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- Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:34 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Democracy. Opiate of the Masses?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3049
Re: Democracy. Opiate of the Masses?
I changed the title from :"Is the Collapse of American Empire Nigh", to this present one. The post about that accompanies the change is this one The Bailout demolished whatever facade remained of the US Democracy. People oppose the bailout overwhelmingly, and yet both candidates go ahead a...
- Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:56 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Democracy. Opiate of the Masses?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3049
Re: Is the Collapse of American Empire nigh
The Bailout demolished whatever facade remained of the US Democracy. People oppose the bailout overwhelmingly, and yet both candidates go ahead and approve it wholeheartedly. These elections and debates are a sham, if there was any doubt that a select elite run the show, it is all gone. Makes me won...
- Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:09 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What isn't Egoism?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1230
Re: What isn't Egoism?
Is it possible for 'intelligent analysis' to occur without an ego involved? Has an accurate causal model ever been created? How do we know our causal model is accurate? Is there a difference between accurate and true? There is nothing other than to observe and then deduce some pattern, or repetitiv...
- Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:49 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What isn't Egoism?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1230
Re: What isn't Egoism?
The body/mind is a sensory instrument, in addition the mind is also able to conceptualize and model, thorough analogies/visuals etc. Let us define ego as the model that the mind uses to refer to itself. So does an ego have to be present in order to see accurately? Or even to see at all? No because t...
- Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:58 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What isn't Egoism?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1230
Re: What isn't Egotism?
I think it's pretty obvious what egotism is. I think you mean egoism. Egotism means to have an exaggerated view of oneself, whose opposite is to have an accurate view. If you meant egoism it is not so obvious. Most actions and thoughts are the result of habits, rather than intelligent analysis and ...
- Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:29 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Loving & Rejecting God
- Replies: 83
- Views: 6695
Re: Loving & Rejecting God
"Was Jesus just crapping on like your average idiot cult leader demanding complete personal devotion? Of course not. " Of course not? Rowden, how the fuck could you even be remotely certain of such a thing? I can't be certain that Jesus wasn't pure hearted and wise, but I sure as hell can...
- Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:59 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Loving & Rejecting God
- Replies: 83
- Views: 6695
Re: Loving & Rejecting God
I understand that the teachings of Jesus are held in high regard here, which leads me to conclude that there are maybe a few misguided people on this forum. I do not hold his teachings in high regard. I picture (perhaps incorrectly) him as deluded but sincere (with a healthy dose of megalomania) . ...
- Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:02 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Democracy. Opiate of the Masses?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3049
Re: Is the Collapse of American Empire nigh
Finally the govt has bailed out everyone on WALL Street. Democrats and Republicans united in handouts for the Fat Cats. Socialism for the rich and well connected, ruthless capitalism for others. http://money.cnn.com/video/#/video/news/2008/09/18/news.bipartisan.091808.cnnmoney http://money.cnn.com/2...
- Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:43 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Democracy. Opiate of the Masses?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3049
Re: Is the Collapse of American Empire nigh
Maestro, what makes you think that the economic U.S. empire is going to fall any time soon? The current financial crisis for one. The US has been running on empty for a while. It has become a debt based economy fueled by the status of Dollar as a world currency, and the mortgage bubble fueled by sp...
- Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:13 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Democracy. Opiate of the Masses?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3049
Democracy. Opiate of the Masses?
Do you feel that American prosperity built on its role as the world's consumer is about to end? Is the stage ready for the end of this illogical charade of economic power based on debt and printing the world's currency?
- Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:52 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Rebirth Revisited
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3115
Re: Rebirth Revisited
maestro’s musings I like the sound of that. If the proposition is that information is recycled and passed on to the next generation, isn’t that already the exact proposition addressed by DNA, genetics, epigenetics (cellular memory/program), natural selection, etc., based on concrete evidence? The p...
- Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:40 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Rebirth Revisited
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3115
Re: Rebirth Revisited
Certain skills, like understanding the complex beauty of music or the feelings how to resonate with an instrument, or to 'see' through a mathematical problem - might be not that related to practice as we currently think. I had in mind more mundane "skills" (for example a fawn), how to pro...
- Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:43 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Rebirth Revisited
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3115
Re: Rebirth Revisited
If there is, then it doesn't work very well, since nobody can remember their past lives. Perhaps the memories do not carry survival value, or even hinder it, thereby a mechanism has evolved to suppress those or perhaps they are volatile and get destroyed in the cycle. The volatility hypothesis is p...
- Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:26 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Rebirth Revisited
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3115
Re: Rebirth Revisited
That all seems like pretty empty and wild speculation to me. What motivates you to make it? The purpose of this speculation is to show that rebirth can be logically plausible. That current scientific explanation of evolution may not be its only mechanism. Diebert: While it's hard to prove where the...
- Sun Sep 14, 2008 3:59 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Rebirth Revisited
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3115
Rebirth Revisited
Is it possible for information to be carried by material other than DNA? Could adaptation occur besides chance mutations? Perhaps there is a mind cycle, where the mind/consciousness being composed of a different variety of material (perhaps information), is recycled and passed on to the next generat...
- Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:01 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: To QSR: Is There Peace in Enlightenment?
- Replies: 126
- Views: 9612
Re: To QSR: Is There Peace in Enlightenment?
What you say sounds right and wise. Maybe the best one can hope for is just to be able to recognize when what one thinks is true is not lining up with what one observes. And maybe it's unrealistic to to think that this "tinkering" will ever not be required. How much tinkering do you have ...
- Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:43 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: To QSR: Is There Peace in Enlightenment?
- Replies: 126
- Views: 9612
Re: To QSR: Is There Peace in Enlightenment?
Glad to see this discussion Turbatio. All these issues are close to my heart. Is There Peace in Enlightenment? Depends on how you define enlightenment. Sufficient skill in self-observation and control can bring peace as explained below: Peace is disturbed by self perpetuating habits. Chains of thoug...
- Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:20 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Definition of Consciousness
- Replies: 133
- Views: 12510
Re: Definition of Consciousness
Simply that one cannot reason about the world without interacting with it.Kelly Jones wrote: What kind of experience are you talking about?
- Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:32 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Definition of Consciousness
- Replies: 133
- Views: 12510
Re: Definition of Consciousness
The reason that a rational undertaking is involved is because the default mind, as your quote says, tends to fool itself. Which better method there would be than such an alien, cold, abstract invasive activity like reason might be described as. It's like a doctor's scalpel - it's not the end result...
- Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:31 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Householders
- Replies: 146
- Views: 19398
Re: Householders
But to reject a 'living relationship' with that-which-provides-life, with Life, with the higher dimensions in our own consciousness, in the context of our relationships, our struggles, our hard-to-define interior life, our coming into existence and our going out of existence, and to remain within a...
- Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:41 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Causality and Acausality
- Replies: 139
- Views: 22256
Re: Causality and Acausality
Any relation between them at this point is a symbolical one which must first be defined as it is also abstract and only then is it a logical fact that 1 + 1 = 2. So if 1 + 1 = 2 can not, or need not, be verified by science, it must be at least tacitly agreed upon. Just as causality is a tacit assum...
- Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:40 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Definition of Consciousness
- Replies: 133
- Views: 12510
Re: Definition of Consciousness
If delusion can mean "the ability to fool oneself [as no one else could]" and enlightenment is understood on this forum as "the unconditioned mind" (as per Quinn: "... perceiving the very Reality before us without any distortion or mental projection"), then delusion eq...
- Fri Sep 05, 2008 3:16 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: E-sangha
- Replies: 58
- Views: 5951
Re: E-sangha
There may be some young people who read that forum, and perhaps some that are not so young, who haven't yet bought into the whole thing, and suspect that there might be a lot more to the Buddha's teachings than what they are being told. Someone blustering in and fearlessly speaking the plain truth ...
- Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:32 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Definition of Consciousness
- Replies: 133
- Views: 12510
Re: Definition of Consciousness
Kelly writes: "[Mikiel's] not an appropriately aesthetic, well-read, priapic, exceedingly thoughtful type who loves to go right to the essence of all the Great Questions, who possesses a wonderful, an ENVIABLE imagination, who understands how important is art in human culture, like our own dea...
- Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:33 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Channeled stuff
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3701
Re: Channeled stuff
Yeah you told me before. From which locus of observation did you view the Chakras, was it an out of body perspective, or your normal visual perspective?brokenhead wrote: For example, I first saw my own chakras - many times, under the influence of a substance which shall remain nameless to protect the innocent.