GENIUS FORUMS

So if I was to to take a knife to your throat, and slit it open, that would be your throat slit. Not A=A? Not; your throat slit by prince=your throat slit by prince..? Do you want to try it out. Yeah, I do. Nice segue into your misanthropic violent fantasies. But trust me, poser, I had you beat at ...

Of course they are, as is the thought of "immediate reality." The thought is not the thing; the map is not the territory. What part of "pointing" do you not understand? Thoughts include "who's pointing," while direct experiences focus on what is pointed at. The words, t...

Well, here we are. We've had Obama for almost 2 years. And it's been a thorough disappointment - although such is the relationship between just about every voter and just about every politician. That being said and acknowledged, I'm voting Green in 2012. At least then, I can be disappointed by the f...

The "law of the excluded middle" might as well be called "the law of excluded reality." Did Buddha, Nagarjuna, and others call it "The Middle Way" for nothing? By "excluding the middle," A=A and your precious rationally bifurcated Aristotlean logic exclude rea...

They are, but they are also an aspect of immediate reality which tends to distract us from the rest of it - just as the ego, when it operates, replaces all else as the sole focus of consciousness. Thoughts are inherently egotistical because they all make reference to concepts - and all concepts are ...

I'd assume at least one, since you probably have a bathroom mirror.

Although Robert and I are not exactly like you - we are neither narcissistic nor sociopathic.

I dunno, but if I had to take a guess, it would have been Kelly.

*Whack!*

A concise description of the nature of your little world here, although you might have added a few more whacks. You're not such a young man anymore, and I'm doubting they dispense Viagra to Enlightened sages.

Prince thinks that if he is abrupt, rude, and sarcastic enough, people will believe he's a peer of QRS.

To believe in anything is dumb.

One should either know, suspect, or admit ignorance. One should never "believe," as that's where boatloads of trouble start.

I know, but who's to judge who is "deserving?"

Thus what I originally said.

Mensa says: I don't understand what you're saying Carmel, what does defiling hot grits mean?

It means everything to me.

Egotistical ones would by my target, personally. And what are egotistical thoughts? Any which try to substitute some concept, belief, idea, or figment of the imagination in place of immediate reality. As observed in the case, for example, where "A=A" is substituted for A. Or where "A&...

Wait, you like Monty Python?

My universe just ceased to make sense...

Not since the day before yesterday.

Anyone who thinks of themselves as a "non-conformist" is conforming to a pre-conceived image and is therefore a fraud.

Which means I just poured hot grits down my pants.

Thank you.

This is an abominable use of 'reasoning' skills, Dan. Is this only a joke? Like it or not, Jews have been 'a nation' and a people unified by an Idea, for a long, long time.

What is that idea?

It sure ain't Judaism.

Nothing happened. Was I supposed to turn the microwave on?

"Support the troops" is kind of misguided, since the support they really need would have prevented them from becoming troops.

Unless she departs.

Indeed, hehe.

If everyone is wrong about everything, then I am naturally wrong about that as well, which allows the possibility of someone being right.

And that someone, it just so happens, is me.

This somehow got dropped into the "Worldly Matters" dungeon just after I posted in it. Interesting.

So, discussions of fate are not sufficiently philosophical? I guess such matters are for "people who can't be bothered thinking."

It doesn't make much sense to me. How could you depart from the path fate has assigned you to? If my fate is to be devoured by cannibalistic midgets, there is nothing I can do to escape that fate. Even if I were to stow away on the space shuttle, it would presumably be attacked by cannibalistic midg...

It's their balls.