GENIUS FORUMS

Of course there's the link with the Hindu concept of Lila, 'play', the illusive dance of Maya, with karma being the active principle of the play. This divine perspective though must not make us forget that to break through the illusion much sacrifice is needed and therefore total seriousness and foc...

Hi, The problem with the concept of 'game' is that it might suggest there's not much seriousness involved (it's just a game) while without the utmost conviction and determination the game loses its dynamic and purpose quickly (the problem of modernity). Part of this supposed game would then be not t...

I wish the dead wouldn't talk so much.

Lennyrizzo, that's an insightful comment! Some experts support your line of thinking, like Associate Professor Robert Pape of the University of Chicago. Over the past two years he collected the first complete database of every suicide-terrorist attack around the world from 1980 to early 2004. Some c...

Nietzsche's Zarathustra on poets: Verily, their spirit itself is the peacock of peacocks and a sea of vanity! The spirit of the poet craves spectators - even if only buffaloes. But I have grown weary of this spirit; and I foresee that it will grow weary of itself. I have already seen the poets chang...

Thanks Matt, didn't think of searching that one. The German version from the fragments goes like this: Es giebt über dem Dampf und Schmutz der menschlichen Niederungen eine höhere hellere Menschheit, die der Zahl nach eine sehr kleine sein wird—denn alles, was hervorragt, ist seinem Wesen nach, selt...

Since I'm reading fragments of Nietzsche's notebooks I thought to post some of the ones I consider interesting. Since I don't own and couldn't find English translations online at the moment, I attempted my own translation and I'll welcome any corrections. Beyond the stench and the dirt of the human ...

Anything you discuss is nothing but a mental puke. You will never know anything by discussing. You can only exchange beliefs here. Ask questions, ignore the answers Hey Unk, how are you doing? (never mind) After a good meal sometimes one has to burp. What now if some unknown starts running in to ca...

I wonder what would happen if the medical profession accidently created a drug whose main side effect was an addiction to enlightenment and wisdom ..... ? Would they be excited, or would they quickly withdraw it in horror? Hah! But isn't any addiction an increase in identifying with - and tightenin...

Since we're on the topic, in general the file sharing system 'eDonkey' is regarded as better in usability and speed. Also more used at the moment and is known to contain more rarities and includes a terrific search system already. I downloaded and shared PoN with BitTorrent a while back but then it ...

<r>Faizi, this Power of Nightmares is indeed one of the few sane moments of journalism on the topic of the war on terror, since 9-11.<br/> <br/> There does not exist a DVD from the show because of copyright complexities. The producer himself released the files on the download networks since it was t...

<t>Thinker,Quote:Quote:<hr>I look at my own life and see all of my actions are all about survival, sex, and creating/protecting my space...even in the intellectual sense.<hr><br/> Could you try to explain as an example how your posts would be an extension of your survival, sexual urge or your intell...

<t>Hello Thinker,<br/> <br/> The mind seems to have this amazing capability to filter out enough of Reality as to create our private little worlds. Emotions and desires, hidden or not, continue to give form to this distortion as to create a playground.<br/> <br/> Our experiences of seemingly collect...

<t>Hi Leyla,Quote:Quote:<hr>what you're saying is that some people think they are thinking when in fact they aren't. Right?<hr><br/> Indeed, having thoughts and moving them around so that they fit the circumstances where they have to be uttered, is not the thinking we're thinking of. A good carpente...

<t>JimhazQuote:Quote:<hr>As far as I am concerned I have pierced reality to somewhere near its core.<hr><br/> On the subject of 'piercing reality' you better be hitting straight at its centre. No wiggle room here. To be 'somewhere near it' and drop down right there, could take one further away than ...

<t>Kevin Solway wroteQuote:Quote:<hr>It can also be an evolutionary adaption to aid in the release of stress, or in the formation of pair-bonds, which can be between individuals of the same sex.<hr><br/> Indeed. When observing the role of the social in nature we can easily see how often sex as well ...

<t>Leyla,Quote:Quote:<hr>all I'm trying to say is that it wouldn't make a any difference to me if you replaced the number "1" with a zero and gave it the same definition. Why should it?<hr><br/> The question is more why should you or I make any difference at all? Creating clarity for starters.<br/> ...

<t>Sapius,Quote:Quote:<hr>Firstly, what do you mean by 'Eternal truths'? And, could you give me an example of "Eternal truth” without using a mind's perspective?<hr><br/> Are you asking me to say some mindless nonsense now? ;)<br/> <br/> What is eternaly true for any mind is that the supreme reali...

<t>Sapius,Quote:Quote:<hr>What has 1+1=2 or 1+1=3 as a whole complex formula got to do with the basic fact of identification of each character which is A=A?<hr><br/> Traditionaly from the law of identity flows the law of non-contradiction: A cannot be anything else than A. This introduces dualism, m...

<t>Analog,Quote:Quote:<hr><br/> A = [A=A]<br/> <br/> B = [A=not-A]<br/> <br/> A or B but not both<hr><br/> A xor B means you're back to a logical reality where A does not equal B, only possible to assert when you're letting the dreaded A = A back in as a condition, making B obviously flawed, which i...

<t>Leyla, Quote:Quote:<hr>My question to you now is this: what is the relationship between your number theory -- portraying something about the fundamentals of reality -- and the process of understanding the infinite?<hr><br/> Is there some difference between the infinite and the fundamentals of rea...

<t>Sapius,Quote:Quote:<hr>So where lies the "meaning" to any thing from the perspective of the Absolute!?<hr><br/> The Absolute can't have some perspective, can it? From the point of view of the mind in a state of Reason, assigning meaning is a function of mind only. A situation where there is no me...

<t>Not many of the millions of starwars lovers know the philosophical background intended by the maker. Apart from that what was named above by Taran there were even more direct known influences that might be interesting to name here.<br/> <br/> George Lucas his own admitted 'Yoda' was Joseph Campbe...

<t>Hi LeylaQuote:Quote:<hr>Have I missed something?<hr><br/> I quoted your statement about intuiting the meaning behind the numbers since it seemed placed like an argument against my point or at least not reflecting it properly in my view. Then as reply on that I questioned if the use of an added ze...

<t>Sapius.Quote:Quote:<hr>but I was simply asking as to what essentially exists all the time, the Knower? or Reality?<hr>The Absolute?<br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>Reality would continue to exist irrelevant of the minds existence,<hr><br/> That's indeed what defines the Absolute, since it cannot have a begi...