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by keenobserver
Sat May 19, 2007 3:13 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Fundamentalism and Fear - Dr V.V. Raman
Replies: 107
Views: 201774

and infinitely more wise than an atheist. Yeah, nice quote, but the above has yet to be proven to me, and I doubt it ever will be, so I interpret this last bit as a delusion of granduer. I don't see why one cannot be enlightened, as in having a very strong grasp of reality, and yet still remain an ...
by keenobserver
Sat May 19, 2007 2:59 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: If men would think with the head they should...
Replies: 18
Views: 2383

I reckon a jury of 11 men and one honest woman would conclude she was indeed aware strings were pulled. There was a time when such a working relationship was frowned upon even not permitted, precisely because we all know the partners will be tempted and if they can get away with it will do favors fo...
by keenobserver
Fri May 18, 2007 7:25 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Truth and Humanity - Dr Susan Blackmore
Replies: 123
Views: 234530

Kelly Jones wrote:I think it is unlikely that one can teach someone who is invited to speak on their views. They are not being treated as a thinker, but as a talking head.

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I see.
Do you know, is she sexy or youngish?
by keenobserver
Fri May 18, 2007 7:19 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Fundamentalism and Fear - Dr V.V. Raman
Replies: 107
Views: 201774

Kevin wrote: Christianity doesn't contain much more wisdom than Islam. All I've said is that not all of the written teachings to be found in the Christian tradition are entirely foolish. Alright, that's it. You are being disingenuous, or just plain stupid, Kevin. I will no longer post to a forum wh...
by keenobserver
Fri May 18, 2007 6:33 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: If men would think with the head they should...
Replies: 18
Views: 2383

Re: If men would think with the head they should...

I would be able to be in a relationship with a man and not break ethical codes for him, but are men able to be in a relationship with a woman and still hold ethics above all else? I think so, but it seems that Wolfowitz is being held as a counter-example of this. They liked everything he did except...
by keenobserver
Fri May 18, 2007 11:13 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Fundamentalism and Fear - Dr V.V. Raman
Replies: 107
Views: 201774

You certainly seem off the mark to me, Leyla. Are you of middle eastern origin yourself? Perhaps that is why you dislike the idea. The fundies are outgunned, their imaginary god will not save them, their plan for the world is getting smaller every day, their killing themselves with bombs nearly ever...
by keenobserver
Fri May 18, 2007 10:50 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: Fundamentalism and Fear - Dr V.V. Raman
Replies: 107
Views: 201774

With 9-11 the extremists delivered a measured blow not intended to cause the greatest amount of destruction, death or more significantly, terror. Specific targets containing the most blameful individuals (in their minds of course, not mine stupid!) were hit. In other words their beef is with the ric...
by keenobserver
Fri May 18, 2007 3:39 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: USA uncomparable
Replies: 13
Views: 2169

We dont need to throw everyone in a blender, but to make any progress Stateside we must stop putting our favorite group (of which we belong) before the whole. This happens all the time at all levels. Look at the damage that clinging first-and-foremost to less than the whole has done to imbalance and...
by keenobserver
Fri May 18, 2007 3:11 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The affirmative nature of femininity
Replies: 437
Views: 34093

Laird wrote: I've already told you that I can imagine (if not implement) a logic where a thing can be other than what it is, What's an example? - No, there's probably a misprint, because Laird actually wrote "All that I can say is that I cannot yet imagine how.." Unless he has a split per...
by keenobserver
Thu May 17, 2007 9:43 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Truth and Humanity - Dr Susan Blackmore
Replies: 123
Views: 234530

There are thousands of ways that a conversation can be directed, thousands of ways that each point can be responded to. Dan and I chose one way. Kelly wanted another way. Such is life. Yes. Are you're saying that it was better not to challenge Sue, since after all your experience of seeing how the ...
by keenobserver
Thu May 17, 2007 8:37 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The affirmative nature of femininity
Replies: 437
Views: 34093

Laird wrote:
Laird

Right, well that's all that I'm trying to say: as far as we can see, there's no absolute truth, just
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Wrong!
As far as I can see, there is nothing but absolute truth!
Everywhere I look, there it is again, REALITY REALITY everywhere Ultimate Reality!
by keenobserver
Thu May 17, 2007 8:06 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Tibetan Buddhism - Dr Alexander Berzin
Replies: 169
Views: 290484

No, we never went along with it. The whole room would stand up except for us two, which would invariably attract questioning looks and sometimes anger. Similarly, when I was alone there, without Kevin or whoever. Another rule was that you weren't allowed to sit down inside the temple and point your...
by keenobserver
Thu May 17, 2007 7:40 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Tibetan Buddhism - Dr Alexander Berzin
Replies: 169
Views: 290484

Clyde, There is a world of difference between giving skillful teachings to different people who are on different stages on the path, and that of giving contradictory answers to a basic issue like reincarnation. The "paradoxes" contained within wise teachings are generated by the profound ...
by keenobserver
Thu May 17, 2007 6:54 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: Tibetan Buddhism - Dr Alexander Berzin
Replies: 169
Views: 290484

This seems rather important to you. It is important to me because the teachings of the Buddha are valuable, and the Dalai Lama is obscuring and corrupting them. Are you expecting the Dalai Lama to contact you? He would do, if he had a conscience. If not, the Dalai Lama has written many books, perha...
by keenobserver
Thu May 17, 2007 2:25 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Denying A=A
Replies: 17
Views: 3788

What Id like to know is, why this clinging to (what to people like me seems) nonsense, not worth the trouble. Why this apparent hatred of Truth? To fight indefinitely the idea of a=a? What in the psychology or experience of an individual would bring about this malady that we so often see from seemi...
by keenobserver
Thu May 17, 2007 1:29 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Celia Green
Replies: 82
Views: 15564

Dan Rowden wrote:She doesn't do anything for free, it seems. I wrote to her and invited her to do a podcast but I have received no reply.
Id support it myself If I could help create the question list.
by keenobserver
Wed May 16, 2007 10:37 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: In the News
Replies: 855
Views: 284391

TV news: She just said "the war in Iraq is of all affairs most on the voters mind". Well I wonder if the fact that the same people who take the survey are the ones who keep telling us over and over about the war, has anything to do with it? I noticed they keep telling me day after day and ...
by keenobserver
Wed May 16, 2007 10:09 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The effect of thoughts and needs on reality
Replies: 243
Views: 21097

Kevin: Unfortunately you haven't provided any good reasons for holding this point of view - even though you don't know for sure whether your point of view has any truth to it. My point of view is that I don't know anything for certain except that I exist and that I experience, and that I am therefo...
by keenobserver
Wed May 16, 2007 9:31 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: simple...
Replies: 59
Views: 16264

If thought preceeds or gives rise to feeling/emotion, logic does not dictate that ALL thought must result in emotion. I did not say that it did. That is the slippery slope fallacy. All cars are created by work, but all work does not create cars. My statement was that intention requires emotion. Int...
by keenobserver
Wed May 16, 2007 8:13 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: simple...
Replies: 59
Views: 16264

Are you saying intention requires emotion? By my definition of emotion - meaning a feeling of psychological rather than physical origination - yes. If thought preceeds or gives rise to feeling/emotion, logic does not dictate that ALL thought must result in emotion. See the difference. Even taking y...
by keenobserver
Wed May 16, 2007 7:32 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The affirmative nature of femininity
Replies: 437
Views: 34093

Laird wrote:
keenobserver wrote:Perhaps this would be a good time to work out what definition of "insane" we're using!
"The state where the apparently illogical is transcended by higher systems of rationality."

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Laird,
Did you misread me?
Thats your working def of "insane"??
by keenobserver
Wed May 16, 2007 1:20 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The affirmative nature of femininity
Replies: 437
Views: 34093

What Id like to know is, why this clinging to (what to people like me seems) nonsense, not worth the trouble. Why this apparent hatred of Truth? To fight indefinitely the idea of a=a? What in the psychology or experience of an individual would bring about this malady that we so often see from seemin...
by keenobserver
Tue May 15, 2007 11:54 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The affirmative nature of femininity
Replies: 437
Views: 34093

the way

Yes But you've been talking about it as though you know what it is and know that it exists. So your words above do not match with your actions. I have a choice - I can go around whimpering "I'm not sure, I'm not sure" such that nobody will be particularly interested in anything that I hav...
by keenobserver
Tue May 15, 2007 9:52 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: In the News
Replies: 855
Views: 284391

more stupid americans

I could hardly believe it. I turn the tv ON, to the news, and there before me is some video of some terrorist with a towel wrapped around his head. I could not understand him, i could not lip read, but if I could, and IF I would...read between the lines, I would hear "American-muslim loyalists ...
by keenobserver
Wed May 09, 2007 12:48 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: In the News
Replies: 855
Views: 284391

Re: Gere in India

You no doubt have seen it. Actor Richard Gere assaulting and mauling with a hug and kiss an Indian actress there on a live stage. She and her country were so offended that some judge has issued a warrant for his arrest. You thought that was bad? Try this one of hip-hop star Akon, who (while in Trin...