GENIUS FORUMS

Matt Gregory wrote: Ok, I'm not abandoning this thread yet. I'm just having a hard time coming up with things to discuss. This is kind of like discussing the feminine--my mind draw a blank. Maybe that’s because it is inexorably tied to the feminine? When you try to get a hold on what IT IS that Ne...

Marsha wrote: Nothing gets rid of the femininity -- not just in a woman but in a man -- even in David Quinn or Kevin Solway or Dan Rowden or Nietzsche or Kierkegaard or the rest -- Jesus and so on. Weininger was very feminine. So are these men more or less feminine than you? Are they more or less ma...

Marsha wrote: I think that it is important to explore and welcome one's masculinity as well as to not deny one's femininity. I think it is the particular plague of the masculine woman to over-compensate. It is also wise to be mindful of using one's masculinity as a sexual attraction. Are you advisin...

Leyla Shen wrote: I am a woman. Thanks to my mother, any drawing toward this universal egoid -- “Woman” -- was shattered for me fairly early on in life. “She” messed me up a bit. But, I personally feel no need to renounce my apparent biological attributes for the sake of some mass delusion -...

Prince wrote:

Sue, you were making a modicum of sense in your last post …

Firstly, Prince – if you would - I’d be interested to read your thoughts on my last post, and how it made “a modicum of sense”.

Sue

Marsha wrote: That is a fairy tale; delusional-- the idea that there is something more or less fulfilling than happiness. The very idea of "wanting" denotes romance and delusion. To understand “more than happiness”, it may be useful to understand how happiness operates. When we are hap...

Sevens,

Stop fluttering your eyelashes at me.

Sue

Dear Sevens,

Your words of encouragement and kindness are what I'd expect from a lovely woman such as yourself.

There have been female geniuses - female sages.

You are correct - all women are sages; and you must be one of their leading lights.


Sue

I wrote to Marsha: How does it affect you, Marsha, if Kelly is an enlightened sage? Will you be inspired, to push yourself even harder than before, now that there is proof that a female sage is a possibility? Marsha wrote: It does not effect me at all. Does that mean your interest in the Genius Foru...

David wrote: It’s funny how women are the always the first to accuse other women of not having a mind of their own. There is a saying, "A misogynist is someone who hates women as much as women do". So true. It only goes to show that women, in an intuitive way, understand their own sex be...

Leyla Shen wrote: Well, let’s have a look, here: Quote: sue: What has the survival of the species got to do with women? [insert edit] sue: Women are prepared to suffer and toil for their loved ones. They work hard to maintain stability for themselves and others, by helping to foster the morals and...

Leyla Shen wrote:

Then, I can safely dismiss anything you say as unwise.

Is that because "I think", or because "I'm consciously considering becoming human", or is it because "one day I may be able to take up a philosophic life"?

Sue

Sue wrote:
Being a woman, I’m not sure I want to get into philosophy.

Leyla wrote:

So, by your definition, does that make you a people or a human?

A person who thinks, that by becoming human, I might be given the opportunity to enter onto the path of wisdom.

Sue

Marsha wrote: I am not discounting Kelly's efforts. What I do discount is her claim to wisdom on the same level now. I don't think she is an enlightened sage, as it seems I -- and all of us -- are supposed to think. How does it affect you, Marsha, if Kelly is an enlightened sage? Will you be inspire...

Marsha wrote: Thinking that relinquishing of attachments can happen in one fell swoop kind of sounds like the belief in love at first sight; magical thinking; belief in fairy tales. Romantic. Chick Flick enlightenment. Letting your attachments drop away in one fell swoop can be thought of as “love...

Leyla Shen wrote: So, out of all the possible combined causes that have caused humanity to hang on, you know that the one cause is "the few 'humans' left." People are of little consequence, being human is all that matters. What people do is rubbish. There is no other existence for them exc...

Kelly wrote: Of course masculinity is sexual. Traits like rationality, intelligence, perseverence, honesty, aggression, imagination, and so on, are sexualised as masculine when they're more common to men than to women. When both men and women equally and commonly have these traits, then they're not ...

Matt Gregory wrote: it's about the logic underpinning the process rather than the process itself. The point is to tune the mind into this logic so it's automatic. Yes, and when it is “automatic”, all that effort of ‘seeing through’ things is finished with and it just becomes part of your nor...

Marsha wrote: I don't believe that wisdom has anything to do with giving up. Giving up implies that one does something because one feels that he must or because he has been intstructed to do so. I do think, however, there is such a thing as shedding. People are being instructed all the time to “gi...

Leyla Shen Wrote to Kelly: What kind of feminist is it that turns a female into a male for the sake of women? The most blessed kind. Not a feminist at all, by definition. Not by definition, but by spirit. If it were, you would be calling men humans and women -- well, animals. And we both know they h...

Sevens wrote: Your attempt to subjugate an entire gender To subjugate one is to make a bid for freedom for the other. What are you attempting to spin here? Certainly not Truth. Truth doesn’t need any spin. It is spin-free. The Nature of the Sexes contains hidden compartments - only accessible to t...

Matt Gregory wrote: Reality itself must be a matter of thinking of all my experiences as one object, but I can't do it and I fail to see where the difficulty lies. Reality is all about beginnings and ends – or the lack of them. To find out if a “thing” can have an existence, I always find it e...

Leyla Shen Wrote: Hm. If it's "just like everything else," why is She a particularly good example to use for illusion? Yes, attachment is the problem. Attachment to any and/or all illusion, which -- in the end -- has to be the product of not understanding emptiness. Woman is also a good ex...

Kelly wrote: Feminine traits continue largely because those with enough masculine qualities are afraid of losing their security blankets. These are womanish people. I think you meant to say “without enough masculine qualities”. Is that right? It goes to show that women aren't concerned about the...

Marsha wrote:

I work with nearly all women. None of them can imagine life without a husband or whatever you want to call them. Their husbands do all the hard work for them.

A woman without a husband! What’s that?


Sue