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by David Quinn
Tue Nov 12, 2019 4:42 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418125

Re: Trump

Here is a rarity. A Republican speaking the plain truth about the despicable state of the modern Republican party: This now former Republican is also long-time member of the Xenu-worshipping organization called Scientology. He should speak out on that first! Or even better, he could do both. But I ...
by David Quinn
Tue Nov 12, 2019 4:17 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
Replies: 80
Views: 223615

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.

David Quinn: The bottom line is this: If you are not fully comprehending the nature of God and dwelling in His boundless freedom, then you can take it as read that your mind is under the spell of the core illusion. If one has anti-Trump views, are they under the spell of the core illusion or are th...
by David Quinn
Tue Nov 12, 2019 4:14 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
Replies: 80
Views: 223615

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.

First off, it needs to be recognized that all things are mentally constructed. Everything that we experience and know is a momentary construction that involves the use of mental processes like memory, categorization, attention, desire, conditioning, emphasis, exclusion, etc. And also it is the mind...
by David Quinn
Thu Nov 07, 2019 6:35 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418125

Re: Trump

It's interesting that the kind of corruption being exposed in the impeachment inquiry - extortion, bribery, the attempt by Trump and his cohorts to degrade Ukraine's political and judicial systems, the wholesale manufacturing of falsehoods, the persecution and slander of professional diplomats, the ...
by David Quinn
Thu Nov 07, 2019 6:19 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
Replies: 80
Views: 223615

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.

A “specific delusion” can refer to maya (the core illusion of inherent existence) There is no core illusion apart from specific illusions, just like there is no infinite apart from finite things. You’re still not getting it. Yes, it is true there is no infinite apart from finite things. Rather, the...
by David Quinn
Tue Nov 05, 2019 5:21 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418125

Re: Trump

Here is a rarity. A Republican speaking the plain truth about the despicable state of the modern Republican party: Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) was interviewed by MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on “Deadline: White House.” “What has happened to the Republican Party?” Wallace asked. “These are the moments ...
by David Quinn
Tue Nov 05, 2019 11:32 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
Replies: 80
Views: 223615

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.

Belittling the use of logic to methodically eliminate all delusions from the mind does not make one a superior man. Logic can not be used to eliminate all delusions, methodically or otherwise. You're flat out wrong here. It can only eliminate *specific* delusions, temporarily, if other conditions a...
by David Quinn
Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:08 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
Replies: 80
Views: 223615

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.

.... a wisdom-based perspective. Our brains have evolved to function as cohesive, autonomous units, so that doesn’t change. Only the focus of this cohesion changes. A Buddha, even though he no longer believes in the illusion of his own existence, still behaves as a cohesive being. But instead of pr...
by David Quinn
Sun Nov 03, 2019 3:49 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Jordan Peterson
Replies: 93
Views: 157328

Re: Jordan Peterson

From the "Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?" thread: It remains remarkable that you keep on opposing so strongly the very people who are in the mainstream out there pushing out ideas which seem quite compatible with your own stated views on genius, mascul...
by David Quinn
Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:08 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
Replies: 80
Views: 223615

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.

There is no question that when a person starts out seeking the truth, he is doing it out of impure motives. After all, he still has an ego. He is still motivated to seek egotistical benefits such as social status, happiness and security. It is only later when he starts to comprehend the truth of hi...
by David Quinn
Sun Nov 03, 2019 10:41 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
Replies: 80
Views: 223615

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.

David Quinn wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 10:45 am [To jupiviv]Again, the problem is the criticism you offer is incoherent, which makes it ineffective. There is nothing for me to grab hold of and respond to. Finding words for things related to Truth is inherently a very difficult thing to do, actually, ...
by David Quinn
Tue Oct 29, 2019 10:45 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
Replies: 80
Views: 223615

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.

Your piece here hasn't changed my view. I've read through it a couple of times now and I can honestly say that I can discern no content at all. Paragraph after paragraph, it looks like a lot of words have been strung together in a seemingly passionate fashion, but when I try to drill down to find s...
by David Quinn
Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:47 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.
Replies: 80
Views: 223615

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part II: Truth is the root of all evil.

jupiviv, The other day, Vishesh made the observation in the Trump thread that: while you seem to offer “interesting insights and information that showcases a breadth of literature", the impressions you tend to leave are “thoroughly immemorable". He couldn't have put it any more succinctly....
by David Quinn
Sun Oct 27, 2019 12:49 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418125

Re: Trump

The rationality employed by Buddha is not like the rationality employed by a psychopath or mathematician. Actually, there are a lot of similarities to the mathematician. Both Buddhas and mathematicians exercise the same rational faculties. But whereas a mathematician is usually only capable of appl...
by David Quinn
Sun Oct 27, 2019 11:02 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418125

Re: Trump

The following is taken from a post on a right-wing forum, now closed behind a paywall. It pertains to the American right but one can easily see similarities in right-wing movements across the world. It's rather lowbrow, though: <snip> It's a rant. It's hardly going to be mistaken for an academic th...
by David Quinn
Sun Oct 27, 2019 8:23 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The Real Climate Debate
Replies: 25
Views: 44946

Re: The Real Climate Debate

And so there you have it. A scientist openly and shamelessly equating scientific consensus with religious dogma. Oh my, what degenerative times we live in. You must have missed the finer point again as I was quoting a leading climate scientist who supports the "scientific consensus". Othe...
by David Quinn
Sun Oct 27, 2019 8:08 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The Real Climate Debate
Replies: 25
Views: 44946

Re: The Real Climate Debate

Perhaps the ASPs would be different if they were grounded in the Infinite. By default, because they are emotionally driven (they perceive Other), ASP's are not grounded in the infinite. Infinite thinkers, by contrast, are not distracted by false thoughts of 'other', instead they are ever seeking ne...
by David Quinn
Thu Oct 24, 2019 2:11 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
Replies: 20
Views: 39503

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?

It’s not a work I could produce nowadays because I no longer experience the kinds of issues and frustrations that I did back then. Woman loomed large in my mind during that phase of my existence, but nowadays she is exceedingly small. This partly due to the fact that I have increasingly become more...
by David Quinn
Thu Oct 24, 2019 1:23 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
Replies: 20
Views: 39503

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?

I'm not sure why you think this. Perhaps I ought to do a targeted search again to be sure, but I think I did catch most of what was discussed. Right off the bat I can tell you that the motivation for this comes from a skewed cognitive bias of mine, that lends itself towards examining underlying mor...
by David Quinn
Thu Oct 24, 2019 12:29 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The Real Climate Debate
Replies: 25
Views: 44946

Re: The Real Climate Debate

In Australia, we have a chunk of population connected to the coal industry, that dont want change. They are "highly partisan, anxious and often despairing, self-righteous, big on blame [and social justice], and willing to attack those that disagree with them. They often distort the truth when ...
by David Quinn
Thu Oct 24, 2019 10:53 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418125

Re: Trump

Are you seriously saying that you cannot distinguish between different levels of rationality in the world? For example, between the methodologies of, say, evolutionary biology and creation science? Are you saying that they both exhibit equivalent levels of rationality? If you'd start reading my wor...
by David Quinn
Wed Oct 23, 2019 1:22 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
Replies: 20
Views: 39503

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?

What has not been addressed in this forum adequately despite a lot of discussion (as something that is realistically abstracted and generalized enough to provide a consistent guiding framework) is the issue of morality, which pretty much has to be grounded in masculine and feminine psychological dr...
by David Quinn
Mon Oct 21, 2019 11:23 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418125

Re: Trump

But for you, being the new Hillary Clinton of the Liberal Enlightenment establishment, Ugh! Eeww! Now come on, Diebert. That is below the belt. Totally predicted Diebert catching onto that. I'm not sure why you're so fixated with nuclear holocaust, Diebert. Or are you just trying to make the point ...
by David Quinn
Mon Oct 21, 2019 11:02 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418125

Re: Trump

David Quinn: Kierkegaard also spoke about the limitations of formlessness. He spoke about the knight of infinite resignation, for example. The knight of infinite resignation is someone who understands that, from the absolute point of view, nothing has value, and he gives himself over to this unders...
by David Quinn
Mon Oct 21, 2019 10:08 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?
Replies: 20
Views: 39503

Re: Serious conversations about important issues, Part I: What is Truth?

Since it has been decided to transfer that part of the Trump thread here, we should quote Avolith's post in full: What exactly is ideal of spreading truth? I'll have a go at putting down some arguments why I think this ideal might be problematic: *I'd say that spreading truth is something different ...