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Indeed. It is kind of freaky I think. I also think science strips a way at us more than just the ability to think beyond it. I noticed a whole bunch of questions I can answer without the help of science, and these answers are more important to me than all of science put together. What is an example...

I noticed you quoted Master Chuang at the beginning of the chapter named "Entering the Logical Realm" and was wondering whether you had an interest in Chinese Philosophy especially after your answer to my yin yang question. Have you read the Tao Te Ching and studied much on Taoism? I know...

What are your thoughts on science in general? Positive, but realistic. As a tool for creating descriptive theories and predictive models about events in the empirical world, it is extremely powerful. It is, thus far, an incredible achievement by the human race. But it does have its limits, particul...

'Your' mentioned question: It all sounds too simple and convenient for my liking. If cause and effect is the ultimate answer to everything, then why doesn't everybody subscribe to it? There are two main reasons: (a) We are all taught - by society, by our family, by the education system, etc - to ha...

A parable for the ages . . . . There was once a wild goose. In the autumn, about the time for migration, it became aware of some tame geese. It became enamored by them, thought it a shame to fly away from them, and hoped to win them over so that they would decide to go along with it on the flight. T...

Now I quote the seventh paragraph in the same section mentioned above: The "principle of causation", then, is merely a figure of speech. It is a description of how created things change into other created things. It is a conceptual construct which points to the fact that objects arise out...

How does oneself know when oneself is enlightened? It is a certainty that arises when one fully comprehends the nature of reality. Such an all-encompassing understanding takes one beyond all things and there is nowhere further to go. One is so far beyond all things that even enlightenment is left b...

This thread has certainly brought some interesting things to the surface....... I'm intrigued to learn I have such power over your feeble mind. Gunna have me some fun with that ..... Please don’t bring out those Oprah Winfrey videos again.... If we want to succeed in our coup, we have to go back to...

What do you have to say about a philosopher like Kant who says that reason is the source of morality? I would say that something caused Kant to say this given that in your chapter on cause and effect you say "If the conditions are ripe for a particular thought to arise, then it will arise - wi...

So in your view how do you in particular know when you have come across an enlightened person? There are two aspects to this: Firstly, you have to become enlightened yourself. Being enlightened gives you direct inward knowledge of what enlightenment consists of. Secondly, from the knowledge and cla...

This thread has certainly brought some interesting things to the surface.......

It was simple and straight to the point. The book is about opening the mind to the Infinite and there is great wisdom in this.

To clarify my own position, I don't support Trump any more than David or Dan do. My disagreement is very specific, i.e., Trump is not egregiously evil or irrational relative to other politicians, and he should not be held responsible for the woes the world faces now or those it will face anon. The ...

DSM criteria deals with deviations from the norm, which usually means deviations towards dysfunctional behaviour, but can also mean deviations towards wisdom and sanity. The whole purpose of DSM is the classification of mental disorders . Why are you trying to change that stated purpose? And then, ...

My statement: 'there's nothing inherently wrong with the DSM criteria for mental disorders or illnesses.' Your version: 'DSM criteria has no inherent flaws' Those statements are not equivalent either grammatically or logically. Plus my meaning was surely obvious. My statement is quite true - there ...

From a spiritual perspective, you can't really divorce the relative world from the absolute, not while you are part of this world. For example, consider the act of writing to this forum. If it is your aim to promote wisdom (i.e. consciousness of the absolute) in others, then naturally you try to se...

This is long [1:09:56 - skip to 3:20] but very interesting. Well, it's interesting if you're on a similar page to David and me regarding Trump. Otherwise you'll probably just see it as an exercise in confirmation bias. Chris Hedges: The Rise of Trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na_jAtxpmiI Very...

I think any discussion about Trump is moot at this point. The Russian connections "scandal" is spinning out of control. Trump's adversaries will either maneuver him and his people into a perjuring themselves or tie up the government in an investigative procedural rigmarole which would be ...

encode_decode wrote:@David Quinn - I could not have put it better myself. On another note, I would really like to explore 'The Wisdom of the Infinite' with you. Not all at once - but over time.

I'm happy to do that. When you are ready start a thread about it and I'll contribute.

You failed to address the original statement I made about the relative being the relative and the absolute being the absolute. Last time I looked, the address of this board is "theabsolute.net", not "thesubjective-relative.net." From a spiritual perspective, you can't really div...

Hey Ryan, Good to see some of the old folk crawling out of the woodwork again. :) It seems to me that this whole issue between Kevin & David boils down to the following question – What is more of a threat to wisdom/survival of the species? 1. An unstable narcissist being the leader of the most p...

29 Signs of a Psychopath (the word seems to have only been mentioned once in this thread, by David) 18. Occupy positions such as chef, civil servants, religious leader/clergy, police officers, journalists, surgeons, sales persons, media personalities, lawyer, corporate CEO/entrepenuers This one mig...

Kevin has become extremely touchy about being defamed We live in an age where the authoritarian left are constructing actual lists of non-believers who are to be excluded from society, whom they seek to deny employment, whom they seek to block from all social media, and hidden from search engines. ...

I guess it was just a coincidence that it was the first non-white president in history who had been singled out for suspicion. It's just speculation on your part that it has any racial component to it, and I don't trust your speculations. Sure, it could be just a coincidence. We could say that the ...

Police State? The US is already 30% there and has been since 9/11. I found this segment from the ABC show "Planet America" to be particularly disturbing: https://www.facebook.com/abcnews.au/videos/10156364722474988/ I'm not sure which part of it I found more disturbing - the barbaric law ...