Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
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believing somehting and being open to other ideas doesnt mean you believe the opposite it just means u consider it, if u find it to be true then u disbelieve the other, if u then find they are both true even though they contradict each other then they are only partial half truths which u dont believe as u know they arnt the absolutly correct
I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
Written by: ben-ja-men
i have a little trouble understanding what caused the big bang to take place, if time began at the big bang then surely all the events prior to the big bang are identical hence no time, which to me seems like an unbalenced equation in that all this stuff was just always there, if that was the case and its all unchanging then why would it suddenly go bang, for it must be stable if its not changing and has always been there, possibly "god" set it off, but then u have two distinguishable events gods intervention and per gods intervention but then how did god get involved where did he come from etc etc
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its easy to visualise with the steps and faces
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thats one hell of a calculation to do taking into account all the different diminishing graviational effects and inertia of all the bodys in existence?
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thats alot of chance for all that matter to all randomly appear in the same vicinity .... maybe when time doesnt exist its not chance at all, or does time exist in segments when stuff exists and all annuls until a big bang sized mass appears .... mmmm i like this idea
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the no plan and no guiding hand i like, but where do the laws come from?
"Moo," said the happy cow.
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But if only a single point is occupied by matter in a non-changing state, time is meaningless
If I could be granted one wish I would ask for all the questions of the universe.
"You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it."
--MAJOR KORGO KORGAR,
"Last of The Lancers"
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"You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it."
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"Last of The Lancers"
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Written by: OWD
it's my belief that all new age technologies that rely on complex systems of belief about 'higher energies, chi, mystical forces, etc, etc; are, assuming they work (and some do), totally explainable by 'mundane' (non mystical) concepts.
-Such a price the gods exact for song: to become what we sing
-Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
-When the center of the storm does not move, you are in its path.
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
-Such a price the gods exact for song: to become what we sing
-Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
-When the center of the storm does not move, you are in its path.
"You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it."
--MAJOR KORGO KORGAR,
"Last of The Lancers"
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"Ours is not to question The Head; it is enough to revel in the ubiquitous inanity of The Head, the unwanted proximity of The Head, the unrelenting HellPresence of The Head, indeed the very UNYIELDING IRRELEVANCE of The Head!" --Revelation X
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The question of what is outside of the Universe or what happened before the Universe is quite possibly either a) irrelevent or b) unanswerable. In any sense it's not a question there are any good answers for at the moment. There are theories (search for "chaotic inflation" for one for instance) but in any case time is something that is part of this Universe, inextricably linked to space - you can't have one without the other.
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But why does that make it likely? Things don't exist because you find them easy to envisage... Personally I'd say a tree of some kind is more like what you're talking about (and is already what the many-worlds theory uses)... but that doesn't mean I'm right.
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They're part and parcel of what the Universe is. Like the program that runs on the data (i.e. everything in the Universe).
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That's a bit of a logical leap isn't it? Just because 0.9 recurring is equal to 1 (and that's not even true in certain number systems mathmaticians have come up with) then it doesn't in any way imply that 0.9 recurring 8 is the same as 1.
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There was nothing 'before' the big bang (as there was no time), and to ask why the big bang occured 'when' it did is a meaningless question.
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Scientifically speaking, 'fire-walking'- the ability to walk on properly prepared coals is an entirely physical phenomena.
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Levitation and walking on water hold a unique fascination, yet consider- suppose an individual does acquire the ability to levitate and walk on water: - why would you assume that that individual would have any spiritual authority/understanding?
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I personally think mind-over-matter stuff really is amazingly powerful-- but knowing that and USING it are two entirely different things
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
I like Languages.
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This is confusing. What constitutes knowledge? Are instincts knowledge, which in turn are not observationally known, or a posteriori if you like?
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We also have KNOWLEDGE or a way of ordering our world which is prior to our interperting data. For instance, we order everything in time by cause-effect. We assume freewill, or determinism. All of these things are prior to our ever doing anything to explore our world. Therefore all knowledge is human knowledge of the universe that we can talk about, and can never be objectively true. This includes mathimatical descriptions as well, as numbers do not really exist, but are abstract demarcations humans create to help define their world. And math also fails in that it is not falsibiable. It answers only to it's own axioms and logic, and can not be judged outside of it's own system.
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However this does not mean that it is worthless to speak about things. This is how we refine our language to convey better the concepts we have, and can help us to better understand our own experience
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as such meanings of words can vary from person to person
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Good science is falsibiable
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Another interesting thing about belief is the pendulum trick, and this kinda works with that subconscious thing too. Explain to someone the physics of how a pendulum works, how it slowly slows down and can never reach the same height on a backswing and such. Demonstrate it. Then ask the person if they KNOW this to be true now. They invariably will say yes. Now put them back against a wall, and build a pendulum that is fairly heavy, say a bunch of weights on a rope, pull it up to their nose and release telling them not to move if they really believe in physics.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
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saying its irrelevant seems like a bit of a cop out answer, in that hmmm its really hard we have no idea how to do it so lets just assume theres nothing to be learnt from it. just because we cant test the theories in our current state of being i think that what it means to be human will change alot in the next 50 years with cybernetics becoming more advanced and neural implants allowing a different perception of the world.
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dont get me wrong i dont think that it is a giant pyromid, i just find that the image of the pryomid is much easier to visualise than trying to picture everything in existence in a 4 dimensional space
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programs require programers
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that was my point, i was trying to illustrate that the rules at hte very large or very small scale dont apply elsewhere, the proof works for 0.9999....8 =1 to and any other recurings but not on numbers like 0.99. what number systems isnt it true in?
"Moo," said the happy cow.
Written by: i8beefy2
Why are numbers STILL just human knowledge? Point me to the number one. You hold up "one apple" or something? Well now we have a problem of identity. If I cut that apple in two is it now two apples or just one?
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Science is a very mathematical system (Well, hard science anyway) and works in a similar way, and is almost based off mathimatical formulation. (physics) BOTH of these systems are based on the systematic assumption (cause-effect). MAN MADE SYSTEMS. Thus all knowledge we talk about as knowledge is based on a belief in this system. They answer only to their own axioms, which are derived largely on HOW we perceive the world rather than WHAT we perceive.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
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When you say "half an apple" you are just recognizing a difference between the perceptions of a "whole" apple and a "half an apple". However we still call it "apple", we just qualify it, because our system of thinking of things in those terms demands a difference, namely that "1/2 does not equal 1". That is arbitrary. I could just as easily call an apple tree the whole and then take away one apple and ask if it's still 1 apple tree even though it is materially different. Problem of identity.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
"You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it."
--MAJOR KORGO KORGAR,
"Last of The Lancers"
AFC 32
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Would you agree that the minds holds powers beyond what "hardbacked science" is able to explain?
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Would you agree that your thoughts are having an impact on not just yourself, but also on your environment?
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There was a study done in Washington D.C. (the alleged "per capita murder capital of the world" not my words) June - July 1993, where 4.000 people were meditating and during this time there was a significant drop in violent crime. It was predicted, but strongly doubted by law enforcement agencies, that this effect could be accomplished - but in the end they had to admit that this was the case and were overwhelmed by the result.
Even though I am not buddying with the idea that there is only ONE AND ONLY that way to create a similar or even better result, I find it astonishing.
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
Petey: "i just finished a rubiks cube, from completely shuffled to not, in 1 minute 57 seconds "
Experiencing people is the best experience of all.
Govenor of Flynt's Ass...
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"a man with no yogic training who demonstrated the ability to voluntarily stop his heart -- to produce cardiac arrest -- on demand. EKG tests showed his heartbeat did indeed disappear completely. (As he began to faint from lack of blood, the subject would take a deep breath and revive himself)."
"In 1981, Benson and a group of researchers from the Harvard Medical School instrumented three Tibetan monks in India practicing a form of meditation called Tummo. The monks could take a blanket soaked in cold water, wrap it around themselves, and sit in the snow on a mountain top in a meditative trance. In the Harvard tests, the monks meditated for 55 minutes in an unheated, cold room, using their minds to raise their internal body temperature... All three monks produced dramatic body temperature changes. One 50-year old monk was able to raise the temperature of his toes by 15 degrees Fahrenheit; another 59-year old monk raised his finger and toe temperatures 11 and 12 degrees Fahrenheit respectively, and raised the overall temperature of the room he was meditating in by 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit."
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Written by: FireTom
Here you are OWD and (obviously) Jeff:
Clickety clock
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
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Would you agree that the minds holds powers beyond what "hardbacked science" is able to explain?
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Would you agree that your thoughts are having an impact on not just yourself, but also on your environment?
Only three things are certain: Death, Taxes, and that England will not win back the Ashes in this lifetime.
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