GENIUS FORUMS

Infant abuse may not be remembered, at least not on a concious level, by the infant as it grows - but who knows what the full impact is except in obvious, severe cases (shaken baby syndrome for example). Kelly wrote: Abuse victims hold onto their emotional injuries as a form of martyrdom...I'd say t...

Tomas wrote:

'the enlightened scammers' beat them to the front of the line :-(

seems like a dim light...

se wrote: Great harm has been done by a number of these "false gurus". True, but it would have been a waste of energy to try to convince Hitler that there was somethig wrong with his viewpoint. It would have been easier to wake up the first hundred (or fewer) people he deluded, and that wo...

Tharan wrote: Getting upset or out of joint over someone else's vision or feeling about themselves is entirely misplaced energy. I agree. If someone wants to benevolently share a truth that another person does not see, that is a noble endeavor. If they are open to it, that is good and it is possible...

se: In that case, it was a pleasure meeting you and I hope you return sometimes. I don't plan to devote my life to this board either as peace is my main calling. I came here for food for thought, and saw a need for some peaceful influence (and have rather felt like I have been working since I got he...

Tharan wrote: In other words, "goodness" is an ethereal abstract that no two people would probably agree upon, much like love and The Chupacabra. Although I don't agree that no two people would agree what goodness is, I can see where there would be much room for debate about all of the spe...

Shardrol wrote:

All this could be avoided if people said 'women' when they meant biological women & 'unconscious' when they meant those of whatever gender whom the speaker believed to be unconscious.

This would be an example of logic.

I like logic; this makes sense.

Iolaus wrote: The female brain is different from the male one. True. (only one example of many different kinds available) There was a case where there were several accidents one day during circumcisions related to improper use of or improper functioning of equipment, and the penises of several infan...

Kevin wrote al of the following quotes: Does he sit quietly meditating or does he race about the place doing stuff? Obviously, he does something. When David asked frank why he has not starved to death, then supplied the answer was because he ate, that was a good example of the fact that people have ...

Pye wrote: It is the same with every scenario I have seen put here by a man that assumes to speak what is going on in a women's mind. One can not know what is going on in the mind of another without using good communicaton skills and asking. One example - I could not understand what would be pleasur...

Kevin wrote: The point is, whether a sage does many things or few, whether he is rich or poor, thin or fat, healthy or unhealthy, none of these things should be of a concern to you In judging the level of sagacity in regards to total wisdom, I do look at the whole picture. Otherwise, we are looking ...

Kevin wrote: quoting EI: The worldly-wise who is rich and happy (rather, has a degree of happiness that is satisfactory to him) is not as wise as the sage KS responded: The worldly-wise is not necessarily wise at all. Agreed. Quantifying for the purpose of espressing the concept mathematically: wisd...

Kevin wrote: Jesus very wisely taught that one should "seek first the Kingdom of God." Yes, first both chronologically and as a sequence of importance. He did say "seek first" not "seek only" the Kingdom of God. Kevin wrote: Only the sage, who knows the absoute Truth, c...

Nick wrote: I agree with Kevin. I live in a very populated area with people from many different walks of life, and like Kevin said; "They (women) might repeat back to me what I'm saying, telling me how wise and lofty it is, but it doesn't even penetrate the outer layer of cells of their brain&q...

Kevin wrote:

When I said "any woman" I was slightly exaggerating.

Acknowledged.

David wrote: Everyone believes they have the truth on their side - even you. So this is not the issue. What is the issue is whether this belief is justified or not. In my opinion, it is vitally important to make every effort to ensure that one's "truth" is indeed the truth, and not simply ...

Corey, Corey wrote: My mistake. I should have been more specific. I have the depest respect for you for that statement. Acknowledgements such as this take a great deal more courage than many, perhaps even most, people have. It also indicates a willingness to grow, which is the seed of true intellige...

This topic is as close to pure philosophy as is possible, because it is philosophizing about philosophy, but even this is impure because philosophy is the love of wisdom or knowledge, and wisdom or knowledge must be about something. For example, a person can display wise money management if they kno...

cckeiser wrote: The very least we can do is to attempt to do no harm, and leave the world no worse than as we found it. That's closer to the one and only wiccan "commandment" - In at least that thee harm none, do what thou wilt. which (pun noted) is easy enough to remember, although correc...

SE,

Why did you delete so many of your posts?

David wrote:

suppressing things is active, decisive, purposeful behaviour - and therefore masculine.

to suppress something is to become unconcious of it, and in your definition, unconciousness is feminine.

You're supposed to press Alt and p after hitting IMG the second time.

Very nice. I like dictionary definitions. I think one of the reasons they write dictionaries is to help people communicate better. Getting people to use dictionaries can be a challenge though.

David wrote: To my mind, the "feminine" is that particular form of unconsciousness which arises when there isn't enough mental capacity to generate consciousness in the first place - in women, because of... an overly-changeable mentality... In that way, the "masculine" could be e...

Kevin wrote: Have a read of the following compilation of writings by Camille Paglia first. Then you you might like to start a thread discussing the issue No, if that is what you believe (rather closed minded and prejudicial) then it is not worth discussing with you. Kevin wrote: Quote: There's a rea...

drowden,
There is a lot of truth in your jest.