GENIUS FORUMS

Similarly a rock causes other things by being a rock - since it is, after all, a rock. It isn't anything at all. And surely any supposed inherent "rockness" is yours alone. Does rock cause or is it caused? Latter seems to be the case, but the image of the rock is surely a "rockness&q...

Does that make any more sense? What about to you, mud? It seems that Seeker has a decent hunch about these things but I suspect that he has trouble consolidating insight with the experience of ego, for the ego hates the prospect of non-existence. When enlightenment is near, and a relapse occurs, th...

Ignoring the post above, Don't know who Dennis Mahar is, but that is an interesting name. You've asked some difficult questions. But I think there's some clarifications for some of them. What is thought and consciousness? Thought, seems to be similar to the qualia of internalized music. Internalized...

Why do you need more advice or for me to answer your questions? You can learn from a thousand different sources, there's plenty to read on this forum for a start, you don't need my help. I provided my advice already. I've been reading through forum posts, they are enjoyable romps and I pretty much ...

^ At best you've got beginners mind. Most likely you're just at the level of a clueless teenage hippy's mind. That's helpful advice, not an attack. Use it and focus on learning. It's not helpful advice, it seems like boosting your own ego and being insulting. I've been around clueless hippies and I...

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with the most sublime architecture in my dreams. Even my nightmares have very nice geometry in them. Problem is, I can't seem to recall it that well, or draw it on paper that accurately. These kinds of thoughts can best be described as "henids"...

Typo I believe. I'm with movingalways, I think absolute truth can be reclarified as absolute experience. I don't know what absolute truth is other than that. I never bothered to read Hegel, but you've piqued my curiousity a bit. I am curious to see how Hegel's chess game incorporates and conflates r...

thoughtthemud: Tigers are beautiful, but it has an ugly side too. Does a tiger think its beautiful or ugly? No. You are confusing your conceptualizing self that ponders about the reality of tiger with the actual reality of tiger. Only tiger is the reality of tiger. Just as you (and only you) are th...

Depends on his definitions. If he defines self as the world around and inside of him, + the sound of his own thoughts + his sensations he feels, he could have a self. It could be like a rainbow colored soup, constantly flowing random magma, but the soup and magma still exists, there are certain prop...

And so to ‘throughthemud’. Your lame attempt to defend convention and cast scepticism is woeful. mud, you are a nutter. Let us simply go to the last comment. “As far as Einstein goes, I don't believe his theories are absolute truths, but perhaps you meant it in as the opposite of absolute truth.” I...

Dunno. I suppose some forms of violence bothers me, like when your net craps out and you forgot what your post was and it gets deleted. I suppose that is probably why violence bothers some people, they dont like things being deleted of existence. As far as the cut off my balls for Jesus thing, think...

I'm not dishonest with myself. I've opened myself (and what you perceive to be flaws) for criticism. I am well aware of my negative feelings. Did I not speak I have spontaneous bursts of rage? You speak of these things because I have brought them to you. You wrote: "My memory processing centers...

Define which delusions I cling to. Absolute certainty is a kind of delusion. I am certain that things exist as I perceive them, for the duration I perceive of them. That is the only absolute certainty there is, and anything else is delusion. Define what wisdom is, then define what enlightenment is. ...

Ethics takes place in two regions of the brain. The logic center and the amygdala (emotion base.) Ethics can be very logical. Some ethics can be carefully concocted and well reasoned. For instance, we know that garlic tastes like garlic. We know that we don't like the sensation of our nerves in cert...

I did not mean excited about Enlightenment. Enlightenment is not exciting, nothing to get excited for it. I meant I get excited when I am in the midst of making a new writing. It's a double edged sword, some could say excitement feels "good", whatever "good" means, one could argu...

We are approaching a singularity and unless the human race as a whole graduates from these kindergarten mind sets, it is doomed to recessing into Neanderthal design board time. You may think what you want and I do not care at this point but I have meditated more than any human being I have ever kno...

First things first, I am excited. Excitement is a double edged sword, it makes the moments exciting, but, less clarity of thought. Sometimes when I am deep in the night I have clarity of thought. Night is feminine though. Perhaps feminity can contribute to genius, maybe genius is a combination of bo...