GENIUS FORUMS

What I notice in you, Diebert, is that you too (since such a critique is brought against me of repetition!) more or less repeat one, basic position: "In some ways we are but it's a perception one can find in all ages. The law of change would demand that we're always residing on the remains of w...

Evola wrote : "Another formula I used was to define ideas as potential realities, and realities as actual ideas. This was a bold and dangerous theory, for it was one that led to action. Paradoxically, one could here envision a gradual process whereby the power of an 'I' expands from being the ...

It's interesting to realize things are changing and that the future might not be necessarily something we would like or desire right now. But how to determine if it's worse on a more grand scale? Lets imagine a further breakdown of social cohesion, nation-states and current, fleeting traditions. Le...

I post this for Pam as it concretises even more a certain existential stance which I had expressed as 'Strong ideas must become 'self-law'. Another formula I used was to define ideas as potential realities, and realities as actual ideas. This was a bold and dangerous theory, for it was one that led ...

Though you think it so I do not 'side-step' anything. What I do though is to delay my response and then extend it over many different posts. It is necessary to thwart an aspect of your will and the way it functions. Pretty much this is all I have for you, and for you-all: questions . 'What I am up t...

And I would stop and 'linger' over what you are saying. My words evidently have some meaning for you, but the meaning appears to you as a 'demoniac' meaning, one to be avoided at all cost. One only has questions for you. Except that in order to ask the questions one has to pre-sift through what you ...

You essentially miss-quote by inference, as if your purpose is to confuse and distort the most simple of statements, perhaps because of your prejudice and 'grudge', or maybe you really just don't get language, as you continuously make inferences under the implication that language was ever absolute...

What you 'seem to be hearing' and also what we 'seem to hear' (you, me, everyone) is always where some attention has to be focussed. The question What is wisdom? and how would one even begin to discuss that? are the right questions. It should be obvious - again - that it is one's defined metaphysic ...

The strife has its own build-in purpose. The other direction is unavoidably emptiness and indeed silence. Very hard to distinguish from dry rhetoric, abstraction or meaninglessness. The reason for that is simple: there's no actual difference. The ambiguity is necessarily appearing and the power of ...

From a fast-moving and nearly unbearably interesting adjacent thread: Your post Jup is a perfect example. Worse actually, you're trying to explain myself for me. I see it only as niavety. From where I sit I have come to conclude that the foundation of the dialectic - the entire foundation, the entir...

A religious factor is necessary as a background for a truly heroic conception of life, such as must be essential for our group. It is necessary to feel the evidence in ourselves that beyond this earthly life there is a higher life, because only someone who feels this way possesses a force that cann...

Well then, and please excuse my paraphrase as it is only an attempt to get more clear about what you do mean: to say that 'philosophy is entirely personal', when compared to the statement 'scientific understanding of the world is entirely personal' (a problematic statement and also likely false), se...

An insight which you have helped to elucidate is that philosophy is entirely personal. I think what you are saying - which is a retreat in a way from your real position - is that any person is justified in cobbling together a 'philosophy' which is (by your own definition) really a spurious collecti...

Ah yes, back to the 'female' manoeuvre. When in doubt assert that it is female . It has worked very well in the past, no need to give it up just yet! The video is actually quite interesting insofar as it is a very real, if open-ended, metaphysical declaration with a real and substantial platform, of...

Those are ancillary questions and concerns. As is clear - or should be clear - to everyone, everything that occurs in these conversations has only to do with the tenets and predicates of each opinionator. The conversations go rather wonky rather often because each person is 'functioning' from their ...

These metaphysical dreams are very real, so living with them is not necessarily delusional. As you put it, we all work out of the context of 'metaphysical dreams', and I also agree that this is necessary and unavoidable. Yes, the attempt to 'absolutize' what, for example, is merely a temporary or f...

To 'be in this world' is to stand in interrelated being and relationship with everything in and part of this world. This places all emphasis on the unique features of humanness, and that unique feature is, essentially, a sort of amphibiousness: we are, like animals and plants, rooted in the material...

I would define 'literacy' not as 'having read the same books as I have', bt as having (much) more awareness of 'Western context': what has made us us. I see self as a historical entity. While I do think that a 'faith position' (and this is how I interpret Pam's overall position) is necessary and, we...

If I understand you right, you are saying the following: There is not theory about 'the absolute'. 'The Absolute' is. But people have 'metaphysical dreams' which, I gather, they absolutize. In doing that they step into error and 'delusion'. But one can arrive at an understanding that these 'dreams' ...

Well, I could say that each 'declarative statement' that you have made here is the front-facing end of a vast metaphysical understanding, yet the way you present your *vision* and *understanding* it is not really discussable since your terms are, in this sense, absolute. However, I understand that y...

Such an interesting statement, Pam! It is not as simple as it sounds. If there were such a thing as 'way of faith in Life itself', there would be no discussion of much of anything, would there? One would only have to refer, somehow, to 'life itself' for all outlines, all directives, all correctives....

I am always really interested in your use of these emphatic, teacher-terms: "You really need [thus and such]; You really need to see this, or understand this, or to undertake the practice of [thus and such]". If I were you I'd stop and linger over the evangelical mood that seems to animate...

Can't remember where I copied this from, but it seems to have some relevance here: Here, too, philosophy has aped the sciences by fostering a culture that might be called “the genius contest.” Philosophic activity devolved into a contest to prove just how clever one can be in creating or destroying ...

One thing seems clear, and this comes up all the time here, is that various individuals are working hard to establish their sense of 'absolute reality', and having established that, be in a position to be able to make 'absolute statements' and the sort of Grand Pronouncements which are often made an...

A religious factor is necessary as a background for a truly heroic conception of life, such as must be essential for our group. It is necessary to feel the evidence in ourselves that beyond this earthly life there is a higher life, because only someone who feels this way possesses a force that cann...