GENIUS FORUMS

No one can give you advice on this. They can only provide you with personal anecdotes, or related thoughts. You sound young so here are some thoughts. If you want to lead, you need to improve your people skills, and become a decent at politics*. Right now you have an idealists mentality (at least pa...

No. The species is stuck in a pattern they will, almost certainly, never shake. To change coarse, one must understand the pattern. Failing to do so, or not seeing a problem, will continue similar repeating results (within the standard fluctuation). Even those unusual enough to grasp this, will know ...

Which brings me to the vague idea of a genius which seems to be annotated with everyones self in this forum. I know I know too little to about too much to be worthy of such a status nor have my endeavours taken off the ground to demand me a genius. Everyone is merely a sum total (abilities and know...

longsincedead, That aside, you try to make an argument about the flaw in "atheism", by attacking those who are not theist thusly: "commonly get egotistically involved in the accumulation of knowledge" My question to you is: do you understand what ad hominem is? Normally it is us...

The major flaw of modern atheism is that atheists commonly get egotistically involved in the accumulation of knowledge, *) and a absolute belief in knowledge as a means to derive a sense of egotistical security and knowing. IE: a belief that a theory explains everything, and leaves nothing unexplai...

God cannot be said to exist in the same sense as anything else for which we can say A=A, as in every other case there must exist something that A is not for A=A to be our definition of a logically consistent statement of existence. It is inherently meaningless to imply "...and not anything els...

Anyone who denies God's existence can do so with logical impunity, provided one insists that God is not synonymous with Creator but is taken to mean "literally everything." There appears to be a lack of choices here. One in particular. God cannot be said to exist in the same sense as anyt...

The word love is a bad concept. Value is better. We all have values (things we value). Having a mission in life is the most valuable thing a person can have. Intellectual development will be the limiting factor. Only you can find meaning. If you turn over you own mind, to be filled by others (have ...

All I think is to search for Truth, abandon any productive task that I should do. Seeking truth - is seeking facts and placing them into proper context. This equals knowledge. There is nothing more productive. It is not that other activities are not productive. It is just that Thought proceeds acti...

This is one of the funniest post I have ever seen.

Dropping names (that are supposed to make people fall in line - sorry).

Dropping context (big time).

And incorrect definition.

And this material intrinsically exist by way of its own character, from its own side? Can you point to the exact time when the material first came into existence? Any person locked into the mind and its concepts will talk in this way. The rest of your post (most of it is part of a popular, self con...

My last response on this. Last word will be yours. I question this belief. I do not deal in beliefs (second time). I adhere to scientific methodology. My point is that when you assert a thing like this, you are still dealing in abstractions. You are not talking about Reality from an objective viewpo...

dejavu you are doing fine. Is you are still mistaking abstract and material. I have no more time for this, so I will keep this simple (for anyone else confused about this): Chair is a concept / abstract / idea. What it is constructed of, is material. Now refer back to the letter swap example in pre...

Everything you say about Reality or anything else for that matter is arbitrary. This is going in a few directions. arbitrary = "subject to individual will or judgment without restriction " Being is that we are talking about the nature of existence (my topic), we are using the word judgeme...

You've claimed to be enlightened, therefore, you shouldn't see any need to be frustrated at others incapacity to understand whatever arbitrary concept of Reality which you are currently entertaining. Why? Because from the perspective of Reality, there are no rights and there are no wrongs. These ar...

Just a temporary visit, combating faulty though processes.

In this thread: No point in letting you be the proverbial tree that falls in a forest, with no one around to hear if it makes a sound.

Mine is important enough to be found in the dictionary Nick, you oaf. Wow. Any philosopher worth his weight in salt would have no problem providing a simple definition on their own terms. I hope you don't consider yourself one. It's like you're trying to sustain indefinitely an altered state of min...

Kelly Jones wrote:What does "existents" mean? Things?

Science: the action of defining and understanding things, and the nature of things.

Yes.
Despite the words used - logical ordering allows people to get the intended meaning. Words should be defined precisely for better communication, but....

I guess either you see it or you don't, and I'm probably not the best pedagogue. I like to spend more time here to learn than to teach others. To me, I don't get why you insist on dismissing what not possessing 'inherent existence' signifies in terms of non-absolute and dependent, caused and contin...

People have written volumes of books on the relationships between these varied fields, but I may well be exploring the relationships between these things for the first time with any degree of sincerity. It's a little difficult to know what you're talking about, because all these things interrelate....

Because, at this juncture in my life, I fail to see one. Going back to the original post (and scanning through the responses, of which I saw only one in the right direction): Life is the state of an existent existing. Your question is invalid, therefore there is no answer. If you want a purpose - y...