GENIUS FORUMS

+1 on the compassion there Miki.

Here is a seeker pouring their heart and head out and you want to argue that you're beyond ego and not morally righteous. Classy!

Welcome pj. Stick around.

For example, a starving buddha tries some hitherto unknow berry which turns out to be the most astringent berry in nature - reacts with disgust.

In the same way that eating need not be ego based. You know what I mean Dan, don't make me write an essay.

Give me an example of a non ego based emotion. Come on Dan, you know there are examples of emotions which need not be necessarily ego based, whether clyde goes to great pains not to name one or not. Certain instances of disgust, for example. You'd be far better off reiterating your definition of eg...

God is the answer to a question or questions. It's the ubiquity of those questions that matters, asked by all as they are. That the vast majority of particular conceptions of this answer do not point to truth is no good reason to not use the accepted signifier, God, to refer to the only conception t...

Just a brief afterthought here... This really tickled me. An excellent example of a Freudian slip, considering DQ's deep seated chauvinism against women. mikiel It was orders of magnitude funnier than that. But typos, no matter how delicious and so much more seemingly Freudian slipesque than you re...

Sap, DT : No worries matey, let me know when you're back from saving the cheerleader and we'll continue ;-) Sap : Ah! I see :) In my opinion, it is not wise to judge others by projecting your values on to them, my friend. That's good advice mate. It wasn't a judgement or meant to offend in the sligh...

No worries matey, let me know when you're back from saving the cheerleader and we'll continue ;-)

I was really looking to see how you understand the word 'quality' and whether you think the conjunction 'objective quality' is an oxymoron?

If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one to hear it, did it really fall? And does that tree even exist? Not according to the person who wasnt there and didnt hear it. Sure, but if you did, then tell me, and most probably I will believe you since it would conform to my own conscious experien...

How very ungrateful.

If you can't figure out how your snotty response, 'Anyone for Logic 101?' is 'to the man', then you are beyond hope. I might say the same about your ability to discern the logical content of a statement through those egotistical filters of yours, but I won't. The logical fallacy of ad hominem does ...

Robert Playin': You do not occupy all possible worlds. DT: Oh dear. Anyone for Logic 101? Robert Playin': As you can see, you have already been answered. Oh, where was that then? The continual vacuity of your answers is 'amazing'. Erm, I asked a question, in response to a statement. It was a pertin...

Ok but science is about substance, the manifest. Such non-substance is of no concern to that end.

We're really not that far off on the manifest side of things, all things considered. The experts think it will be done some time in the next decade or two.

Dave, I tried building that and was somewhat successful. I used hollow collapsible and extendable telescopic tubes with tension springs inside, connected by semi-solid sponge balls at the joints, and it works. Each time one of the cubes is pushed inside the center, the opposite edges of the inner c...

Broken: Understanding C&E the way David has it has no consequence. It is in this way inconsequential. It is even folly to discuss it. This is purely the result of accepting that C&E must apply everywhere, at all times, without exception, and always has. DT: What else has applied everywhere,...

Science is forever trying trying to break 'things' down to ever small smaller constituants.Then atom,and so on,down to the 'string'.But how can even the string be the final 'substance'.It's an infinite regress. Physics doesn't deliberately set out to look for smaller and smaller things, rather it l...

You do not occupy all possible worlds

Oh dear. Anyone for Logic 101?

But I still have trouble relating it into the overall picture presented above because the diagram is lacking one of the dimensions.The height one.Space is represented in only 2 directions,rather than 3.There's no way of really getting around it as a drawing. Have you ever tried to visualise objects...

Broken: Understanding C&E the way David has it has no consequence. It is in this way inconsequential. It is even folly to discuss it. This is purely the result of accepting that C&E must apply everywhere, at all times, without exception, and always has. DT: What else has applied everywhere,...

"Hawking and Hartle's No Boundary Proposal" (that reads like a mere kids essay to me) Of course, you'd prefer to go into the maths in depth eh Jimbo. It is a transcript of a public lecture for the layman and was written to engage that audience. Here's the important part though: "Jame...

And imaginary time isn't named as such because it is somehow not real, like real time is real. It is essential to the "jewel of physics", quantum electrodynamics. To the same extent that it is just a mathematical device which models a second dimension of time, Euclidian geometry is just a...

Not even perception?

BH, I'm putting this in a separate post because it's a different subject.

DT: What else has applied everywhere, at all times, without exception, and always has, in your experience?

BH: Nothing!

Are you sure? (note the italics)

BH: Yet there may be countless Universes, each causally mutually independent. Our own seems to have a beginning, where space AND time began at one point. If time itself had an origin - admittedly not an easy concept to grasp - then necessarily, so did causality. DT: While we're speculating, during ...

Yet there may be countless Universes, each causally mutually independent. Our own seems to have a beginning, where space AND time began at one point. If time itself had an origin - admittedly not an easy concept to grasp - then necessarily, so did causality. While we're speculating, during your stu...