GENIUS FORUMS

Although it doesn’t make coherent sense to me. me either. I reckon I've seen more people(usually New Agers) claim that 'pure consciousness'=energy than i've had hot dinners(to coin a phrase.) Just once I'd love to see someone define what is 'pure consciousness' in laymans terms and in logical fas...

Ataraxia, This one is very telling, for it shows up just how powerful the emotions are. Conversion . About 10 years ago i got to know a fellow who was one of the leading proponents of NLP in Australia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming At the time i thought it was just anoth...

Some of Derren Browns stuff using the power of suggestion is mildly amusing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II_-QcW4Q4I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIIz2FAgwcw

I agree that she had a genuine interest in Western Philosophy – as genuine as any academic philosopher, or populist writer of philosophy. What she didn’t have was a genuine interest in truth – and without that, her thinking is temporary and petty. . Perhaps she added alot of-what seemed to me...

if you have the intellectual rigour to read it, it blasts 'Objectivism' quite well. It's a shame because Objectivist Art is very good. I did read it.Some points were well made but much of it was pro-Nazi dissembling. Someone should point out to Mr Porter that Ayn Rand rather than a champion of the ...

Hmm that test is really interesting.I believe it got me right- iNTp.Same as Jamesh
Architect Rational.

Strength of the preferences %

Introverted: 100 Intuitive:75 Thinking:88 Perceiving :33

Faust13 wrote:http://www.cwporter.com/ARISTOT.htm

http://www.cwporter.com/rand.htm

Holy shit,thats quite a website.[shock emoticon]

It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation isn't it,Deibert. Did Greek man include a god of love/passion because he felt these emotions and thought it was important enough to have its own god? Or did man create a god of love within his religion to initiate the concept?As Nietzsche would have it, earl...

I'd be interested in the GF's opinions in regards to Ayn Rand ,not so much a critique of her specific philosophy but whether she was a decent thinker.

Was she masculine-worthy?

I take your point,but men and women have fallen in love for millenia.Just because Mills and Boon weren't writing about it didn't mean it didn't occur. Hmm, I'd love to hear some good examples. Do you mean examples in pre-middle ages literature?If so, in greek mythology there is Eros -the god of lov...

David Quinn wrote:Woman wishes to wish away the differences between the sexes - but then, that is the nature of woman.

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haha.Thats actually very good,I've never seen it put quite like that..Aphorism-worthy

Not sure how 'natural' it is since it only showed up somewhere during the Middle Ages in our cultures ( Tristan and Isolde ), slowly getting more 'mainstream' throughout the last ages. The really ancient 'love' stories mostly revolve around conquest, status and beauty ('perceived value'). I take yo...

The reasoning show is certainly managing to get a good array of quality guest.Have always been a fan of Randi's work,the world could do with more of his ilk.Personally he was very much 'preaching to the choir'.I share whoever it was disgust at the Edwards the connections dude. i did like his spositi...

Yes,a fair call.

I actually have a bit of time for Jefferson(well as much as one CAN have for a politician)

It is too late for a Return to Eden in this world.We need a new world.

Only scientists can find it.

Pantheist God-The lazy mans God.

I can see the appeal.

The duality of David Quinn.:D

http://catholiceducation.org/articles/s ... sc0086.htm

If I had any power, my goal would be to make Muslims westernised ASAP. There are two general ways to go about such a goal. 1. Your Method: Try and cooperate, make compromises to bring forth peace. 2. My Method: Don't make any compromises. Don’t cooperate, unless signs are in place that they are w...

Ok, unlike the QRS, I do believe happiness is the only worthwhile goal for humans. I don't pay much attention to the idea of promoting "love". I tend to generalise love into the domain of happiness, so, to me, what you are referring to is that it would be ideal if everyone had fairly equa...

It would be fair to say that the field of Philosophy could take credit for ushering in one of man's greatest periods-The Age of Reason,and Age of Enlightenment.What sprung from that in so many other fields brings us to where we are today.

If Nietzsche were alive and registered to vote I'd be willing to wager he'd vote for Paul.

Haha.What a classic thread in the Dawkins forum,I just have to join.
Positively Diogenes-esque by Dan,magnificent,even down to getting cyber spat upon by the masses.

Havn't had such a good laugh in ages.

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... the progress of science has itself shown that there can be no pictorial representation of the workings of nature of a kind that would be intelligible to our limited minds. The study of physics has driven us to the positivist conception of physics. We can never understand what events are, but mu...

I agree on this score,the computer simulation is an acceptable possibility,it can't be dissmissed. No it is not "an acceptable possibility", and it should be immediately dismissed as having any relevance to understanding the universe. Fine,I'm happy to agree it is about as likely as Chris...