GENIUS FORUMS

To my friends living with me in the United States, I want to sound the alarm. I won't mince words here. I will be very clear. A terrible season is coming. The US dollar will collapse. Prices of everything including food and basic necessities will rise. If you are living in an urban center I strongly...

I'm not asking you to say a dog is a cat. I suppose what I'm asking is this. Of all the possible experiences one could have (experiences which include reasonings, sensation of objects, any possible experience) is it possible that one of the realities which you think is relative is actually the absol...

Territory is to the absolute reality (pure or spirit or formless reasoning) as maps are to the relative reality (the imagined reasoned world of self). When one is ignorant of the absolute reality, one lives in their maps of relativity-self and believe them to be the only reality. However, when one ...

By way of intuitive reasoning/logic: reality is absolute ('one' non-comparable causality) whereas maps of reality are relative (multiple comparable causalities). In relation to finding one's absolute nature, wisdom/spiritual/philosophical maps help the seeker 'find it' while at the same time suppor...

I know this will probably sound insane, yep 1: Throughout history there are a lot of people who independently discovered this theory, which means it is based on logical deduction rather than some fantasy like most afterlife theories. just because a few people have had the same idea doesn't mean it ...

How do you know the map is not the territory? How do you know that the map =/= the territory?

You're coming to the table saying, 'so... endgames'. Then you proceed to ask me, 'to what end.' This makes no sense. It doesn't make any sense to invent rules to a game and then ask other people how to play the game. You're the one talking about endgames; you tell me. What are you even talking about...

The knowledge content of the statement 'life is overrated' is gained empirically. (An experience of life occurs and is rated amongst experiences of other things.) However, reading through your post though, this isn't exactly what I am understanding. Let me explain. And mathematically, it easy to ass...

Abstract - 1. thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances. 2. expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance. Abstract is off on its own, distinct from everything else. The opposite is to be apart of something, which is relation...

I'm not challenging the existence of existence, but the existence of existence in the abstract. Existence is a relative term like "hotter" which doesn't exist abstractly because a subject needs and object. There is nothing outside of everything to be the subject that observes the object o...

I'm humbly indebted to your gracious overlooking of my nonsense and for the bestowal of brilliance upon the plebeians ;) Existent things must abide by relation, and non-existent things must abide by relation. How is that different from what I said? You know... the nonsense :) I don’t understand how...

challenging the existence of 'existence in an abstract sense' What? I think I was mainly challenging the existence of 'existence in an abstract sense'. It seems in order to exist, existence would need to be relative to some medium of existence.... or a container of existence. So to ask if something...

I've been putting off responding to this because I find it so utterly obvious that there is no point, however I have been drinking a bit and I am going to foolishly respond to you. Is anyone here good at explaining why we should care about philosophy to someone who knows nothing at all about it? No ...

What about the view that existence is relative? For instance, this text exists relative to the digital universe. Speaking of existence abstractly doesn't seem to have much meaning given that we're always left with the questions of: what do you mean by existence and what do you mean by a thing? 'rel...

Is existence the only category by which one comes to an understanding of a thing? My educated guess is that you are conflating the idea of existence with that of the phenomenal or perceived objective being. If this is the case then allow me to modify your options. 1) the self is of the phenomenal 2)...

Afraid I haven't graduated far past the Baroque, Beethoven being a guilty pleasure now and then. One of the best pieces of music ever written: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UiHxqLTYtc (It's difficult to find a good rendition. This is one of the better ones. There are numerous intolerable ones on ...

I have never listened to Strauss until today. After reading your post, I decided to listen to some on youtube. Do you have any suggestions concerning which compositions of his I should listen to?

Some of the things I've done to manage my collections is to do a little organizing every day. Build a habit. You buy a book, you organize 10 books. I find once you start organizing, it actually becomes a rather enjoyable activity (for me at least). Group your items into alphabetical blocks (by autho...

Glostik, we do not share the same definition of permanence. Where you equate the concept of permanence with the truth, I equate it with the concept of unchanging form, which of course is wrong view. As I stated before, although truths such as 1 + 1 = 2 are fixed truths, they are meaningless until t...

1. The employees were reportedly encouraged to share their suggestions on any topics, if his suggestions or beliefs no matter the relevance were 'pro-feminism', he wouldn't have been fired. 2. You sound like a perfect little worker bee. Talking is stealing from your employer. Moral genius we have h...

You mean you're like those girls they prefer to hire: risk-minimizing and cohesion-prioritizing? Perhaps you're illustrating the issue. No doubt there's stupidity involved, a bit of theatre, a bit of calculated risk with uncertainty how it will end. This is a sign of masculinity, something Google p...

I saw this in the news recently. What kind of person is intelligent enough to secure a job at google but lack the awareness to keep controversial discussions outside of the workplace? He is either a dunce (not likely), or this was planned out. He must have planned this to move himself into the spotl...

Regardless of what I put forward about permanence, impermanence and delusion, at no time did I conclude, nor do I conclude at this moment that the Absolute and cognition are separate, nor am I conscious of any fear of truth in my consciousness. This is what your statements are presupposing, that a ...

I've been speed reading this thread with an app I got on my phone, and I thought I'd share a couple thoughts. I live in the USA, and here I've noticed it is the left who prefer to identify themselves according to race/class/culture, and it is the right who prefer to identify themselves according to ...

Glostik, whatever permanent truths you believe you have encountered, all of them are impermanent vis a vis one's ability to hold them permanently in consciousness, therefore, ultimately, all form is impermanent. It is the false notion of self at the centre of form that believes it can acquire wisdo...