GENIUS FORUMS

Kevin Solway wrote:Did you get the above listing online?

Public library.

I've created a web page about the henid since you won't find it in any dictionary that I've seen. The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition: henid ('h?nid) Philos. [ad. G. henide , coined by Weininger on the basis of Gr. ?? - one; cf. HENISM.] In the philosophy of Otto Weininger (1880-1903): se...

27 August 07

Kevin Solway wrote:I think there's a definite chance that Sim might lose his mind ...

Fortunately, I have this unshakeable grasp of reality. -Dave Sim

Sim answers a letter I wrote to him on his weblog: http://davesim.blogspot.com/2007/11/dav ... -11th.html

I found a quote from Chuang Tzu which is relevant to this discussion:

"To follow the infinite by means of the finite is perilous."

"[W]omen want to be raped by rich, muscular, handsome doctors ..." -Dave Sim, Tangent

It is not possible to go to the kingdom of heaven before going through hell first, because if you want to follow Jesus, that is where he went, at first. We know so little about the most sorrowful and confused period of Jesus’ life because he himself, full of pain, was constantly silent about it â...

David Quinn wrote:We are literally staring into the depths of eternity in each moment, and it is an eternity which needs no explaining.

[E]ternity is not the longest time, rather the shortest; it is complete suspension of time. - Weininger

Kevin Solway wrote:The devil himself, so to speak, must have a great panaroma of experience - but it's not one that I want.

The devil, you see, is the man who has everything, and yet is not good, while totality only flows from good and only exists through good. - Weininger

[T]he greater the genius the more profound the relationship to fate. - Kierkegaard

I'm not sure I fully understand this piece by Kierkegaard, but I think it has something to do with God and evil, which Kevin and Peter were talking about in this episode: The whole question of the relation of God's omnipotence and goodness to evil (instead of the differentiation that God accomplishe...

Kevin Solway wrote:What is "God"?, for example.

Does Sim write anywhere about that?

From Sim's Torah commentaries in Latter Days, p. 306:

"God is a Spirit."

A genius is a person that sees the invisible.

I like this one!

Just as with the individual man, the race also needs recapitulating lectures or tutors in order to preserve continuity. Geniuses are really such tutors. They are developed far more slowly than other men; they actually run through the basic forms of existence that have been travelled in past world-h...

I think my favourite part was when David said that the Catholic Church are experts at child abuse. That made me laugh. :-)

I think Kevin may be correct.

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Bear in mind that he could be using poetic language, à la Kierkegaard. [edit] Or offering an exoteric teaching.

For what it's worth, here is a letter I sent to Sim on 7 September: Hi Dave, When you said in your response to the 'Guys' questions that God percieves accurately, do you know this because you have seen with God's eyes, so to speak? Sincerely, [signature] And Sim's response: Greg - Hi - Not at all. I...

Kevin Solway wrote:

Greg Shantz wrote:Which important issues?

What is "God"?, for example.

Does Sim write anywhere about that? I'm not sure that he understands what God is.

As far as I can tell from my understanding at this point, he views God as a sort of intelligent creative force, I think.

I think this bit from Kierkegaard says something good w/r/t Islam: No prophet, no historian could find a more descriptive expression for Mohammedanism than the one Mohammed himself has given in the suspension of his sacred tomb between two magnets, that is, between the divine which did not become hu...

Which important issues?

Sim wrote this prayer and says it aloud five times daily while on his knees. I'm posting it here because I think it is interesting. A Prayer In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful: There is no God but God & Muhammad is His last messenger and seal of prophets. Almighty God One G...