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by Matt Gregory
Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:32 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: No ego = bullshit
Replies: 155
Views: 47463

Re: No ego = bullshit

I'm usually not one to argue semantics, but I'll persist here. Goals themselves always have to be distinct from the person who has them. To the sage, nothing is distinct from himself. Goals are an end. To the sage, there is no end. I agree that greater consciousness leads to greater responsibility,...
by Matt Gregory
Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:08 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Article in Men's Health: Soy messes with male hormones
Replies: 3
Views: 2568

Article in Men's Health: Soy messes with male hormones

Careful what you eat, guys. This dude started growing breasts and turning into a woman when he found out it was caused by drinking soymilk. Unfortunately, soy is in everything nowadays and it's hard to completely eliminate it from your diet.

Link!
by Matt Gregory
Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:16 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: No ego = bullshit
Replies: 155
Views: 47463

Re: No ego = bullshit

Sages have goals in the sense that water has the goal of making things wet. Their goals are not distinct enough from themselves to be called goals. I think the word "function" would be better. The function of the sage is to spread truth. You're thinking is backwards on this. The more a pe...
by Matt Gregory
Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:21 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: No ego = bullshit
Replies: 155
Views: 47463

Re: No ego = bullshit

Whatever gave you the idea that enlightenment is goallessness? How can one without an ego have a goal? He may have a "goal" like the spreading of wisdom, going to the other end of the room to have a drink of water, etc, but he wouldn't attach any worth to his "goal". It wouldn't...
by Matt Gregory
Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:53 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: No ego = bullshit
Replies: 155
Views: 47463

Re: No ego = bullshit

There is no God, but if there was, he could ordain a person to make effort to become enlightened and that person could become enlightened. Therefore, if you don't make goals, then you could be going against God. By "God" I don't mean in the classical sense. To be enlightened is to be goal...
by Matt Gregory
Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:47 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: No ego = bullshit
Replies: 155
Views: 47463

Re: No ego = bullshit

Well, hmm. You can't really make any progress without a goal, but of course the need of a goal isn't enough reason to believe in something. I've always believed in it. I've always believed that there's a fundamental nature of reality and that we can make it shine through our consciousness. But if y...
by Matt Gregory
Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:45 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: No ego = bullshit
Replies: 155
Views: 47463

Re: No ego = bullshit

I've always believed in it. I've always believed that there's a fundamental nature of reality and that we can make it shine through our consciousness. WTF? Why would you believe this? I don't know, it's just based on experiences I've had and then running into things that indicated other people have...
by Matt Gregory
Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:20 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: No ego = bullshit
Replies: 155
Views: 47463

Re: No ego = bullshit

MG, I like your post. The only issues I take with it are first: I don't think I've ever made any progress by thinking about or going after "enlightenment". For me it sets up a construct-building mentality to try and resolve the mystery of what the term could mean. If it's going to mean an...
by Matt Gregory
Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:43 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: No ego = bullshit
Replies: 155
Views: 47463

Re: No ego = bullshit

I'd like to reframe this discussion because I think it's kind of vague and that's why it's not going anywhere. I just want to explain how I define things in order to resolve this on my own terms. I assume we're talking about enlightenment. The ego includes everything that impedes or prevents enlight...
by Matt Gregory
Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:26 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: How does one become smart?
Replies: 160
Views: 25270

Re: How does one gargle with fluoride?

.Jezuz, time to move to the European countries, most fluoride in water systems banned there. Dunno about Australia. Brisbane is about to have its water supply fluoridated. As you'd expect, in a faux-democracy, the public wasn't given a chance to decide if it wanted to be mass medicated. It's bottle...
by Matt Gregory
Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:56 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Causality revisited
Replies: 3
Views: 1174

Re: Causality revisited

Just some new thoughts from a Zimbo on a rampage ;^). Don't want to bore anyone with causality (again). but i have a few ideas on causality to share. If the universe is run by the forces of cause and effect then it would not have all the information it has now. After the Big bang the universe would...
by Matt Gregory
Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:37 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: How does one become smart?
Replies: 160
Views: 25270

Re: How does one become smart?

How does one become smart? I don't know how everybody else does it, but the way I learn something is by examining it very fucking carefully. If I feel any confusion about it, I look at it again and again and again and again until it clears up. Practice makes perfect. When I walk away from it, I at ...
by Matt Gregory
Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:52 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Definitions, Significance and Goedel
Replies: 10
Views: 3492

Re: Definitions, Significance and Goedel

I just had a fascinating insight into this as I was trying to get to sleep... (well, maybe not to you guys, but it was to me :) Another reason for thinking that boundaries = significance is that the more you think about something, the deeper its impression becomes in your mind. It's like its boundar...
by Matt Gregory
Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:08 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie
Replies: 114
Views: 20427

Re: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie

I have lost interest in this thread because it is based on a short episode of Matt's life which he describes early on. I responded based on this description, then Matt tells me I'm wrong because this is what really happened, then he adds more decription to the episode. I responded to that, then he ...
by Matt Gregory
Sun Sep 28, 2008 9:14 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Formlessness (inside & outside)
Replies: 156
Views: 12588

Re: Formlessness (inside & outside)

But does the definition of totality necessarily imply formlessness? Just because the totality has no exterior, does not necessarily mean it's formless. Or does it? Well, form implies that a boundary exists which is defining that form. If a boundary were to have an inside but no outside (or an outsi...
by Matt Gregory
Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:00 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Formlessness (inside & outside)
Replies: 156
Views: 12588

Re: Formlessness (inside & outside)

That's right. There is nothing outside the totality simply going by the definition of "totality".
by Matt Gregory
Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:26 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie
Replies: 114
Views: 20427

Re: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie

MG: What do you think is difficult about mulling things over? This is what I naturally do. BH: It is what I naturally do as well. It takes effort. Look, people with OCD wash their hands fifty times a day. It is what they naturally do. Doesn't that take effort? Is the effort as wisely spent as it co...
by Matt Gregory
Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:59 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie
Replies: 114
Views: 20427

Re: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie

Well, I'm the one who thinks about what he does to try and learn from his mistakes and you're the one who doesn't, so make of it what you will. I may have little intellectual integrity but you have even less than I do! It's a way of life for you, apparently, like most people. What a goof. Of course...
by Matt Gregory
Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:24 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie
Replies: 114
Views: 20427

Re: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie

Matt : If there’s no distinction between “honest communication” and a truth-imparting communication, why a specific argument for the virtue of the former? There is a distinction, which would be the success of the communication, but we don't necessarily know how successful we are every time. We can ...
by Matt Gregory
Fri Sep 26, 2008 11:59 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Definitions, Significance and Goedel
Replies: 10
Views: 3492

Re: Definitions, Significance and Goedel

I'm talking about it in general. Significance is contextual, so it is decided by different things in different situations. Probability is a valid method of determining significance in a lot of situations, like search engines, polling, quantum physics, etc. Okay, there's a possible direction you can...
by Matt Gregory
Fri Sep 26, 2008 11:33 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: programmer philosophy
Replies: 10
Views: 2195

Re: programmer philosophy

It's also fundamental to the way people have organized themselves into large groups throughout history. There's always a leader or a leading group. There have been societies who have experienced anarchy at times, but there has never been a society based on anarchy. There have been lots of studies do...
by Matt Gregory
Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:25 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Was Jesus Not Enlightened ?
Replies: 107
Views: 11586

Re: Was Jesus Not Enlightened ?

Tomas isn't one for originality.
by Matt Gregory
Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:18 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Definitions, Significance and Goedel
Replies: 10
Views: 3492

Re: Definitions, Significance and Goedel

You mean in binary arithmetic? Computers are more than just binary calculators. They normally used to model things (see |read|'s post) and there's no reason why the concept of significance can't be modeled. In fact, that's exactly what search engines do, sort web pages by significance. I'm not alto...
by Matt Gregory
Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:05 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie
Replies: 114
Views: 20427

Re: Drawing the Line Between Truth and Lie

I wouldn't say that wasn't a factor, but there's also the factor of trying to fit one's understanding into someone else's conceptual framework in order for them to get a handle on it. Their views of reality may not be very accommodating to your ideas or to new ideas whatsoever. If someone can take ...
by Matt Gregory
Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:27 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Definitions, Significance and Goedel
Replies: 10
Views: 3492

Re: Definitions, Significance and Goedel

A bus isn't always a bus, but that's what we say it is. But when we're saying it, then it is a bus. Anyway, it seems contradictory of yourself to attempt to define definition. So does self-consciousness. Defining is never as useful as it seems. NEVER EVER Maybe your conception of it isn't fundament...