GENIUS FORUMS

I suggest that your-plural use of this word is somewhere between a 'definition' and an 'axiom' Okay, I'll give examples, since otherwise you won't grok the difference. Definitions: -"Infinite" means non-finite -"Spirituality" is the means through which one relates to the infinit...

This is a definition, an axiom, that I challenge you to refute. Definitions aren't the same as axioms, and you don't refute either: you refute conclusions. You simply accept or reject definitions and axioms. What you have actually said are your conclusions ("there is indeed only one field: tha...

I frankly do not see the relevance even of a reference to the 'Infinite'. Infinitude is the most distinctive and definitive feature of reality. I believe the word of the day is "synecdoche". (I didn't mention this figure of speech earlier because there's no point in turning this relativel...

Explain in one paragraph what this 'Infinite' means for a you and a me, in existence right now, on this Earth, and in this conversation. Make some statement about it. It means not finite. I have no idea what you think it means, nor what you think I think it means. For some reason, you think it myst...

You seem to have difficulty performing a simple reading and in making the right interpretation.

Nevermind psychoanalysis. You're trying to tutor me in palmistry.

Alex, the second you denied the word "infinite" its meaning, you denied the word "finite" any meaning, and your entire post collapsed in a heap of gibberish. You've denied yourself the ability to talk meaningfully about reality, by selectively pruning elementary concepts out of y...

Alex, Someone who never deals with the infinite, but only deals with the finite, is not spiritual, but worldly . Comprehension of the infinite is comprehension of reality, plain and simple, and as such, a spiritual being as a matter of course makes decisions about how to relate to finite things in t...

What really is 'spirituality'? Spirituality is the means through which a person tries to relate to the infinite. A spiritual failure uses an ineffective method, like choosing to hammer a nail with a fish. Enlightenment is the clear recognition of one's true relationship to the infinite. You can equ...

But the 'and involves getting in touch with his feelings, and drawing conclusions based on what a statement makes him feel like when he concentrates on it' I do not except. This is a 'malicious misreading'. It's purpose is to insinuate that dreaded 'emotionalism' which it is so easy to get the chap...

Tomas, that wasn't my quote. Ask the person who said it what he meant.

Dennis , I'm trying to figure out his reasoning Trevor, can you help? I don't think his reasoning is something anyone else here would consider reasoning. His method is almost completely excluded from the definition of "Reason" used here. It's holistic, and involves getting in touch with h...

Freud provides a very considerable platform for examining basic human problems. Freud's entire value is in that he introduced a new category of patient to medicine. He convinced doctors to take mentally ill people seriously. However, his diagnostic criteria for these patients was completely wrong, ...

One could say 'the environment is neurotic' or 'the environment is dysfucntional' or 'the core ideas seem neurotic/disfunctional'. It is hard to describe the psychology of a forum (a group place) and yet each forum certainly has one. My definition of neurosis is something all humans share. To be hu...

Just for a moment it was authentic. Now you've flipped into inauthenticity again. I disagree; it's perfectly authentic if you know what you're looking at. He likes to bait people to get them into his interview room. He makes up disorders like "binary thinking", and tries to group-diagnose...

The part about 'holding to' interests me. What should we definitely 'hold to'? I am certainly interested in hearing. You used the vocabulary of "holding to" in your own reply, and in very close proximity to this question. In this example, what you hold to is "strength... fortitude......

I don't think we have yet exhausted the topic, this Divenely Inclined Person. Okay, I'll exhaust some more possibilities with my brand of Existential Alchemy. You summarized your views with that speech last page. Normal people without a taste for the divine aren't concerned with existential problem...

Okay, I admit it. I laughed.

But when we ponder we enter a no-man's zone, or a zone of unknowing, and I suppose we are either *optimistic* in respect to *it* or *paranoid*, isn't this so? That's an interesting pair of options. I wonder if the right combination of paranoid optimism would lead one to believe that they have the p...

I can only rhyme on what I see, So I look to right in front of me: It happens to be a glass of tea, Or, more specifically An cold-as-ice chai smoothie, Prepared for this teashop attendee Both tastefully and carefully By a particular employee Whose short pants courageously Reveal white legs for all t...

BUT ONLY ONE WHO is oriented correctly within himself could ever Utter the Adjuration in a truly powerful way (though we all adjure rather weakly every day, and with every breath), and bring forth words forth with Thunderous Power, so that our adjurations, in whatever form they take, but especially...

A New Gnosticism will have no fear at all of strict scientific reasoning, and a decided sobriety in general, but will not feint when confronted with the mystical text, the ancient religious text, any and all views of any other outmoded episteme. I'm not sure that awareness of the bewitching, subtly...

Every man is a Wizard in this sense, every man a Magician, every man an Interpretive Agent wending his way through this world of woe and strangeness, Two gods, I see, rule our modern minds One only imaged, like the geometer's lines The other speaks loudly in Holy signs. Wizards and schemers flock t...

You should really think of a better name, because I think you'll accidentally appeal to the NPU/MENSA crowd, and alienate people who genuinely seek wisdom. I think something that emphasizes the goal of wisdom, in no uncertain terms, would be ideal. I was thinking of something like "HumanPerfect...

I cannot share with you what are my means and methods to understand 'truth' or 'meaning' because 95% of all I would employ to present my sense of it, is not anything you'd consider valid. I deal with more poetry than philosophy, tbh. This thing you don't want to do was going to be my next question,...

Alex, I disagree immediately with contradictions. So I can say, before zeroing in on the tickle, that the tickle is not simultaneously both present in and absent from the straw. But we know that's not really relevant to what I said. I'll rephrase my question to get rid of that lazy eroteme. All beli...