GENIUS FORUMS

My dad once told me that to be successful, you only have to do the work that no one wants to do.

I haven't really thought that much about guns, actually, but someone I know committed suicide with a gun just a couple of days ago. Young kid, maybe 21 or 22. Second person I've heard of who shot himself to death. I really doubt there would be so many suicides if guns didn't make it so easy. I think...

Guns don't kill people.

People kill people.

Very easily and conveniently.

With guns.

Ah yes, I know what you're talking about. I just have a hard time hearing it described it as "delight", since it's more like a relief from terror, but I guess that's what delight really is, so it comes around logically. This must be where the need for approval from others comes from. We li...

he would kiss her on the forehead. But to me that's what you do to a child. It's a kiss that mostly says: "I approve of you." Or more verbosely: "I, as a superior being, approve of you, as inferior as you are." So this woman thinks it's sexy to be treated as a child. While I don...

Sex is play -- you shouldn't read too much into it. Why not when we can learn so much about ourselves? Unless, of course, someone is aroused by very unusual things, like squishing bugs or roasting a pig or chewing on dog toys. Wanting to be kissed on the forehead is a rather tame fetish; at least i...

There is little doubt in my mind that, deep down, women are convinced that men are superior to them in almost every way. It has always shone through in their feminist movement, in the way they have invariably portrayed themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchal system, and it shines through...

We live in a world of appearances, yeah.

<t>David wrote:<br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>There is no intelligence or rationality involved, just a deep-seated desire to avoid reaching out and grasping truth. <hr><br/> I don't think that statement is very convincing. Surely everyone appreciates truth when they see it. I think truth is just a casualty o...

Well, truth can't possibly exist, because if it did, then all the Christians and crackpots and everybody would automatically become right! And we can't have that now can we? :-D

You should think about Reality all the time, whether you're awake, asleep, eating, walking, talking...it makes no difference what you are doing or what time it is.

<t>David,<br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>The question I am asking is ethical in nature, not metaphysical. It is a question about character. It inquires, "What do you personally value above all else?"<hr><br/> What do you mean by "value?" Do you mean "what we have a tendency to do" or "what we think we should ...