GENIUS FORUMS

The "What We REALLY Are" video was boring. I didn't get any warm fuzzies, no new insights, and not even a laugh.

It is a nice name (but not indicating overly nice - the angel Gabriel was not exactly depicted as docile), and it's a shame that much of the world is not aware that it is a male name - although more people are aware that Angel is a guy's name than they are aware that Kelly is an Irish male name ( I ...

Cory wrote: I don't see any reason why you think that this 'moron' is egoless. You seem to equate 'naivity, docility, and meekness' as egolessness. No, I do not. The point I was trying to convey is that a moron without an ego can become more susceptible to the hazards of naivity. And I'd hardly clas...

It could be if it were the fancy of one's self, but the egoless moron would be riveted to every infomercial, continually convinced that each item offered was the answer to all of his problems in that area, be convinced that every word of Dianetics was true until page 376 when the Mormons ring his do...

cckeiser wrote: The point I was trying to make is when we try too hard to be smart we over analyze and miss the simple truths. The gift is in seeing the simple truth and also seeing the hidden truths by "over-analyzing." For example, most people thought that Fight Club was a good but stran...

AlyOshA wrote:

Sounds like the “highest accomplishment of genius” is unconsciousness doesn’t it?

Now there's irony. I think that Kiekegaard may have been a little confused.

David wrote:

the vision of the human race is so limited that it tends to regard this stumbling and getting run over as the very height of spiritual genius and philosophical acumen

That is a very true observation of falseness.

No, almost exactly the opposite. The bigger the ego, the harder to see around to ego to see ultimate truth. The ego stands between a person and the truth, so the less of an ego, the less in the way of seeing truth. A person with a big ego will decide for himself what is true, and if it does not matc...

:) Too late, I already saw the post. :)

There was a choice before, hence "more of" a choice. When the ego is gone, the ego does not get in the way of clear thinking and clear understanding (understanding connotates "input" more and thinking connotates more "output" even thought the concepts are similar). &quo...

Sunshine and rain together bring rainbows, don't they?

Weigh your objectives and determine first what you really want out of life. It is possible to search for truth and live a life worth living, but proper allocation of time, effort, and resources can only be determined by ascertaining your goals and determining how much of which goals you really want....

Cory wrote: One quotes other people and refers to the quotes of other people to the degree that ones own understanding lacks breadth, depth and flexibility. and I add: With the increased exposure to the thoughts of others, one then one's understanding is fed, affording an opportunity to grow. Cory w...

Pye wrote on 9/20/06: Crude again, this quote from an old Maria Muldaur song: It ain't the meat; it's the m-o-t-i-o-n . . . . I'm sure by now you get the analogy, dear measurers. I wrote on 9/8/06: I agree that having an IQ and using it are totally different things. Okay Pye, I guess some members ;-...

Okay, some quotes from others: When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. — Jonathan Swift What is genius?—To will both a lofty goal and the means to achieving it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Towering genius disdains a ...

I like this one:

The Genius only becomes a genius by accident because he has failed miserably and painfully at becoming everything else - Cosmic Prostitute

Tharan wrote: Understanding things causes pain when you don't know how to handle it. I propose that denotes a need for further understanding. There are things that I require further understanding of, but knowing from experience that further understanding yeilds answers, this gives me hope that there...

Cory asked: Do you equate 'getting over yourself' with 'ending the ego'? Yes, pardon the colliquialism. and: And do you think 'ending the ego' is an easy thing to do? Ooph - good question. Ending the ego is painful, and the stronger the ego that ends, the more painful it is. In that way, it is not e...

CP wrote: It illustrates how feeble the species is as a whole, but by illustrating the problem, the solution becomes self-evident. I think the director's thoughts on what humanity needs to do to turn the problem around is to just get over ourselves. That was the main truth that I found so true as to...

I think they try to keep what they think are pinnacles on the genius forum, and "other stuff" on worldly matters.

Isn't a more advanced genius supposed to be well rounded (and I don't mean "having a body like Buddha")?

Carl wrote:

Guess this is the off-hours lounge for sages.

I thought it either was or could be used as such.

By the way, the ability to recognize humor is one form of intelligence...

Clyde wrote: But this, like your example, is hypothetical and there is no end to such examples and counter-examples. My example was not hypothetical. My example was an exact quotation of one particular exchange that I had with a child. "Representative" means that I have had similar exchang...

Dan,

I think the label was just fine.

And the pope was just quoting a book quoting some people from the fourteenth century. here is part of the speech showing that: when I read the edition by Professor Theodore Khoury (Münster) of part of the dialogue carried on - perhaps in 1391 in the winter barracks near Ankara - by the erudite Byza...

cckeiser wrote: Here's a puzzle for you all. Let's see if you can figure out the puzzle. I'm assuming most of you have taken a few IQ tests, so you should all be somewhat familiar with this one. Which does not belong? boat airplane bus train I was just going to ignore that, but the thought that some...