GENIUS FORUMS

You're just asserting, without any evidence or explanation, that intellectual understanding of certain special, deep truths or meanings leads to broader consciousness. Again, like I asked David, why are these truths so special or deep? By what mechanism do they intensify consciousness? Unless you c...

Vishesh, yes, I am aware of the experiential journey of Soul/Mates-Twin Flames. Quite the ride. :-) What made you ask this question in relation to my post on Self-Love? Well it's more about certain changes that have taken place that has reoriented me significantly. Do you have an email corresponden...

How about factoring information such as this?
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1164726.shtml

Just going to dip in over here again, I'd be interested to hear about what Dan, David and Rhett have to say about the Senate and Congress supporting the HK bill (with Trump wavering about it).

Being conscious of the eternal, restless nature of God or Nature desiring to birth Itself is one thing, it is entirely another to allow this truth to be fully absorbed into consciousness. After all, perception of other-as-cause of pain and suffering is the core of pre-enlightened conditioning, even...

David Quinn wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2019 6:19 pm It makes perfect sense. Most people have no knowledge or awareness of the core illusion of maya because their minds are continuously being distracted by the more superficial illusions of their daily lives.

Could you elaborate a bit on what you mean by 'more superficial illusions'?

Minds are not inherently distinct from each other, either in time or space. If destroying some "core illusion" leads to the destruction of all others, the efforts of the original Buddha would have liberated the entire human race from delusion for all time. Thus, only nihilists shy away fr...

Generally, I would describe the masculine drive as the drive to make logical connections and the feminine drive as the drive to make meaningful connections, the key component of each being the drive to make connections. And although the masculine and feminine drives can be distinguished from each o...

Pam Seeback wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 3:08 am Obviously I do not consider the view of the conscious feminine as being one of 'giving into' or of 'seeking safety.'

How would you generally describe masculine and feminine drives?

It's a very weak basis for advising someone to reverse on a (probably?) serious personal decision to be here seeking something instead of chasing wordly success. Not really. I'm not particularly anal about dissociating all worldly endevours from avenues of developing genius. And I never meant perma...

First a definition of consciousness and unconsciousness which I believe, in principle rather than content, to be close to that of Jung's. Jung's theory is that of a human collective unconscious that produces archetypes that shape mental-emotional archetypes upon becoming conscious which can be scie...

And of course you would believe in this crap. Since you seem so enthusiastic about reading books, I could point you to the appropriate literature. Course, judging by your interests it'd be completely wasted on you. Might I suggest not trying to find personal info about people on a philosophy forum?...

Jupiviv, I think you probably ought to take a break from activity on this forum or hashing out wisdom and genius. I say this gently, but you seem to sound like somebody who is coming apart at the seams. Even Diebert has expressed that you are stubbornly oppositional (and yes, he's also called you an...

True wisdom, then, is no more than a consistent belief in the value of honesty. I must stress that it is a belief and not the logical conclusion of reasoning about "absolute truths". Reason cannot tell us why we should use reason. Nor can our usage of reason in one instance carry over to ...

@Pam, So in light of what you wrote, could you expand on what you mean by "Infinite thinkers are not distracted by false thoughts of 'other', instead they are ever seeking new opportunities to cause forms." about the INFP bit, yes I had my suspicions lol. I've always been under the impress...

Infinite thinkers, by contrast, are not distracted by false thoughts of 'other', instead they are ever seeking new opportunities to cause forms. Solving the issues of climate change is an ideal opportunity for form-making. This is why logical thinkers belong to the ACT group (i.e., they act 'purely...

David Quinn wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2019 10:53 am how white men have a divine right to rule because of, you know, lobsters

I don't think that was the main point Peterson was getting at when he brought up lobsters, although he painted a pretty broad target on his back doing so.

I'm not sure why you think this. Perhaps I ought to do a targeted search again to be sure, but I think I did catch most of what was discussed. Right off the bat I can tell you that the motivation for this comes from a skewed cognitive bias of mine, that lends itself towards examining underlying mor...

All you're relaying here is how Quinn seems to have turned away from his writings the moment he felt the true implications blowing up his own identity as a sage or the justifications on how he lived his life. No wise man turns around disavowing or disqualifying earlier wisdom and continues selling ...

Much time has been spent on this forum hashing out masculine-feminine dynamics, both worldly and how they relate to cultivating wisdom of the infinite. Perhaps what might help lurkers or future members is the inclusion of a pinned thread that specifically addresses this dynamic, but that is a decis...

Republicans who are on board with climate change typically skew young (Generation X and millenials). I don't give much credence to the ACT group except for those who have skin into *real* promising solutions, their 'stoic' or optimistic solidity is just another a facet of human nature, similar to th...

Men of the infinite do affirm *everything* to be indeed real, and expressions of Truth. Besides absolute truths such as causality, differentiating between particular lines of thinking on the basis of 'degree of truthfulness', or half assed attempts in differentiating masculine behaviour from feminin...

That doesn't help anyone with the question what is real, significant or meaningful. You perform a trick (it's all good). Pretty much agree with Diebert here and what he mentioned in his post. The sage's desire to spread truth outwardly in the world ultimately derives from his life-long desire to be...

What exactly is ideal of spreading truth? I'll have a go at putting down some arguments why I think this ideal might be problematic: I'd be interested in David addressing Avolith regarding what he wrote. The only half baked thing I'd have to say is that we ought to seriously look into cognitive ske...

Imagine a grumpy old man who doesn’t want to deal with the fact that his house is suddenly on fire. “Look, you young whippersnappers,” he shouts at those around him, “I have been warning you for years that this house has been built on a geological fault-line and could be destroyed at any moment by ...