GENIUS FORUMS

I have come to recognize that my PTSD is so bad, that primarily I don't just have the disorder, I am the disorder. I also have the effects of a female brain, too much testosterone for a female, and a high IQ, but all in all, I am a disorder. It is only insulting when someone tries to play psycholog...

It would be even more beneficial to apply this to oneself.

Interesting how people always jump up to try to refute a psychoanalysis of someone else, though. Why is that? I guess I generally don't like people's psychoanalysis of others because it comes off as condescending & patronizing: appearing to 'understand' while actually belittling the person by r...

Why would I suggest that she wouldn't believe [QRS philosophy] to begin with except to keep David involved in her son's life? Well, because it's fiercely anti-feminine and most self-respecting women don't want anything to do with that, for what should be obvious reasons. What does the word 'feminin...

And then there's Sue, who IMO is a fascinating example of how far some women will go and how much they will sacrifice psychologically in order to keep a father figure in their children's lives. My suspicion is that she long ago learned the only way to keep David around (and therefore at least somew...

Ryan R wrote:Tomas wrote:

No, he's on the outside looking in...

You need to absorb his entire body of work and life as a whole before you can accurately make that judgment. . .

Tomas is quoting the song by the Moody Blues:

Timothy Leary's dead
No, he's on the outside looking in . . .
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Jamesh wrote:For fucks sake, when are people going to realise the fallabilities of definitions. Christ it is no wonder people turn to non-duality.

Thank you for the best laugh of the week.

Bring on some more of those fallible definitions! I want to be blown into the comforting arms of non-duality. Tonight.
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I have never noticed or heard of women talking or acting like penis size was of any particular importance. I have. It's mostly young brash 'Sex & the City' type women, who have taken on the traditional crassness associated with men similarly to the way 'metrosexual' men have taken on the tradit...

clyde wrote:Ultimately we go with the flow and either we acknowledge that or we don’t.

Do no harm,
clyde

What if the flow is moving in the direction of doing harm?

Shardrol

Faust13 I'm not sure I know what you mean about 'intimidated & couldn't control your body'. With me it was a mental thing. I was disturbed at anyone thinking they could control me through fear so even if I was scared, all this anger would well up that would make me seem unafraid. I never got int...

Part of most every man - a part he recognises for what it is - inhabits an abstract realm that is essentially genderless. [ . . . ] the 3 dimentional, spatial reasoning, objective, creative, problem solving, logical realm of the average man's mind that he slips into on a more regular basis than you...

Not only verbally direct and straightforward, but body language as well. See most women due to their physical weakness, turn it into a strength by submitting in order to control men. I instead want women to do the same as men, that is be masculine, territorial, lack of social conventions towards pa...

Faust13 Sorry my last comment was addressed to Nordicvs. I will try to answer your questions, but I'm not entirely sure I know what you mean. Do you mean aggressive in terms of confronting people or do you mean something more like getting physical with them? I don't initiate physical violence but I ...

Oh well, I thought the idea of independence where you don't require a human breast for nourishment or a kangaroo pouch for shelter was self-evident. But you are right that I don't think it's necessary to hunt or grow all your own food & stay off the power grid in order to be independent, though ...

Oh okay but I'm not sure why you're telling me this. I thought you were interested in the experience of individual women in attempting to become independent.

What I mean by independence is being able to think for oneself & not being dominated by trained habitual patterns, cultural mores, social acceptability, kneejerk contrariness or anything else other than one's own awareness. To sail by one's own lights. This is still subjective but at least it's ...

It's an interesting question. My mother thought she was teaching me to be a nonconforming independent thinker, but what I actually learned was that she was right about everything & to a great extent I took on her views. She always made a point of not letting me do things 'because the other kids ...

Morrison was an adolescent poseur. Hendrix was a great musician but hardly philosophically significant. Zappa was very intelligent & had a lot of psychological insight but was mired in negativity. Elvis Costello & Richard Thompson (& quite a few others) are more insightful than any of th...

Perhaps it'd be best to go back and look at scriptures which are attributed to the Buddha himself. It's that pesky 'attributed'. Like Jesus, Shakyamuni didn't write anything down. There are just the recollections of others from oral traditions unrecorded for centuries after his death. It's a wonder...

Hey Shardrol, how's it going? It goes. Pretty much okay. I seem to have taken on something of the character of a Genius Forum onion garlic pizza: it's not there for very long but it keeps coming back. Trevor: It's fine with me if you don't want to read fiction. I just disagree that fiction & no...

Okay, 'scuse me. I didn't even remember who said what. I accept your correction.

Howeer, I don't accept your statement that fiction is by necessity untrue, unless you are taking 'truth' to mean a flawless report of events that actually happened to real people who exist as named in the account.
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Saying that 'nonfiction' is true & fiction is lies is exceedingly naive. Just because a person is wrting about alleged facts has no bearing on whether their observations have anything interesting to say about reality. They are just trumpeting their own subjective view with the added delusion tha...

Elizabeth: You have this half romantic half fascistic idea that prisoners can be 'retrained' so that they will stop committing crimes & otherwise annoying decent people. Even if the 'retraining' involved torturing them until they gave the right answers on a multiple choice test or keeping them l...

Don't let them out until they are likely to be good citizens, but once out, don't make them present a record to employers and such - once the debt is paid and the rehabilitation complete, there is no need for anyone to know their history. It seems it's not actually easy to rehabilitate many crimina...

I'm not sure this topic is going anywhere (though I found Pye's post about subjectivity quite interesting) but it both pains & annoys me to see so much time & verbiage spent on people misunderstanding each other because of a failure to define terms. I think a distinction needs to be made bet...