This Terantino film seems just a violent shoot um up but I see a deeper context. The show is set pre civil war and is a graphic condemnation of slavery. They...
Some years ago I predicted that robots,drones, would turn the tide of battle in the war on terrorism. I think we can say they have been highly instrumental in...
A deeper understanding of various individual systems can lead to a wider understanding of the cosmic system.My Ecology professor was a botanist but knew...
In January the house and senate will be in session five days,in February they will meet eleven days. White House sources say the administration will probably...
Does a system design itself? Is each part intelligent? Does a brain merely perceive systems or does it influence them, and does the system influence the brain?...
Study the kidney , It is a dual organ responsible for excretion. The tissue itself is very complex with anatomical structures that rival the brain or...
If Dick can communicate? [ In existlist@yahoogroups.com, "Mary" wrote: If Dick is able to communicate through the web after he passes, will he have proved the...
Dick says he going to stop posting on the net. I would miss him but we have heard this before. I am going to take this one big step further. What if Dick is...
I am not just a brain providing my own input. If I create and control my own reality, if my reality is nothing more than a self-perpetuating hallucination,...
All the talk of spirit comes from religion. Eduards idea that we are our brain discounts spirit or soul and that is fine with me. I have alway seen man as...
I have a clear ehough idea how thinking works. Not everything about it but a clear enough idea that the subject interests me little. I do not buy into mental...
God ,as has been well explained by the group filled in the holes in the thoughts of questioning people. I have a friend who relies on me to keep him informed...
I think being restricted to knowing only our own experiences is a philosophical puzzle which requires the ability to think paradoxically. It can cause a lack...
Intelligence in the existence of things? [ So according to mystical experience, both transcendent and immanent, there is intelligence in and behind the...
I suppose I'll jump in and answer the three questions. 1) I would not say September 11th's heroes particularly impressed me, but rather many adherents of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I like Eduards idea that a machine may not be ideal for a task but if it works use it as long as it lasts. The post modernist ,deconstructionist ideas just...
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...
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 ...
Inner Space [ ....those postings you have done recently over the past 6 months have been especially of your own mark. Much Love and Blessings as we continue ...
I have looked up the definition of dialectical and found severel,very different, definitions. One refers to Hegel and a thesis,anti thesis process. Very...
Uplifting? [ Every once in a while we all need something which is uplifting, encouraging, moving, sustaining. Don't you find that to be so? I wonder what moved...
Would you have been scared of it? [ Would you have been scared of mystical transcendent experience before the event? ] You cannot be scared of something which...
Prepared for Revelation? [ Merlin!!!! You are probably sleeping …. And I'm supposed to be finishing this bloody online traffic school course (my punishment...
