There are lots of cold reality that mankind has had to face over time. But then humanity makes its own reality. In times past, the aspect of an uncaring...
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Mary
josephson45r
Dec 31, 2012 5:33 pm
Anyone who has experienced blood clots may sympathize with Ms. Clinton. Just when she's about to retire and enjoying the prospect of spending more time with...
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Dick.
somerset_2
Dec 31, 2012 12:45 pm
Intelligence in the existence of things? [ So according to mystical experience, both transcendent and immanent, there is intelligence in and behind the...
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Dick.
somerset_2
Dec 31, 2012 10:16 am
Happy New Year Face your life AS IS. Have you ever done that? You people are truly beyond the pale. You talk all this hybrid nonsense about it is only the ...
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Mary
josephson45r
Dec 31, 2012 3:14 am
Bill, In my 20s and 30's I used to love shoveling show when the old man wasn't around to do it. When it was a balmy 32F degrees with no wind blowing and wet...
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Mary
josephson45r
Dec 31, 2012 1:57 am
eduard, Speculative reason or philosophy is not the same as common or ordinary thinking. All that neuroscience can do is observe and measure where thinking...
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William
bhvwd
Dec 31, 2012 1:56 am
... Shit, Shave,Shower and Study was our motto in those unbelieveable days of endless study. I might go back to that regimen but with the caveat that all...
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William
bhvwd
Dec 31, 2012 12:50 am
That seems a downer of a title yet the relief from drugery is a positive thing. I got a`s in psychology and found it a game more than a science. Merlins...
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eduardathome
yeoman4
Dec 31, 2012 12:14 am
Consciousness is just brain work. Subconscious activity is just the brain again. But then we don't want to accept the fact any more we can accept that we...
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eduardathome
yeoman4
Dec 30, 2012 11:57 pm
And a happy non-reply to you too .... Why is it that some people simply can't get beyond the abusive?? That in itself is a subject worthy of study. ...
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Dick.
somerset_2
Dec 30, 2012 10:58 pm
Thoughts and the Brain? Thinking is done consciously. Subconscious activity is done below the level of consciousness. You cannot study either of them by way...
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Dick.
somerset_2
Dec 30, 2012 10:40 pm
There comes a time William when you know that your time here is up. I was never here to keep this group going by the way. The reason was that I could not keep...
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eduardathome
yeoman4
Dec 30, 2012 10:35 pm
Mary, "Thought is empirical and should be examined through philosophy, not neuroscience." It is not about what is thought, but rather the thoughting ... the...
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Dick.
somerset_2
Dec 30, 2012 10:32 pm
Mister, you are so naive that it is unbelievable. Best go play with your machines and keep out of that which is way out of your league. rwr ... have a ... ...
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eduardathome
yeoman4
Dec 30, 2012 9:12 pm
The question is just plain silly. Its like asking what if we did not have a name for "car" or " mountain" or whatever. People like to label things. That was...
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William
bhvwd
Dec 30, 2012 9:11 pm
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Dick.
somerset_2
Dec 30, 2012 8:40 pm
Doing the dross drudgery? If you mean could I do the dross drudgery of filing and measuring for years, then no, it would bore me to tears. I started out in...
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Mary
josephson45r
Dec 30, 2012 8:00 pm
The ironic thing about deconstruction is that it too can be deconstructed. I think it's a useful philosophical tool when used to question assumptions such as...
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William
bhvwd
Dec 30, 2012 7:12 pm
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William
bhvwd
Dec 30, 2012 6:41 pm
... I like the way you have advanced Nooism and look forward to learning of further advances. It is the brain doing the thinking and it is just an organ not a...
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Mary
josephson45r
Dec 30, 2012 6:32 pm
eduard, Bill, and all, I'll try to begin by answering your question about structure, limitation, and the miraculous. Because we are interlocked beings 'wrapped...
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Dick.
somerset_2
Dec 30, 2012 11:13 am
Sorting the Real from the Dross [ Dick`s mysticism is too big a stretch for me but much of his writing outside the mystical is very empirical and I enjoy...
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Dick.
somerset_2
Dec 30, 2012 10:46 am
What is holding it back? [ You say that this world is backward. So what is holding it back? You also mention that mystical experience is not about intelligence...
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Dick.
somerset_2
Dec 30, 2012 9:12 am
What if there had been no name for it? [ You said that it was not your idea originally to write about mystical experience but that you did so by request, and...
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eduardathome
yeoman4
Dec 29, 2012 11:44 pm
The better world will never come as long as we reproduce and consume in an exponential manner. If you were strip away all the human identifiers and told a...
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eduardathome
yeoman4
Dec 29, 2012 11:23 pm
Mary, But doesn't everyone decide their own truth?? Are you suggesting that people in general do not decide their truth?? For example, you are making a ...
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eduardathome
yeoman4
Dec 29, 2012 11:07 pm
How do you clear your driveway, Bill?? I have a 14hp blower with a 28" cut. Its needed as my driveway is something like 80ft by 20ft. We had another 5cm...
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William
bhvwd
Dec 29, 2012 10:10 pm
... I do not understand postmodernism and really do not know if it exists. I do not go into deconstruction and am really put off by political correctness....
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Dick.
somerset_2
Dec 29, 2012 10:02 pm
Stranger than Fiction? [ I'm going to tell you something else, Dick … I've met a few of these people in person and chatted with others outside of these ...
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Mary
josephson45r
Dec 29, 2012 9:48 pm
Bill, I don't think the postmodern label applies to my thought. I regret that existentialism is associated with postmodernism. An ethical atheism or even some...
