After 3 years of administering and developing the PhilosophyForum.com, I’ve come to the conclusion that’s it’s time to sell it and move onward.  PhilosophyForum.com, the domain name and the content are currently for sale at Flippa.com with a current bid of $15,000 and No Reserve!

While I realize that I’ve not done a very good job of maintaining my blog, my hopes are to do more writing once I have facilitated the transfer of ownership of the Philosophy Forum to it’s new owner.

About the Philosophy Forum

PhilosophyForum.com is was a domain name originally purchased in 2005 from BuyDomains.com and then developed into a forum using vbulletin and vbseo.  The philosophy forum has grow steadily over the past several years to become the most active Philosophy Forum on the Internet today.  With more than 500 active members usually more than 100 people on the forum at all times with 20 or more logged in members at any given time.

At the PhilosophyForum.com you can expect to find a good discussion on any numer of topics including the the traditional branches of philosophy as well as religion, videos, etc. etc.  We also have a ‘dream team’ of well-educated, mature, and highly proficient moderators on the staff that do what they can to promote peaceful conversation without flaming or trolling.

What’s included in the sale?

The sale of the forum will include the following:

• PhilosophyForum.com domain name with 9 years registration
• Owned vBulletin license
• Owned vBSEO license
• Owned vBadvanced Link Directory license
• vB Gameroom license
• owned vBtube license
• All data and content

Basically, the entire thing.  If you’d like to find out more details on the sale, plase visit the PhilosophyForum.com sale page.

Why Am I Selling the Forum?

There comes a time where it’s time to say goodbye and move on and after 3+ years of pouring time and energy into the forum, I’ve decided that it’s time to let go and allow for a new owner to take this forum to the next level.  Besides, I want to spend more time reading and writing and while I love philosophy, I’m not as adept on the academic side of philosophy and I’m confident the new owner will be able to continue on with the forum in a way that will benefit it’s members.

I do have an emotional attachment to the forum because of all the hard work and time put into it but above and beyond that, the relationships with the members and moderating team.  It’s not just a wonderful forum, it’s an exceptional community with some very intelligent discussions.  I do hope to continue membership in the forum and do some blogging there as well as making a positive contribution to the community and it’s new owner for a long time in the future.

I wish the best to the new owner and look forward facilitating a smooth transition of ownership.

In this video, taken in mid May of 1974, R. Buckminster talks about synergy and basically the design of the world an our Universe.  Enjoy!

Click here to view the embedded video.

Buckminster Fuller was truly a unique individual and in this particular video we observer a great amount of patience as his interviewer appeared to be very annoying and interrupting.  Here are some other good links to learn more about this wonderful man.

• Richard Buckminster Fuller Papers, ca.1920-1983(call number M1090; ca.1400 linear ft.)
• Buckminster Fuller and interstellar communication explored: ‘An Unlikely Oracle: R. Buckminster Fuller’
• Buckminster Fuller discussed on The State of Things
• Transcript of “Everything I Know”
• CBC Archives – clip about United States Pavilion at Expo 67
• Buckminster Fuller Biography
• Buckminster Fuller Digital Collection at Stanford includes 380 hrs. of streamed audio-visual material from Fuller’s personal archive
• Buckminster Fuller: Grandfather Of The Future
• Wikipedia

We currently have mess because Man for one, doesn’t understand MAN. Second, because Man doesn’t understand what God is. Religions have defined God for each sect. Each religion views God differently. Matter of fact, God is a name man created to identify this source we know very little about.

Accepting God is accepting oneself and accepting the fact that we are co-creating this entire universe with our thoughts and actions. So long as we fashion our lives solely based on physical existence, we’re going to continue creating evil and destruction.

Peace and happiness can only be found within and the acceptance of it won’t come until we understand what God really is. The footprints are in the sand the entire way baby. Peace isn’t something we have to go seeking or reaching for. The peace of God is within everyman should he open his blinded eyes and see that the light is in all creation and the light is good.

Now that we have God nailed down to a fictitious entity in the sky or heaven, we can blame God and fear God instead of Man finding the God within himself and within his fellow man. Let’s not forget that Jesus spoke in a language of science and it’s the translations and the doctrines that man has decided in the Bible that many of todays believers place their entire lives in.

LOL. In my opinion, people are clueless. We have been told certain things and taught certain things and from one generation to the next, this information is passed. For most Christians, it’s unimaginable that God isn’t what the man of the Bible has described him to be. Religions are set in their beliefs and they all believe differently. The word is only one word… yet it’s twisted by individual interpretations and perceptions. Now look at what it’s done to us. Christians and Muslims fighting and killing each other. Hate is breeding hate and it’s because of some screwed up mentality that we all believe in different forms of God.

Man, from all walks of life has built his identity on his physical self and the accumulation of wealth or whatever. What is man? Geesh, with all the technology we don’t even know the answer to that very simple question. Most religious men believe they are their body. Their existence relies on whether or not their physical body is alive or not. If we continue to identify ourselves with things of this earth or with things outside of ourselves, we’re going to keep destroying each other… I don’t care if you call yourself a saint.

So, step back and take a look at a few facts. These are facts and I know their facts because I know they are. I’ve experienced them in my own life.

1. The entire universe is Energy in Motion!
2. Thought is energy. First is thought, then is manifestation. Nothing in the physical world can be manifested without the thought of it first.
3. We are our own worst enemy… I can prove it, just take a look at the news.
4. We blame God or others for things we create.

The above are facts. Whether or not one wants to perceive them to be facts is completely up to them but there’s not a doubt in my mind.

So in essence, we are living creation in the form of energy with universal mind… divided only by our perception. Christians perceive Muslims to be wrong and visa versa. It’s the perception that divides. Both create. We all create.

So, does Man control Man or does God? What is God then if we know for a fact the Universe is energy? We can have a good day or a bad day based on our thoughts. We choose to live in poverty based on our thoughts or the mindset of the country. We have all the resources to create and live abundantly once we identify our mind. Mind is eternal and that’s what we are. So if God were a tree, we’d be the branches. One divided source of energy split into sexed opposites creating balance and beauty… but, that’s not what mankind believes or what he’s ready for.

The major difficulty with this is that many a men can currently blame God and once that’s taken away, then they realize that the only one to blame is oneself. It all starts at the center and someday we’ll understand this. The center is mind and it’s something we as beings know very little about… because instead of living our lives to identify both the God within ourselves, creation and fellow man, we’re out there trying to tell others who and how they should worship and what they are doing wrong.

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