I am curious if and how the mathematician in the OP is being funded. Also throughout this thread are demonstrations
of the principle that to teach, or find agreement on an idea, one must start where...
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I am curious if and how the mathematician in the OP is being funded. Also throughout this thread are demonstrations
of the principle that to teach, or find agreement on an idea, one must start where...
The circle model is useful, it tends to show the similarities between the apparent opposite sides. One thing they have in common is the behavior of turning peoples emotions into weapons, and turning...
Any "ism" taken too far becomes a fascism as far as I understand things.
Fascism can be interpreted as rule of law, that seems to be it's original aim.
However increase the level of coercion,...
Is the English version the original music?
There are a lot of concepts around spirituality that are focused on escape,leaving the body and or physical plane etc, that I feel are dead ends.
Actual spiritual growth is based on accepting the...
Richard Feynman was quite a scientific star. I don't remember what class my father took from him, but I found the textbook with his signature in it
on one of our bookshelves. My father was a pretty...
It is a koan, the only question worth asking is to question the existence of the questioner.
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Whatever you do don't answer the question!
I can't be sure when exactly I came to this conclusion, but at some time fairly far into my ongoing attempt to
see through this reality I am bound into, I started to believe, or fail to transcend...
You have two posts that kind of sum up my basic present conclusion, that in essence "God" is everything, all that is. It is impossible to ponder on this idea for long before one gets to one's...
I have had various experiences that point to Saturn , as well as humanoids that are associated with birds.I don't get any clear association with the color blue though.
The humanoid image I get is...
So, am I blessed or cursed to seem to be stuck in this body with all the self pity/suicidal ideation programs running in it?
I think I neglected to make sure readers understood that the experience I...
"Source; Andy Weir The Egg" I read your whole post there,rgray, and I couldn't shake the feeling that I was reading something by Richard Bach.
That passage there is a very non intellectual way to...
I think that ultimately free will is an illusion, however one fellow I like to listen to says that there is a lot of value in playing along with the illusion.
I like the idea of an optical illusion...
I left out my reaction to here there is no time statement in my post above.
The conversation seems to be moving on to time and predetermination.
I think of the story of, me, mankind, the multiverse...
I just finished watching the first 4 videos on her channel so my impression might be biased, but I have never
felt quite as strongly while watching a video, that the person is right in front of me...
Comments have been disabled for this video. Wow I can imagine how this could have triggered the
trolls!
Whenever I think about this subject I start with pure awareness, then the urge to express that infinite potential.
From there there is an explosion of ideas that start to coalesce and divide and...
A very amusing and good looking exploration into human subjectivity.
So is she calling herself an a**hole, or am I?
Or am I just being an a**hole.
The real Satan
I struggle with this stuff to keep it simple, I was raised with a lot of scientific influence around me and
have always been pretty analytical, but over the years I tend to be more poetic and...