GENIUS FORUMS

Glostik91. I'm less certain that 2+2=4 than I am that you are displaying delusons. It's a little hard to articulate or explain which delusional tendencies you're displaying, perhaps impossible, but I'll try anyway. It seems you are far too entranced with, attached to, or caught up in, conceptual cli...

Even the Christian consideration of concern for the status of one's soul in relation to God is a veritable seriousness . It has a very similar concern that fits in line with my understanding of life and death; that what you do in this life may very well be the deciding factor in whether you experie...

So these people are way less deluded and are open to the types of conservations you described as not being possible with the "99%"? Not necessarily no, but the environment/societal structure/focuses are different and that likely allows the potential for much more growth. In any case, we n...

You can substantially change how a person orients themselves in the world easily, since people, perhaps especially nowadays, are almost like programmable dough, their actions, beliefs, world views, metaphysics, and even perhaps their consciousness, can be moulded extremely easily. What a bizarre, i...

But if there would be problems with "pretty much everything" about the past and present state of "X" while not describing any viable alternative "Y" in past, present and future, the most reasonable conclusion would be that you're just describing the nature of "X&q...

Fair enough, but you should discuss these topics *after* attaining a clear holistic view. I disagree, and only see positive sides to such discussion. Even Alex, tho I find him to be unnecessarily long winded, provides some interesting insights every thousand words or so. For example, what I've read...

Meaning food, transportation, architecture, medicine etc.? Topics are too broad, everyone has their own idea of what they think an ideal way of life would be and all the implications of that, I'm not implying I have some well thought out answer to it all, but I think part of philosophy requires you...

Do you see problems with left wing feminist views or, in fact, with increasing LGBTQI+ or Islamic presence in your society? I see problems with pretty much everything about 'my' society, so, yes, I'd see problems with the increasing of pretty much any aspect of it, whether they are objectively wors...

And for those few not belonging to "everyone", do you really know them well enough? People can be significantly more wise than others, enough to set them apart wholly from what is clearly a mass of egotistical and vain people even without taking into account the various obvious delusions....

it is not 'my lot' to think in grandiose terms. Then I mistook you or assumed too much, I was under the impression you were implying that your purpose was to try and bring reform to Europe. When it comes to worldly matters I definitely think in grandiose terms. I think one has to arrive first of al...

So nothing? If you like, I can reach a million people in the next year with a quote or a few of your choosing just using annotations on an old documentary on YouTube I uploaded a while back. This will of course have the most minor impact but what I'm trying to say is that I don't see how you can hon...

US politics seems in such a mega-mire that I do not see how there will be resolution without some level of disaster. I am not a patriot (and at times I regret that I do not have more positive sentiments). Agreed but you didn't answer the question, do you actually plan on doing anything about your p...

So to work toward your purpose you have to be able to solve such neurotic mire and other symptoms of deterioration which are widespread, thus this forum, and Diebert, are microcosms of the very contagion you are battling, you must be able to cure one patient before you can move on. Before continuing...

What I said was beyond any doubt true Only clinically insane have moved beyond doubt about anything less than the nature of existence. Have you lost your mind again? "“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” While the quote is no proof, ...

I used that example exactly because it is more commonly understood. The point is to make a point about 'acid' but the larger and more difficult question, it seems to me, is to go further and to understand how it has come about. Since it seems to have come about over the course of some centuries, re...

You're not realizing yet that this is not the problem at all. It's a nice cover story though with you acting as some kind of resistance hero, challenger, lone hunter for truth in a world where everybody has sworn allegiance to a lie and "they" all will plot together to criminalize or expe...

For me, this has been rather an amazing 'lesson' about the breakdown in communication. It is not that I do not understand it, and it is not that I condemn it, but I see it in a larger context of tremndous break-downs in mutually-agreed definitions. I'm surprised you are still learning this lesson. ...

I had assumed you were Australian for some reason, but I guess the time difference shows otherwise, enjoy just another good old fashioned awakening to the same stream of consciousness :P Goodnight.

Pam Seeback wrote: Causation and consciousness "are not the very same thing exactly." John: Yes they are, just not in the sense of the totality. Where is your reasoning that the totality is not the causality? It is. I was making a distinction similar to how individual consciousness is not...

Causation and consciousness "are not the very same thing exactly." Yes they are, just not in the sense of the totality. If that were the case, consciousness would cause unconsciousness What do you mean? I'm not sure, but my first reaction to the words.... "if that were the case"...

Within 'is', there is no after, period. You seem to have lost touch with reality. I definitely wrote this after your previous post. Just like "life after life" simply means a continuation of existence after the current form "my body" comes to dissolution. ignorance of the eterna...

Exactly! And yet you speak of an existence after existence (life after life). No, I just don't speak of an end to existence. This is honestly the most basic line of reasoning I can't see how you continuously skip over it. Existence is. Full stop, no postulating an end to it, and therefore recognizi...

John, bringing 'one's karma with them' after death purports an inherent soul or self which falls into the imagination/belief realm of reasoning. Does a domino bring every domino that fell before it with it as it falls? It is just cause and effect, that is what is meant by karma following one. Certa...

There are many roads leading to the unlearned or unshaken. Sometimes a certain kind of activity is needed, sometimes the same activity should be avoided. This is the reason I likely won't mention meditation, as activity, or lack thereof, ever again. For the beginning of the path of wisdom, the rele...

But what would happen, without imagination and belief though, practically, to people and the society? There would necessarily have to be an explosion in the popularity of wisdom and the degree to which people are wise, such as the Buddha's wisdom, to replace old beliefs, very unlikely of course. If...