GENIUS FORUMS

I think they do differ if not in strategy, then certainly in tactics and tone. The Israeli/Palestinian issue is the great elephant in the room. Clinton put much effort into that cause. And he was backed by the left and moderates and even most conservatives, at the time. He tried but failed to keep t...

Life and death are not separated. They are two parts of a whole. From this, you can see the quandary I find myself in, for I’m not able to ascertain whether you consider life and death to exist inherently – or not. And what is the significance of bringing other people into the picture? Inherentl...

If a Democratic president is elected, which will most likely happen, I'm moving out of the country. Regardless of if I have more time in the military or not. I will retreat. There is a reason why American soldiers are dying in the Middle East. That reason is mujahideen. I truly believe the only thi...

Sue, are you leading me down the Socratic hallway? What do you mean by “mortal component of existence”? Is it your idea of enlightenment? "mortal component of existence" = the understanding and acceptance of personal mortality. "enlightenment" = the absence of delusions. What...

The last two paragraphs of this article are key to understanding what happened in Vietnam and what is happenning now in Iraq. Do we have the strength to look past our pride? I would have to actually see it from the American people for once to believe it. Otherwise, we deserve Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld an...

Well written. But Zeus IS real, BTW.

passthrough wrote, Some people consider me a “smart” person, but at this point I feel very stupid, foolish and unwise. Be aware of how the pendulum swings during the time of your realignment. The equilibrium point is in the middle, but there is a natural tendency to take the apparent conversion ...

I understand that paradoxes exist only when an individual expects a certain outcome.

You are continuing to draw structures where none is necessary. The unstructured timeframe has a preponderance of evidence while the idea of mutiverses has exactly zero.

The grandson can kill his grandfather for the simple reason that he travels backward in time and the grandfather doesn't. There is no paradox. The time frame in which he was born was not the same time frame in which he encounters his grandfather in the act of murder. It is a comparison of apples and...

Sue wrote, What is happening in the mind of the person having the “personal experience” that isn’t happening in the ‘belief stage’? The "personal experience" is one that exposes the individual directly to the mortal component of existence. It is not padded or diluted by the safet...

To my eyes, Tibetan Buddhism IS a religion and has many parallels with Catholicism. DalaiLama/Pope, constant rituals and prostrations, dreams of reward in some afterdeath setting, idol worship, etc. Truth is always a personal experience. Whenever you find groups of people banding together to validat...

If humans are going to eat & survive in a sustainable and balanced way, then they are going to have to kill. This 'non-violence' ideology is just an emotional stimulant used to intoxicate the minds of those longing for the mere sensation of divinity. You guys are aware that the New Age movement...

Cory wrote, It’s highly unlikely that slugs, butterfly’s and the like are capable of introspection, imagination, and dreaming, Overall, I really find such speculative subject matter un-interesting. It might be uninteresting to you, but it goes straight to the matter of moralizing about what &quo...

Question: Why do you choose Jesus as your mentor over the other prophets of the Abrahamic God? Was it your upbringing? Habit? Have you heard the story of the blind men in the room with the elephant? I know you addressed this thread to David and I prefer to let David speak for himself, but if he is n...

The first time I did acid I crawled throught the grass in the front yard like I was tracking enemies in Vietnamese jungles. I was never defeated in any battle. Yet I still lost the war...I think.

Will someone explain to me why science considers the universe to be finite and expanding? And as a corrollary how they can think that the universe has "edges"? I have tried to read articles about it but am too stupid to grasp their reasoning. It is finite when relative to itself. It is in...

Who said anything about God? You threw that in there. I throw in the Flying Spaghetti Monster. You cannot PROVE he does not exist, and thus we should teach the controversy. Anything that cannot be PROVEN to exist, must necessarily be considered possible and thoroughly discussed with our children. I ...

You say giving all things equal significance, not valuing yourself above a slug, or whatever, is rational. I say it's buddhist zealotry. It is political Buddhism. It is entirely delusional. I said the way a human functions is different from a slug. A human should not try to be like a slug obviously...

I am not deying the existence of soil, air, sunlight, bacteria, cells, minerals, atoms, electricity, anions, cations. Those things are what the tree is. Tell me how this is not so. It is so. And all "things" are caused to exist. It is an Absolute Truth. Not much more is spoken to be true ...

Is a peanut a meal?

Is a meal a life?

Aren't the Carolina Panthers better than thier 4-3 record?

I say yes. And thus we strive toward enlightenment and victory.

Well, that's no fun.

Aphex Twin. Watch them in the dark. On reminds me of some of the old Peter Gabriel videos; stop action. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toS-QvUtbfY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XesEuvwVjYI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Az_7U0-cK0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULvEZ78NVfo And just when you take h...

No, not that one. This one: "pretty good, pretty much, pretty sure" Is that just an American thing? A Vietnamese friend of mine asked me about this the other day, and I had never thought about it before. Where did it come from? Is it a form of "very?" "Somewhat?" "...

Is that so? Define time. There are levels of reality where cause precedes effect and X = X. Then there are levels of reality where casality and predeterminism appear to break down and X = not-X Quantum Trickery No, they were not sprawled along a sunny windowsill. To a physicist, a "cat state&q...