GENIUS FORUMS

Back in the old days of kings, commoners were supposed to avert their eyes when the king passed. Anyways, this just seems pretty weird. from http://www.dailytexanonline.com/media/paper410/news/2005/08/04/TopStories/Conservative.Group.Commends.Bush-965863.shtml GRAPEVINE - Roads were shut down Wednes...

if love is refrenced as pure exalted experience, What does that mean? Do you consider love to be pure? In what sense? "Exalted" sounds like a value judgement, not a statement of fact. If you mean "love" in the usual sense of strong affection, attraction, admiration, devotion, et...

MKFaizi wrote:I don't think that there will be both. South America is largely Catholic.

You think that, because they are Catholic, that's closer to the USA Christian mainstream? Less alien than the Muslim Middle East?

There are no blatant contradictions in the New Testament, unless one is engaged in picking fly droppings out of pepper. So, it's okay for there to be contradictions, as long as you think they are unimportant? It is all trivialities and misses the heart of the story and message. Are these important,...

For example how will a future paranoid society on the edge of collapse think of what David Quinn wrote in Woman, An Exposition for the Advanced Mind ? The world is gradually becoming one vast homogeneous culture, a Western culture. This is giving rise to a form of tolerance whereby those values sha...

But the insurance company might go broke, or it's owners might run off with all the money, so I'd need to be insured against that happening as well . . . etc. Spiralling into total madness. I work at an insurance company that is in liquidation (i.e., it went broke). It had an elaborate system of re...

Thus it seems that in order for any semblance of true rationality to hold, one must argue that it is not necessary to have complete truth and knowledge, but to only ask for a "reasonable assurance", which is bound by a "reasonable probability", in that our sense perceptions are ...

In your quest for precision, you seem to have completely forgotten that ethics, which is the most important part of philosophy, is rational even though it barely deals with knowledge or truth at all . Why do you say that ethics is the most important part of philosophy? Speaking of which, have you s...

prince wrote:What value does it have? Who gives a shit if "Symmetry subsumes absolutism because a simple truth table becomes an invariant symmetry rotation." ?

Well, I think he may well be on to something. If you don't care, then don't read it.

Have we got enough wars going on yet? What about Venezuela? http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/08/09/chavez.invasion.ap/index.html Chavez called the United States the "most savage, cruel and murderous empire that has existed in the history of the world." The Venezuelan leader said &quo...

Yes, physical objects are in a state of flux, in that they change with time. Of course one can see that if time is also a dimension then the thing becomes a changeless in four dimensions. So the law of identity holds for the higher dimensional thing, when time is a dimension. [thing + flux] is time...

analog57 wrote:Here is a clue ...for you:

http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath540/kmath540.htm

Thanks!

That helped quite a bit.

It is not his empirical existence that is in question amongst almost all historians, it his resurrection and miraculous events that are doubted. Well, if you just want to say there was some preacher guy who lived 2000 years ago... I'm willing to grant that there were many. Obviously untrue? It depe...

Expulsion from Ne Plus Ultra Wow! That read like a scene out of an Ayn Rand book or something, where the characters are completely cardboard. I've never seen someone play "Priest of Science" with such utter single-mindedness. If I was reading it in a novel, I'd think it was a gross exager...

sevens wrote:If you don't enjoy funk music, you have no soul.

Interesting. I enjoy funk, but I have no soul.

I think of "cool" as meaning essentally the same thing as "fashionable." Do you have a different idea in mind?

Sounds like you're a pretty cool guy. Not really. Or, rather, I hope not. There's a 13-year-old boy around that reminds me of what "cool" is. Cool is doing, or being, what other people think is cool. Cool is being just slightly above average - enough to be noticed, to be impressive, but n...

sevens wrote:Everyone just wants to be cool.

I used to be cool, fifteen or twenty years ago.

Now I don't care.

Infinity means continuity which can be duplicated via a wholly finite self similar iteration process. Geometric invariance becomes a rule that distributes over all finite iterations due to the encoding of a replicable rule within each fractal shape, just as DNA is encoded within each biological cel...

My guess -- that is all -- is that it is much looser than that -- that there are many groups inspired by and aiming to please bin Laden. My guess is that such factions raise their own money for their "causes." I don't think they need a godfather. I've been reading the official 9/11 Commis...

Jesus was a real guy. In my opinion, the historical evidence is very weak. Some of the stories about his life are obviously untrue. The same could be said of any religion and its basic tenants. Why single out Christianity? Christianity, and Islam, currently have a great deal of political influence ...

Apparently al Qaeda does take responsibility for the 9/11 attacks, and is promising more to come :

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/ ... index.html

Although I don't support Bush, I don't see what else he could have done in that situation [when told of the attacks while reading with a group of schoolchildren]. If he breaks it off on camera, everyone knows something major is happening. That very act would create panic. It appears more stable and...

The WTC had an unusual collapse perhaps because they were unusualy built tall and large buildings? The twin towers were unusual in that the outer cladding of the building actually carried the load for the structure. Each floor was suspended from the external walls, rather than the other way around,...

sasakura wrote:So I ask of you: Is perfection obtainable?

To decide whether it is obtainable, we'd first need to decide exactly what it is, no?

Still, it could be that striving after perfection is desirable, even if perfection itself is not obtainable.