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- Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:44 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Problem With Women Today
- Replies: 873
- Views: 163412
Re: The Problem With Women Today
Fair enough, apologies for the threadjack.
- Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:28 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Problem With Women Today
- Replies: 873
- Views: 163412
Re: The Problem With Women Today
I'm sorry, but can someone just ban Alex already? He's taken a forum about Genius and Enlightenment and twisted it into a repository for his daily ego-maniacal mental masturbation. His is a kind of madness that will not be cured, "there is no cure for willful ignorance." He is in polar opp...
- Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:37 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Illusion Made Real: The Reifying Magic of Mind
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2188
Re: Illusion Made Real: The Reifying Magic of Mind
Ryan, Yes it seems that the rebellious and awkward nature of the teenager is the result of a the once free-flowing mind of a child coming to terms with the prison of social identity that each adult will spend the rest of his life defending and fortifying. The ugliness of childish behavior has not ch...
- Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:32 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Illusion Made Real: The Reifying Magic of Mind
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2188
Re: Illusion Made Real: The Reifying Magic of Mind
How about yourself, does what I have written apply to any degree? Further, do you think that this essay relates closer to those with a greater inclination to the spiritual path from childhoood? yes, I think you maybe writing more from your own experience, without reflecting on how the brains of oth...
- Sat Apr 04, 2009 3:15 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Discussing Reality is just as pointless as it is overrated
- Replies: 39
- Views: 16285
Re: Discussing Reality is just as pointless as it is overrated
The new breed of spammer is not a bot, but a real person, so the captcha system doesn't stop them. All we can do is delete them when they post; though, you can recognize many of them before they do so by noting the web address they put in their profiles - assuming you're paying attention to that so...
- Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:15 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Discussing Reality is just as pointless as it is overrated
- Replies: 39
- Views: 16285
Re: Discussing Reality is just as pointless as it is overrated
Is there some way to prevent autobot spammers from registering here? Maybe after they sign up send a verification image in wavy letters telling them to post in the welcoming thread using a certain subject that is different for each subscriber and inside the distorted image. Just seems there's a bett...
- Sat Apr 04, 2009 1:04 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Illusion Made Real: The Reifying Magic of Mind
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2188
Re: Illusion Made Real: The Reifying Magic of Mind
No matter how "over" any given concept or argument I thought I was, I'd never pass up an opportunity to inform people of their mistaken views if the opportunity arose; especially if I had the time, or more importantly, the inclination to make my opinion known.
- Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:18 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Religion as a Side Effect of Evolution
- Replies: 69
- Views: 12641
Re: Religion as a Side Effect of Evolution
You had mentioned the soul, what is the soul if not a fiction? The essence of being. Intellect is the capacity to know, the soul is the capacity to be. If the soul is the capacity to be, than it isn't existent. If it is the cause, and in being the capacity to be, it possesses the effect, if it poss...
- Sat Apr 04, 2009 3:43 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Illusion Made Real: The Reifying Magic of Mind
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2188
Re: Illusion Made Real: The Reifying Magic of Mind
BMcGilly, the innocence I am exploring relates to the fluidity of mind, their's being innocent or free of the binding conceptual walls most adults are entombed in, they're for the most part free from the need for addiction. I get your point, but its incomplete because it seems to me that fluidity o...
- Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:56 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Illusion Made Real: The Reifying Magic of Mind
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2188
Re: Illusion Made Real: The Reifying Magic of Mind
It serves the purpose of letting you and the audience know that, in my view, as soon as the capital W "Woman" concept is introduced, an essay can be safely dismissed as rubbish. I can't help but to laugh at this, are you serious? Unfortunately I know you are, but I mean, come on. What a r...
- Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:19 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Illusion Made Real: The Reifying Magic of Mind
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2188
Re: Illusion Made Real: The Reifying Magic of Mind
Read until capital W "Woman" cropped up. This is a pretty stupid comment. What value or purpose does this comment serve? If it wasn't worth reading on its own strength, that is one thing. If on the other hand, you find some shortcomings you can shed light on, why not? Note: edited by addi...
- Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:17 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Illusion Made Real: The Reifying Magic of Mind
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2188
Re: Illusion Made Real: The Reifying Magic of Mind
One must be careful to conclude that before puberty, children have an innocence about them. Children are little devils from the outset. They move from one desire to another, constantly looking to evade boredom by subsuming themselves into one exciting experience to another. That is not innocence. I...
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:21 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: God Does Not Exist - Question about that
- Replies: 298
- Views: 44114
Re: God Does Not Exist - Question about that
Ahh, the king's lost his crown.brokenhead wrote:Very well, then. I am also a king. And I decree that the gates be taken down.
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- Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:48 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Problem With Women Today
- Replies: 873
- Views: 163412
Re: The Problem With Women Today
When addicts don't get their fix, whether it be sex, drugs, alcohol, or anything else, they don't function well. No shock there really. That is the understatement of the year, the deeper in the grips of the addiction the more they need the fix to operate, without it they don't just function poorly,...
- Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:45 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Fundamental Unity of Being
- Replies: 953
- Views: 146797
Re: The Fundamental Unity of Being
As I understand it, we have not yet really started to discuss the path. You said before we did, you needed to clear up a couple of things, with which I agreed, so I was pretty much waiting for you to open the discussion of the path . Yes, you'r right, we have covered only the manifestation body, le...
- Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:23 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Religion as a Side Effect of Evolution
- Replies: 69
- Views: 12641
Re: Religion as a Side Effect of Evolution
Why do you think dwelling on an experience depreciates its value? And, do you think anything has intrinsic value? David told a story earlier: "Two men went into a garden. The worldly-wise man no sooner entered the gate than he began to count the number of the mango-trees, how many mangoes each...
- Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:38 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Problem With Women Today
- Replies: 873
- Views: 163412
Re: The Problem With Women Today
I will not be free from the physical reactions and damage my body will endure. It is very similar with sex. Could you try to make that case? That it damages the body or the physical abstinence itself creates chemical imbalances? So far you're just asserting it as fact. What for benefit an animal wo...
- Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:04 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Problem With Women Today
- Replies: 873
- Views: 163412
Re: The Problem With Women Today
Aside from that, does getting pleasure from anal stimulation automatically make one homosexual? I thought for one to have homo tendencies one needed to actually be attracted to those of the same sex. Is it gay if a guy has his girlfriend fuck him with a dildo or strap-on? I think, just as evidenced...
- Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:58 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Religion as a Side Effect of Evolution
- Replies: 69
- Views: 12641
Re: Religion as a Side Effect of Evolution
Religion may very well be the antlers of Mankind. The wisdom of those about whom these are formed created the backbone of the rules governing civilization, perhaps civilization's spine may become too calcified and Mankind will be too rigid to change as needed. Any genetic predisposition to religiou...
- Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:17 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Religion as a Side Effect of Evolution
- Replies: 69
- Views: 12641
Re: Religion as a Side Effect of Evolution
Consciousness evolved because it gave us a survival advantage. It turned out that humanoids with greater consciousness had more chance of surviving and passing on their genes than humanoids with lesser consciousness. That's the way natural selection works. I have become interested in evolution theo...
- Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:01 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Illusion Made Real: The Reifying Magic of Mind
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2188
Illusion Made Real: The Reifying Magic of Mind
Via Addiction The loss of innocence which occurs at some point in every youths transition from childhood to adolescence is marked by a loss of wonderment and the onset of mental rigidity. The reason for this appears to be twofold: biological changes force ones confrontation with his finitude without...
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:32 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Problem With Women Today
- Replies: 873
- Views: 163412
Re: The Problem With Women Today
I still think consciousness is, at the root, a by-product of sexual power. If you mean that more human energy needs to go toward 'consciousness' and not be dissipated, I agree. What is your basis for thinking consciousness a by-product of sexual power? Sexual power is the result of consciousness no...
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:39 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Reincarnation: Debunking the Two Teaching of Reincarnation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1334
Re: Reincarnation: Debunking the Two Teaching of Reincarnation
From Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana "Awakening of the Mind": 58. When one declares sunyata (emptiness, vacancy) to be the nature of all phenomena, one in no sense asserts that anything is destroyed or that something is eternal 59. The activity of dependent co-origination with its twelve sp...
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:16 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Problem With Women Today
- Replies: 873
- Views: 163412
Re: The Problem With Women Today
Yes, it's that idea that wisdom is this sort of unconscious spontaneity - the immediacy of "Now". It's a dangerous idea because it contains a half-truth - that wisdom is about "now" spontaneity and immediacy. The big difference is the consciousnesses part. I don't know why any t...
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:03 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Spiritual Warfare
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1296
Re: Spiritual Warfare
The battle between good and evil is a sickness of the human mind. how do you figure? I think David's saying that the idea of there being an objective, inherently existing "good" and "evil" is a psychological sickness that leads to all sorts of suffering. I agree, it's the source...