GENIUS FORUMS

Are you irrepressively vacuous, Robert? That's not a rhetorical question. Vacuity means in part: 3. Total lack of ideas; emptiness of mind. 6. Something, especially a remark, that is pointless or inane ... You answered nothing, displaying a total lack of ideas and an emptiness of mind, and you made...

Hello again Robert, how are you? I hope your health issues are sorted out. Hey Diebert. I'm well, never minding the health issues. I could complain 'I should have gotten a better heart' but the old understanding 'things are as they should be' can keep us from wasting time complaining about things w...

[Ad hominem] is most commonly used to refer specifically to the ad hominem abusive, or argumentum ad personam, which consists of criticizing or personally attacking an argument's proponent in an attempt to discredit that argument. It is also used when an opponent is unable to find fault with an arg...

Are you irrepressively vacuous, Robert? That's not a rhetorical question. Vacuity means in part: 3. Total lack of ideas; emptiness of mind. 6. Something, especially a remark, that is pointless or inane ... You answered nothing, displaying a total lack of ideas and an emptiness of mind, and you made...

Absolute truths can't be "modified". They are true in all possible worlds. That statement itself is an absolute truth that can't be modified. - Are there thoughts without thinkers, sir? Are there worlds without thinkers? Your absolute truths - if they are true in the first place - are not...

Probably a very good assessment given Dan's greater experience. There is some humour in Master Zheng but I am not looking through any more of it than I already have.

... this, it seems to me, is the line pursued by Robert, and the specific line he uses is some 'reference texts' (from specific schools of Buddhism) which, according to those texts, describe a platform upon which (logically and ethically) enlightenment---if it is 'true enlightenment'---rests. Again...

... there exists a mix of both psychologies in most people. But this knowledge doesn't stop most people using those psychological-stereotypes to define themselves, and others. Which is exactly what Unidian did when he wrote: So, Sue, given that you haven't yet been able to philosophize your physiol...

I think he's a very clever fellow, to show up here claiming to be a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Bodhisattva. I go to the another place to find a flower shop, asked the couple in a book shop, no ?ower shop nearby, the madam smile to me, just as Otto Weininger described. Every girl i acquaint follows hi...

I certainly don't. I'll tell him in IRC.

Dan Rowden wrote:It's obvious that enlightenment is not a "thought state" whilst necessarily excluding delusional thought states.

Whilst it is thinking about what is 'not a "thought state"', that's an intriguing idea.

'Enlightenment', Mr. Jacob, is something I try to avoid mentioning. And no sir, I do not believe in it. Beliefs are not necessary, I don't believe.

'the well-worn path to enlightenment.' - Sam If there really was a well-worn path we could buy it in a book or perhaps instead in a set of CDs or DVDs with handsome covers and interesting art and we would all be enlightened at one low price payable in four easy installments. There being no well-worn...

Helm, Tomas does not have my seal of approval, however his behaviour and posting style is not sufficient to earn my admin ire. Besides which, Helm, I really don't care about the opinions of anyone from Olio. The abuse you hurl at this place in that Den of Iniquity is such that I surprise even mysel...

David , I will not argue your reasoning but I will ask you to reconsider your decision as an act of compassion. Whatever lessons there are to be learned, that no one cannot be asked to leave, that everyone is responsible for the quality of their posts, and that Laird himself is responsible for ensu...

Or, he has a different interpretation of it, which you happen to disagree with, presumably based on nothing more than scholarly "authority". All of which means no more than David's interpretation doesn't accord with that academic history. Well, holy dharma droppings, Batman, what an outra...

As I've pointed out above, in the last few days while we argued, David Quinn quoted Nagarjuna, Hui-neng, Shen-hsiu, and Hakuin. Dan Rowden is so desperate to win this little argument that he is shooting David Quinn in the foot.

And there we have the emotional motive behind everything you do and say here. You merely wish to see kicked SRQ arse. I can't believe you don't get it, Robert. When you challenge David's interpretation of Zen or Buddhist literature you are claiming the ability to interpret it truly (which necessita...

Insane by pointing out that the use of authority is not itself the logical fallacy of the 'appeal to authority'? What need one do but consult the Wikipedia article or any source on 'appeal to authority' and see for themselves that not only have you gotten it wrong, you have gotten it wrong in an ent...

With Laird Shaw being shown the door because supposedly every post of his reveals an obsession with women, and with The Crucible openly adopting the RobertGreenSky Rule*, a new yet hardly improved Genius Forum is taking shape, one in which reasonable speech is being curtailed so that Quinn and Rowd...

With Laird Shaw being shown the door because supposedly every post of his reveals an obsession with women, and with The Crucible openly adopting the RobertGreenSky Rule*, a new yet hardly improved Genius Forum is taking shape, one in which reasonable speech is being curtailed so that Quinn and Rowde...

In all honesty, you don't really belong on this forum at all, and I'm not sure how long I can put up with your sexual obsessiveness intruding into things all the time. Oh please, David. What proportion of my posts reference sex? A very small minority. I discuss a wide range of topics on this forum....

You were pushing mine also, Trevor. Note the advantage that we who are unenlightened have, in being able to admit the truth. I made it known on boards long ago that I was treated for years, having sustained tremendous damage from drugs, so it is not that I am unsympathetic to anyone suffering what c...

The allusion to hot air, and the failure of your wit, notwithstanding, there is some truth to it. I'm all wound up, spinning as it were. The whole of it will amount to hot air tomorrow; yours, mine, Trevor's, but Quinn's loss will long outlive it. Another week maybe. 'Look on my works, ye mighty, an...

Why call yourself a bullshitter if you aren't one? This all seems to make thinking very murky. Are you trying to avoid honesty? Get the quote and let's have a look at it. Likely I expected people to be able to read the English lanuage, but let's see. And given your series of weaselly posts, I don't...