GENIUS FORUMS

Except I've been shooting pearls at you so consistently there's a dent in your forehead. How do you explain that?

(Since before time began.)

Kevin will soon invite me to golf with him.

'The Ass is King in his paddock' is how it's expressed in my neck of the woods. I wonder if it's some ancient Indo-Aryan wisdom-saying?

I have no power over the nature of the world. In this sense 'we have to work with it as it is'.

The world as world, if now one of difficulty abd suffering, is that now and will be so tomorrow.

Thus 'we have to work with it as it is'.

Then we must work with the world as it is.

That's still the big mystery of course. Why bother with a forum dedicated to developing or exchanging thoughts on a topic you are so opposed against, its members you ridicule as incapable and the overall direction as poisonous? You throw yourself up as someone who desires to "change" that...

To say 'neoplatonism' is to make a reference to a way of seeing, a way of organizing perspective. It allows me to hold both the Idea that *you* favor and to understand its function, as well as that of say the Christian metaphysics or the Hindu metaphysics. What you fail I think to grasp - though it ...

In what way did you conclude such "disestablishment" or how would you describe this "abstract state"? You seem to just "invoke" but never substantiate (much like "self" indeed). And how to even address all that comes after? It's all build on these declaration...

Reality cannot be straightjacketed in any way. Any attempt to straightjacket it, in whatever conceptual framework, religious or otherwise, indicates a gross misunderstanding of its nature. Reality is not a spiritual, physical, or mentalistic entity. It is beyond all these things. It has no nature. ...

Uh-huh.

Imploding? That depends on ones perspective. Over the hill perhaps? The big dilemma of this age seems to be the question of identity, of human nature, caused by all the interactions in terms of neurology, robotics, communication, mass data and so on. It's possible the big "shift" will be ...

Uh-huh.

I've said it once and I'll say it again: "I've no doubt you have a righteous cause and good intent, but delusion itself is evil, and so inasmuch that you are delusional, you have demons that should be expelled ..." However, I could bring you both to full Enlightenment and you'd come crawli...

Be that as it may:

"I've no doubt you have a righteous cause and good intent, but delusion itself is evil, and so inasmuch that you are delusional, you have demons that should be expelled ..."

I am here to help you.

OK, let me make a stronger case: There can be no division, and there should be no division, on a philosophically-oriented forum where notions of 'enlightenment' and illumination are discussed in rational terms and where ideas must be supported by reasoned argument and not, as is the normal, with fai...

The funny thing is then that, if this is a 'worldly topic', and if this is not the topic as defined by our Founders, then my entire focus is to be relagated to another, an irrelevant, section. How different our views of things! I see this recent turn as very relevant if one is to build a platform fo...

Since this thread really has no topic at all, there is nowhere it can't go and no going off-topic. I find the irony marvellous. Waldo Frank locates what it is we talk about when we refer to The Occident by naming 'Judea, Greece, Rome and Alexandria' - all in the Meditteranean cradle. He asserts that...

That is a good question overall but I'd phrase it differently. I think you have to start with a given culture and make comparisons to other cultures in order to be able to decide which one is 'better'. Or in any case to be able to posit the differences. Then, one can begin to make statements. If it ...

Beingof1: I find that I have to take a stand against some aspect of what you have written, insofar as it reflects a 'universalist assumption'. You imply, and this is of course directly a Christian tenet, that there is one human heart, or the heart of humanity. Certainly the Church in Europe worked h...

*Head Collaspes Inward*

Your concerns are based on your fear of letting go of some certain something(s) you hold dear, be it culture, a theistic belief, or something. As such, and due to your belief that there are no Absolute truths, you assume that I and others must be clinging to a hidden something. Having been through ...

There are reasons why I am unintelligible to you, and those reasons can be discovered and explained. As it is, you don't have enough background in ideas generally to know what I mean when I refer to 'Hindu' or 'Greek'. You see, you don't care about any of that. These and all other areas that require...

The explanation of illumination is clarity of awareness. Some of the signs of it are to be void of envy, appreciation for all of life, agape/compassion (tho you might disagree with my methods), self honesty, self respect, humility, a master of forgiveness and balance in all things. I understand wha...

That post was little more than accusations based on your misunderstandings. It was accusatory, of that there is no doubt. Yet it was based on an understanding (my opinion if you wish) of the consequences of the ideas that inform your 'core predicates'. We are by no means in 'absolute disagreement',...