GENIUS FORUMS

What's funny is how some scientists and computer programmers think they know it all, but at base they really can't explain how when they tweak this code a little bit here, or alter this formula a little bit there it ultimately gives rise to the things that it does. And even if and when these two gro...

If you had a genuine desire not to be the target of people's aggression over this subject matter, the guidance of your intuition is probably 100 times more effective than making a list about how to do it. ok, that was redemptive, excellent point, Nick. :) Well, it's easy for me to say that in refer...

Science is about making good sense of things, not building a platform to support a religious ideology. The site has an agenda to support certain faith based views, so it can't be taken at all seriously.

Oh I was just taking the discussion off on a different tangent. It had nothing to do with anyone here specifically.

so, therefore, a bigot/whoremonger unevolved type of man wouldn't be attractive to me, thus rendering the "whore" a non issue, as far as "competition" goes. Ok this gets a little more into explaining why you wouldn't be attracted to a man who has a taste for prostitutes, but I s...

I simply meant that I get a negative "feeling" on a visceral level about men who are bigots, or obsessive about sex, pathological etc. It's not about morality or power dynamics, status etc. Does that make sense? Well, I don't think it's intellectually honest because this feeling you get o...

Before I respond I just want to let you know I edited my last post, so what you quoted of me is slightly different from what I changed it to.

Nick, You misquoted Dan. Ah thanks. It's fixed. The trollish kid said that, so I'm not surprised that you would agree. I hope you're not trying to deliberately twist my words around, and that this was just a poorly timed knee jerk reaction to what I actually said. Most women aren't attracted to big...

Dan can get away with so much. I need to learn how he does it so I don't have to wade through all the shit every time I open my mouth on women. My plan is: 1. practice my voice to be as deep and pleasantly resonating, weakening feminine resistance 2. make youtube videos with a string of pretty pict...

pierdog wrote:The forum TWATS are getting all histrionic just because they fear being replaced by whores

In a way this is surprisingly insightful.

Ryan, I think the most important thing to remember when trying to figure out how electricity transmits information, or how consciousness can be produced by unconscious matter is that the way these things appear to work has more to do with us than with the things themselves. I believe you said someth...

I can imagine a complicated web of interconnected transistors controlling the flow of electrical current, but I'm having trouble imagining how this translates into software actually doing something...it doesn't make sense to me that software should interface with hardware at all... I've wondered ab...

I don't think you fully understand what context means, and locking yourself into one and calling it "the context of reason" is not wise. In what context are you saying this? The context of the discussion, duh. You might want to try it some time if you want to have a meaningful discussion ...

You say that I'm (implicitly, I suppose) making a claim to absolute truth. We're not talking about individual absolute truths, though, we're talking about Absolute Truth - the ultimate stuff. I don't care to get into a discussion as to whether your characterisation of my claim really is an absolute...

The only context I know is that of reason. I don't think you fully understand what context means, and locking yourself into one and calling it "the context of reason" is not wise. Being wise is about understanding the nature of all context to freely and effortlessly glide between and deal...

The only way to be truly be free in the infinite is to be utterly mindless and dead. Otherwise, you have to live in a world of illusion, and treat those illusions as real. Everything is real, just not inherently. Understanding this difference is what allows one to live wisely and see things as they...

I don't know what you're talking about. I'm basically just wondering why the idea that there is no ultimate purpose is so important to you. Until a time comes where we don't have mixtures of hormones running through our body, and thousands of years of biological and social conditioning, and we inst...

Children being used as prostitutes makes me sick...and any man that can use a child for sex should be shot dead. I don't know why you keep bringing up the topic of children being forced into prostitution. Nobody was advocating it in any way as far as I can tell. the whole thing sickens me. i gotta ...

Kunga,

You're not implying that only men have the ability to enjoy sex without being emotionally attached to their partner are you?

I'm not blending anything that's not already blended in. Though the enlightened person makes a distinction between empirical and absolute truths, he doesn't need to use that distinction in his own thinking - that's what I was saying. It's not possible to do any kind of thinking without making disti...

What Nick has subsequently pointed to, is not in my opinion relevant to his assessment of you, so I think it ought to be ignored. Ignored by whom? To be clear, my assessment of jupviv wasn't meant to oppose or support his assessment of carmel. Rather, I was using one of her statements (which has so...

He foolishly extends the nature of absolutes into empirical matters which is a sign of either a severe form of mental rigidity, and/or a flawed understanding of the nature of absolutes. There is no difference between absolutes and empirical truths - at least no inherent difference. The distinction ...

Atum wrote:

Nick Treklis wrote:

Atum wrote:Nick likes to masturbate. If you keep that fact in mind it makes everything he says sound pretty funny.

Oh?

Doesn't sound like a denial.

What are you on about?

Atum wrote:Nick likes to masturbate. If you keep that fact in mind it makes everything he says sound pretty funny.

Oh?

For the record, if I had David's values, I would agree, and I would make exactly the same assessment. It's not really about values. It just is what it is. The only reason I can think of as to why you aren't making the same assessment of yourself is that it hurts your ego too much to see things as t...