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- Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:50 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Zizek on Lacan's Triad & Interpretation of Freud
- Replies: 240
- Views: 58885
Re: Zizek on Lacan's Triad & Interpretation of Freud
The self is a centre from which a conscious entity can focus on that which is not that centre.
- Wed Apr 10, 2013 5:14 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Sexes
- Replies: 349
- Views: 83865
Re: The Sexes
Well, there is no empirical evidence that consciousness comes from the brain, only that it seems to come from the brain. We mustn't conflate correlation with causation. Why? It is completely clear to me, via the non-conscious experience of dreamless sleep, that a brain is required for our conscious...
- Tue Apr 02, 2013 1:56 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Sexes
- Replies: 349
- Views: 83865
Re: The Sexes
No, he is just saying that the ego will create the subjective justification. Is the greater good what your ego has learnt to be more beneficial to you or others or some combo thereof? I think in relation to the future greater good for others is perhaps a zero sum game. Any good will incur unintended...
- Thu Feb 28, 2013 11:41 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: To what degree can we weed out our delusions on reality?
- Replies: 136
- Views: 64835
Re: To what degree can we weed out our delusions on reality?
And all things are illusions. They are as real as ever, the illusion is that they exist independent of what is seen of the mind. That which causes the mind to see them exists. They are independent from the mind, as the realization of them is an effect, the A=A result of causes. They are not an illu...
- Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:05 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Youtube stuff
- Replies: 420
- Views: 202025
Re: Youtube stuff
Yeah, Russell is a pretty intelligent and funny dude...and a stirrer which I like. Mind you if one knew him well, he'd probably be quite a pain. It is pleasing he can do the sort of out there stuff he does without still having to take hard drugs. I also like the fact that he goes off at the Paparazzi.
- Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:15 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Music that moves
- Replies: 1086
- Views: 423552
Re: Music that moves
These two aboriginal songs induce Nessun Dorma like feelings within me, although completely different music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXDJneVbEC8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaqLw1CvPMk and one of the best early pop songs ever (providing one ignores the soppy topic) Russell Morris - Sweet S...
- Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:13 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Youtube stuff
- Replies: 420
- Views: 202025
- Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:13 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Youtube stuff
- Replies: 420
- Views: 202025
Re: Youtube stuff
removed: wrong thread
- Tue Feb 26, 2013 1:34 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: To what degree can we weed out our delusions on reality?
- Replies: 136
- Views: 64835
Re: To what degree can we weed out our delusions on reality?
Funny enough - on the train this morning I read the following by Brain Eno The Limits Of Intuition We sometimes tend to think that ideas and feelings arising from our intuitions are intrinsically superior to those achieved by reason and logic. Intuition—the 'gut'—becomes deified as the Noble Savage ...
- Tue Feb 26, 2013 11:59 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: To what degree can we weed out our delusions on reality?
- Replies: 136
- Views: 64835
Re: To what degree can we weed out our delusions on reality?
The Big Bang never happened A big bang of a non-singularity variety may have for our observable section of the universe – as in the whole space-time plane or bubble we live within (singularities being fantasy). Of course, what happens at the macro level also happens at the micro level, so the offen...
- Tue Feb 26, 2013 11:33 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: To what degree can we weed out our delusions on reality?
- Replies: 136
- Views: 64835
Re: To what degree can we weed out our delusions on reality?
But I'm glad you recognise that the Universe has always been Infinite. Infinite in what way? Infinite as a process - Yes As the universe at any point of time is all that is/exists at that point of time with no “outside” then it is infinite in that sense. I’d class that as being infinite internally ...
- Mon Feb 25, 2013 4:37 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: To what degree can we weed out our delusions on reality?
- Replies: 136
- Views: 64835
Re: To what degree can we weed out our delusions on reality?
Just being silly...and mildly insane (nothing rational to be found here) The name Dan is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Dan is "judge; God is my judge", so says the web. We could measure our degree of non-delusionalism using the GO or Martial arts "Dan" rankings, with Dan t...
- Mon Feb 25, 2013 4:02 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: To what degree can we weed out our delusions on reality?
- Replies: 136
- Views: 64835
Re: To what degree can we weed out our delusions on reality?
[I'm not sure that "consciousness" is the right word either though as there is only one universal consciousness] I cannot fathom why that statement is not a result of delusion. Consciousness is clearly an emergent property. All things are emergent properties. ==============================...
- Tue Feb 19, 2013 1:08 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Music that moves
- Replies: 1086
- Views: 423552
Re: Music that moves
To me Regina Spektor is easily the best female singer/songwriter of recent years.
Summer In The City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syqLReA_okU
Sade and Rickie were sweet - liked the music - never owned an album though.
Summer In The City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syqLReA_okU
Sade and Rickie were sweet - liked the music - never owned an album though.
- Mon Feb 18, 2013 2:56 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: The Universe was created by a Dummy
- Replies: 31
- Views: 27152
Re: The Universe was created by a Dummy
The Universe was created by a complete Dummy. It is far dumber than you think. Any shape has to be caused in the first place. Any pattern such as a hexagon presupposes that fundamental order and structure already exist in the form of primary particles that are not caused. Order in the universe is t...
- Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:37 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: How to Build a Stronger Ego - Steve Pavlina
- Replies: 160
- Views: 83022
Re: How to Build a Stronger Ego - Steve Pavlina
Unidian wrote: Guys like Steve Pavlina will have an unpleasant surprise when old age sets in, health flees, all their money becomes useless to them, and the reality of the Buddha's observations become clear. I hope it isn't too late for them by then, because death can be especially ugly for those wh...
- Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:41 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Century of the Self
- Replies: 322
- Views: 78839
Re: The Century of the Self
A person is full of aversions and preferences. Those are 'buttons' or points of 'reactivity'. To be spiritual is to be free of that machinery. Yes, Dennis, but you are still in it only for what you get out of it. Your self, may be flat and expanded in reach, though perhaps we could say of a more of...
- Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:46 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Century of the Self
- Replies: 322
- Views: 78839
Re: The Century of the Self
I'm getting I-strain from all this academic philosophy here these days. Hey, where did we go Days when the rains came? Down in the hollow Playing a new game, Do you remember when we used to sing Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah Laying in the green grass Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee...
- Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:37 am
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Music that moves
- Replies: 1086
- Views: 423552
Re: Music that moves
ACDC Baby Please Don't Go (well done cover from the 70's)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VlRUIHwygc
My old avatar for jimhaz looked a bit like Bon Scott does here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VlRUIHwygc
My old avatar for jimhaz looked a bit like Bon Scott does here.
- Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:26 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: How to Build a Stronger Ego - Steve Pavlina
- Replies: 160
- Views: 83022
Re: How to Build a Stronger Ego - Steve Pavlina
Yes, very good. Don't recall seeing that before (don't watch old films).One of the greatest movie scenes, though this isn't all of it.
I'd say John Hurt used this scene to develop his portrayal of The Elephant Man.
- Sun Feb 10, 2013 11:11 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Century of the Self
- Replies: 322
- Views: 78839
Re: The Century of the Self
GOL said In contrast, I define the spiritual as primarily that which emanates from and is sourced in God. I do not so much define spirituality as "truth" as I define "spiritual" to be a possible qualifier of "truth". In other words, it is not so much that "spiritu...
- Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:48 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Wise Quotes Collection
- Replies: 474
- Views: 189026
Re: Wise Quotes Collection
And he'd be an illustrious dick, perhaps like Jesus or John Safran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-3ypen637c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-3ypen637c
- Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:09 pm
- Forum: Worldly Matters
- Topic: Famous Drunks
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11314
Re: Famous Drunks
Pleasure from sloppiness
Les 11 commandements - Équilibre Alimentaire (Balanced Diet)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smVE7C6m9NY
Les 11 commandements - Équilibre Alimentaire (Balanced Diet)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smVE7C6m9NY
- Mon Jan 21, 2013 1:49 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: How to Build a Stronger Ego - Steve Pavlina
- Replies: 160
- Views: 83022
Re: How to Build a Stronger Ego - Steve Pavlina
Reading this forum nowadays is frustrating. I’m not seeing anything in what anyone has written that would tickle an on-topic response from me. Either the subject and/or participants are no longer novel, thus boring, or the responses are too esoteric for the casual bystander/simple man I primarily no...
- Fri Jan 18, 2013 1:38 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: How to Build a Stronger Ego - Steve Pavlina
- Replies: 160
- Views: 83022
Re: How to Build a Stronger Ego - Steve Pavlina
Well, that just means I have no idea either - even after X years. This guy is just presenting the Alex viewpoint in a simple way.
(PS. I've a noticable tendency to get gungho about novel-to-me positions for a few days then forget about them. Novelty is my primary provider of happiness).
(PS. I've a noticable tendency to get gungho about novel-to-me positions for a few days then forget about them. Novelty is my primary provider of happiness).