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Thu Apr 25, 2013 3:24 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Letting go of the Absolute
Replies: 17
Views: 6782

Re: Letting go of the Absolute

Don't know what Nietzsche has said or not, but on reality vs. no reality: There can only be order in the world if there is a reality.... Therefore, this leads me to conclude that there is a reality. One which you can call the absolute (or really, the only) truth. Nietzsche wanted to go beyond this ...
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Wed Apr 24, 2013 1:35 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Letting go of the Absolute
Replies: 17
Views: 6782

Re: Letting go of the Absolute

there's no such thing as "objective" truth and no-one here advocates such a thing as any kind of ultimate reality.As for Nietzsche, meta-logic, dude, meta-logic. You cannot assert a lack of an ultimate reality without contradicting yourself. Neither of those men did so. For example David ...
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Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:30 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Letting go of the Absolute
Replies: 17
Views: 6782

Re: Letting go of the Absolute

It's clear he thought that ultimately deeper understandings about life were to be found intuitively and existentially. This is completely in line with whatever I've understood at this forum and the work of its founders Except when Nietzsche got to that point he would revaluate the position, and hav...
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Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:30 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Letting go of the Absolute
Replies: 17
Views: 6782

Re: Letting go of the Absolute

Why are Nietzsche and Nagarjuna held as paragons of wisdom here when they both argue against the existence of objective Truth? Because they both argue for being wise about it? Nietzsche does not address any absolute, objective truths anywhere. 'On Truth and Lies in an Extramoral Sense' Nietzsche su...
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Tue Apr 23, 2013 5:29 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Letting go of the Absolute
Replies: 17
Views: 6782

Letting go of the Absolute

Why are Nietzsche and Nagarjuna held as paragons of wisdom here when they both argue against the existence of objective Truth? Nagarjuna negates the separate existence of Truth. He shows that concepts such as causality, time, dharma, and substance are inconsistent and contradictory when subjected to...
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Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:04 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Are any ideas innate?
Replies: 4
Views: 1620

Are any ideas innate?

I've been reading some Locke and he argues against the notion that there are innate ideas. It's easy to understand that many of our ideas are drawn from experience, but do you think there are any ideas that inherently can't be drawn from experience and could be innate? He argues against the idea tha...
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Wed May 28, 2008 4:07 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The Voice of Woman
Replies: 81
Views: 11350

Re: The Voice of Woman

I'm a biological female.

By "the voice of woman", I meant the voice of the unconscious ego.

I wrote the above using "a man's voice" (a conscience).
Hilarious, keep it coming sweet cheeks.
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Thu May 15, 2008 3:42 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Can causality be infinite?
Replies: 153
Views: 30307

Re: Can causality be infinite?

david caused to think x

sam caused to think not-x

sam and david caused to argue with each other
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Sun May 11, 2008 2:44 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Kierkegaard was Wrong & likely Mentally ill
Replies: 74
Views: 12130

Re: Kierkegaard was Wrong & likely Mentally ill

Woman's tears are all about being consoled. People know this and respond accordingly. Even when she is all alone, her tears are just for that purpose. But when faced by a man's tears, people often are at a loss to know how to deal with them. They are not a request for consolation from others, and e...
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Sun May 11, 2008 12:08 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Eye opening books
Replies: 29
Views: 6779

Re: Eye opening books

maestro wrote:Come on guys nobody has ever read one paradigm shifting book?

when I was 10 i flipped through a playboy...that gave me a huge paradigm shift.
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Sun May 11, 2008 11:11 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Eye opening books
Replies: 29
Views: 6779

Re: Eye opening books

Carl G wrote:You are two deep, brother.
Better than just being one deep.
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Sun May 11, 2008 10:19 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Can causality be infinite?
Replies: 153
Views: 30307

Re: Can causality be infinite?

It is a necessary fabrication, though, until such time that our minds are no longer fooled by the existence of things. For example, to experience any kind of fear, or to be scared of death, is a form of being taken in by the existence of things - which would indicate that the fabrication of causati...
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Sun May 11, 2008 10:03 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Can causality be infinite?
Replies: 153
Views: 30307

Re: Can causality be infinite?

It is a correction to the illusion that reality has discrete parts. Thinking in terms of causality is why discrete parts are imagined. Discrete parts are illusions. Thus the causality is an illusion. An illusion is not the correction of anything. The illusion of causality must be corrected itself. ...
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Sun May 11, 2008 9:17 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Can causality be infinite?
Replies: 153
Views: 30307

Re: Can causality be infinite?

That is for the mind to discover after its surrender to the truth of causation. Causation is the illusion that reality has discrete parts. Cause and effect make up the very body of Reality. An idea regarding the imagined separation of reality into parts makes the body of Reality? Causation's main s...
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Sun May 11, 2008 8:48 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Eye opening books
Replies: 29
Views: 6779

Re: Eye opening books

I'm amazed by long-winded book series' that manage to dextrously avoid saying anything of substance, and suspect that there's a relationship between that and their widespread appeal. I'm looking at you Marcel Proust, J.K. Rowlings, R.A. Salvatore, Robert Jordan, Piers Anthony, and whatever committe...
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Sun May 11, 2008 8:11 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Can causality be infinite?
Replies: 153
Views: 30307

Re: Can causality be infinite?

samadhi wins.
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Sun May 11, 2008 6:43 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Eye opening books
Replies: 29
Views: 6779

Re: Eye opening books

Ideas can be descriptions of regularities, as can bowel movements, and be themselves, too. Yep, you can describe an idea, or just have it. Just like you can describe a dream, or just perceive it. Outside your perception of a bowel movement, there is no bowel movement. Before I opened a watermelon, ...
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Sun May 11, 2008 5:55 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Eye opening books
Replies: 29
Views: 6779

Re: Eye opening books

While I think books can change your point of view and give you neat things to think about, I don't think there are any secrets to be revealed...anymore than there are secrets to the rules of chess. How can you say there are no secrets to be revealed. For example in physics, the laws of motions are ...
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Sun May 11, 2008 5:34 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Eye opening books
Replies: 29
Views: 6779

Re: Eye opening books

It has been my experience that some books reveal hidden aspects of the world/mind so that it makes much more sense after reading them. Two such books I have read recently are "Thought as a system" and "In search of the miraculous". I therefore request members to suggest any book...
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Sun May 11, 2008 4:01 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Faith in your mind?
Replies: 18
Views: 5397

Re: Faith in your mind?

Hmmm...but certainty is just a state of mind, one that lacks doubt. I don't think it's as complicated as we think, I don't think we need foundations or a reasoning process to reach certainty...because we could always doubt the foundation or the process itself. All you have to do to be certain is to ...
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Sat May 10, 2008 11:01 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Former atheist speaks out...
Replies: 128
Views: 23661

Re: Former athiest speaks out...

Science has no methodology. The methods used by biologists studying cells are different than the methods used by zoologists studying packs of wolves. And the methods of physics change from year to year etc... Experimentation and verification is theory dependent. For example the meaning of mass chang...
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Sat May 10, 2008 9:20 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Faith in your mind?
Replies: 18
Views: 5397

Re: Faith in your mind?

Ok, check this: You can be certain of what you perceive. (a pain that is felt is a pain that is felt A=A) You can be certain of what you define. (a bachelor is someone who is unmarried - again A=A) Neither of these are true or false though, they just are. ^ So you can't be certain of any truth? To e...
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Sat May 10, 2008 7:16 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Faith in your mind?
Replies: 18
Views: 5397

Re: Faith in your mind?

It seems to me that the only thing you can be certain of, is that you perceive. You see an appearance, or feel something, and thats that, there is no doubt about it, there is no true or false there, it just is. What you can be deceived about is your interpretation of that appearance, your judgment o...
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Sat May 10, 2008 2:39 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Kierkegaard was Wrong & likely Mentally ill
Replies: 74
Views: 12130

Re: Kierkegaard was Wrong & likely Mentally ill

It's funny to read about Kierkegaard and his schemes to win Regine Olsen.


And the effects she had on him after he broke off the engagement are even sillier.
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Sat May 10, 2008 2:27 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Faith in your mind?
Replies: 18
Views: 5397

Re: Faith in your mind?

average, What are absolute truths? I read David saying that the problem doesn't matter if you are enlightened since you are in a mental state beyond true and false, sane and insane. I can imagine this, it would be similar to someone who just doesn't care about true and false at all, and just watche...