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by Laird
Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:48 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Should I stay or should I go?
Replies: 99
Views: 26349

Re: Should I stay or should I go?

Trevor, I would consider following David's advice to leave for a year or so, and then return, if I thought that there was a significant chance that I would return as a person more in line with QRSH doctrine than I have already acknowledged myself to be in the "Common ground" thread. As it ...
by Laird
Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:00 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Men commit actions; women commit gestures
Replies: 196
Views: 33097

Re: Men commit actions; women commit gestures

Put, in the tersest terms that you can, the two sides of what you see as the contradiction to me and I'll tell you whether I acknowledge it or not. I have read your posts to this thread several times and I don't quite understand what you see as being contradictory in Nat and Robert's positions. Nat ...
by Laird
Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:51 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Does it matter or not?
Replies: 195
Views: 30995

Re: Does it matter or not?

Sam , a much belated response but better late than never huh? Depending on whether I'm ultimately evicted from this place (which is looking quite likely at this point), this might be the last post that I get to make in this thread - you might get the last word on this one... samadhi: Non-duality do...
by Laird
Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:32 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Men commit actions; women commit gestures
Replies: 196
Views: 33097

Re: Men commit actions; women commit gestures

Leyla and Sue, I don't claim to speak for either Nat or Robert, but here's my take on the physiological versus psychological debate. As David noted earlier in this thread, Weininger "demonstrates how the sharp physical differences between males and females is an illusion. He describes how every...
by Laird
Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:54 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Should I stay or should I go?
Replies: 99
Views: 26349

Re: Should I stay or should I go?

Leyla: no, I don't find the attention philosophically enlightening, but I appreciate it personally. Why shouldn't I? Human beings are social creatures as I've argued before on this forum: the opinions of other people affect us and matter to us. It's far more pleasant to live in a world where one is ...
by Laird
Sun Mar 09, 2008 5:04 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Should I stay or should I go?
Replies: 99
Views: 26349

Re: Should I stay or should I go?

A big thank you to those in this thread who have supported me: Ataraxia, Buns, maestro, Dan, Alex Jacob (at least I think he's supporting me...), samadhi, brokenhead, RobertGreenSky, |read|, Sapius and Lydiia Knightjoy, with a special thanks to Dave Toast for his multiple supportive posts. I am disa...
by Laird
Sat Mar 08, 2008 1:15 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Making peace with femininity
Replies: 794
Views: 90925

Re: Making peace with femininity

While reality cannot be conceptualized (as it has no form), it is perfectly possible for us to conceptualize why it can't be conceptualized (i.e. understand the nature of its lack of form). Reaching this conceptualization, to which all authentic spiritual teachings point, is a key step towards brea...
by Laird
Sat Mar 08, 2008 1:01 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Making peace with femininity
Replies: 794
Views: 90925

Re: Making peace with femininity

But James, that's just not possible. Dan is a part of reality, and reality is formless. Or so I'm told.
by Laird
Sat Mar 08, 2008 1:00 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Making peace with femininity
Replies: 794
Views: 90925

Re: Making peace with femininity

But James, that's just not possible. Dan is a part of reality, and reality is formless.
by Laird
Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:02 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Should I stay or should I go?
Replies: 99
Views: 26349

Should I stay or should I go?

Recently in the " Suggestion List " thread in the forum, " The Reasoning Show ", David wrote to me: "I'll give you a few days to wrap up your affairs here, but then I expect you to do the honourable thing and move on." His ostensible reason for asking me to "move o...
by Laird
Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:28 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Making peace with femininity
Replies: 794
Views: 90925

Re: Making peace with femininity

Nothing has been changed that a blind man couldn 't already see. Well hand me my sunglasses and call me Stevie Wonder. But I'm going to let this drop, because I'm presuming that this is what Robert was referring to when he wrote to Trevor: I am afraid your tactics led to a remark on another board f...
by Laird
Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:43 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Suggestion List
Replies: 138
Views: 231362

Re: Suggestion List

Haha, jeez Jason, why don't you ask Alex what you really want to know? Lol.
by Laird
Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:41 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Suggestion List
Replies: 138
Views: 231362

Re: Suggestion List

You see, I would answer the questions you propose quite differently, because I can speak through and beyond the romantic ideal, and am not limited to it, it is not a Law that binds me, not a group of chains that determines, like in some 'Court of Love' (see 'court of love' on the page), what I must...
by Laird
Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:08 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Suggestion List
Replies: 138
Views: 231362

Re: Suggestion List

[Sexual obsessiveness is] there in everything you write, both directly and indirectly. Even when you are discussing pure philosophy, it's done in a way that safe-guards or enhances your attractiveness to women. Everything that comes out of your mouth is distorted by that perspective. Wow, you reall...
by Laird
Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:48 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Making peace with femininity
Replies: 794
Views: 90925

Re: Making peace with femininity

But the wood isn’t ''potentially'' part of the cupboard, it's an integral part of it, for without the wood, the cupboard, as you described it, would not have come into existence. And we can go further and say that for the cupboard to exist, it also depended on the tree, and the sun and rain to he...
by Laird
Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:39 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Making peace with femininity
Replies: 794
Views: 90925

Re: Making peace with femininity

While reality cannot be conceptualized (as it has no form), it is perfectly possible for us to conceptualize why it can't be conceptualized (i.e. understand the nature of its lack of form). Reaching this conceptualization, to which all authentic spiritual teachings point, is a key step towards brea...
by Laird
Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:00 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Oprah, Eckhart and Enlightenment
Replies: 160
Views: 24615

Re: Oprah, Eckhart and Enlightenment

Dan Rowden wrote:Anyone know a good way to get vomit out of a keyboard?
Just buy a new one, Dan, they're cheap enough. Speaking of cheap...
by Laird
Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:30 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Making peace with femininity
Replies: 794
Views: 90925

Re: Making peace with femininity

Dan Rowden wrote:Oh, you mean in the "Trevor Salyzyn Memorial Mental Hospital and Debating Forum"?
Hey, Dan, what did you mean by this? I'm very curious. I had a hunt around Olio and I couldn't find anything that might have inspired it. Has something been removed?
by Laird
Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:36 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Making peace with femininity
Replies: 794
Views: 90925

Re: Making peace with femininity

Yes, Dan and David are clearly at odds with Kevin on this issue, but then my bet is that Kevin took the position that he did in that thread not because he truly believed it but because to admit that he was modelling or conceptualising would have been to admit to the possibility that the model or co...
by Laird
Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:31 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Suggestion List
Replies: 138
Views: 231362

Re: Suggestion List

Desiring women, wanting women---I see clearly now---was a branch and a function of my spiritual life . It was a hunt and a chase but always on 'spiritual terms'. It had to have an elevated element, it could never have been merely base, and yet it was about a form of seduction. Meeting and having re...
by Laird
Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:12 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Suggestion List
Replies: 138
Views: 231362

Re: Suggestion List

I think you're extrapolating from your own situation here. It sounds as though you have been repressing your own desire for female company and sex for many years, due to your own emotional issues, and now the thought of accessing these things has become an obsession. It's true that I have had a few...
by Laird
Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:00 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: why wont QSorR answer Lairds fair question?
Replies: 33
Views: 11766

Re: why wont QSorR answer Lairds fair question?

Laird: Oh yeah, well then kidnap that man, strip him naked and tie him up spreadeagled on a hard table, light up a blow-torch and tell me that the bugger doesn't feel more terrified than he's ever felt in his life. David: If he was a fully-enlightened Buddha, he wouldn't experience even the slighte...
by Laird
Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:37 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: why wont QSorR answer Lairds fair question?
Replies: 33
Views: 11766

Re: why wont QSorR answer Lairds fair question?

Those parts of your position that you're willing to put on the line are entirely conventional. I've seen them, and more sophisticated versions thereof, 1,000 times in the last 10 years. And I wasn't born the way I am, you know. I know the conventional world backwards. Well then my position would be...
by Laird
Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:07 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Suggestion List
Replies: 138
Views: 231362

Re: Suggestion List

Translation: "I am obsessed with women and sex, and those who don't share this obsession are semi-tragic". Haha, you're quite the Hindmarsh there with that misinterpretation. The actual translation is more like: men and women who repress and deny their natural desire for the opposite sex ...
by Laird
Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:15 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Oprah, Eckhart and Enlightenment
Replies: 160
Views: 24615

Re: Oprah, Eckhart and Enlightenment

Sam, congrats to you for your posts to this thread so far. You're really nailing it mate.