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I dunno. That's a bit much. Besides, she might change her mind halfway through.

Then I guess it all hinges on your narrow, religious definition of "wisdom," which no one is obligated to accept, and which is not reflected in the great spiritual texts of the world. Okay, thanks for the sport. :) BTW, extra sycophant points for putting women and dogs in the same sentence...

In the Eastern and mystical tradition, ego is the false sense that one has inherent existence; that one is "independently real" and "substantial" rather than a conditioned, mind-dependent distinction within the infinite. It is the root of all delusions related to separation from ...

Nearly everyone in this world spends a great deal of time talking about women. It is a huge attachment in most people's lives. It's just that the talking on this forum has a different focus. Nearly everyone in the world spends a great deal of time talking about women for the simple reason that they...

Say a cow is %99.999999999 unconscious and women are %99.999999 unconscious. Um, no thanks. Why don't we say a black man is 99.9% evil and Satan is 99.99% evil? Or a Jew is 99.9% worthy of death and a mass murderer is 99.99% worthy? My, aren't we being generous to blacks and Jews! The %.000000999 d...

Zen Master Slamalamadingdong disagrees.

So does Lao-Tzu.

See chapters 6 and 28 of the Tao Te Ching in particular, but the theme of receptivity and flow is found throughout the text.

Unidian, Attaching the label "feminine" to worldly consciousness and "masculine" to abstract consciousness is silly. If that's what they were doing, it would be silly. Masculinity is actually attached directly to consciousness as a whole. Since most people are largely unconsciou...

That's what I mean. For a group of people who think so little of "woman," certain GF participants certainly do spend a great deal of time talking about her. No? The USA thinks very little of terrorists, but they spend a great deal of time talking about them. The Catholic Chruch thinks ver...

Unidian: if "QRS and followers" were to do that, they would be avoiding an issue essential to wisdom. Yep, QRS have been telling me that for years. I don't buy it. Attaching the label "feminine" to worldly consciousness and "masculine" to abstract consciousness is sill...

Apart from the obvious ignorance by Unidian of how the 'feminine' has been defined in most discussions here [as the greatest hindrance to consciousness], I'm well-aware of how it is defined here. I think, and have thought for some time, that using the "feminine/masculine" terminology to d...

Jeez, guys, this thread! "Enlightenment and Obesity?" Wisdom and body type? What kind of rubbish is this? LOL!

Interesting thread.

There is a way to integrate Wittgenstein's fundamental point with an Eastern understanding. I have a brief essay about it here, if anyone is interested.

That's what I mean. For a group of people who think so little of "woman," certain GF participants certainly do spend a great deal of time talking about her.

No?

Thou dost protest too much?

I was bullied by the Buddha in kindergarten. Instead of my lunch money, he demanded my ego, and I gave it to him. Oh yes, I was the only egoless child in school. Eating Elmer's All-Purpose Paste and construction paper in a state of Nirvana. I was kicked from the Glee Club for singing "Om Mani P...

Yep.

What's to "counter?" You called it "trash" and repeated some unsupported attacks on communism, etc. I didn't see an argument.

Want some silly verbal abuse to match your own? Sorry, I'm fresh out right now. Check back on Monday, we're getting a new shipment.

Nah, millipodium's first reply had more "substance."

Well, actually, zero is not more than zero, but you get the idea...

BTW, I helped clean up Genius Forum because it is a philosophy board where substantial discussion occurs. To do that for free is better than to clean up sports forums for payment, in my view. Genius Forum has the potential to make small but significant contributions to human development. Most employ...

For the record, I am on a disability payment. But assuming that I was not, and there was no fundamental impediment to doing conventionally "useful" things, I still don't think I would have time for it. The things I value are not immediately useful to the bulk of society, nor is my philosop...

Elizabeth, He had a valid reason for ceasing gainful employment, but he still continued his life's work, perhaps because some of us have missions in life that transcend whether or not we get paid. Indeed. For people who value wisdom, he had a mission of far more importance than simply "getting ...

Carl, Aren't you "ParadiseChild" on EZboard? If so, this level of criticism was certainly unexpected... And it does, for the most part, but in a very pedestrian way, and sheesh, it's nothing we didn't already know. Then it gets creative with some theories purporting to support the idea tha...

Hi Elizabeth, It describes the unhealthy mentality of most workplaces. I believe that it is possible to have a healthy work environment if the employees are all doing what they like to do and are good at doing (some people like to file, some like to work with people, some like to work with their han...

Link to Essay What do people here think of this piece? I'm particularly interested in responses from those sympathetic to "QRS" views and/or other unconventional perspectives - I've already had lots of predictable "mainstream" responses elsewhere. Incidentally, if you want an il...

No problem, glad to help.

Hope you guys are able to prevent further vandalism.