GENIUS FORUMS

Each attempt by you, Pam, is a minor lesson in sophistry! Here's why: An invisible, incommunicable *something*, for all that you understand it as beneficent, or even real, is an unintelligible thing until you have, with some clarifying erudition, made it intelligible. You wish to posit *a world* whi...

For what it's worth, Rod. In relation to: Some Hindu philosophies indeed postulate some theistic ontology but many others don't. It's strictly spoken not even a religion or a philosophical system but a collection of many, resulting more in a way of being overall, perhaps some ethics there too, as ge...

Any bridge that is being built between subjective feelings and the concept is built of more subjective feelings and concepts. Family is formed of subjective feelings, civil society is formed of subjective feelings, the State is formed of subjective feelings, the concept of general rights is formed ...

Good old Nazi fascism still does it for you then? You are mentioning two "grounds" which are least of all solid or simply "sound" from a more educated point of view. You only declare them to be something because you need it. And it's just nonsense to use this here as some argume...

I can't say I believe you, Diebert, as your tendency to self-obscure your own motives is so entrenched. Yet as Ideal your intention to locate yourself in 'Beginner's Mind' as you call it, is a good one. I'd like to see more of this as things progress.

Easy does it there Diebert. My participation on this forum, and my enjoyment of it, and my gain from it, is mostly a result of seeing how nutty and strange you-all have allowed yourselves to become in pursuit of what is largely unintelligible. You have no idea at all what 'truth' is, and you have no...

Thanks for the advice, Spidey, but better mileage, for you, will be gained by focus on your own morass. Let what impresses you motivate you in your own progess ... out of the camouflaged postmodern web.

While for example Alex is a feminine encyclopedic sentimentalist but who at least understands how the thing and interpretation will always be subjective to self. If you could collide at high speed with him, we'd have a whole thinker! Really, that's quite far off-base. I define masculinity more robu...

But Jupi I think you need to talk more of what the implications are if this ethical edict. I am suggesting that 'enlightenment' as defined by Pam and Russell is unethical and immoral in numerous senses, given what they say it requires. I am asking you to fill out more your sense of an ethic. Not dec...

For contrast see Sittlichkeit.

Marvellous, irrefutable argument Pam! Not even an angel could unseal that seal!

How do you conceive of ethics, Jupi? Do ethics and morality have a place in your scheme?

What 'spirituality' is and should be, is a philosophical question, but also an ethical and a moral one. Since everything a man does has reprecussions (affects the whole cosmos as well as society) everything about it would need to be thought through. I know pretty well Ramakrishna's writings, and I h...

idées fixes. It is a bizarre phenomenon when you face it from the other side.

Your viewpoint is what would necessarily result for one who is so mired, and in fact comfortable, in his attachments that he is repulsed by the path. The spider analogy actually fits you better, as you've made a bed in your own cocoon of windings. That would be true from the only perspective that y...

All attachments, including towards a woman or children, are delusional, period. Again, if it is your fate to marry and reproduce, that's fine and natural. It will make full enlightenment virtually impossible, though, and you shouldn't pretend otherwise. In my view such a statement indicates how pro...

Perhaps, perchance, this time a door has opened to stop this madness?

Crown Prince Fortinbras!

Back to my thoughts above. Is it fair to say that what is happening on this board is dialogue between people who understand, in varying degrees, either intellectually or existentially, the will 'to be or not to be?' You must of course realize that Hamlet meant 'To stay alive or to kill myself, what...

I'm the mortal enemy of your mortal enemy then.

BTW: Happy Spider-Mother's day!

Nice try but I exactly quoted your sickly paranoid friend's phrasing. It was to be expected your started to knit pick at that. The word nit is really fitting. Well, let us suppose that Ken is my friend. Is he not your friend? If not, do you have friends on this forum? Do you think of anyone as a 'f...

Close nit groups have this problem, always and everywhere, including this forum of course, of fortification, of mutual blind spots, of reinforcing certain tendencies with each other without any possibility of a critical, outside perspective coming in. Someone like Gustav has been warning for this e...

A 'master metaphysician', as it was intended by Basil Willey, refers to a person with an earned viewpoint about the shift in perspectives from the Mediaeval to the Modern perspective (and we are very much still in this). His idea is that what we assume to be 'right - what feels right - is the indica...

You threw your master metaphysician hat into the ring in this very thread: GB: "Here is the essence: to locate the core premise that operates among so many of 'you' requires the aid of a 'master metaphysician' and since no master metaphysician is available one has to assume the role." Sin...

Clearly we have ourselves to work with. We are that field.

PS: We require a master metaphysian to understand our present. Different from self-declaration as one.

They are empty and meaningless ...