GENIUS FORUMS

@ Ryan, to somebody who values evidence it wouldn't seem logical. I know that's what u mean, but it's only 'not-logical' in light of being open minded to the evidence you're talking about i'd word it as 'which is evidence that people don't care about evidence' as I doubt people who belief in creatio...

prince, how can "god" have created the universe when there is nothing outside the universe, nothing outside of infinity. "Instructed" !? lol Influenced only. Instructed, influenced same thing. God is infinite, has always been around, knows everything, so it's a piece of cake for...

Great, our entire lives are made of hexagons. Perhaps not as meaningful to me as it is to you. All of these ideas are exciting enough at the surface, but when you really try and discern any ultimate explanation there doesn't appear to be any. Cause and Effect already trancends hexagons as an explana...

Well, the sperm might not be aware of why it 'struggles' to get through onto the egg. Nobody knows for certain wether the sperm is actually conscious of some plan it may have. It may just happen to go in the direction of the egg without really knowing it would end up there. Nevertheless, thought's w...

It's our choices that are caused. It's not the choices that are free, if the choices were free, 'we' could choose anything. To have true free-will one can't be relative to anything - because being relative to something, then your will must be determined by something else. in that way, only the infin...

as I understand we could say the ALL is one dimension - This means that everything in it is part of this dimension, and is not part of another dimension, otherwise the two dimensions would be linked, they would not be seperate in the first place. So, the only way different dimensions exist is if the...

Time, measured by change, time, percieved as awareness of the infinite. When time ceases to be, so does change cease to be, time = change. consciousness keeps building on what came before, so once time ceases, consciousness stops changing into new data, it no longer changes to be conscious of anythi...

I can't see how anyone would want to live their lives with the idea that women are a curse or something. Since I was about 3 fucking years old I have looked for a bond with a female counterpart in order to feel complete. I did not look for sex or power, but rather understanding and a wholeness that...

The passage of time appears to us because of the changes produced by cause and effect. So as long as causes and effects appear to us, so does time. And since there can't be anything without a cause, it follows that time must be beginningless. Beginningless = eternal or infinite does it not? I don't...

how unfortunate. These buddhists have no clue what the buddha meant - kevin could have said what the buddha said - and he'd be repeating it - he could have said it in a different way - and it would be dismissed, because the two things are one and the same, but what they see is not the buddha and wha...

@ Syzygy's last post: As you said, the definitions lose truth through definition....thus they become false, because they can't lose truth without becoming untrue. -> also, perhaps you mean that those definitions obscure the truth, but I think I tend to hold reservations, since, what really obscures ...

A and B. there is 4 possibilities. 'Either you choose A, you choose B, you choose neither, - or both. A, B, nothing, all. It's all a choice, wether you fancy it or not, you cannot escape making a choice. A choice depends on making a choice between that, and something else, so the abandoned thing, so...

suggest this situation is a result of DQ applying causality where it does not reign. Causality applies to the physical world, fully. But in the mental world it does not apply fully. To prove my point I would need to show just a single example where causality does not apply, obviously, thereby provi...

But what you said was no different than the conflict between the universe, and the self. The children and teenagers that are either living truthfully without unreal expectations, and the materialistic and sexual world. Neither was there any real difference between being put into a human form as 'sou...

had a few stop on me aswell. One with victor near the end of the show, so the amount that seems to download varies? I was able to read the last part in a couple minutes. I believe it cut off near minute 60

But no matter if you do nothing, or you do something - you're still making a choice to do 'something'. So a conscious being can never be without choices, if you state he has no personal investment in his life, he will do nothing. If he has personal investment and value in his life he will do somethi...

What she is describing when she appearently lost her internal voice, connecting her to the external world almost sounds like me on the occasions, When I've been in touch with nature without these everyday life disturbances, so to speak. I would disagree that such an experience has no thought, that t...

non-evidence for God, non-existance of God, as far as we can tell, there is no evidence he exists, the only choice that doesn't conflict with evidence left is that he does not exist. You rely on God when you die to 'save' you? :) I'd like to bring up virtual reality computer programmes, because the ...

A square is not a triangle, if it was both, it would be neither, it would be a 5 sided star. :) Everything imagined is still in the realms of the universe. The total matter in every configuration possible that pertains to the universe's laws 'could work', and has the potential for anything. Everythi...

Quote: David: Oranges are like mandarins, but mandarins are not like oranges. Christian logic. Broken: This is a legitimate distinction, one which I am not surprised appears to be beyond you. But let me try to dumb it down for you. I was not speaking of oranges, mandarins, or any other kind of frui...

so, you're saying the clear definitions has made you use less words?

well, just in general, in the case of contradicting ideas, one will find that moving in the wrong direction 'hopefully' to his students will give them a sense of what the wrong direction is, and what the right one might be. If a student follows the 'correct' road without seeing any other roads, it's...