GENIUS FORUMS

You seem rather animated about this issue. You don't believe in things like modesty, civility, respect for others, Not really animated.Moreso suprised.Sure,I'd prefer if people exhibit those traits.I don't feel particularly resentful or violated if they don't though. taking responsibility for one's...

I understand this resentful viewpoint. If a man gets to a point where he realizes he doesn't need to have anything to do with women, their bodies flaunting around every corner arousing his body is going to irritate him. It's a form of violence - how can he defend against it besides to wear a blindf...

David Quinn wrote:

Some men are resentful of the way that women constantly interfere with them in terms of their skimpy clothing, overt sexual displays and lack of conscience.

Who? Fred Niles,George Pell and Sheik Hillali?

Maybe they should grow up too.

Of course. It's this organic wholeness-balance-synergy where the roots of any real and sustained strength lies. And initially we all develop interest and fascination with the usage of this power. But with fascist psychology something else happens: the mindset of a suppressed, subjugated little man ...

I never realized that was characteristic of enlightenment until recently, but perhaps more characteristic of enlightenment is my new found appreciation for extremely cold weather. It really puts you in the moment. . There is alot to be said for time spent in the Canadian rockies.Certainly some of t...

Her understanding of women and their deeper role in society, still a taboo subject in our glorious modern times, is quite exceptional. That's what I thought on first reading, but is it really women creating the circumstances in the first place? Not consciously. It is the power of evolution working ...

I am left handed. Being left handed is not such an either-or proposition as it might seem at first. Many people are left handed for certain things, but do other things right handed (play guitar, bat, shoot, etc.). It doesn't always match up with the dominant foot or dominant eye, either. Yeah,I'm l...

Rebecca, what are your reasons for equating inquisitive, creative people with God? Why are they anymore 'God' than an economist who happens to subscribe to utilitarianism as a philosophical outlook? Whoa, I never equated people with "God"... what I meant by "God is not a utilitarian&...

This passage BTW is useless here, because I explicitly renounced any claims to certainty. Yesterday you seemed certain Noumena don't exist.This is why I'm trying to understand what you do believe. It seems to me at least, on the one hand you (and Quine) believe in physical objects--science/empirici...

And the difference is?.. I'm not very good with language so I'll let Kierkegaard say it. The positiveness of historical knowledge is illusory, since it is approximation-knowledge; the speculative result is delusion. For all this positive knowledge fails to express the situation of the knowing subje...

I don't doubt you are curious about"the world";I said existence.

vicdan wrote:Why don't you try to figure that out?

Hint: The answer lies in the meaning of instrumentalism.

Well I find it hard to believe someone could be strictly an instrumentalist and have zero curiosity in regard to existence.

You have never speculated upon a "theory of everything"?

Vic needs to exactly define what he means by the word 'noumena'. Ask Kant. Oh wait, you kant... Well it is not even clear what Kant meant by the word.Do you mean objective "thing-in-itself"? If so how could a materialist/physicalist not believe in that;what are you using your instruments ...

Vic needs to exactly define what he means by the word 'noumena'.

[(turned out he entirely missed the fact that she had Juvenile Arthritis, brushing off her ache as a matter of improperly positioned sleeping) That's interesting,it's a fairly rare condition and my son suffers from that too,although it seems to have gone into remission the last 12 month. Before tha...

Very interesting post this one ,Dan.It gave me alot to think about and helped me to get a better undersyanding of the QSR paradigm. Anyway,: Oh, no, it exists. Since I have identified it as distinct from the realm of differentiated appearances, it is itself a thing that exists. Anything that is less...

So what can be said to exist prior to consciousness? Presumably "the Totality"( but not things.) You can mentally subdivide the Totality, and therefore have things. Prior to consciousness there was no"mentally" going on, by definition A: We are still left with the question "...

This is how I essentially understand David's argument: 1. Things exist. 2. Every thing that exists has a form. 3. Thus, there cannot exist any thing without form. 4. Form exists in consciousness as the observation by an observer of a thing. 5. Thus, all things are objects 6. Thus, the object cannot...

Yes, I know . I've been donating $50/month to one of those African aid foundatiions for years.Lately I've been pondering wether there really is any point other than to salve my conscience.Perhaps the rational thing to do is acutally to buy the new pair of runners instead and leave it to the invisib...

Kevin Solway wrote: If there appears to have been "existence before consciousness" then "existence before consciousness" exists, by definition.

Appearances prior to consciousness...

GUEST-OF-LOGIC:This introduction of a "hidden void" is truly bizarre for several reasons. The first is the same reason that some atheists object to arguments for the existence of God: if God is posited to explain a complex universe, then God must be even more complex than the universe tha...

Unidian wrote:Good lord, who doesn't like Twinkies?

Sir,is that going to be in the exam?

Genuine willingness to die for a value is the antithesis of freedom.You are prisoner to that value;even if that value is some sort of freedom conception. That is what is so amusing about soldiers.Unless one is supremely confident of success in battle without risk of death, then the rational thing to...

rebecca702 wrote: Is there a particular reason why you recommend that for me?

Because Nieztsche's conception of 'man', while different and unique in itself ,is complementary with both Jed's and QSR's philosophy.

The very notion of inherent value -- 'natural price' as Marx puts it -- is as BS as the notion of absolute position/velocity in physics. That people in 21st century still buy this claptrap is a testament to the human mind's amazing facility at deceiving itself. There is no such thing as natural pri...