GENIUS FORUMS

I regret to inform you there is no connection. Locke may have helped turn the Universe into a Universe of death, but he was no Commie ... :-)

A question of you, movingalways! Look at these definitions about 'intelligibility'. There are a group of possibilities listed there between A and F. I am curious where you would place yourself?

To understand the term 'metaphysic', I have found, requires back-tracking over the development of our present manner of organising our perception of reality. Without a grasp, even in skeleton form, of how our perception has been moulded over many generations, and the degree that philosophy, and also...

A point I made in a previous post, which you ignored, perhaps you will respond here, is that unless a realization becomes individual [not necessarily private as private implies keeping it a secret], then it does not qualify as a realization, rather, as a belief. While it is true that revelations ca...

Truth leads to emptiness and no-becoming, it's the trans-personal truth of all ages. The delusive and addictive power game cannot be played by a truth seeker. And so he's destined to attempt to sacrifice identity and all the meaning provided by the power games of the world. Without any further goal...

If "metaphysical" refers to the All, which is more than the specific nature of things, then I would agree to that. Regardless of what language they use, all wise people mean the same thing. I find this descriptive manner reductionist. Referring to 'the All' and such seems to me to really ...

The moment one steps into the psychological territory of "securing agreements" they find themselves backed into the same problem of the fluidity of thought/life that won't allow the securing of anything. The expression "nailing jelly to the wall" comes to mind. This is not to sa...

It seems to me that in a mind that can recognise delusions, and understands non-delusion, that if that, metaphorically, is 'seeing through the eye', that an allusion is being made in language to what I would term as 'metaphysical realisation'. How *that* is spoken of, or what one does with *it*, the...

It is likely that a reference point is needed to orient ourselves toward a 'workable' definition of 'metaphysic'. This , an abbreviation of Bertrand Russell's ideas on the matter, seem to provide it. Jupiviv: I find the term 'confusion' to be interesting and relevant in this context. But in order to...

But these ideals cannot be objectively captured, they are always subjective or individually conditioned in nature. Except if one reads Kant! I see the problem a bit differently. The idea of a high metaphysic and principles that can be isolated is one shared by all exponents of metaphysics. I believ...

Yes I know you do not oppose that although you're not firm enough in any position to really oppose something, at least in terms of interpretations. It is important to state, in self-defense as it were, that the only arena where I can make solid interpretive decisions and decisions of 'praxis', is i...

To be clear: I am not 'opposed' to phenomenological interpretations that upend standard definitions, standard interpretations. I have a few times mentioned Harold Bloom's ' swerve ' to illustrate that all thinking is in a sense either deliberate or unconscious veering away from a standard line of th...

That's perhaps too easy, to look at one single local effect and then scapegoat it! I wasn't imagining the ur-cause of the world war(s) but just one aspect of it since, inevitably, it comes up in nearly any conversation of post-war (2) events and situation: only the Holocaust. That's because what fi...

Is this a bit compatible with the drift of your topic here? To me it sounds very much of what Nietzsche wrote about the death of Christianity, that it would take a long time before the first effects would even become clear, like a sunset going over into the night but bleached out with all the artif...

The word 'liberalism' when interpreted in our wider present context, is intuitively understood to mean much more than the word reveals, or rather 'signifies'. 'Liberalism' refers to a range of things beyond the surface definition. If originally it advocated for the lifting of unnatural restraints ag...

Would it be possible then to start thinking of Western humanism or "Occidental civilization' as having developed into a surprisingly, fundamentalist ideology? Would that in a psycho-analytical sense explain how this has created shadows of such radicality elsewhere? Some postmodern anti-globali...

In Lovely Blueness Friedrich Holderlin In lovely blue the steeple blossoms With its metal roof. Around which Drift swallow cries, around which Lies most loving blue. The sun, High overhead, tints the roof tin, But up in the wind, silent, The weathercock crows. When someone Takes the stairs down fro...

This relates to what I was saying to Alex about living of one's conscience rather than by the manifestos or doctrines of others. Causality is at work in both instances, but for the one who is living of their subject-object enlightenment, there is a clarity and purity of expression that does not exi...

Close, very close. It all has to do with the Lost Continent of Atlantis. Stay tuned.

It isn't difficult to link tradition (and forms of authority derived from it) with bigotry and persecution, and that includes the church in the middle ages and antisemitism. I suggest that this is an example of 'tabloid thinking'. It is a bogus argument, insofar as it is an argument. Certainly bigo...

Explain what you mean and why that is so.

Metaphysics, intuition, and intelligence are my primary subjects. I have come to feel a greater appreciation for the Genius Forum simply because it made an effort to take a bold stand on some 'metaphysical ground'. Bold stances, for good and for evil, are the only ones that have value in my world. T...

If you work harder to clarify your ideas I might understand you. As it is I do not at all understand you nor where you are going with your argument, if it is an argument.

Movingalways: Do you remember 'Fahrenheit 451'? I think that is the one where some men are called to remember and to recite a whole book in a world where books are outlawed. I make the reference to Bradbury only because it seems to me that each one of us, from the very first moment we open our mouth...