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by Orenholt
Mon Apr 07, 2014 3:38 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Neutrality is a Lie
Replies: 2
Views: 3911

Re: Neutrality is a Lie

Kunga wrote:O

Get some paints..mix all the colors together..what do you get ?
Brownish grey. :P

But there is a difference between color as light and color as pigments.
We know that white light contains all colors because when we put it through a prism it becomes a rainbow.
by Orenholt
Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:51 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Neutrality is a Lie
Replies: 2
Views: 3911

Neutrality is a Lie

Neutrality is a false concept and depends on context. If we look at something like the concept of black (negative) and white (positive) we say that there is gray and classify that as neutral. However this is not true. Black is the absence of all colors. White is the presence of all colors. So becaus...
by Orenholt
Mon Mar 31, 2014 3:56 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Pinpointing the Ego
Replies: 30
Views: 16855

Re: Pinpointing the Ego

I do mean "promoting well being" though it could be compared to the god like love. I never said it was "uncaused". Well being for whom and projected in which kind of future time frame? And if it's not uncaused it's not unconditional, which is just one popular description of agap...
by Orenholt
Fri Mar 28, 2014 11:33 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Pinpointing the Ego
Replies: 30
Views: 16855

Re: Pinpointing the Ego

Cahoot wrote:It’s a knowing that comes from realizing equanimity.
But why is that incompatible with love and happiness?

Stable is stable.

You can be in a stable state of sadness or in a stable state of joy.
by Orenholt
Thu Mar 27, 2014 6:43 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: logical women on facebook
Replies: 9
Views: 8077

Re: logical women on facebook

Contributions can be comments on the pictures or suggestions for future pictures. Here’s a muse you may like. http://uploads0.wikipaintings.org/images/thomas-gainsborough/mrs-graham.jpg The backstory. http://georgianaduchessofdevonshire.blogspot.com/2008/09/tart-of-week-honourable-mary-graham.html ...
by Orenholt
Thu Mar 27, 2014 6:33 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Pinpointing the Ego
Replies: 30
Views: 16855

Re: Pinpointing the Ego

The only thing I can think of that's NOT motivated by fear is agape love. Unconditional love is not conditional love on steroids. It is not attachment to some extended to mean attachment to all. Rather, it is dispassion. Equanimity. I'm not disagreeing but why does agape not mean love for the all? ...
by Orenholt
Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:00 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Pinpointing the Ego
Replies: 30
Views: 16855

Re: Pinpointing the Ego

Then I remembered that a characteristic of enlightenment is agape love. It's unclear what you think it means for you, that word. Like God "loved" the human maggots crawling the Earth? Or like with the Greek, the love for family or spouses? Promoting "well-being" perhaps? What is...
by Orenholt
Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:03 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Giving up on enlightenment
Replies: 159
Views: 61034

Re: Giving up on enlightenment

1. I love my life and it’s a very happy life. 2. I don’t think, that I have what it takes to become enlightened. 3. I fear, that even if would try, I would end up somewhere in the middle and become broken. 1.) Being enlightened is not a bad thing. 2.) You'll never know if you don't try, but I think...
by Orenholt
Tue Mar 25, 2014 10:17 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Greek Athletics and the Anti-Christ
Replies: 4
Views: 6648

Re: Greek Athletics and the Anti-Christ

Ok so what does this have to do with the Anti-Christ?
by Orenholt
Mon Mar 24, 2014 7:19 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Total Nudity
Replies: 2
Views: 5676

Total Nudity

Due to the fact that Kelly Jones has given so much criticism to my facebook page called "logicalwomen" I decided perhaps instead of letting her destroy it I would make her help build it up. I decided that if none of my quotes from women were good enough for Kelly I should post one of her o...
by Orenholt
Sun Mar 23, 2014 10:02 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Pinpointing the Ego
Replies: 30
Views: 16855

Re: Pinpointing the Ego

As for charity and self-sacrifice as morality , let it be clear that these do not come from ones own wretched, loving heart. These are coming from the mob, they are social mores, to maintain the state of affairs as well as the wars surrounding it. Although indeed the poor "will always be with ...
by Orenholt
Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:53 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Pinpointing the Ego
Replies: 30
Views: 16855

Re: Pinpointing the Ego

Any reason to put any faith in Maslow's pyramid scheme? It seems more to reflect his own utopian values and social mores. That whole outdated self-actualization psychological religion. But like with all religions, one can learn from its imagery of course or from how it can propel someone along some...
by Orenholt
Sun Mar 23, 2014 12:19 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Pinpointing the Ego
Replies: 30
Views: 16855

Re: Pinpointing the Ego

Here's a little blog entry I wrote to go along with this thread... Fear is one of the most powerful emotions and wears many disguises. Fear motivates nearly every aspect of our lives. If you look at Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs you will see this. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/...
by Orenholt
Sat Mar 22, 2014 11:20 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Giving up on enlightenment
Replies: 159
Views: 61034

Re: Giving up on enlightenment

Cahoot wrote:
Orenholt wrote:Why is this thread from 2009 being bumped up to the top?
Get a grip. 2009 was a good year.
Oops.. I just realized I misread the date of the thread. :P
by Orenholt
Sat Mar 22, 2014 6:44 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Giving up on enlightenment
Replies: 159
Views: 61034

Re: Giving up on enlightenment

Why is this thread from 2009 being bumped up to the top?
by Orenholt
Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:10 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Pinpointing the Ego
Replies: 30
Views: 16855

Re: Pinpointing the Ego

At the base fear and greed, at the top action for the good. That is why most Americans have only fear and greed to drive them, they are very potent weapons in a world where most people want to just sit down, do nothing but get paid for it. Greed is a manifestation of fear. Why do people want cool c...
by Orenholt
Thu Mar 20, 2014 9:30 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Pinpointing the Ego
Replies: 30
Views: 16855

Pinpointing the Ego

I have had a long struggle with the question of "why would I do anything if I am enlightened?" and "why would I do anything if I didn't have an ego?" because my concept of the ego was false. I was under the impression that ALL feelings were egotistical but in reality it is only o...
by Orenholt
Wed Mar 19, 2014 8:04 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The fundamental question
Replies: 146
Views: 55498

Re: The fundamental question

The form of the universe of course. ;)
by Orenholt
Wed Mar 19, 2014 6:30 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: logical women on facebook
Replies: 9
Views: 8077

Re: logical women on facebook

Facebook is just a "social media" site. That means that anyone can post pictures or text of just about anything within the limits. (the limits ban pornography mostly) The only thing that's "special" about facebook is that it's highly popular so most people that you know probably ...
by Orenholt
Tue Mar 18, 2014 12:45 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: logical women on facebook
Replies: 9
Views: 8077

Re: logical women on facebook

Thank you Tor. And as for Kelly Jones... This is not an invitation to troll and be negative. :| I can understand having doubts about things or even negative opinions about SOME things but you, Kelly, have not made ONE SINGLE positive comment on ANYTHING on the page at all. It's like you came there s...
by Orenholt
Tue Mar 18, 2014 9:40 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: No Enlightenment for me thanks.
Replies: 13
Views: 12373

Re: No Enlightenment for me thanks.

Thanks everyone. I think I mainly got discouraged because I took the words of someone I considered "more enlightened" than myself as true when I shouldn't have. The whole idea of "why would I do anything?" has always plagued me and then to hear it from someone else only enhanced ...
by Orenholt
Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:33 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: No Enlightenment for me thanks.
Replies: 13
Views: 12373

No Enlightenment for me thanks.

As I travel farther along the path to enlightenment I see a fatal flaw in the design. If I become enlightened I'll no longer have the urge to change the world for the better. I will simply realize that all is as it is meant to be and that all is well. While I can know this intellectually, my ego can...
by Orenholt
Tue Mar 04, 2014 8:53 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: logical women on facebook
Replies: 9
Views: 8077

Re: logical women on facebook

Also, the page is not JUST for women. Men of either sex are free to join too. ;)
by Orenholt
Mon Mar 03, 2014 5:00 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: logical women on facebook
Replies: 9
Views: 8077

logical women on facebook

https://www.facebook.com/LogicalWomen I'm hoping to gain some "likes" and contributions from other members here. Contributions can be comments on the pictures or suggestions for future pictures. I know I am not FULLY logical myself but that doesn't mean that I don't strive to be. I refrain...
by Orenholt
Thu Feb 27, 2014 3:32 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: FIGHT!
Replies: 41
Views: 20978

Re: FIGHT!

In any case Getoriks has accepted what I have to say so we no longer disagree on the "thingness" of infinity (by the definition that a thing is not nothing). In my (loose) definition of "thing" the word applies to Infinity. (apparently he somehow didn't know that I was using a di...