GENIUS FORUMS

what is the fundamental principle of all existence?

anything your propose to overcome it or prove your sanity may itself be insanity. There's no way that an individual can verify for certain that he is himself sane, yet when a sane person verifies his own sanity, he is correct in his assessment. The sane man's verification of his sanity is no better...

I skimmed some of it, what was the conclusion? I read David saying that the problem doesn't matter if you are enlightened since you are in a mental state beyond true and false, sane and insane. I can imagine this, it would be similar to someone who just doesn't care about true and false at all, and ...

As bad as any day presents itself - there's always a worse day for those who wait.

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Regardless of what truths you accept it is your mind at work that is accepting those truths. If you believe God and bible are the final authority, it is your mind that predicates that authority onto them. If you believe your worldview or logic are correct that is your mind at work. Minds can be wron...

Alelx Jacob, I find this a more accurate depicition of a typical christian.

The Judeo-Christian God becomes very small in comparison to the continuum of all existence. I have the impression that some here, perhaps average, are really not up on what Christianity is, and how Biblical ideas, both Jewish and Christian, are inextricably interwoven into the culture, out minds, ou...

According to brokenhead, Christianity causes a change because one takes a leap of faith into believing in God. Is this similar to the leap of faith that a person takes when they first start to appreciate truth? (Specifically, it cannot be proven that there is truth without appealing to a belief in ...

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Hey asshole: You misquoted me.

brokenhead wrote:Fuck you and fuck anybody else who thinks differently than I do.

brokenhead wrote:Fuck you and fuck anybody else who would ever disagree with me.

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You clearly know nothing about Christ. It's never too late to learn.

Ya, I just don't want to end up like you.

He was essentially a retard.

Shooting himself was probably his only rational action.

"What's it like to place all your sins, personal problems and responsibilities on an imagined character instead of facing them yourself like a man?" I am not sure, average, if you are aware of the ironic phrasing of your question! According to Christian doctrine, 'man' cannot handle and d...

What's it like to place all your sins, personal problems and responsibilities on an imagined character instead of facing them yourself like a man?

average , You have hit upon the problem of treating causation literally in an ontological sense. It leads either to an infinite regress or something out of nothing. Neither one is a satisfying explanation to the mind. The infinite regression you are talking about is merely imagined, a product of im...

Yea, I understand the problem, I was assuming a starting point in the infinite past. But if there has been an infinite series of events, then there are an infinite number of actual places we could have appeared in that series, up to and including now.



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The issue is a fake one, similar to the fake issues that Zeno explored, such as, "How can a ball reach a wall when it has to traverse an infinite number of points?" The division of the past into "discrete events" or "causes" is a conceptual contrivance, and it is this ...

Trevor Salyzyn wrote:average: Is time caused or uncaused?

we could say time is change (cause and effect)

it can't be caused since that would presuppose it existed before it existed.

it can't be uncaused, unless you think something can come out of nothing.

that's not a way out, sorry. I think what we would have to do is adopt some fuzzy new-agey idea of now that has no beginning and no end, instead of a sequential domino chain of cause and effect. But this would be pretty gay. The infinite chain of causation would be similar to zeno's paradox of motio...

I made a thread about the same issue. Here it is: http://www.theabsolute.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4040 Does that give you an answer?;) no. You said something about time being circular and repeating itself. I don't see how that solves anything. If causality were to infinitely regress a cau...

If we say that events are caused by prior events and that causality spreads back infinitely into the past, then how could this current event take place? It would take forever for something to start. It would take forever for some event in the infinite past to have an effect on the present event. No?...

"Exist" and "thing" are relative terms. X exists relative to not-X. The concept of causality is implied by the notion of a thing and existence, since things are dependent on other things to exist. An "independent thing" is a contradiction, since it would have no parts ...

"Exist" and "thing" are relative terms. X exists relative to not-X. The concept of causality is implied by the notion of a thing and existence, since things are dependent on other things to exist. An "independent thing" is a contradiction, since it would have no parts a...

Does that make sense? It seems that while awake I can function rationally and with some wisdom, yet my dreams are filled with vivid fears, irrationality and just crazy shit that I can't figure out. I don't give them much thought, they don't worry me, but it would be nice to have some symmetry betwee...

We can guess. Psychiatric-types looking for a quick path to mental peace and hippy-type women wanting to bathe in a thoughtless, emotion-filled paradise would comprise most of the audience. They always do when it comes to these types of gurus. Such people are kidding themselves. The ego runs very d...

I think seekers face a different set of problems than non-seekers do, so here you go you bastards. This should be relevant to your interests: Some black dude named Mooji talks about Enlightenment "Although there is something for you to do to see it, there is nothing for you to do to be it.&quo...