GENIUS FORUMS

Jason, I find your way of thinking quite interesting. Would you mind elaborating on your philosophical methods & what conclusions you have reached? Perhaps in another thread.
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Yeah but what would Washington have thought of the Beatles?

Cory

Lobster was around back in the days of Genius-L, when the forum was an e-list rather than a website. Maybe one of the founders has saved archives from that era, but I haven't got anything.
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I'm curious about Claudia Grinnell. And who was that Jane Austen-type character who gave the impression of wearing high-necked dresses with many buttons & was always talking about her brother? It looked to me as if birdofhermes was genuinely wounded by not being taken seriously as a thinker &...

Odd - I find it not unlikely that Lobster could be dead. I wonder why.

I saw Tharan (as Tharan) posting here recently.

The one I'm curious about is Lobster but I don't imagine he's coming back.

Shardrol: I think what you're talking about is when grief is compounded by righteousness, a feeling of nobility for having suffered, a kind of pride of having had something 'terrible' happen. That's what causes some grieving people to be condescending & unempathetic. For example I heard of a wo...

This is the third time I have been asked this question and I grow weary for reasons you could not possibly imagine why I have avoided giving my personal history. Well if I could not possibly imagine why you grow weary & avoid giving your personal history, why not just tell me? Did you notice, b...

Those that have experienced the light from all light hide nothing and stand naked in the gaze of the absolute penetrating sight that permeates the entire being. It is like a beam that flows with a momentum all its own that one can only surrender to. The light exposes everything and everyone. All th...

When you watch a grief-stricken person, what do you see? You see a person who is nasty, angry, violent, narcissistic, emotional, black-minded, irrational, thoroughly absorbed in their own petty dramas, unempathetic and condescending towards other people's concerns. In other words, the very worst of...

And what is that answer?

Shardrol scolded: And while I'm here - Marsha, it's exactly because of the way you latch onto something like being called a drama queen & keep bellowing about it with heavy-handed sarcasm that makes people think you're a drama queen in the first place. I have not bellowed nor have I posted heav...

Okay I know this may sound petty, but I don't understand why there is some kind of assumption on this thread that shaving the face is something men only do if they are vain or are looking for a girlfriend or a job. There are lots of women who find beards attractive - at least here in New York. And y...

Shardrol wrote: I can't really speak to this with any kind of authority since I find all sports completely tedious to watch I find that disturbing but I understand it. I used to be the same about a sport until I had watched enough of it to understand the depths of it. This doesn't make a lot of sen...

Oh well, how unfortunate. I hadn't heard of it before. I guess maybe whoever thought it up the first time might have had an interesting angle, but maybe not.

What's all this about the agonies of shaving your face? I don't think most men find it painful. I have some hairs on my face & when I want to look normal I just razor them off. Just takes a minute & doesn't hurt a bit. I used to tweeze & that was painful. The idea of wearing lipstick or ...

What I thought was interesting was that these women had self-awareness & humor about 'flowie' stereotype that I would think might come as a surprise to some of the people on this list who say, for example, that women have no inner life. They have merely flowed along into the grooves of a pre-or...

Phew! Thanks for clearing that up. For a minute there it looked like it might become an interesting discussion.

sschaula: I think they had self-awareness in terms of the incongruity of burly athletic girls wearing prom dresses playing rugby. I think they must have found it funny to juxtapose the stereotype of dainty ladies in elaborate dresses with an aggressively physical game such as rugby. That is to say,...

What I thought was interesting was that these women had self-awareness & humor about 'flowie' stereotype that I would think might come as a surprise to some of the people on this list who say, for example, that women have no inner life. I imagine there will be a few women at some point who can c...

What do you think of the fact that it's the women themselves who are turning the stereotype on its head?

Or do you think their male coach told them to wear prom dresses?

http://www.brown.edu/students/Brown_Wom ... prom05.htm

http://www.brown.edu/students/Brown_Wom ... om05_b.htm

I thought some of you might find these amusing.

What does 'bis bald' mean? Thank you.

I would say that one does in fact require a physical teacher to practice methods which make use of a physical teacher. Yes, that would be a logical necessity - a truth by definition. But the "guru" I quoted (a Tibetan Buddhist) was saying that a guru is needed just to achieve profound spi...

When I was a kid (I'm in my 50s) I had dolls that looked like children. That was what everybody had. There were a few 'grown up' dolls but they were usually fairytale characters like Snow White. Nowadays little girls play with Barbie dolls that look like cartoon porn stars. It's a different world. G...