GENIUS FORUMS

Wisdom is not something that can be isolated and pinned down. Its precisely this urge of the human mind that needs to be lessened to become wise. I'm sure you will perceive this as a cheap answer, but it's still true and this nature of wisdom causes the kinds of misunderstandings constantly happeni...

You may not like or appreciate what I say and how I communicate. Your right of course. But I challenge you -- free of any irony -- to isolate and describe the wisdom that you perceive. Do this independently of how I communicate and what I say. Do it in defense of that wisdom. Ask the others who know...

The fundamental problem here is that that you don't see that the wisdom here is the real deal. (Would you please use proper punctuation? I had to add a period and an apostrophe.) Look, I am a slow learner ok?! I need some help. Why be so stingy? I am open to hearing about the wisdom you describe as...

I.am.your.one.true.friend.here. And I don't give a rat's ass about you!

Edit: Where did I say I was either concerned or not for outcomes?

I'm just worried about if you like me!

Do you feel anything for me at all?

::: biting nails :::

As for proselytization, what do you think you are doing here at Genius? Proselytize: ( pros -, "toward") and the verb ἔρχομαι ( érchomai , "to come") in the form of προσήλυτος ( prosélytos , "newcomer"). Well, I would answer that 'all speech is sermonic'. For Richard W...

All my critique, my dear Pam, take place within a larger context which, it seems to me, you cannot even visualize. Therefore, 'what I am on about' is not intelligible to you. The Tao te Ching is a text -- a message -- presented within a larger frame as well. For that reason anyone, here, who touches...

“I have no intentions,” said the hunter with a smile and, to make up for his mocking tone, laid a hand on the burgomaster’s knee. “I am here. I don’t know any more than that. There’s nothing more I can do. My boat is without a helm—it journeys with the wind which blows in the deepest regions of dea...

Making a comparison of size without context of meaning - judgment - is a lifeless experience, is it not? Judgment and consciousness go hand-in-hand, one could even say that judgment is the life of consciousness. Where judgment becomes suffering is it is projected - asserted - into the world as if i...

Avolith wrote:The risk being, a misunderstanding, maybe permanent, I suppose?

Spiritual erectile disfunction (Diebert), or wisdom-priapism (Jupi).

Depends on the Seeker.

I think what the translator above is trying to say is that because the sage is not attached to anything (he is in “harmony with the Tao”; he has nothing invested in any outcome), his mind is unclouded by illusion and emotion and thus he can see things truly. His judgments are effortless and pure. S...

Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Bjornstrand.

Fixed that for you . . .

Tao be with you always, my child.

You seem to have switched themes. I asked about 'sedation' and you are now speaking about misunderstanding of a 'sign'. Or, are you referring to my amplification of your meaning about 'baggage'? If 'baggage' was a sign, and I amplified your meaning to include '...slime, secretion, residue, odor', am...

If only you could use all that intelligence and sense for aesthetics for something true instead of desperately trying to keep yourself sedated. This is intriguing. What do you mean? It's an almost unavoidable trap that an appearance of that comes up, because words have to be used to point at someth...

The irony was all that was left to give. Ah, the irony was thus the remainder. Now I see! Well played. Not sure why you want to discuss this one author with me. I never really asked any one to read him or agree. Occasionally I provide a quote like you quoted many people on culture, nihilism and the...

If I were to look around and try to thoroughly investigate whether the things I see are really true, I would naturally be looking into my own world view, which is a model that can never by completely coherent. I would, if I apply enough scrutiny, constantly discover new incoherencies that further i...

I do think the base definition allows for exactly that or at least it was written with that in mind. The term Marxism is not the best pick in my view, unless it's related to materialist, quantitive philosophies on human nature or history which might explain why it matches so well with so much of th...

Diebert wrote:Man is a process of constantly trying to become real and manifest while essentially it simply cannot be. It's the little engine that could. But it's not disconnected from nature as a whole, not even within all the alienation. That's all we really know.

And even that is in doubt . . .

Why is it that a comparison necessarily is also a judgement? Why did you not ask 'Why is a comparison a comparison'? What is the motive for comparing one thing with another? To valuate, to assess. But the word 'judgment', in our languages, has a good deal of baggage, does it not? Judge not lest ye ...

Did Jean Baudrillard ever complete his translation? I don't know if the rumor that he had worked on one was apocryphal.

Cultural Marxism is used to describe the political-identity infused struggle against ingrained, first world "social constructs" which are held responsible for suppression or discrimination of minorities or otherwise vulnerable groups. The reason the term "Marxism" is used has a ...

Diebert, if there were an antidote to Jean Baudrillard, what would it be? C'mon, give it a shot!

Esteemed Avolith, Zen and 'mysterious utterances' have the purpose of alluding to things which cannot be stated openly. Such mysterious utterances are, in themselves, draps d'arras behind which our desired & intended meanings hide . A mysterious utterance, and perhaps like Polonius, is both a Sc...

I had no patience to begin with. Yet I am here . . .

I have but one eye as I am a cyclops.

You can direct yourself to my avatar if you wish sonny!

Who are we, really, behind the draps d'arras of our personalities?

Good Heavens, Jupi! The rhetorical mechanism might require a higher viscosity grease!