GENIUS FORUMS

N wrote: I was once given a flower, completely out of the blue, from a five-year-old girl I'd had the opportunity to babysit years ago while sharing an apartment with my ex-girlfriend's sister. This has to be the single exception of "giving without expecting something in return," not a tr...

Oh well, I thought the idea of independence where you don't require a human breast for nourishment or a kangaroo pouch for shelter was self-evident. But you are right that I don't think it's necessary to hunt or grow all your own food & stay off the power grid in order to be independent, though...

It just brought to mind something Duc la Rochefoucauld said. It went something like, "old men love to give young men advice not to do all the vices that they are too old to do any more." The guy has probably done most if not all of this shit, and made his list based on bad experiences, no...

Oh okay but I'm not sure why you're telling me this. I thought you were interested in the experience of individual women in attempting to become independent. I am, but I'm also talking about the animal type of independance. Do you or women you know find it hard to be indpendant in an aggressive, di...

Dan Rowden wrote:I'd say about 50% of that was not total garbage.

agreed.

What I mean by independence is being able to think for oneself & not being dominated by trained habitual patterns, cultural mores, social acceptability, kneejerk contrariness or anything else other than one's own awareness. To sail by one's own lights. This is still subjective but at least it's...

Nordicvs, when I said 'power' you misinterpreted which kind I was talking about. When I say power, I don't mean being a husband, nor the biggest female puppet. If you read Nietzsche, you would know that he neither desired wealth or empire. He desired the animal kind of power, the masculine fearless,...

do you know any woman Nordicvs that is having a hard time becoming a full person? Do you know anyone that doesn't find it hard? I just want to get a more personal account of what women go through when they feel this internal battle.

Kelly Jones wrote:A man with even the slightest degree of wisdom, knows that power is a delusion. He'll probably just feel sad for the female, and less sad the wiser he is.

how is power delusional?

You're saying the man is wrong to be feeling sorry for the female? 'less sad the wiser he is' what?

Jamesh wrote:I fail to see why it matters that any group or person or thing is greater or lesser than any other.

It's all a game of blame, blame, blame for things that have been caused to be.

we're not blaming people, we want them to change.

If everything is determined how can any belief be false. There is no falsity. Is the ego delusional not only because of the relation with other humans, but also with achievements within the environment, such as feeling proud that you hunted big game? The ego is not delusional. The ego merely does n...

Cause i would presume that it is very hard for them, biologically, or is it due to upbringing, or both? I'd say both. Mostly upbringing---slightly biology, which would make it a bit more difficult. So, overwhelmingly upbringing, I expect. We raise them as girls---that's the problem---and they do no...

Kelly, If you're talking about ego, may i tell you that it is impossible to get rid of it. And, egoism is only rational when the person accepts his non-freewill but is grateful to nature for endowing him with good qualities. Couldn't a relationship be used for enlightening your partner? Not all rela...

Recently i've been thinking about Weininger and what others have noticed, namely that women are too submissive to society, men,etc... and live through other people, and as such they aren't 'full persons' as men are, since they aren't as aggressive in trying to be independant, and always expect thing...

[quote="Kelly Jones]A thinker always has "lots to do" with women, because that's his job description. Who else can become a man, but what isn't?[/quote] what? Relating to the opposite sex as a manifestation of Nature completely precludes love (need) for it. What? because the opposite ...

Click here for my gallery of bachelors. I've added Arthur Schopenhauer, because of his determined aim to uncover the nature of Woman. So I am extending the definition of Bachelor, to include all individuals who make a sustained effort to analyse and break the spell cast by Sweet Loving Woman. That'...

The ONLY time but other than that no shithole way. what do you think? I think it sounds redneck. American term for good ol' boyish. Run of the mill whitebread mysogeny. wtf? It might be misogyny, but misogyny would be more sadism on my part. Read Venus in Furs to see where I'm coming from.

Not only was this list posted on the office door of probably a Male, it was most likely written by a man, too. Men love to place themselves beneath women, at least ideally. How sickly perverse. The ONLY time that I would place myself beneath a woman would be a sadomasochistic submission in sex, but...

i wonder whether it was a male or female office.

Feel no loneliness huh....AHAHAH don't be so foolish. Yes we may break from the opposite sex's spell whether we're men or women, but many times we still feel alone and wanting to enlighten a partner or lover. I think you're taking this asceticism thing a bit too far. If you look at the list, you'll ...

Trevor Salyzyn wrote:If a person was alone on an island and was not thinking logically, then he would develop many false beliefs. These would lead to emotions, just like any wild animal.

what. we will always have emotions.

Tim, I'm a dude. You, on the other hand, are a cowardly backwards bastard who's angry over the fact that women, Jews, and small rocks scare you to the point of pissing yourself every night. Oh, and get over this persecution complex bullshit. Nobodies trying to suppress your views, they're just too ...

Faust, Those acasual events are only recent ones, which will be explained in the future. Perhaps. I wouldn't put money on it though. Also EI, I'm thinking when you say about a "God" you mean a deist right? Like a supreme being that has all the knowledge and infinite capacity of the univer...

James, ID is falsified because it is in no way rational. Still, you can't prove beyond all doubt that the claim ID makes is wrong. You can show why there's no good evidence for it, and you can demonstrate where the arguments made for it are flawed, but there still could be a God. There just happens...

If the ego is self-delusional, does that mean that if you were the only person on an island, and having never seen another human before, you wouldn't have an ego? Why couldn't you still be 'proud' if you were the only person on the island? Is the ego delusional not only because of the relation with ...