GENIUS FORUMS

jupiviv wrote: sue hindmarsh wrote: A thing is real and true if it accords with rational thought. But how do you know that rational thought itself is real and true? You obviously can't use rational thought to determine its own reality, and yet you can't use anything else to do that either, since the...

You mean when I'm sleeping? ; )

A thing is real and true if it accords with rational thought. If it doesn’t, I can’t accept it as being reliable knowledge. For example, when questioning if ghosts exist I first consider what ‘exist’ means. For a thing to exist it must be finite – i.e. a thing in and of itself. A ghost is supposedly...

Cathy Preston wrote: Karius wrote: If we consider the female world as a one of emptiness, fear, mental disturbances, despair ( as it has been discussed here : youtube watch?v=At1tQcNJa_Y Then could it be that a male showing those tendancies ( anxiety disorder, fear, despair, general sense of weaknes...

Karius wrote: If we consider the female world as a one of emptiness, fear, mental disturbances, despair ( as it has been discussed here : youtube watch?v=At1tQcNJa_Y Then could it be that a male showing those tendancies ( anxiety disorder, fear, despair, general sense of weakness...) has been contam...

Adding on to Dennis Mahar’s, “Random humour” . You could advise your friend to consider uninstalling Wife 1.0 and try Wife 2.0. Some features that would make Wife 2.0 more compatible would be: • A "Don't remind me again" button • Minimize button. • An install shield feature that allows Wif...

To movingalways: I laugh at your foolish thinking that rationality and irrationality “complement each other”, for they are at war with one another. Each and every moment a life and death struggle takes place, with each one trying to annihilate the other. It is no laughing matter to see the destructi...

Kunga wrote: How do you know what this man thought/pondered/studied all his life? See below. You are judging him by what he said & did during those last few moments. The husband’s thoughts show the great sway woman has in shaping the male mind. For example, he wasn’t wishing well his wife’s stri...

Cory,

This type of paranoic outpouring is more fitting for the likes of Facebook.

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And you're business strategy is of no interest.

Cory wrote: You'll see half-way through, a picture of me and my family at Christmas. My parents reaction will be interesting after I post this on facebook. Your parents must know something about your life by now. They invited you for Christmas and you accepted, so they know that you want to share in...

Cory: Core Webworks will be wiring a Global spirituality. If things work out in the way I intend, our work will be the dominate paradigm in a global spirituality for likely the next 200 years or so. Once you have the "dominate paradigm in a global spirituality" what do you imagine will cau...

Tomas, This thread is in celebration of the masculine. The men and women who are employed to fight fires show a degree of masculinity that is most obvious. The fireman possesses the seeds of masculinity, but that potential needs to be nurtured if it is to mature. Allowing the mental space to do so i...

I'm bumping this up because Getoriks' writing is a breath of fresh air.

Jupiviv, Adding to your description of the “solid core of masculinity” is the ability to think past your own self/ego. That’s how the masculine mind is capable of degrees of consistency. It is also one of the reasons the rationality of man, as you say, is harder to eliminate than the rationality of ...

Alex, you appear to be taking a census. I’ll go along since you’re so interested. Name: ‘as above’ Age: 53 Sex: Female Status: Single Children: Two - one female aged 30, an artist & one male aged 20, a student. Both live out of home with their partners. And I don’t think about mortgages. ... Tha...

jupiviv wrote: Men try to become as unconscious as possible through women, friends, work etc., but they generally tend to possess a solid core of masculinity that is very hard to eliminate. The “solid core” takes what form? What sort of things could eliminate it? It may occasionally come to the fore...

jupiviv wrote: I was talking about something a bit deeper. I've never faced death myself, but I can imagine that if a man were to sincerely think about death, i.e, about the prospect of being no more, then the first question that would arise in his mind would be something like - "what am I?&quo...

Hi Cahoot, You wrote: Peace of mind is the constant. Delusion obscures the constant. Your ‘constant’ therefore can’t be all that constant if delusion so readily disrupts it. Maybe if you define what you think “peace of mind” is it will clear up the ‘constant’ issue. To that I’ll add that actions int...

Cahoot, You sound in two minds: you describe the husband as a “good man” for his efforts to secure his wife’s future, but also see my point that the husband’s life could be considered a “shallow” one. It appears to me that your confusion comes from a misunderstanding of the importance of the spiritu...

In a documentary about the 1987 London Underground fire, a fireman tells how he was overcome by heat and smoke. Unable to move, he believes he is going to die. He accepts his fate knowing that he is leaving his wife well taken care of and the mortgage paid. He doesn’t die, and lives to tell his stor...

Bob, you're discussing things! ; ) ... ... ... Staying on topic: On the 'Blessedness' of Anger . Anger can be useful when you are starting out thinking about things. It can help distance you from ordinary life in order for you to see it more clearly. But once you understand the emptiness of all thin...

Bob wrote: Attempts to further explain, analyse, or comment on them [quotes] only tends to lead to more explanations, analogies, and commentary which very likely leads only to further confusion and non-understanding. Wouldn't you agree that discussion can also be informative? One either understands ...

Sue Hindmarsh wrote: Maybe Bob is saying something about understanding the self, and if he was to add comment to his use of quotes, we might get to know what that 'something' is exactly. Bob wrote: I shall sit content to let those quotes speak for themselves, Sue. Attempts to further explain, analys...

Once should be ample.

If you haven't worked out what the self is by the time you're into your 30's, the best you can do is to try not get in the way of younger people working hard to understand.

jupiviv wrote: Using words to sweetly rhyme, Is really just a waste of time. A poem is but a wisp of air, Meaning does not lie in there. Foolish men want rhythm and form, Thinking it is Nature's norm. The wise are lazy, they seek nothing, And yet are privy to the highest Meaning. Rhymes written for ...