alive long enough to nurture the reproduced. After that, forest sadhu, golf, WalMart greeter, whatever. I see no objective purpose to awareness. However, t...

What if the intellect and character are diners a the same table sharing stories and building a healthy friendship, a sense of unattached ego, a certain creativity. Makes me think of Eric Orwoll's talk called IQ Wars. I think a degree of ego can be a useful tool for structuring interpersonal interac...

Conclusion: All differentiated reality is the application of perspective on an undifferentiated reality. Absolute infinity, God, exists in the form of an undifferentiated reality which contains all reality and forms all reality. (The common usage of the word form implies time, here I refer to the s...