GENIUS FORUMS

I think our inablility to socially express our masculinity is repressing it. The empowerment of women in the workplace has led to a feminization of society. And women don't generally understand loud talking . men are not always mad when they are talking loud and yelling at each other. When women ar...

women can’t help acting in this manner, for they are hard wired to circle like vultures and tear great chunks off of any unsuspecting, or suicidal soul that enters into their domain. This 'connecting' with others is how they survive. Funny you should phrase it exactly like that Sue - you gave you...

Elizabeth Isabelle wrote:

Carl G wrote:It leads to unhappiness.

How? Ethical happiness leads to more ethical happiness.

Happiness and unhappiness are the up and down of the same emotional rollercoaster. The idea is to transcend this amusement park ride.

It leads to unhappiness.

Carl wrote: Not really. It's 23% of the population "crammed into" around 17% of the land. It's like the U.S. with 405 million instead of 300 million. How long do you think it will take for that to actually happen, 30 years? And when it does, will it be crowded full? Carl, I think I have m...

Iran's current population is 68,688,433 (July 2006 est.) at 1.648 million sq km (about the size of Alaska) CIA Factbook, Iran Western Countires? In the United States alone, the population is 298,444,215 (July 2006 est.) spread out over 9,631,420 sq km (same link, just type in "United States&qu...

Hi Bryan, The passage below gives a clear description of most people's lives - All living beings, however, discriminate falsely: 'It is this' or 'It is that,' and 'It is advantageous' or 'It is disadvantageous'; they entertain evil thoughts, make various evil karmas, and [thus] transmigrate within ...

Quotes from the essay in question: this essay will attempt to argue that in the contemporary culture of capitalism, the master/slave dialectic remains discernible. And it does, for the most part, but in a very pedestrian way, and sheesh, it's nothing we didn't already know. Then it gets creative wit...

Can a man and a woman have a decent conversation? About what? About ideas? I have not found this to be possible. Is it possible? A preconceived notion that such a conversation is not possible is a hinderance to such a conversation occuring. Perhaps you have experienced this phenomenon. No, I have n...

Carl, you realize how rare it is for men to be rational too right? Yes, of course. A deluded woman compared to a deluded man is a saint. Ha! A deluded saint. Carl, why do you continually focus on the shortcomings of women? What is your psychological motivation for this? It seems weird to me because...

I also have a theory that passionate females can end the severity/frequency of their libido easier than passionate males. The libido theory is probably right. As I understand, the male libido is activated by visual cues (but love is more of a package deal). The reasons for a female to be attracted ...

The Holiday lies start early. Babies given a big Christmas whoop-dee-doo before they are conscious enough to know what is happening. Birthday parties at the pizza joint at age two. Make no mistake, the parents are doing this for the parents. Girl at work is taking her daughter Halloween trick-or-tre...

Elizabeth Isabelle wrote:Carl,

And this is what parents want for their children? A perpetuation of corruption?

Yes, in effect. They perpetuate corruption because it is all they know. Sugar and fat are good for you, for example.

Elizabeth Isabelle wrote: Why do parents tell lies to their children , then expect children to be truthful with their parents? Because adults are hypocrites. Actually, society supports lying, either outright or by inference. Townships lie to the public when they post speed limits and then do not en...

We must find ourselves in order to lose ourselves.

Original state: unconscious (merged with the one)
First step: conscious, and separate
Second step: transcended into the one, with consciousness

Without ego there can be no enlightenment.

Why, because there will be no counterforce with which to create the impetus to escape the hell of ordinary living.

Ego is the force. Will the counterforce, which must be harnessed.

And all this talk of no seeking is nonsense.

That is a more traditional viewpoint of gender differences. I understand that, as generalizations, the younger generations of females are far more reason-orientated than the older generations of females were, especially when they were younger. I wonder if as women become more rational, men become m...

Ryan wrote: One thing I noticed about the feminine spirit is that it wants everything to be explainable; the feminine doesn’t like mystery or the possibility of eternal unknowing. There are oodles of very feminine Wiccans and New Agers who absolutely wallow in mystery and the possibility of etern...

Actually, you all win. I'm out of here. You can go back to sleep now. My appologies to Sue H. if your question was honest and respectful, that would be the first here, and my answer to you was honest and straight also.. It just isn't worth it to me to have to deal with the nastiness on this site. G...

Thinking that you have 'courage' is vanity. Hollow egoic desperate 'self' validation, believing the lies to be truths. 'Pride' is considered a 'sin' for a reason. You're absolutely 'right', nameless. He's absolutely right because technically there is no "you" to have the courage, right, S...

Scott,

Thanks for your last reply.

Let's just say I disagree with just about everything you wrote in it, and leave it at that for a while.

Cheers,

Scott, CG: If you asking if books influence my experience, sure, but chiefly books corroborate my direct experience and contact. The written word is secondary, though important. I ask such things because outside of books, things like this that you're talking about don't exist. Nonsense. Unless you s...

Scott, Sapius: In my opinion, David does not mean “madness” as in to the point of being irrationally crazy. In this context it means a single-minded one-directional passion towards knowing existence and ones own true nature, which emerges from the dissatisfaction of irrational explanations offer...

Scott, CG: An adept would be a fully realized person, and a Buddha would be fully perfected. The difference would be that a Buddha would be in a permanent state of realization, and the adept would still experience moments of non-perfection. SS: Now how did you find this out? Reading books and talkin...

Scott, However, by careful observation, over time, from an increasingly elevated vantage point, you yourself will see sufficient evidence of how things work. I'm sure that statement is true. Yet, this is a philosophical forum. It isn't Zen master's paradise. Showing someone a direct way to whatever ...