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by Iolaus
Sat Jan 13, 2007 3:58 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Tumbleman/OS 012 link/goodbye
Replies: 38
Views: 74050

Hello Tumbleman,

nice to see you again.
by Iolaus
Sat Jan 13, 2007 3:51 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
Replies: 85
Views: 21636

Reed, And that is my point, that it is possible the premise is itself wrong, and that there is nothing fundamentally "wrong" with humans at all. But there is a difference between saying there is something wrong with relaity, and saying there is something wrong with humans. There is somethi...
by Iolaus
Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:50 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
Replies: 85
Views: 21636

Reed, Buddhism has nothing to do with the Hebrew creation story, and its premise is that existence is suffering, and that we should learn to get off this terrible wheel of birth and death. Nobody would buy the negativity if they didn't feel it. But I agree that it is a self-contained and self-refere...
by Iolaus
Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:47 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
Replies: 85
Views: 21636

Reed, I did not say there was something wrong with reality. But there is definitely something wrong with humans. All civilized religions go with this as a premise. I don't know that any aboriginal ones do. The whole idea of lost bliss and why agriculture is the start of it is well done in certain bo...
by Iolaus
Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:19 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
Replies: 85
Views: 21636

Diebert, I think the idea that humanity must have been stagnating unless they became intensely neurotic and spiritually cut off just is an unthinking prejudice. The opposite might even be the case. Reed, We could certainly reinterpret Genesis, in more than one way, but I suspect that there is a whol...
by Iolaus
Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:29 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
Replies: 85
Views: 21636

Diebert and Katy, Katy, you mght like Rebalancing the World by Carol Flinders if you like Quinn. I consider them two interpretations because I am not convinced that the fall was a good thing. I go with the idea that we got thrown prematurely into it. I see many of the problems of civilization as a g...
by Iolaus
Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:18 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Deconstructing the Hebrew creation myth
Replies: 85
Views: 21636

Hello Reed, So you finally got this started. But it is so much more fun to argue with someone who actually believes the stuff. My one Christian on the heaven and hell thread ran away. They scare so easily! And why is that? Because in this dream of a life, the closer the scrutiny, the more things dis...
by Iolaus
Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:14 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: What is defining?
Replies: 26
Views: 4578

Deleted everything because it got posted to the wrong thread.
by Iolaus
Mon Dec 25, 2006 12:10 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Reincarnation
Replies: 278
Views: 54450

Hello Trevor, I'll never use my real name online again. People talk about whether God is both immanent and transcendent. This is a different meaning than you gave. I have no particular problem with your usage, but when they say God is transcendent, they mean outside of nature. Once the so-called sup...
by Iolaus
Mon Dec 25, 2006 4:33 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: 2012
Replies: 43
Views: 29686

You apparently didn't understand.
by Iolaus
Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:51 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Reincarnation
Replies: 278
Views: 54450

Hi Trevor, By the way, did you used to have a different screen name? I'm not really familiar with that use of the word transcendent. I'll have to think about it. But that isn't what people usually mean by the word metaphysical. Is it? I was using it interchangeably with supernatural. People who beli...
by Iolaus
Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:08 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Reincarnation
Replies: 278
Views: 54450

Trevor, It should not give rise to the image of two realms: everything is physical, and metaphysics describes the transcendental features of everything. It is quite clear that there is only one thing here. What do you mean by transcendent? I relegate unsubstantiated claims about things that cannot b...
by Iolaus
Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:10 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: 2012
Replies: 43
Views: 29686

Millipodium We can know evil conceptually without tolerating it in our lives. Just like we can understand the dangers of fire without torching ourselves. That is a very shallow thought. If we had no understanding of excess heat it would be hard to take seriously. Everyone has had the experience of t...
by Iolaus
Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:53 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Reincarnation
Replies: 278
Views: 54450

tharpa, our assumption that anything beyond the physical is 'magical' is exactly the sort of materialist superstition evidenced by your belief - or disbelief - in 'magic' as the only alternative. Hear! Hear! Although it seems to me a mistake to use such terms as 'beyond the physical, or 'metaphysica...
by Iolaus
Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:39 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: 2012
Replies: 43
Views: 29686

Well, Transcix, You're either schizophrenically delusional, or....you're not. I've come to the conclusion that 2012 isn't about some overwhelming 24-hour day, but that it is a close approximation to when our solar system will be at the changeover point from descending to ascending proximity to the l...
by Iolaus
Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:45 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Why women like abuse
Replies: 133
Views: 23642

That's funny, I have always seen abusive men as losers. They are emotionally pathetic. Maybe I just don't hang out with the right class of people.
by Iolaus
Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:44 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Why women like abuse
Replies: 133
Views: 23642

mistake
by Iolaus
Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:41 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: 2012
Replies: 43
Views: 29686

Hey Philo! Got any spare tinfoil hats? I think I'll need one for this thread. You guys are so knee-jerk conventional. Not as bad as at KIR, but pretty bad. Underlying this question is the belief that everything that exists is necessary. That is false. Evil may not be necessary in all realms or in a...
by Iolaus
Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:00 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Heaven & Hell Paradox
Replies: 76
Views: 13965

Hello Sleeping, You say I am very arrogant and condescending. Perhaps it comes across that way on the forum. I don't think I get that reaction much in the real world. I do not feel arrogant, nor do I have any reason to be arrogant. Certainly I agree some Christians have a rich and real spiritual lif...
by Iolaus
Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:16 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Heaven & Hell Paradox
Replies: 76
Views: 13965

Hi Reed, Ok, so faith is action supported by belief? Your original point was that knowledge and faith were the same. The point I was really trying to make is that faith is based upon something real. The word faith is used to describe acceptance of a set of beliefs, but it is also used to mean a trus...
by Iolaus
Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:51 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Heaven & Hell Paradox
Replies: 76
Views: 13965

Hello Sleeping, Quote: I said faith and knowledge are the same thing, but knowledge replaces faith. I think I see what you mean... but I don't think that's exactly true... to me it's more that knowledge justifies faith more than it "replaces" it... Yes, I think you are seeing what I mean. ...
by Iolaus
Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:52 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Some Questions of Trevor
Replies: 388
Views: 77809

I've been having an ongoing conversation with someone. It began on the topic of evolution, with me insisting that theistic evolution is necessarily not really compatible with pure, Darwinian, atheistic evolution. This guy claims to believe in God, to be more or less a believing Jew, and he has made ...
by Iolaus
Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:16 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Heaven & Hell Paradox
Replies: 76
Views: 13965

Hello Sleeping, I guess you find my posts pretty boring, since you rarely respond to them. The bit about faith you completely misundertsood, and I think you didn't read carefully. I am wondering if I should bother, when you seem to have a vat of preprinted responses. Faith takes a brand of courage t...
by Iolaus
Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:54 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Zionist feminisation of society
Replies: 72
Views: 19191

Dan are you changing your icon? I hope so, it always looks to me like a man and a woman on a long, romantic walk in the woods.
by Iolaus
Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:41 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: LSD-- The Philosophical Implications
Replies: 52
Views: 13499

I'm with Elizabeth on this one. Nitrous oxide ain't no entheogen.

I was gong to try peyote once, but that is just the bitterest stuff on the planet. I couldnt hack it.