GENIUS FORUMS

Alex T. Jacob wrote:

• From out of absolute unknowability, all things arise.

Unknowable in what sense? Empirically much cannot be known, that is hardly a controversial point. However, I do know that all things are merely a facet, a face of the totality which cannot arise or be extinguished.

[*]Word structures, language, semantic ordering of sentences, 'logic', are activities of man. It is potentially a false notion that we can use them to know much of anything about what is 'absolutely unknowable'.

Yet, for some reason you think you're warranted to believe what you believe? By what means have you acquired your knowledge and why is it any more reliable than through logic?

[*]Logic and the products of logic are essential and relevant in many fields. It seems doubtful (or doubtable) if they can help us with really grand questions.

Yet somehow you find it more likely that grand questions can be tackled another way?

Nick Treklis wrote:Some of the effects these memes seem to be having is that they produce incredibly uninspired people, and a stagnancy in all things spiritual and philosophical.

There is only one form of oppression, which is the crowd dragging down the smart.

What may be needed is a biological solution -- march all the under-120s into a woodchipper and be done with it.

An earth of a quarter-billion smart people is preferrable to a horde of half-monkeys.

I haven't yet encountered someone who will tell me with a straight face that life after the under-120 holocaust will be worse; few have the balls to admit it would be much better.