GENIUS FORUMS

Jesus had a great deal to say about politics! Remember the Pharisees? Jesus *was* a politician. He was telling people how they ought to behave. -- I don't mind if there are two fori or one, as long as there aren't too many. I'd like to see single-mindedness of purpose, that's all. -- [edit: Additio...

As I recall it, there have been several "fairly logical (though not in philosophy) problem-solving...bright" kind of people come through here, Kelly. Where are they now, I wonder? Back out there solving problems, I suppose. You can't make men out of eunuchs. The point is, however: this is...

I have never decided how a person should behave. I did assert my opinion. In other words, you don't want to recognise your own cohesive value system, because you're ashamed of it? That value system drives your posts on the Genius Forum. You frequently attack people's behaviour - it's virtually all ...

Kelly wrote: The ego works the same regardless of whether the desire is sexual, psychological, emotional, or biological. These spheres may appear to be different, but ultimately they all have the same conceptual basis. But isn’t a sexual desire also psychological and emotional and biological, why...

K: Analyse accurately, yes. As soon as there is an attachment, there is irrationality, because attachments are intellectual disasters. The fact that you conceive of yourself as within an experience *in your mind* shows multiple selves in conflict over values. This distorts the truthfulness of judgm...

Further to files downloadable in Linux/Unix etc: I was making some PDF versions of these .chm files, since Adobe Acrobat is a common Linux application. It was a master document, to contain internal master documents (to download as one, or put on a CDROM). The pages were designed to be easily read on...

My vote is to make one single forum, dedicated to discussing the nature of Ultimate Reality and the path to Enlightenment. There would be no choice at all then. One would have to engage honestly, instead of pretending one was interested in truth but constantly lying, or interpreting "truth"...

Psychiatric labels are a good example of how people *don't* like to judge. Think about it: these generalisations become identities, that allow a person to restricts their decision-making to fit the identity. For example, using the label ADD (or whatever) for a child removes the labeller's freedom of...

I was speaking generally about the overall body of his work - it seems to be trying to improve or save humankind which he does allude to at the end of Sex and Character, where the book starts looking like Revelation. I tend to read anything by Weininger as intensely personal and directed to the ind...

I think being actually involved in a thing gives one a certain intimacy that can lead to insights that a person standing on the outside might not be able to see. Do you think having an attachment automatically makes it impossible to analyze that attachment? Analyse accurately, yes. As soon as there...

From the Final Aphorisms in Last Things (about Weininger's ultimate goal being about raising people's selves vs. the ultimate good): Everything that is reflected is vain, thus vanity is also the sin of all light. That is why light can never be the symbol of grace (to say nothing of ethics). The star...

People who lack expressiveness are the most boring people on earth to me. Another reason for lacking the ability to express anything is being afraid of becoming a pariah. This is what is happening to me. My family, old friends, and new contacts all avoid me. I'm struggling with it, as I know being ...

Thanks to the White Australia Policy, I was taught Christianity and English, rather than Daoism and Cantonese. There wasn't much difference, but that little was important in how I developed. The Cantonese folk I met seemed more womanly. Sloppy. More sensual, more concerned about "having" a...

- But what would be in store for him, if he wrote this instead? "Dear Editor, "I currently hold the Blavatsky Chair of Human Rights and Indigenous Feminist Studies at So-and-So-Universities-for-Millionaires, and have been a senior research fellow for thirty years in various branches of the...

It basically means we should "get off" on whatever we do, if we are being true to that sense of fulfillment to a high degree in all areas of life - the same as the fulfillment of sex. That's what an englightened being does - lives in a blissful state where everything is sex and cause/effe...

...to clearly show how incomprehensible [to itself] and uncomprehending the sexed mind is. Marsha: How different is a hero-worshipper from an insane dribbling monkey? If the worshipper aims for total truth, then his insanity will eventually be corrected. Ego is not entirely based in sexuality. Sexu...

the example of being aroused sexually by understanding a term and "getting on top of it" is clarified in the light of the ego's story in sex (how a self is trying to clarify thoughts). I don't actually get sexually aroused but the arousal is akin to that, the same way sexual imagery can a...

I'm not sure whether David is trying some reverse psychology, or not. I'd like to think he is. There's something to be said for seeing Goliath a thousand miles away, so he looks like a gnat, or seeing trillions of Goliaths, which is the same thing. Put all the academics, philosophy forums, smart-ale...

- Check out Kevin's demonstration of logic about logic: http://forum.commonascent.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7 (Common Ascent is a new version of The Ponderers Guild.) The contrast between Kevin and a cageful of insane dribbling monkeys should be stark enough to clearly show how incomprehensible and unc...

Jason, First of all: I LOVE PORN. I look at porn all the time. I masturbate over it all the time. I like all different types and categories of porn. So I might have something worthwhile to say on this subject. You've immediately disqualified yourself from being able to say something worthwhile about...

There's an I supposed to organise the bodily organism (when should I eat?). Another I drives certain thoughts, because of memories, and likes and dislikes (I enjoy thinking about....). There's another I of all thoughts and experiences (I am conscious). And another I that is the Mind (I am ultimatel...

I value talking plainly, so I'll keep working on my expression. KJ: The ego dreams of what empowers: which is conquering the always-frightening. The only thing that is always-frightening is egotism itself: egotism is by nature unstable. That's why people get strung up over sex: they imagine fears of...

Oborden, I had a look at http://www.xnxx.com and realised immediately what sexual desire is about. It's not to do with categories of how to do sex. Rather, it's the emotional vagueness of *anticipating* something downright frightening. In that sense, sexual desire hasn't really got anything to do wi...

Numerical age is meaningless. It just so happens that our orbit around the sun is a certain length which we consider one unit of age. If we had a slightly larger or smaller orbit we (other than possibly not existing at all) would set the age of consenting adults at perhaps 16 or 20, because a "...

As for being judgemental, when these type (i.e."desire to put a halt to everyone’s thought processes, just so that they may never be judged in a negative light") more than anything they want you to hold your tongue, not your thoughts, to refrain from hurting someone with useless words, ...