GENIUS FORUMS

And I'm bored.

Really? I don't suffer from boredom. Perhaps it's because, unlike you, I am not omniscient, eh?

Or maybe you should get out a bit more. The amount of people prepared to to pull one over you is enough to save any good, reasoning mind from the malaise of such luxurious motivations.

LS:There's no relation whatsoever between a capacity to observe and the use to which we put observation, or between the capacity to observe and the a priori definitions/assumptions used to make observations? j: No. If we're *unable* observe something, we may still *want* to observe it. You are eith...

Drop the mental image of yourself. You see yourself as a person, but you're really all that is. You need to dis-identify from the definitions of self relating to society. "I am so and so's daughter or mother, for example. (This is exactly why I have nothing to do with clairvoyants and psycholo...

RZoo, It's looking pretty bleak. We have the power to physically destroy humanity and we're constantly improving our power to control people (for instance, we already attempt to reduce mental diversity in our population via "medication"). Unless we colonize other planets or dismantle or de...

L: I would say need would be fear's instinctual/primal counterpart (as opposed to psychological/psychosocial counterpart)*, rather than desire. D: So would you say "need" is an emotion or not? Who wrote that? (: What I meant was, need and fear rather than fear and desire are more suitable...

I was in the process of closing webpages before starting a game of AOE2. Here's an excerpt from a man whose observations are always across the totality of the subject: We see how the history of industry and the established objective existence of industry are the open book of man’s essential powers, ...

Why would you be concerned about the slander against reality of the weak-willed? Reality certainly isn't. In fact, isn't it necessarily true that it's reality that makes the weak-willed weak, just as it is reality that makes the strong-willed. Will the "meek" destroy the Earth from an inab...

Oh? Is "I don't know" true in all possible worlds?

The capacity for observation is irrelevant to the purpose of observation, or the a priori definitions used in observation. Gobsmacked. There's no relation whatsoever between a capacity to observe and the use to which we put observation, or between the capacity to observe and the a priori definition...

Moreover, it would be sensible (if you value such a thing) to make clear distinctions between the "you" doing the dropping and the "you" being dropped.

Drop the mental image of yourself. You see yourself as a person, but you're really all that is. You need to dis-identify from the definitions of self relating to society. "I am so and so's daughter or mother, for example. (This is exactly why I have nothing to do with clairvoyants and psycholo...

Trick question - you can't eliminate anything without eliminating it all. Although that's a good question - would you happily eliminate it all? Let's discuss the human bias against life. Almost everyone seems to want to eliminate something, be it violence, lying, fallacies, poverty, or so on. Why i...

Without emotions, a person cannot have motivations. That sounds like an extreme claim only loosely based on a mishmash of perhaps popular neuroscience or otherwise unclear or generic definitions. Motivations obviously are complex things: instincts, reflexes, curiosity and love are already four moti...

[Ego's] core function is to deny it doesn't exist,[...]

Lol

Jesus fucking christ...

When you hear the word "consciousness," what does it mean to you? To me, it is everything that exists. Consciousness is what we are and what everything around us is made of. We project ourselves as the world and experience being in a world. Really? All that from a sound? What does a sound...

It is not the job of observation to judge or value itself in any sense. The reason why anything is observed to begin with is because of the judgment that it needs to be observed as opposed to, say, imagined. And that judgment is itself made without any observation. Unless you address this argument ...

The only way you can reasonably oppose the above argument is by claiming that the certain things have an intrinsic value, i.e., a value built into their very nature. I think that's rather optimistic of you! Observation can inform empirical judgment, i.e., provide the material which is to be judged....

laziness, contradictory moral principles, overriding desires/instincts, or shallow understanding And like well-being (as you have suggested), these non-specific abstractions do not occur in the natural world/nature and therefore are not a measure of concrete things (nature knows no morality). Isn't...

That's because the simile is irrelevant. A blind man seeing because he knows about eyes would be analogous to a immoral man being moral because he knows about morality. That is certainly not what I said. What you said is: Besides, a person can observe an act that contradicts a principle while at th...

Without formulating a given moral principle, one cannot relate an observation to it. Thus, no moral principle is derived from observation, or exists within anything that may be observed. I think you're confusing "principles" with "definitions of terms": No it's like saying that ...

The empirical observation of the enactment of a moral principle would have to be guided by that principle itself. Yes, that's right, that's what it means to observe any principle, including a moral one. Besides, a person can observe an act that contradicts a principle while at the same time being i...

He may be aware of the truth of the claim, and simultaneously be ignorant of the fact that his actions are not in accordance with it in any given instance. E.g., he may believe that any addiction is bad, but nevertheless be addicted to gambling without even knowing that he is addicted. Yes, which, ...

Regardless, I shall smack this dead pig once more. Just because a person is being hypocritical (consciously or unconsciously) does not mean that he is wrong about the principles/facts he falsely claims guides his actions. Rubbish. If a person is "unconsciously hypocritical" he necessarily...

Touched a nerve, didn't I? Grow up, you idiot! I apologise for the unnecessary "Ottoman crone" remark, but your notion about me being a closet Christian is beyond moronic. That wasn't my notion, it was yours. I asked for clarification, you came back with more nonsense and a casual referen...

You excel at gossip Diebert!