GENIUS FORUMS

It's also partly an intelligence factor. Older drivers would probably be smarter on average and thus less likely to take unnecessary risks. Younger drivers, being less mature, would not think about such matters as discriminatively on average. More mature usually equals more thoughtful though not al...

The answer is: someone impatient, someone trying to escape their thoughts, and someone who allows their egotism to destroy indiscriminately. This hasn't got anything to do with age! Those people who have those qualities, and use driving a car fast to express or deal with them, tend to be young (sta...

When you first begin thinking, Truth appears through cracks in your mud filled mind. As you progress, small areas begin to clear. Then once you’re going along steadily, whole pristine vistas appear. After that, the Infinite is your home. Since Truth is everything, mud is no less a part of Truth t...

Personally, if I feel any emotions at all, I'd like to know what the attachment is, that is causing it. The probability of properly addressing the core of attachment increases that way. This is why judgment is healthy: it helps remove the stains of the mind. The point is to try to make sure one's mo...

Thanks, again. This is directly about where I'm at at the moment: trying to get off the fence, trying to stop being in love with unconsciousness. I'm still not sure about what you wrote. Surely one must correct intellectual flaws, and that this is a way of clothing the self in its proper appearance ...

Dave, On second thoughts, your post seems to be about karma. I agree with Cory, that wanting to please others really comes down to fearing a loss of power (which he calls excitement). Dealing with the will to power means understanding ego, and then dealing with karma (habits of egotism). Here's what...

Dave, Funny you should have posted this, as I woke up this morning thinking about the egotistical nature of projects. "All attempts to create something admirable are the weapons of evil. You may think you are practicing benevolence and righteousness, but in effect you will be creating a kind of...

Driving generally means travelling very fast. It also generally means a minimum period of several seconds for a vehicle to come to a halt. So, it is the option taken if getting somewhere very fast, or to travel a very long distance, is more valuable than mashing things up (by not being able to avoid...

Beingo1, You mentioned something like you were hoping I wasn't using a sword to cut off the heads of friends, by mistake, in the Mental Universe thread. There are quite a few stories in spiritual literature about taking up one's sword. I can think of a few off-hand. There's Arjuna, who decided event...

If you know the Ultimate, then that is what you are. If you do not know the Ultimate and instead believe in foolish things like love and the self - then you are nothing but a fool. Your honesty is refreshing. The way you tear the facades down to expose the core might be depressingly harsh, but it f...

[Bohm] argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something.....And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic particles as separate from one another because we are seeing only a portion of their reali...

I note that you recently wrote that it's very easy to tear down the logic of those who believe, rather than think. It stimulated me to write the following short essay. How beliefs arise Thoughts identify something (as what it is, reflexively). This process of identifying occurs so often, that identi...

KJ: Actually, the law of identity applies to every thing, regardless of location, stage, nature of the something, or other fractalisations. Bo1: I know but thanks for clarifying. This is what the "thinker" is: an appearance that is identified in the same way anything is identified. There ...

- My reply was delayed by some computer hickups. It's not quite sorted out, but I'm back on the rope for the time being. If you use the law of identity to apply to the whole you must first use something that is true in all possible worlds. That is where you begin, not where you end up. Actually, the...

Except if you dismiss it out of hand because it is not an icon who is saying it. The rational quality of one's thoughts are the only credentials worth considering. KJ: Consider all those "future lives" who need more information to decide: are you just going to abandon them - effectively k...