GENIUS FORUMS

bhaisahab arhat ka janan se nirvan nahi niklega. angrezi ka fuhare se awaaz ki dhulai nahi hoga. labon ko biglao, firangi mat bano. apne paros se bhi kuch seekh lo janab! The discourtesy of not using the lingua franca of the forum notwithstanding, you extend your brand of vacuous rhetoric to bi lin...

For the hypothetical impressionable young lurker who discerns what differentiates me from David: stop searching for reasons to be truthful; there aren't any. There is no enlightenment. Anyone who says otherwise is deceiving both themselves and you. And there is your nihilism in a nutshell. That jus...

Unmemorable is considered a synonym by some sources, probably a better word. The context of the usage of the word is pretty clear. The piece on Diebert was interesting. I personally find him to be clear in whatever he expresses most of the time. Given Diebert's description of his levels of insight (...

I don't see any of you raise issues with what I think to be the most dangerous issue with Trump, his 'business sense' fueled endorsements of 0% or negative interest rates. (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/business/economy/bonehead-trump-jay-powell.html, look up similar articles from other sources...

Have you suffered yet for the truth? How's it been going? Glad it can be of help. I've had my fair share of suffering for sure, but I'd say I've been luckier than most (check out the Trump thread in Worldly Affairs to get a better read on me). I've managed to keep a conventional life so far, active...

The kind of cringe-inducing inanity that you refer to is what we in Australia, Britain and the US have had to endure for the past few years. Unlike you guys in India, we can't just switch off the computer and escape it. Well I'm actually based in Singapore, and it's pretty much affected by whatever...

A distilled compilation of what I found to be the most interesting dialogues regarding the cultivation of genius over the course of 20 or so years in this forum. Feel free to download from the link and have a read.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

As predictable, yet another discussion unfolds in a pretty cringe worthy fashion. I thought I'd throw in my two cents, swim around in the cesspool for a bit, then excuse myself of the generic inanity involved here. On a whimsical note, I'd like to disclose a bit of information about my background an...

When I observe a static thing, the conclusion that it is static can only be made by the contrast of change. In real life, when one 'observes', there always seems to be a backdrop of change (either the environment, or mental activity). But on the other hand, the conclusion of 'change' can be arrived ...

David Quinn wrote (via email correspondence) VD: When you say that Reality is unborn (and thus the future will continue forever), if by future you specifically mean 'a succession of changes in appearances of forms', it isn't logically necessary for this to be true. Although the idea of 'staticness' ...

DQ: An event, by its very nature, is both an effect and a cause. It comes into being from the interplay of other events and its mere presence helps to generate other events into being. Thus, logically, the future will continue forever. Or more deeply: Reality is unborn and thus incapable of being d...

David Quinn wrote (via email correspondence) DQ: "Again, the problem lies in your likening the present moment to the very last moment of an infinite future (or the very earliest point in an infinite past). The core reason why the very last moment in the infinite future cannot be reached is not ...

To people here who might have dabbled with meditation. Do you have to deal/ have dealt with the case of 'stuck piti' as Leigh Brasington calls it. Some links to get an idea of what I'm talking about - https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMindIlluminated/comments/cb18hy/headaches_during_and_after_meditation_i...

Just a piece of my mind, feel free to respond in any way. (Taken from 'Naturalistic philosophy denies life') DQ: "Again, the problem lies in your likening the present moment to the very last moment of an infinite future (or the very earliest point in an infinite past). The core reason why the v...

Thus you should be worried if the idea of interdependence induces a feeling of contentment or ataraxia within you. The fact is that you have associated "interdependence" with things that make you feel carefree or happy. Meanwhile interdependence is happening all around you and within you....

Picture of Her -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZwDgkVGIsY&t=1425s
Elephant Gym - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW367HtrXE0&t=475s

The likes of Toe, Mouse on the Keys, Elephant Gym, A Picture of Her. Toe's first album - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VCCkymXplE&t=1597s One of toe's best live performances - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldcZoXz58q4&t=3890s Mouse on the Keys - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ighrttVRM

The value of the idea of (hard) determinism shows itself especially when addressing magical entities: a soul, a creator, free will as main decider of our life choices, sin, big regrets and so on. It's not meant to prop up a cosmology of Russian dolls but it does reflect the higher notion of causali...

Literally anything whatsoever points at the essence of the infinite. The idea of interdependence isn't special. Taken in itself, it isn't even particularly insightful or interesting. Don't really know what you mean by 'literally anything'. I'm talking about principles that directly and succinctly h...

I see the logical line you're attempting to employ - A is a cause of not A -> Not A is a cause of A -> therefore A is a cause of A I don't think it's particular useful to think this way. A cause of anything (A) can be defined to be something it is not (not A). By that definition a thing cannot be th...

Even logic doesn't prove causality. If X and Y cause each other because they are not each other, then both X and Y also cause themselves by not being each other. So you must presuppose causality no matter what you decide to think about. That's a bit of specious reasoning. logic and causality are bo...

I've come across both David and Kevin alluding to time as contingent upon the contrast offered by our perception of 'staticness' (not-time). Furthermore, it's been mentioned that memory plays a role in being able to register the notion of 'change', and as such is involved in the perception of time. ...

When people try to point out 'random' events that aren't supposedly covered by notions of causality, why jump through hoops claiming that it's imperfect modelling or mapping of previous causes that gives rise to the seeming randomness of the event or effect in question? If a cause is defined as a co...

At the same time, you get thrown off by stuff like this, where he seems to laud objective uncertainty as a condition for faith. A conception of logical causality can be considered to be 'objective' since it pertains to empirical phenomena, just as mathematical statements such as 1+1=2 do so too. How...

The snippet is taken from David's compilation of Kierkegaard's writings culled from Provocations on the subject of Truth. It's part of the 'Two ways of reflection' excerpt. Let me clarify the difference between objective and subjective reflection. True inwardness in an existing subject involves pass...