GENIUS FORUMS

Are you defining ethics as behaving truthfully/logically? I guess that's fine as long as you are making a distinction between the way you are using the word ethics, and the status quo. Because ethics, the way I understand it, is nothing more than another kind of religion, a blind faith in what feel...

Loki wrote:Have some fun hobbies, and learn a skill set that involves the world of form. If you're suffering from some depression or bipolar, get on a mood stabilizer or upper.

Go back to sleep.

Wow.

I should listen to you though, because you're an Indigo Child.

Here's an interesting question: is a sage who sits in a chair and does nothing all day, every day, but contemplate the Infinite, lazy? Yes, that is an interesting question. What are we valuing here? I'd say he's vacuous and unconscious of many things - like economics, psychology, world issues, tech...

Shahrazad wrote:

David Quinn wrote: They still expect everything to be handed to them on a platter.

Maybe we're just lazy. But then again, a man who won't work to earn his own money is also lazy.

How does it make sense to equate philosophical/intellectual laziness with physical/situational laziness?

rebecca702 writes: Yeah, who decides what's ethical? You do. And you'd better. Or someone else will do it for you. Right, I do. Based on all my own delusions, plus those of every other human being I've ever come into contact with. So it's "me" doing it plus "someone else", alway...

Yeah, who decides what's ethical? What you think is ethical today you might not think is ethical tomorrow.

I have heard that Nietzsche is considered "the father of atheistic existentialism." In this kind of existentialism, the way to face the absurdity of the world is to create a meaning for yourself. This creation of meaning ex nihilo doesn't degrade your meaning as such, as all meaning would ...

Dan Rowden wrote:Get Religion Now

That was pretty good. Have you heard of Tarvuism? http://www.tarvu.com/

Loki wrote:Then why did she start off talking about 'scientific breakthroughs' ? She's not talking philosophy, she's talking about scientific discoveries.

I was giving an example.

Sorry to not have been more clear.

Ok, just tell me, what do you equate God with? What is his identity? It sounded to me like you equated God with either people searching for truth, or, you equate god with the scientific or philosophical discoveries that seekers make. Am I close? I am equating "God" with "Truth" ...

What if "religion" could be defined as nothing less than: "an attempt of Man consciousness to find in someone else (Jesus, Mohamed, Buddha, Lao Tse Tung etc...) a "confirmation" of his personal and INNATE feeling in immortality and/or eternity.? You can't find confirmation ...

Rebecca, what are your reasons for equating inquisitive, creative people with God? Why are they anymore 'God' than an economist who happens to subscribe to utilitarianism as a philosophical outlook? Whoa, I never equated people with "God"... what I meant by "God is not a utilitarian&...

In case that's not enough, here's a hypothetical that ought to demonstrate your error. Imagine that tomorrow, everyone on Earth hears a loud inspiring voice coming out of the sky, which asserts itself to be God's, whereupon it talks us all through various miracles which are simultaneously performed...

Just for the record folks I don't "accept the QRS philosophy", or "swallow" it, or invite it in for tea and crumpets, or any such activity. I'm conducting my own investigation, and on the subject of various woman-related views I haven't found anything to refute yet. I don't think...

Ezydriver, Yes. It is my opinion your definition of success is just that, your opinion, your idea of. My argument against your statement, or idea, is that in your heart you feel as if success is defined as such. What if my definition were simply "survival". Is that still egotistical? Yes, ...

Can we just agree on this?: We need people coming up with ideas AND individuals looking how to implement these new concepts in the real world. Maybe. But who's "we"? Sounds like "we" is cooking up some sort of utopian plan. Or other agenda. Remember, scientists made discoveries ...

ezydriver, That was a very intriguing post with many good points. Ergo, no such thing as failure, objectively speaking. [...] Because things do not seem to be going our way, subjectively, does not mean that we have failed, more that individually we are just unfulfilled and are therefore sensitive to...

guest,

No harm done!

It's just clear that we disagree on this subject, and that's fine.

Rebecca, what are your reasons for equating inquisitive, creative people with God? Why are they anymore 'God' than an economist who happens to subscribe to utilitarianism as a philosophical outlook? Whoa, I never equated people with "God"... what I meant by "God is not a utilitarian&...

guest - Guest, It's obvious that you didn't read it very deeply, because you don't really care (I can't figure why you read it in the first place)... and you obviously have much better things to do. Rebecca Funny, that, Rebecca, because I've just spent a significant amount of time failing to be able...

-I'm an atheïst myself. -I'd like to hear your reasoning behind your poetic statement. Throughout history, most of the big scientific breakthroughs were made by people who had no idea (and little interest) in what ways their work would practically affect innovation/manufacturing etc. They were simp...

Guest,

It's obvious that you didn't read it very deeply, because you don't really care (I can't figure why you read it in the first place)... and you obviously have much better things to do.

Rebecca

By the way,

guest_of_logic wrote:...I'm getting the impression that you're slowly coming around to the QRS perspective on femininity...

Thanks! I'll take that as a compliment.

...you didn't take that book to heart, did you? I found a lot of truth in it. I saw a lot of myself in it. So yes, I did take it to heart. ...it was irredeemably biased, simplistic and agenda-driven... What was her agenda? ...what truth there is in it is sullied by its one-sidedness. She did genera...

Fully studying cause and effect in order to use this knowledge to become a better biologist or physicist [...] I seek REAL LIFE-SOLUTIONS for big problems [...] All these hypothetical achievements are IMO more satisfying than dryly discussing A=A or causality. These online-debates sure have their u...