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- Fri Jan 18, 2013 12:25 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: The Light Within
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10759
Re: The Light Within
Jesus was pretty fond of the word light. I haven't given much thought into what I suggest below and might be drawing the wrong conclusions about the meaning of the word to Jesus. I don't bother too much with old stuff like this that can easily be interpreted many ways. It features prominently in the...
- Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:18 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: How to Build a Stronger Ego - Steve Pavlina
- Replies: 160
- Views: 83014
How to Build a Stronger Ego - Steve Pavlina
Time to stir up the pot again. http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/ - lots of decent self-help type articles on many topics. This one appealed to me. I've come to realise that I'm fooling myself about being ever the type that will Cross the Road as per David's essay. I've never really been convinced th...
- Wed Jan 16, 2013 4:32 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Youtube stuff
- Replies: 420
- Views: 199226
Re: Youtube stuff
Kevin Solway and Daniel Dennett Dogglegangers? (other than accent)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYVMoF-nQvQ
http://www.edge.org/conversation/normal ... pered-mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYVMoF-nQvQ
http://www.edge.org/conversation/normal ... pered-mind
- Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:22 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: In the News
- Replies: 855
- Views: 291042
Re: In the News
The above is from The Edge and there are other interesting comments to this year's big question.
WHAT *SHOULD* WE BE WORRIED ABOUT?
http://edge.org/responses/q2013
WHAT *SHOULD* WE BE WORRIED ABOUT?
http://edge.org/responses/q2013
- Wed Jan 16, 2013 2:45 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: In the News
- Replies: 855
- Views: 291042
Re: In the News
Chinese Eugenics Geoffrey Miller Evolutionary psychologist, NYU Stern Business School and University of New Mexico; author of The Mating Mind and Spent China has been running the world's largest and most successful eugenics program for more than thirty years, driving China's ever-faster rise as the ...
- Tue Dec 04, 2012 2:53 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Derren Brown
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12875
Re: Derren Brown
Derren Brown - The Experiments: The Assassin. Yep, that was the first of his shows that I'd seen. I'll watch them all at some point, I think his all-round magic/mind reading skills are rather entertaining. I noted a little synchronicity - or set of coincidences relating to what drew my attention on...
- Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:23 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Musings, Critiques.
- Replies: 473
- Views: 120516
Re: Musings, Critiques.
Diebert I think you have a great point about sensitivity, and how could anyone having less than great sensitivities develop the circumstance where the more subtle forms of thinking could start taking place? As much as I love Alex, his quick wit and his decent knowledge, he looks to me still rather c...
- Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:44 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Musings, Critiques.
- Replies: 473
- Views: 120516
Re: Musings, Critiques.
Alex What I am speaking against is a limited and fixed group of notions about 'reality' around which a group of choices and decisions coalesce (an ethic). I am also saying that this group of ideas, ensconced within its dogmatic, is very attractive to a certain sort of mind and a certain sort of pers...
- Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:55 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Musings, Critiques.
- Replies: 473
- Views: 120516
Re: Musings, Critiques.
bluerap wrote: As for your suggestion that this 'system' may be for "pain management," What David and others discuss here (the "path of enlightenment" you could call it) is clearly not about avoiding pain.. what could be more painful than doing away with all worldly desires? Frie...
- Sun Oct 28, 2012 1:13 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Musings, Critiques.
- Replies: 473
- Views: 120516
Re: Musings, Critiques.
Laird, This could be the launching point for a dialogue, because I don't think anyone would argue that there is not suffering in life, nor that it would not be preferable to avoid that suffering. A dialogue might, though, take place on the extent to which there is suffering in life, the extent to w...
- Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:58 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Musings, Critiques.
- Replies: 473
- Views: 120516
Re: Musings, Critiques.
[the son of man has nowhere to sleep] Which I suppose, is why even though while out mentally traveling, and one minute I’m supporting the QRS position and the next I’m not, I consistently return to the vision of what seems like more of a permanent home than any other - the solid, safe place of a tot...
- Fri Oct 26, 2012 1:28 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Musings, Critiques.
- Replies: 473
- Views: 120516
Re: Musings, Critiques.
Here is some more ammunition for you Alex. Whoever wrote it in Wiki seems confused - I don't find the entry to be very coherent. The Redeemer type Nietzsche criticized Ernest Renan's attribution of the concepts genius and hero to Jesus. Nietzsche thought that the word idiot best described Jesus. Acc...
- Wed Oct 24, 2012 6:44 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Your Attitude Towards Gay Rights
- Replies: 27
- Views: 29828
Re: Your Attitude Towards Gay Rights
Jamesh wrote:The more equality those once weakly organised, lowly gay folk obtain the closer they are to our status, which signifies a loss in mean status. Here, you are saying that if gay folk are to gain status we (the herd?) must lose status. If status can be gained by status deprivation, whoeve...
- Wed Oct 24, 2012 6:38 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Musings, Critiques.
- Replies: 473
- Views: 120516
Re: Musings, Critiques.
[Specifically, I am a bizarre crypto-Christian gnostic who also has very strong links to a form of Heroic Greek Paganism! ] Wiki: Gnostic systems (particularly the Syrian-Egyptian schools[which?]) are typically marked out by: The notion of a remote, supreme monadic divinity, source — this figure is ...
- Thu Oct 18, 2012 10:22 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Your Attitude Towards Gay Rights
- Replies: 27
- Views: 29828
Re: Your Attitude Towards Gay Rights
This thread is about the "The trails and tribulations of herd behaviour - the organisation of status". The more equality those once weakly organised, lowly gay folk obtain the closer they are to our status, which signifies a loss in mean status. I think gay marriage will increase the level...
- Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:01 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Musings, Critiques.
- Replies: 473
- Views: 120516
Re: Musings, Critiques.
Alex wrote a few days ago: It could be argued, though, that the koan-method, included in an aggressive system of mental reform which is quite coercive, represents a breaking down of the reasoning mind, in a way similar to Chinese 'thought-reform' which is socially-engineered and deeply, intentionall...
- Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:16 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Musings, Critiques.
- Replies: 473
- Views: 120516
Re: Musings, Critiques.
It is obvious to me that you are deeply afraid of God, deeply afraid of opening up yourself up to reality in a direct sense. It shines through in everything that you write... I refer to 'cult-like thinking' and stand by that term. Don't now rewrite me! To some extent David does cast out the bait - ...
- Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:28 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Musings, Critiques.
- Replies: 473
- Views: 120516
Re: Musings, Critiques.
I’m curious Alex. If we humans progress scientifically to allow many centuries of life (medically not far off it, not so though in sustainability terms), or if you end up in some form of conscious afterlife, tell me what sort of mind you would desire. After a century I’d imagine even you will have t...
- Tue Jul 03, 2012 5:25 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Ayn Rand quote
- Replies: 53
- Views: 54049
- Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:46 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: New blog site: Genius Realms
- Replies: 30
- Views: 45112
Re: New blog site: Genius Realms
For once I've nothing to say.
The 3 articles to date are very well written, the right length for web readers and should be of interest to anyone who stumbles across the blog.
The 3 articles to date are very well written, the right length for web readers and should be of interest to anyone who stumbles across the blog.
- Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:56 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Regarding Einstein
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10579
Re: Regarding Einstein
The reason I have a soft spot for Einstein is his rejection of quantum theories that abandoned causality. To me his strong belief in causality points to a philosophically advanced mind, not a philosophical genius, but still advanced relative to other scientists. I still feel he saw more deeply the n...
- Mon May 14, 2012 1:52 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: On consciousness
- Replies: 255
- Views: 106016
Re: On consciousness
This started off as a response to a comment from someone on one of the threads from a week or so back. Most of it does not relate to what Dionysus said, and I had meant to “fix” some comments in it, but I’ll post it anyway as is as I’m feeling a bit lazy just at present. I've bolded the bits that re...
- Fri May 11, 2012 2:31 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: On consciousness
- Replies: 255
- Views: 106016
Re: On consciousness
Dionysus - You are completely wrong. There is nothing about consciousness that is beyond empirical reality. Consciousness is the overall effect of certain forms, of certain casual patterns. Consciousness "moves" because causes change. Not that it "moves" as such, rather that as i...
- Tue May 08, 2012 1:29 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: The Mystic....
- Replies: 249
- Views: 192938
Re: The Mystic....
Good thread this one. I scan read it, and there were lots of points I know I should go back and review properly (I'm closest to Pye's point of view on most things she says) - whether I will or not is another question. Pye - Last time I was out hiking I meet the guy below and I asked him if he was hi...
- Fri May 04, 2012 2:35 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment
- Replies: 187
- Views: 72865
Re: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment
In some ways the destruction of the current environment might be exactly what humanity needs. It will induce great suffering and from suffering the species is likely to evolve to become less destructive. Personally, I doubt even the probable slow death of the oceans due to acidification will kill ou...