GENIUS FORUMS

I did love music a lot. I think my current feelings about it are a combination of boredom with it, the fact the I still have ideas about composition that I would like to try out sometime (but whenever I try I find I'm not motivated enough about them to do the work, so I have these kind of lingering,...

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I think Weininger is a genius just from this excerpt of Sex And Character, where he summarizes what it means to have a clear mind: ...the judgment of identity...relates certainly always to concepts , never to sensations or complexes of such, and concepts are, as logical concepts, timeless, they reta...

Nah, I don't want to get into a music debate right now. Fuck that, I hate music anyway.

Yeah, Ike Willis is a great singer.

That's a good site. Even I liked it and I hate science.

Marsha wrote: I realize that things are different for you and I understand and respect that. Dependence on a government pension -- despite whatever Leo tells you -- is different here. I don't want the government in my life more than it has to be in my life presently. You could always live on the che...

Surely anyone who thinks hard enough about music or art will get sick of it. I don't think Zappa thought hard enough music to get sick of it. I think he was probably the most innovative rock and roller, but pretty much everything he wrote is just thrown together, like he just jotted it down on some ...

How about "freedom"? Money gives us the power to freely do what we want: buy things, eat at restaurants, pay bills, etc. If you want a girlfriend you pretty much have to buy your way into that unless she's really desperate, and even then she'll be wanting money eventually.

DHodges wrote:Or, really, I enjoy playing with other people. I haven't been actually out playing in clubs since leaving Texas, but I've been playing with some local guys, just jamming on some "classic rock" tunes.

Are you a bassist or a guitarist? Or both?

You may not want to admit it but on some level you cared about your grandmother or you could not have cried. Yeah, I cared about her. She was familiar to me and I suppose I was grieving the loss of something familiar. I think familiarity holds our lives together. Everybody strives to keep everythin...

Playing music for people is always about performing. I've always hated playing live and I've always hated live music. There's something I just hate about it, but I don't really know what it is. I like listening to records, though, even records of live performances because I can listen to them over a...

I think what you are saying - and I agree - is that music is by its nature feminine. It's a way of taking an idea and tarting it up, decorating it, adding ornaments like a Christmas tree. In the end, music is pretty much the same as doodling on a piece of paper with a pencil. I think listening to m...

Matt, DQ: I would call it the emotional pleasure of conquering new territory and absorbing it into one's ego - in this case, the minds of others. I'm not really talking about the evangelical desire to convert people here, although it is related. It's more the desire for people to discover what you ...

David wrote: Matt wrote: Well, take the desire to share a fantastic thing with others. I think everybody wants to share fantastic with others, but why do we want to do this? ... I call it "caring for others", but I don't know what else you could call it. Maybe we share things more for the ...

Dan wrote: Matt asked David whether he "cared" for other people. I think the answer to that - logical rather than emotional - is that yes, one cares for humanity's survival and sanity (to whatever degree that can be established) because consciousness is necessary for the propagation and su...

I guess, but I wanted to emphasize the fact that we have no control over what illusions appear to us. It is kind of redundant but it communicates the idea in a little different light, a different facet of it.

David wrote: Matt wrote: So do you care about people, or what is it that motivates you to share truths with others? On the emotional front, it's the desire to: share this hidden fantastic thing I have discovered; follow my conscience and do what is right; repay my debt to past sages for helping to e...

Oh, I still get emotional pleasure from things - I'm not a perfect Buddha by any means. I still enjoy music, for example. I also get emotional pleasure from thinking clearly and sharing my truths with others. So do you care about people, or what is it that motivates you to share truths with others?

OK. Let me try it this way. If I'm looking (how ironic?) at the whole thing as all things arising at the same time, then I reckon there can be no such thing as "a person making an arbitrary, conceptual division of reality", really. Yeah, from the person's perspective there's nothing arbit...

I'm not sure what you mean.

Butttt, Matt! :) According to your theory, he’s an effect of the bar because he has made an arbitrary, conceptual division of reality -- not because the actuality is that the bar (nor any other or numerous other cause/s he may so arbitrarily assign) is an actual cause. The way we conceptually divid...

So, the bar causes one to drink? Or is one of the causes? It's one of the causes. How about emotional shit one cannot get over or come to terms with? That would be a cause, too. That is the cause of alcoholism. A bar would mean nothing if one came to conquer emotional shit. Same with the emotional ...

From your example here, one assumes that the cause is “the bar is there.” It's one of the causes. So, what we have here is a situation where -- according to your previous statements -- the alcoholic has made an arbitrary, conceptual division of Reality (“the bar is there” being the cause of his beh...

Well, Matt, I reckon that rather neatly draws the line between science and philosophy. Course, if a cause is an arbitrary conceptual division we make of Reality, having so divided the thing, we certainly have gained a freedom from the known cause of a particular brand of delusion, have we not? I ma...

Riding the flow of causality, involves Knowing several Truths. These Truths negate the need to know every thing. I believe this is what Kevin is saying. It's an I, viewing an I. Since knowing the complete extent of an event involves knowing all of its causes, and a cause is an arbitrary conceptual ...