GENIUS FORUMS

One seeks what he needs or has mistaken himself into believing that he needs.

As you allude, we have evolved with the samsaric cycles of happiness and unhappiness in order to ensure our survival as a biological organism. We will always need a few things like food and sleep, but there is a way to transcend the pleasures and displeasures associated with our needs, though it ta...

The fullest expression of the idea of sustained happiness is that it's possible to achieve a state where the majority of one's worries will be gone, and one will have accomplished all that one has sought to accomplish, and have all that one has sought to have, and live in a state of near bliss, only...

Perhaps you meant that to be an expansion on what a human is. I meant something different by humanity. I understand the idea of wanting a more evolved form to come out of the human species, and how memetic evolution can do so quicker than genetic evolution, but when you speak of a challenge for huma...

"We are Hyperboreans"? It's clear your example of Nietzsche was one who felt often isolated and alone, like a prophet arriving two centuries too early for his vision to be understood. Generally hostile against his own genetic background and envisioning a time where identities were not any...

If you say the world is whatever it is, and even if something big happened, and all life withered away, it would still be the world... So I say I might as well make some absurd goals, such as trying to make every last man and woman on earth wise, or die trying. Cause either way, the world is whatev...

It's unclear what you mean by those last words in the quote: "innovation will happen naturally". In the sense of the human as rapidly innovating species? Humans had there times of rapid innovation, both culturally and genetically. I can't say that they're a rapidly innovating species in g...

When an animal's consciousness, which is first directed at what surrounds him, has more time and energy than it needs, it turns inward and it develops self-consciousness. It essentially meets itself for the first time. It begins to know itself as that which is like others of its own species, but not...

Hi Diebert van Rhijn. Hello Stuart, welcome. You signature line mentions the Knowthyself forum, I remember visiting that at times just to read a bit. Is Satyr still posting there? I used to follow his Blogger until it was suspended. Yes, he's still posting there. I'm willing to accept that definitio...

Hi Russell, I collected some quotes from the OP that more specifically address your question. Otherwise, just keep in mind that guidance from others only goes so far. As well as the pain of shattering one's pride and delusions, the difficulty of not having a clear direction should be expected. An ho...

So the old paganism and today's alienation are the same thing it's just that the first were simpler than the latter. No, in fact alienated people are and have historically been the most prone to rejecting or never knowing paganism. What I should have made more clear in the above post was the extent...

Some refer to various forms of Paganism as practiced around the earth and throughout history as religions; I don't. For me, for a particular system of beliefs to be a religion it must follow a world denouncing theme. Any belief system that rejects what is real in favor of something yet-to-be, or hid...