GENIUS FORUMS

There is something about your attitude towards experts and the equating of their presence in our lives with fascism that always pops into my head whenever I read your words nowadays. I can’t get it out my head. It has a very strong alt-right flavour to it. But perhaps I am wrong. Well you're wrong ...

Eric quoted Weininger: I assert that the judgment of identity depends on conceptions, never on mere perceptions and complexes of perceptions, and the conceptions, as logical conceptions, are independent of time, retaining their constancy, whether I, as a psychological entity, think them constant or ...

Well, let’s try and clarify the issue together. What is suffering? My attempt to define it: the experience of, a realization of, an inconsistency between a desired conceptualized experience and actual experience. We can simplify that further and say that suffering is the desire to escape one’s pres...

An example is the right-wing myth that the science of climate change is primarily a politicized narrative. Not only is this completely untrue, but it shows a lack of understanding of how the scientific community operates. Science, when done properly, is apolitical in nature. It operates within a se...

Yet I have noticed you, jupiviv and Santiago, along with alt-right people generally, are perfectly happy to regurgitate the right-propaganda which centres around slandering scientists and using non-scientific considerations to dismiss their work. I know Santiago is incapable of rising above this, b...

One of my main concerns is that people involved in the alt-right universe have lost sight of basic realities that govern society. First, you don't have enough information even to give a definition of Alt-Right. I think that what you refer to is the sensationalistic popular Alt-Right (Milo, Richard ...

Well, having read through this thread and all of its oh-so-clever comments, I still have no idea what Cultural Marxism is. The term evokes no intelligible meaning in me. Like “strawberry noise", or “economic mysticism”. And then when I research the matter on-line and start coming across conspir...

as there's nothing to disagree on the relativity large amount of government actions within the first half term. On the contrary, you were engaging in Trumpian apologetics. Face the truth, man, You are part of the cult. Nobody disagrees on the amount , the number of them, David. Stop reading your pr...

jupiviv wrote: ↑Thu Jan 10, 2019 7:12 am When it can't be, Trump takes the blame and nobly retires to a life of book deals and chat shows.

You're having a laugh. None of these things is going to happen.

- Forget about trying to stop thoughts and achieve a blank mind. That is a populist delusion. It won’t lead to enlightenment. It will only lead to hell. Allow the mind to form concepts naturally. Your only focus should be to rationally examine them as they arise and discard them when they prove to ...

Completely agree. It is funny how Diebert loudly trumpets these "achievements" as though they were somehow the product of prolonged serious work. In reality, Trump is so lazy and glib that he could have just as easily tweeted out all of those "accomplishments" in a single day. T...

All of that falls in the category of irrelevance/gong show. NAFTA 2 hasn't and won't bring back any jobs (quite the opposite from what I've read, and the trade deficit with Mexico-Canada was inconsequential to begin with), ending TPP = proverbial closing of barn door (China's importance to the US s...

As to climate change, I start from this position: I have noticed that *experts* are not to be trusted. I guess this means that you become extremely fearful whenever you hop on a plane. Or drive over a bridge. Or eat a meal in a restaurant. Your life must be hell. Or perhaps your distrust of experts...

I do not interpret Trump's coming as the coming of evil as does David -- why? -- because it is solid reasoning to reason that because the shadow world of idea-fixation is caused, that it is meant to be, and because it is meant to be, that it is good and only good (real, true, has purpose). You're r...

One constitutes a serious threat to the continued existence and well-being of the human species. Odd how this paranoid view fits in to a general hysterical and irrational view that infects our present and that, at least today, largely animates the Left. Temps have gone up and down radically planet-...

For me, it is more to do with what the “evil alt-right Trump thing" embodies - namely, a regression towards African tribalism, a malignant short-sightedness that does not care about future generations, a turning way from science and facts, a deliberate stoking of people's bigotry and fear, a s...

White Nationalists aim to end multiculturalism; restore unified, national cultures; reverse non-white immigration and white demographic decline; and affirm the right of all peoples to self-determination in racially and ethnically homogeneous homelands. And in other news, White Nationalists plan to ...

I am starting to feel relieved that the Trump administration and the vile alt-right movement in general are beginning to collapse under the weight of their own bullshit. About time. Now perhaps the human race can start to deal with far more serious issues like climate change, lack of education, and...

Hello David, great reading you again and some timeless nuggets you're throwing around there. How have you been? No complaints, thanks Diebert. I am starting to feel relieved that the Trump administration and the vile alt-right movement in general are beginning to collapse under the weight of their ...

A minor suggestion for the book, assuming i'm correct: When it comes to daily practice, another thing I imagine I could focus on is the idea that there is no do-er, and that really things are happening by themselves. That would be part of the larger meditation on cause and effect. Meditating on cau...

I wouldn't worry about that. When it comes to abandoning concepts, you can never be too abstract.

Given that serious thinking involves challenging everything in a direct and purposeful manner there is bound to be anxiety involved, particularly in the early stages of the endeavour. That’s natural. After all, the serious thinker is choosing to undermine the very foundations of his place in the wo...

You mention a life-and-death quest. Sometimes I feel an anxiety coming up when thinking. It's quite subtle and it tends to get cut off, with a vague idea of the potential for it growing into something more potent. Is this what you might be referring to? Is it just part of it? Given that serious thi...

Hi Avolith, I am reading this verse from the tao te ching, who can help me understand: That which a person knows he has is known to him by that which he does not have, and that which he considers difficult seems so because of that which he can do with ease. One thing seems long by comparison with th...

Anyway, that's it for me on this thread for a while. I'll see you guys another time.