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- Sat Oct 19, 2019 4:01 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Is there anyone here genuinely seeking enlightenment?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 25747
Re: Is there anyone here genuinely seeking enlightenment?
Eric, what do you think makes this awakening occur? At various times, I find that I forget the name of something. When I am talking about a famous movie, I may be able to describe parts of the movie but discover that the formal title escapes my memory. After an indeterminate period, the name clearl...
- Wed Sep 18, 2019 12:32 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Is there anyone here genuinely seeking enlightenment?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 25747
Re: Is there anyone here genuinely seeking enlightenment?
I havent been here for a long time. Is there anyone here genuinely seeking enlightenment? In what direction are you taking your inquiry? The recent archives on this forum speak for themselves. If a man seeks Truth or gains Wisdom, it quite typically is first manifest through an awakening during ear...
- Wed May 01, 2019 12:27 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Increase in Suicides Among Young People
- Replies: 13
- Views: 24478
Re: Increase in Suicides Among Young People
The isolation did cause me to start asking my self "what's the purpose of life?". Thinking alot about death. A 15-year old should not be thinking about death, I think. Do you "think", as in merely suppose, that this is true? Or do you know that 15-year-olds should not think abou...
- Wed May 01, 2019 11:47 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Increase in Suicides Among Young People
- Replies: 13
- Views: 24478
Re: Increase in Suicides Among Young People
I desire annihilation because I desire common life (Woman). This is interesting. Your definition of Woman is common life. Therefore, do you mean that by desiring common life you are in effect desiring annihalation of your soul? Or do you mean that by desiring common life you are sinning by action o...
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:35 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Proprietary Game of Thrones Post:
- Replies: 13
- Views: 23524
Re: Proprietary Game of Thrones Post:
It's only the first episode but the expanded moral universe for people who would feel uncomfortable burning witches or loving their enemies aka "moral grey areas" (as presented by the show) has shrunk considerably. Both the good and evil characters are, respectively, becoming more "e...
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 2:12 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: The Trump Derangement Syndrome: real or unreal?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 66506
Re: The Trump Derangement Syndrome: rational or irrational?
If capital is will to power expressed in technology and trade, then there's no capital without reason being the ruler, because what would represent the fundamental will to exercise power more than reason ? To impose ratio on a world of conflicting feelings, instincts and chaotic events. There would...
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 2:00 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Science news to briefly consider
- Replies: 17
- Views: 31037
Re: Science news to briefly consider
Physics Is Pointing Inexorably to Mind For Tegmark, the universe is a “set of abstract entities with relations between them,” which “can be described in a baggage-independent way”—i.e., without matter. He attributes existence solely to descriptions, while incongruously denying the very thing that i...
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 3:22 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: The Trump Derangement Syndrome: real or unreal?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 66506
Re: The Trump Derangement Syndrome: rational or irrational?
When Capital is properly defined, there are virtually no anti-capitalists. If Capital is the Will to Power expressed in technology and now implemented with industrialized economies-of-scale, then the effects of Capital are nearly synonymous with all of history, if it is thought of as a reaction to C...
- Sun Feb 24, 2019 4:59 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: An economic winter is coming
- Replies: 50
- Views: 69577
Re: An economic winter is coming
The "free market" propaganda is false and does not explain the economy in the slightest. That's part of your confusion. That there is going to be a recession is the easiest thing to predict, since commodity and trading prices always swing and people react irrationally to them both during &...
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 3:52 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Trumpism
- Replies: 344
- Views: 380552
Re: Trumpism
And can I just say, Jordan Peterson is a joke. Driven by anger, very limited in his thinking, and very dishonest when it comes to identity politics. His following (of, mainly, gullible young men) is the perfect example of a mindless alt-right herd who like to preen themselves that they are “individ...
- Sun Jan 13, 2019 9:20 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Mad ravings on the implications of cause and effect
- Replies: 33
- Views: 41843
Re: Mad ravings on the implications of cause and effect
I found the bolded parts of this Weininger quote interesting because it reveals the limitations of Weininger’s understanding and shows why he failed to break through into the Infinite before he died. He didn’t develop his abilities in abstract reasoning enough to totally break away from the empiric...
- Fri Jan 11, 2019 6:56 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Mad ravings on the implications of cause and effect
- Replies: 33
- Views: 41843
Re: Mad ravings on the implications of cause and effect
Avolith, Yet David Quinn argued in one of his recent posts that heavily and continuously contemplating these concepts would eventually bring about real understanding. Do you disagree there? David offers many written points about undertaking the spiritial path. I do not want to contradict any at this...
- Wed Jan 09, 2019 10:11 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Mad ravings on the implications of cause and effect
- Replies: 33
- Views: 41843
Re: Mad ravings on the implications of cause and effect
Hello Avolith, A brave attempt to rescue this Forum from the inexorable pull of the black hole of Trump's Twitter account! Better to be mad and rave in an insane world than be sane with the dum-dumbs! So this post is basically me selfishly dumping my chaotic thoughts on cause and effect, in the hope...
- Fri Sep 28, 2018 3:33 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The value of nihilistic thinking
- Replies: 76
- Views: 66138
Re: The value of nihilistic thinking
I am realising that this desire to go *around* problems, rather than *through* them, is the cornerstone of modernity, of all modern life and thought. A conclusion along these lines is needed to complete your analysis of modern denial about the nature of industrial production. While I largely agree ...
- Tue Sep 18, 2018 6:06 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The value of nihilistic thinking
- Replies: 76
- Views: 66138
Re: The value of nihilistic thinking
In most of the times I've encountered the use of it, "Post-human" describes a fantasy of a lasting happiness through a grasp at power. Said that way what we can assume is that it will amount to a supreme grasp for power, and the seductions involved in that power. The imagination goes wild...
- Tue Sep 18, 2018 6:01 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The value of nihilistic thinking
- Replies: 76
- Views: 66138
Re: The value of nihilistic thinking
Yes its mostly associated with AI/singularity, but it can also refer to a rejection of assumptions about human nature and "natural" human values/ethics a la Nietzsche. The former group is driven by the desire to submit to an authority in the form of a technological marvel out of fear of b...
- Tue Sep 18, 2018 2:31 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The value of nihilistic thinking
- Replies: 76
- Views: 66138
Re: The value of nihilistic thinking
Let's start here . Post-human is, like I said, a *very* broad term that includes everything from the singularity to suicide cults to questioning various ideas about human nature and its place in the world - this last is the default starting point of any philosopher worthy of the title. It may have ...
- Tue Sep 04, 2018 11:10 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Jordan Peterson
- Replies: 93
- Views: 158146
Re: Jordan Peterson
Perhaps a sensible rule should be to not listen to Jordan Peterson (or his family) about rules for science or "life." I am reminded of these words from Kevin Solway: "Poison for the Heart" - Religion and Ego-Cycles. "Some parents may be proficient and experienced freethinker...
- Sat Aug 25, 2018 10:34 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Jordan Peterson
- Replies: 93
- Views: 158146
Re: Jordan Peterson
Ultimately it's just words/images that we must give meaning, so a sage like Peterson would presumably have no problem enlightening mostly female students through his interpretation of a Disney movie. The records show that Zen Master Yun-Men said of the words of the ancient Masters: "Take these...
- Sat Aug 25, 2018 9:30 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Jordan Peterson
- Replies: 93
- Views: 158146
Re: Jordan Peterson
Really inspiring stuff. Also thanks for the link, but I'm not watching a 2.5 hr Peterson video. Can you specify where he talks about Pinocchio? Of course I don't think anyone needs to watch all of discussion about the movie. He goes on at considerable length and detail. In the long lecture, he star...
- Thu Aug 23, 2018 4:37 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Jordan Peterson
- Replies: 93
- Views: 158146
Re: Jordan Peterson
Like lost boys in Peterson's favorite story, Pinnochio Seriously? I remember the disney cartoon and from the lens of age it appears as some sort of pedo treatise, e.g the white milf fairy makes his "nose" grow/shorten based on ethical judgments. Clearly a metaphor for the feminine conditi...
- Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:57 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Jordan Peterson
- Replies: 93
- Views: 158146
Re: Jordan Peterson
Compulsive lecturers like Peterson demonstrate that the necessity of thinking, and its accompanying anxieties that are taboo in the mass psychology of this age, must first be molded into an elaborate excercise to demonstrate that the tension can be only resolved after everything else. Only if you ha...
- Tue Feb 27, 2018 7:26 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Ten Thousand Year Clock
- Replies: 0
- Views: 25723
Ten Thousand Year Clock
Jeff Bezos of Amazon is using part of his wealth to fund a project to build a clock that will keep time for over 10,000 years. The project has a $42 million budget. I can post a link if anyone is interested. The concept is self-defeating, since the clock can only last 10,000 years if humans find mea...
- Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:45 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: How do we embrace ruin?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14680
Re: How do we embrace ruin?
How does one consciously tread this path? I had my first realization of self-awareness when I was three years old. I was standing in shorts and sneakers and fanning a small charcoal brazier, when the thought came into my mind, “Wow, there is a me! And I am here.” Now, clearly, I had no thought befo...
- Wed Jan 03, 2018 1:17 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Genius of Strauss' Music
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10352
Re: The Genius of Strauss' Music
I have never listened to Strauss until today. After reading your post, I decided to listen to some on youtube. Do you have any suggestions concerning which compositions of his I should listen to? "Also Sprach Zarathustra, OP. 30" is Strauss' tone poem inspired by Nietzsche's book with a s...