GENIUS FORUMS

wow, that is horrible that I do not remember you mentioning that. my short term memory is crap. I thought it was an original idea that i came up with when I read some of your posts and realized you didn't have much of a worthy audience. Yeah, the current facebook can be of some use, but specialized ...

An interesting idea for a website would be to undermine Facebook by creating a social networking site that is elitist in nature, and only accepts intellectual wall posts and material. I envisioned a collective feed of all members that you can scan through to find potential people to debate if you fe...

Cory, Standing up to an oppressive regime involves fighting physical demons outside of you, and the dichotomy is fairly straightforward "us VS. them" values. The opposition, despite being relatively radical, has a clear group consensus, and so again, one resorts to the safety of the herd. ...

Cory, Sacrifice is death. The greater the sacrifice the greater the death. The greater the death the greater the life. The greater the life, the greater the courage. A very powerful statement, and very difficult to live. When you quantify it, it forces you to compare your own level of negation, and ...

Faith is remaining connected to the infinite by not becoming overly attached to particular expressions of the finite world. Courage is sacrifice/dedication in the name of a cause. However, the problem is that many people's causes are rooted in cowardice. One could also suggest that there are differe...

Bob Michael, I think the less children 'play', and especially with other children, the better the chances are that they'll soundly develop and retain their innate "bright" and perhaps make the return again to it later in life. Growing up in a sane and quiet home, I feel, is also of huge be...

To play devil's advocate here, I won't to question the notion that children have some predisposition to be connected to the energy of the source. From my experience, children are filled with energy, but for different reasons. First of all, early childhood is a period of rapid motor learning, and the...

Here is an interesting video that shows how rapid the change was for humanity in the last 200 years, and it breaks it down per country, but shows it as a movement. Very interesting to watch. Good reason to be an optimist, despite the global instability: http://www.kurzweilai.net/hans-rosling-200-yea...

Sphere 70, From reading through your posts, I haven't been able to find a logical reason as to why one would want to be consistently abuse substances on a regular basis...If you look at the majority of the population that suffers from substance abuse, it is due to serious character flaws such as as ...

s70, But again - know that behind all this structure is the untouched Subject. the blank canvas, constantly untouched by any undertaking whatsoever. I do not believe this is the case. I believe that you are your environment, so if you choose to mediate your consciousness with drug on a regular basis...

The problem with alcohol is that it distorts one's awareness, the brain functioning becomes different than normal functioning, and as Quinn said earlier, what the hell is wrong with normal functioning? - nothing at all. There is no reason to drink alcohol in the first place, unless you are dissatisf...

yeah, I agree overall. I suspected the science was far too new to be trusted. We will need major advancements in genetics, robotics and nanotech before such treatments could be trusted. My memory is sufficient for what matters most as well - philosophy. I mostly have trouble remembering trivial surv...

I recently became aware of this new market, but I am a little weary of taking anything, although the interest is there. I was specifically interested in something that both improves memory and alleviates brain inflammation, which I think is partly responsible for many brain related illnesses later i...

Cory's 10 are more effective than Osho's I think because they are more subtle, more detailed, and a bit more specific. 10 is an arbitrary number, but is high enough to create a sort of poetic set that feed off each other, and lead into one another. 8) Thou shall not be pulled into the charm of unser...

Diebert, Well, I might have translated that one poorly. How I read it is that one shouldn't avoid resistance or strife, no matter if it's aimed toward you or you are aiming toward "the world". It might also be read as amor fati, I suppose. Thanks for that Diebert, you seem to know quite a ...

Based on everything I took in from Skipair, Osho and Nietzsche, here are the new commandments I came up with, and later I will analyze these against what I already have, and see what to swap and how to make the original 10 more powerful. Inspired by Osho: 11. When the search ends, you end, and god b...

I like Osho’s approach, that is sort of thing I was thinking of - a body of interconnected statements that points the reader in the right direction towards enlightenment. Some of Osho’s build on each other, and compliment each other, that is the sort of thing I was trying to do, but I am not satisfi...

Diebert, on Nietzche - You shall hate nor love peoples. This one is really good. You shall not engage in politics. not sure if this is totally necessary for enlighenment, sometimes for survival purposes you might have to participate in politics, but I think it can be done without compromising your m...

Skipair, 1) You will exercise daily good, but not directly related to achieving enlightenment. 2) You will review your written goals daily Again, its a good idea to be organized and have a to do list or whatever, but not a necessity for enlightenment. 3) You will trust yourself I do not believe you ...

Student, I think you cannot define what does and does not free a person. spoken like a true coward. Anyone who attempts to deny the possibility of defining something in an absolute sense is automatically suspect. However, in defense of the student, he did also say that he believed vanity was inflati...

Here is a philosophical challenge - how would you rewrite the 10 commandments to reflect the philosophy of enlightenment? In order to make it more modern, more wise, more precise, and easier to understand. Some of mine are repetitive, but I think it still works. Give it a shot, perhaps the veteran p...

that article sums him up perfectly. His wife also made an interesting statement about him when she said that "most people find it rather bothersome to take a few pills, but my husband has no problem taking hundreds of pills every day." To my mind, someone who is able to take hundreds of pi...

Very interesting Documentary on Ray Kurzweil. You can download it for free on ISO HUNT, and I highly recommend it. He is a very interesting guy. His ideology for the future of technology has all the makings of a religion. He promises eternal life, bringing back loves ones from the dead, super human ...

Skipair, These are the kind of posts that define the dark side of GF rhetoric. The side of it that can be seen as elistists, haters and 'pain people'. This is what can happen when a person values objectivity in a way that disrespects the everlasting power of the emotional world. It is 100% false tha...

I have known one unrefined psychopath in my community. He had quite a bit of potential to be a decent philosopher, but he blew it, and my analysis suggests this happened because a sense of self developed from his ability to manipulate people. He realized that he didn't need to work to survive, and h...