GENIUS FORUMS

Give me The Prisoner or The Twilight Zone any day. Though I really enjoy Firefly and wish it had gone past the first season.

Gunther - Ding Dong Song

Obviously the best song in history.

[ url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTqwaTXdPPQ]Big Country - In a Big Country[ /url]

just remove spaces.

Will you sign up for pay-pal and put a donate now button on all your pages? You might even want to set yourselves up as an official not-for-profit organization with the purpose of spreading reason & wisdom. Work out your mission statement. hehe...can you see yourself trying to claim Genius Foru...

I think the general idea is someone removed from the world for intellectual pursuits while leading a simpler life than is the norm. So instead of working you think, instead of buying useless crap you don't.

I have no idea if any of this has been posted already but...:

Frank Zappa - Peaches en Regalia

Big Country - In a Big Country

Rusted Root - Send me on My Way

New Order - Blue Monday

Michael Jackson - Beat It

Dire Straits - Money for Nothing

I get disgusted everytime I hear someone use the general excuse, "Why should I change my ways when nobody else will?". I've heard that excuse so many times it's obvious people just don't give a shit as long as they aren't affected by the damage they cause. If they really cared then they w...

Well, now you know: carpets, diamonds and chocolate are big problem areas. I don't own a floor to carpet (though I bet it's probably rugs and not carpet which is made by slave labor). I don't buy diamonds and really don't intend on doing so at this point and I'm on a diet of sorts so chocolate is o...

Let's say you go buy a carpet. It's a really nice carpet, but it was produced using slave labor. Buying that carpet helps support slavery - whether you are aware of it or not. Would you spend a little more to buy a carpet that was not made with slave labor(1)? Or would you say the hell with it, I l...

People buy things based on values. E.g. money, quality of construction, aesthetics, brand, health, comfort, and so on. Why add another extraneous value to a purchase? It seems much easier to eliminate values which are useless to you and simply focus on what you actually need. Consciousness in the c...

It's quite a thought-stimulating experiment. No need for worry. [/quote] meh, I just don't see the point but if it's thought stimulating to you then by all means do it. I don't need the products I buy to reflect my own thinking, as long as they function I don't see the point in wasting time sifting...

Why worry about it? My house has broadband provided by Comcast which advertises and has telemarketers which regularly call about stupid options which we don't want. Verizon, their competition, does the same thing with their DSL and every dialup company in the area has the same M.O. There is no such ...

The above replies have really helped me re-think my original posts. I think, after reading them, that my original problem was that I don't see scientific knowledge and wisdom as two separate things. If someone is wise they would take into account scientific knowledge which is why I don't believe the...

Oddly enough, emotions also justify not using them. Or, at least, make up a good chunk of the justification. I've never been able to quite figure out what wisdom is supposed to be, but I suspect, from the context it tends to be used in, that it has something to do with saying catchy quotable phrase...

That does not sound like wisdom to me. If you really think about it, it is impossible to use wisdom unwisely (it would then cease to be wisdom). Ideals are not wisdom. Look at these two statements again. It's a product of wisdom. Just because a thought ceases being "wise" doesn't mean it'...

I do not see the difference between what this statement points to and what my statement pointed to - which you called a circular argument. You put one on a pedestal above the other, I pointed out that they are equally dangerous. Unless I'm mistaken you were saying scientific knowledge, when used in...

No. Anti-philosophy, namely emotions, justifies their use. This is what I'm talking about. You're too emotionally attached to this ideal of philosophy that you glazed over my point completely. It is neither scientific nor philosophic to destroy the planet with atom bombs, deadly viruses or anything...

The only problem I have with many people who obsess over Nietzsche is the constant quoting. I find the people who constantly throw out quotes have a much shallower understanding of anything and people who obsess over Nietzsche throw out so many quotes I have difficulty taking them seriously. Admitte...

because if scientific knowledge is used unwisely, in time it is just the same as not having had the knowledge at all. You're just setting up a circular argument where each side tries to claim that the pure form of either side is more important because the impure form of either can, and frequently i...

BL4cKZeRo wrote:How would you rate yourself out of 100%?

What does rating yourself, or rating at all, accomplish?

I'm not, but on this board there is an imperative, to point out inconsistencies and fallacies in thinking. You invite that by posting. That's fine but what were the inconsistencies? I stated people have free will in the direction their lives take, however, apparently you disagree with that assumpti...

Fine. If you don't want to feel their pain, don't. But no need to justify it with your textbook rhetoric. You can feel willing to sigh and bemoan the state of our society every time you drive past a group of construction workers but there is no need to vilify me for my "callousness" with ...

I don’t advocate pity, but compassion is having the emotional knowledge of what others are experiencing, and sometimes, on rare instances, one actually experiences the same emotional states as the other as it happens. Compassion is not something I reserve for construction workers. They have chose...

Moreover, if you take the matter lightly, it is indication that you don’t fully understand the extent of how brutal, tragic, and painful such an existence is, because if you truly understood, you’d be so humbled by imagining the subjective predicament of others, that there’d be no laughter at...