Dear Peter Khan Zendran, Ardalan, Ram Chandra, Hyder Nathani, Zarakassam, Les, Tawfik, and all the followers of faith, Ardalan from Friends of Zarathushtrian...
Norm, You wrote: << Or think of the grand enterprises we are enmeshed in: biological evolution, the evolution of science, language, art--they're big, they're...
Carl, I read your essay at http://www.geocities.com/~gaiachurch/purpose.html and found many points of agreement, particularly the last sentence: "Just as we...
(I must be too long-winded for this group. The last bit of my post keeps getting cut off. Any suggestions besides keep it short?) Jean Klein was, at times, the...
Norm, Your posts are not too longwinded for this group, at least as far as I am concerned. Your Jean Klein quote prompted me to make a Google search. I was...
Heinz, Thanks for the interest. If the server will let me post it, the full quote was: "Q. But surely we need goals in life? A. Where there’s an ego there...
One more time (did I fix it?) "Q. But surely we need goals in life? there is no purpose. Life is purposeless. There's only beauty in living in the eternal....
Norm, Yes, you fixed it and I particularly like: "If you believe you are the individual `I' you are isolated from your surroundings." Carl and I have posted...
Et al., I've started a new group, based upon one of my hobbies: the collecting of sets of rules. If you've got any sets of rules that you've collected, and...
... Could you give some easy examples of what you refer to as rules? I feel kind of lagging behind or thick in my head. rules??? Huh? Bernt beyond belief...
Some would rather cling to a lost cause cause it's better than no cause. Ok, ok to each his own. To thyn own self be true & all that but at least know what...
Jake Taggert
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Oct 7, 2004 6:29 am
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Velvet wrote: So who makes the decision as to whether such persons live or die? Silk: Sometimes you pay for the things you didn't do for the things you ...
Jake Taggert
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Oct 7, 2004 6:52 am
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In a message dated 10/7/2004 12:29:22 AM Mountain Standard Time, ... hands of fate. Richard [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... natures ... awareness exist. ... that ... plus or ... fact, an ... of this ... deaths. ... state of ... anything" to ... or better ... Hey, Jake! Lighten...
On Meditating Meditating as a path to peace of mind and enlightenment has been practiced for centuries. Buddhist meditations and their variants are probably...
Heinz, As always, thanks for your thoughts. From our perspective, there's no enlightenment to be found apart from what the brain - evolved stardust -...
What is Bad Thought? Our Bad Thoughts, often communicate messages to us, they do these in two ways. First they whisper in our ear so that we are hearing it,...
I forgot to mention in the description of the naturalistic meditation technique below that it's helpful, in achieving a steady focus, to pay attention to...
Dear Wayne Ferguson and all, Wayne from TheFourPrecepts wrote, “What are bad thoughts?” Any thoughts that make us feel bad are "bad thoughts". What we call...
Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen at Princeton have written a terrific paper on neuroscience, free will and the law. Here's an excerpt from the abstract: "New...
Richard: Neuroscience is in the process of replacing the dualistic model of cognition with a naturalistic one. Along with dualism must disappear the commonly...
Tom, et al., Well you did it again, you made my day! That was a true shot in the arm for me at this stage in the game. I could not possibly have written...
Richard, If I understand you correctly, you question how neuroscience can transform people's moral intuitions regarding free will and responsibility since...
In a message dated 10/19/2004 5:22:32 PM Mountain Standard Time, ... On the contrary. The more we learn the more we'll get closer to natural laws. Richard ...
I think we humans are trapped in two worlds simultaneously; the first one is ruled by our emotions, and illusions such that we have choice, or that the future...
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