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Sunday, July 27, 2008

The Big STRANGE

Even if this is only a teenzy weenzy aspect of life, life is strange. Stranger than any fiction about life can ever be. Not just funny strange, but scare the hell out of most people STRANGE. It is so strange that most of us run away from this strangeness all our lives. One technique often used to... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

First Cause?

Why do I continuously come across the hunt for (I almost said Red October) a first cause? Why does there have to be a "first cause"? I really don't see the point. Do these same people expect a "last cause" as well? Some say that God was the first cause. If God is eternal, there can not have been a... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, July 25, 2008

Reality, in your hands

Right now, what is real? If we skip the philosophical and psychological babble for the time being we can form a clear picture of reality at this very moment, linked to the past and the future as moments gone and moments to follow. Everything that is, is an event, from the subatomic to the galaxy and... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Pure race in last place in the race?

Those who were first will be last and those who were last will be first. For the last couple of thousand years some groups of people have tried very hard to maintain the "purity" of their particular family/gang/tribe/race. A prime example of this tendency has been the people who claim to be the... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

How long before we learn ancient lessons?

Roughly 2600 to 2400 years ago people who influenced the world with their thoughts about life to such an extent that the repercussions of their thinking are still felt to this very day were born into a world in need of direction. These included Zoroaster, Isaiah, Gautama Sakya(Buddha), Kong Foutso... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Fear of pain causes some butterflies to die as worms

I notice that some people who deny the validity of certain religious ideas, does so on the basis that it is causing people who hold these believes great suffering. Suffering is as much a part of life as is breathing. One current stream of "philosophy coupled with the findings of neuroscience" is... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, July 21, 2008

Light on the Path and everywhere else

If a phenomena that we can observe directly depends, for its being present, on something other than itself, it is said to have arisen in dependance. Are there any such phenomena that has come into being present as observable form, not dependant on something other than itself? No. If anybody can give... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Machinations of Thoughts

All of us think thoughts in words along the lines of habitual patterns. Some learn to think in globals and others in specifics and the very fortunate learn both ways and manage to harmonize them meaningfully. When we are trapped in a routine (similar to a loop function in computer programming) way... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Conscious Intent/Will and its Scope

I do not agree with the view that there is no willed direction in life outside of the will of human beings, it may well not be perfectly planned in each and every detail, but nothing ever happens completely random either. What happens now does so dependent on what has happened before, is also... Sign in to see full entry.

Objectivity and other fictions shared by the enemies of Religion

Objectivity is something scientists, philosophers and others less academically and intellectually inclined have craved and aimed for, for a long time. That there is an absolutely objective world, cast in stone so to speak, out there, free of and from consciousness, is a dream shared by those who... Sign in to see full entry.

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