I've been saying all along how normal it all is. People think I'm describing some heaven with clouds and angels, etc.....but that's the straw man people want to attribute to this stuff in order to knock it down when they are not ready, or willing to proceed. It's all about perception. I've also said numerous times that the amount of people on the MT who have the equipment to perceive outside the bounds of "normal" and who regularly do are very proportionately large, compared to the "regular" population. Truly, though, perceiving truths that others do not is a gift. Unfortunately it also entails a curse aspect that many of us here have also and do also regularly experience. The reason I speak to people here is because there are a ton of people who are a level of perception away from self-actualized. Unfortunately, at that distance, things look awfully bleak--because we have no one to believe in anymore--we are the potential front-runners for society and the status quo leaders in society are at more "normal" levels of awareness. I fully accept people living how they see fit. However it's my purpose to put these possibilities out there.
Spinoza contended that "Deus sive Natura" ("God or Nature") was a being of infinitely many attributes, of which extension and thought were two. His account of the nature of reality, then, seems to treat the physical and mental worlds as one and the same. The body and the mind are both comprised of the universal substance, and no difference exists between them. This formulation is a historically significant panpsychist solution to the mind-body problem known as neutral monism. The consequences of Spinoza's system also envisage a God that does not rule over the universe by providence, but a God which itself is part of the deterministic system of which everything in nature is a part. Thus, God is the natural world and has no personality.
Spinoza was a thoroughgoing determinist who held that absolutely everything that happens occurs through the operation of necessity. For him, even human behaviour is fully determined, with freedom being our capacity to know we are determined and to understand why we act as we do. So freedom is not the possibility to say "no" to what happens to us but the possibility to say "yes" and fully understand why things should necessarily happen that way. By forming more "adequate" ideas about what we do and our emotions or affections, we become the adequate cause of our effects (internal or external), which entails an increase in activity (versus passivity). This means that we become both more free and more like God, as Spinoza argues in the Scholium to Prop. 49, Part II. However, Spinoza also held that everything must necessarily happen the way that it does. Therefore, there is no free will. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza
This is a very popular view amongst scientists.
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
Okay, here's Einstein's article, according to this site. Slight differences in wording make more sense in this version:
GENERAL CONSIDERATION CONCERNING THE METHOD OF SCIENCE
It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher. Why, then, should it not be the right thing for the physicist to let the philosopher do the philosophizing?
well no shit einstein. why would a scientist need to be a philosopher anyway?
hear my name
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Maybe eventually science will save the world. But, for now, we have what we were dealt.
No hostility.
Hold the spades and chuck the rest.
Life is like a game of cards, you are dealt a hand, and if you know the dynamics of the game, the choices are easy.
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
Some theories can be falsified with a simple thought experiment.
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
Then why are you and I a couple of working class whores?
Either because we are getting dealt shitty cards or we aren't good at the game.
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
I think this might play into our not being too good at the game.
I've never been very motivated since I was a kid. At one time I had a lot of energy, but I spent too much time in padded and concrete rooms. I lost my will to live completely. When I surfaced, things looked a lot different. I still thing dancing is a ridiculous waste of time and energy. Just have sex already! Know what I mean?
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
Please tell me you are saying this like the guy in the Twisted Sister video! "Who are you? Where do you come from? Are you listening to me? What do you want to do with your life?:D
Please tell me you are saying this like the guy in the Twisted Sister video! "Who are you? Where do you come from? Are you listening to me? What do you want to do with your life?:D
I've never been very motivated since I was a kid. At one time I had a lot of energy, but I spent too much time in padded and concrete rooms. I lost my will to live completely. When I surfaced, things looked a lot different. I still thing dancing is a ridiculous waste of time and energy. Just have sex already! Know what I mean?
This kind of matches my outlook in some ways, and my own history, but at the same time...i have my guitar here. I havent played it in four years. One of the strings has disinigrated.
I've never been very motivated since I was a kid. At one time I had a lot of energy, but I spent too much time in padded and concrete rooms. I lost my will to live completely. When I surfaced, things looked a lot different. I still thing dancing is a ridiculous waste of time and energy. Just have sex already! Know what I mean?
The dance leading up to the sex is where all the thrill is at...
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
standin above the crowd
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
from an interview with Einstein and George Sylvester Viereck from back in the day, as published in Time magazine April 17, 2007:
V: You accept the historical existence of Jesus?
Einstein: Unquestionably! No one can read the gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.
"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth." ~ Niels Bohr
What is referred to are the totality of sense impressions. And he's saying logical consideration is an arbitrary creation of the human mind rather than equal to the sense impressions referred to.
I said I'd be the first person to admit it if we found more information and I was proven to be wrong in my original interpretation. It's odd because now that we have the entire article, it does speak to exactly what I was saying, about our arbitrary attributions, which stem from the totality of sense impressions and in that sense the self-evidence stands. However, I was originally inaccurate in how I specifically interpreted the use of the words "logical consideration" in the original context of the one-line quote.
Peace.
"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth." ~ Niels Bohr
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Nicely said.
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This is a very popular view amongst scientists.
Maybe eventually science will save the world. But, for now, we have what we were dealt.
No hostility.
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well no shit einstein. why would a scientist need to be a philosopher anyway?
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Hold the spades and chuck the rest.
Life is like a game of cards, you are dealt a hand, and if you know the dynamics of the game, the choices are easy.
somebody's got her some alcohol.
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Then why are you and I a couple of working class whores?
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Either because we are getting dealt shitty cards or we aren't good at the game.
Do you ...
what do you want to do with your life?
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Shitty cards? negate that.
Good at the game...yeah, we suck.
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i am stone cold sober, thank you very much gue.
hmm perhaps thats the problem.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
I just want to see what happens.
Me too.
I think this might play into our not being too good at the game.
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ok.
i'm not.
just slightly buzzed, though, nothing major.
your post kind of blasted out there in the scheme of the mood of the things, like spray paint.
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I've never been very motivated since I was a kid. At one time I had a lot of energy, but I spent too much time in padded and concrete rooms. I lost my will to live completely. When I surfaced, things looked a lot different. I still thing dancing is a ridiculous waste of time and energy. Just have sex already! Know what I mean?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbLSFiqq3S0
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Sure!
Spittle included!
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it was just a thought that came to mind.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
fuck it.
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The dance leading up to the sex is where all the thrill is at...
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
oh my.
it's thrilling, it is, but...
obviously, you haven't been with...
La einstiniao de Stalliano
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the intense attraction and the build up.....the wanting... is always the best part
of course, you have to give a girl a reason to be wanting you that badly in the first place.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
actually, she lives w/ him...
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
I'm a premature ejaculator.
It doesn't make much difference, to me.
Or her. Ultimately.
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Hey now.
no need to flaunt it.
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V: You accept the historical existence of Jesus?
Einstein: Unquestionably! No one can read the gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.
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I said I'd be the first person to admit it if we found more information and I was proven to be wrong in my original interpretation. It's odd because now that we have the entire article, it does speak to exactly what I was saying, about our arbitrary attributions, which stem from the totality of sense impressions and in that sense the self-evidence stands. However, I was originally inaccurate in how I specifically interpreted the use of the words "logical consideration" in the original context of the one-line quote.
Peace.
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Rhinocerous Surprise '08!!!