GENIUS FORUMS

If I am not mistaken Rod was riffing off of my name: Bjorn = bear. However, Beingof1 is not responsible for the condition of my brain (hjarna). As I said earlier, I have not been able to dedicate the time to a careful read of your exposition Rod. It takes a veritable time-commitment. Where I do agre...

Russell: You have, naturally, predicatably, and yet necessarily, avoided the momentum of all my assertions here . It is inevitable and predicatable that you do this: it follows from your core predicates. These predicates have little, and possibly no, basis in 'tangible reality' but are the tenets of...

Beingof1: I meant to point out that projection always occurs in this format and is one of the main dark-spots to Internet association. Additionally, I confess to not well understanding this particular thread: what it is asserting, and why it is asserting it. I do agree with you that it requires 'mat...

Russel: By 'biological truth' I meant, and referred to, existence in a body within this earth, a biological structure, and work and achievement as a human being. I also mean that one of the most significant things about this is the specificity of what is achieved, assembled, understood, recorded, an...

Russell: That which 'mortals cling to'? Is it the no-self that the immortals instead cling to? To posit a 'mortal' requires the metaphysical distance I refer to. Yet you do not see it. If you, Russell, are not a mortal, and if you haven't revealed your identity, I think you have been remiss. Full di...

No, I cannot point to something that which is beyond my consciousness because it would necessarily have to be within my field of consciousness. However, I recognize that my field is limited by distance, time, my sensory apparatuses, etc. Reading this, I wonder (to myself) just what we mean by 'cons...

Unfortunatley for us all, and yet I am not complaining necessarily, the medium itself tends to elicit projections from each participant. In order to have a conversation on metaphysics - a tough philosophical, mythological and mystical topic - requires many many different layers of pre-definition. It...

Enlightenment is indeed independent of the cultural matrix. Culture can certainly influence one to take on the path, the Hindu culture can be an example of this, but it results in an attachment to culture being left behind. This isn't to say that one drops all things like mannerisms or way of dress...

Sounds like a good plan Russell.

As I assumed, Being was agreeing with Rod for probably no other reason than to incite a good feelings in himself. Now notice he and Gustav are sharing "thanks" and "grins." This type of "longing to belong" is counterproductive to the path as it reinforces the ego. Seek...

Well, I do not mean change it as in change the webpage, I mean that I think - and I am pretty sure that you know this already - that if enlightenment is going to be used as a term for some state of being or realization (I have said often: it is never defined), it should be connected to a cultural pr...

You are talking to the wrong person. Keep it simple. Out of respect to Rod let's keep this moving in the general direction of allowing him to continue his discourse on metaphysics. Some other thread is suitable for your and my exchanges. Fair enough?

Those are 'truth claim' and they come from a man in the grip of religious zealotry. There is effectively no way to dialogue with a man who is gripped in that way. That much I am clear about. It is pointless in this case to waste your time or my time offering different perspectives to you. Your orien...

Well, that is a good starting point: I come here to reorder that phrase. Or, being here, I find that the phrase needs to be rewritten, re-conceived. I accept something about it as a motto or as a declaration about intent. But I say that the phrase reflects and expresses a particular way, by a partic...

I predict that Alex would have squirmed thinking he's found some contradiction just then, if I hadn't taken this time to laugh at his stupidity in advance. I did not think that I had discovered a contradiction. It has more to do with my neoplatonic understanding of things. Sort of like sunlight shi...

It may be expressed differently, which might be influenced by culture, but the core understanding that results from Enlightenment is always the same, wherever it emanates. What is that core understanding? It seems you misunderstood why I posted the faith-healing video, which is simply to say that m...

Thanks Beingof1. I have appreciated your analysis here, especially the clarifying statements about our language as an expression of mathematical relationships, and also your understanding of consciousness as 1) causeless and then 2) an allusion to non-linear causation. That allows for a reasoning pe...

To say 'zero analytics, zero reasoning' is not to say non-intelligent. According to the 'scripture' of Ramakrishna, his jnani phase was one of applied discrimination (that is, if one 'believes' the written accounts). He is said as you know to have launched into each of the methods of approach and go...

The apprenticeship for metaphysics is mysticism (that metaphysics in essence is mysticism). There is very little metaphysics to be gleaned from academics. Hegel’s teleology is one of the few accessible examples. Modern academics who call themselves Idealism [Idealists?] are really the spill over fr...

Russell: Unless I am very mistaken Ramakrishna down to his toenails and even including his fleas would have to be classified as a mystic of the first order. Zero analytics, zero 'reason', pure experience, pure faith/knowledge. I understand that what may interest you of him is his advaita declaration...

You are right (that's twice in 2016, you're on a roll): there was a pill in Total Recall. I'd forgotten. But the thing about that scene is that it wouldn't have been a 'return to reality', it would have been quite the opposite: a return to an erstwhile illusion. He desired to end his Quest on some l...

Seeker's "magnificent something" (and to some extent Diebert's and Russell's, and Beingof1's to a larger extent) is the "wisdom" and/or "consciousness" (especially his own) that can somehow magically arbitrate the nature of reality. Yours is the fantasy of coming home ...

Actually, and only because in the last 2-3 years I have become interested in film (never having put much time into it), I have watched Total Recall fairly recently and more than one. This is in fact the topic that interests me and should interest us all (IMV): "That's the nature of the rabbit h...

The scene is almost similar to the pill scene in Total Recall, a big movie based on a novel from P.K. Dick. Same basic idea. When I was reading some excerpts of Dick's Exegesis (a philosophical Gnostic exploration) it became clear that many scenes and visual ideas from the Matrix could be lead back...

No, sorry. Wisdom is in fact nothing more than uncompromising rationality and truthfulness. At least, that is the part of wisdom that can be posited. The remaining part is the will and motivation to be truthful, even though there is no reward in it, which comes from the belief that Jesus saves. Sin...