GENIUS FORUMS

Me: [It would take a revolution to take power out of the hands of the wealthy, but the above is something at least 80% of the worlds population would support, therefore it is possible] Nice to see I was on the right track as we now have the Occupy Movement (not that it is likely to be successful, st...

There is no reason for content to be of any more importance than form. In fact it is not. Content is one thing only (which is certainly not any absolute form of emptiness), while form is all things, all appearances. Thus there is also no reason for inherency to be of any more import than non-permane...

Talking Ass, I rarely feel the urge to visit here these days, and I must say I feel somewhat dumbed down as a result - quite out of touch. For some reason tonight I read quite a few of your posts. Most enjoyable, some quite funny bits, and a considerable lot of views that I agree with, well where th...

Diebert, Hey good old Jimz. While I'm familiar with those theories and certainly can vouch for them experimentally, what still surprises me is that the same sensitivity for coincedence and correlation appears to suppress in these cases any desire to check things out. As if all rustles in the grass w...

Denis, Is of the category, the means by which the crime is committed. It leaves unanswered, the motive and the killer. Sorry I don’t think I properly understand this. Were I to take it literally. Then I would have to say that motive and killer, are human, or more broadly, life traits. There is no un...

Denis: Quote: Food for thought/imagination gone wild. Conceptual proliferation refers to conceptualization of the world through the use of ever-expanding language and concepts. David's trying to take you another way. Well, he gave up on me ages ago, and rightly so. No point in going over the same to...

[I guess it's for most folks out there a matter of wanting something to remain mysterious and symbolic for great upheavals to come.] There are some good ideas about that general topic in this book review: http://reason.com/archives/2011/08/02/a-trick-of-the-mind Mr. Shermer marshals an impressive ar...

Look at this as semi-free form stuff, as I went off on a lot of tangents, with sudden returns to the overall concept. Its pretty fucking disjointed. Food for thought/imagination gone wild. To quote myself Time is the same throughout, but to life that has the ability to combine differentiation into t...

I blame The Ringmaker - the one gravity that controls them all.

You already understand phenomena arises due to causes/conditions, pieces/parts as disclosed in your statement. That all phenomena depends for existence. Agree. That no phenomena is self-established. Agree and disagree. That no phenomena exists independently. Agree and disagree. That's what emptines...

While Huángbò was an uncompromising and somewhat fearsome Chan teacher, he understood the nature of fear in students when they heard the doctrine of emptiness and the Void: “Those who hasten towards it [the Void] dare not enter, fearing to hurtle down through the void with nothing to cling to or to...

The result was men lost feeling and women lost logic. both disintegrated. In order for both to recover sanity, feeling-logic must sing in perfect unison. realising emptiness creates that. A perfect piece of reasoning, when taken in, realised, and the experience of not-self breaks through, the mind ...

Baird: [Glad to see you're still alive jim] Yeah still kicking around. My brain has lost significant interest in philosophy and posting on forums these days. I'm back in the land of the worldly matters, the dreaming void, and only sometime post on a newspaper forum. [Would be a little less crispy wi...

Ohh good, something to read on the train. I love anti-religious stuff.

Would love to know what percentage of current priests feel a similar way or would have similar viewpoints were one to break their religious habits for a period.

I prefer to understand the infinite, non-mystically. To me it is best to avoid the Buddhist concept of emptiness, because it is not entirely rational. While things and the self do not exist in their own right, and the contents are infinite, all patterns of existence temporarily exist and have casual...

What's your view of psychedelics? For some people they would be a good catalyst to improve their imagination - christians, politicans, academics etc. Drugs do have a tendency to lead one to a disrespect of authority. Drug use was quite common amongst the Greeks and Romans and the Magi. We might not...

The human race:

Eclectic Electrics

Everything is "spacetime". A thing is something that has a different depth of spacetime relative to that which surrounds it. Things come about due to an observers ability to classify infinity as finiteness. They observe differing "depths" of spacetime. What form each thing takes ...

and as far as Jamesh's ideas. very imaginative, but the situation will sort itself out. Yeah, I occasionally get a little idealistic. My idea is certainly not likely, but if the global warming and thinning resources doomsayers are more right than wrong, the causes that may allow such a revolution m...

Overall, I have thought more deeply than you. When I criticize your "wise misogyny" as idiotic, or your preoccupation with the sexes as retarded it is constructive criticism, no matter what you may think. I also believe she goes over the top. There is a underlying disgust towards "th...

Although worrisome little Lizzies idea is harebrained, as amongst other things, it would lead to genocide, there is some merit in non-court, but consensus based, vigilante activities who would have the power to "silence" criminals like priests, politicians and the overly wealthy :). The fa...

Dejavu, I hope you never accept David and co's arguments. I agree so much more with your comments. David will never recognise the fact that differentiation makes his sort of mystical statements here, false. It is a fact that if there is any sort of differentiation at all, then existence, as in duali...

Women will transform themselves into anyone that men want in order to get attention and sex. Attention and sex are just energy transfers, sex is the biggest one where a man's soul is injected into a man. She is a clever parasite. Since attention and "I" consciousness are closely related (...

I think movies and romance novels has a lot to do with modern popularity of the rape fantasy. Those girls rarely say no for long, if the guy beats other males to "save" her. No doubt there are underlying remnants from our past forms still existent here in our present makeup. We are from mi...

Time isn't an absolute, you know. It's created by relationships. Nope, that is just what you assume, due to the fact we constantly measure time. I consider it to be more rational to view Time as being an originating cause, the cause of causality, and measured time is simply the observed effect on t...