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David, I understand what you're saying but I strongly disagree. If anything, I'd say he needs more time here. He can make his own decisions as to whether to stay or go, or come back. Meanwhile, with regard to forum disruption, that is a matter of personal choice. For me, the forum is and always has ...

That's all true Trev but it's not the issue.

The issue is justice, whether it is deserved, and what enacting injustice says about those doing it.

Not only do I think that the proposal in question is bang out of order, I think it's also completely unjust and sends out a bad message. It is an exercise in understatement to say that, over the years, this place has had more than it's fair share of wankers, nutters, biggots, trolls and rampant egot...

About the same here. If they got rid of the thinking time platitudes, it would be one paragraph.

Not particularly just, if you ask me.

Hi Trev, welcome back. I think you're barking up the wrong tree here, if I'm reading the subtext correctly. The Bicameral mind is an interesting proposition but it's in all likelihood spectacularly wrong. At bottom it's complete speculation, a genius mad proffessor bit of speculation but speculation...

Bit of both really mate. I'm an earth scientist (various aspects of geology/geography) but I've always been interested by physics.

This universe is quite obviously not infinitely old, being as it's roughly 14.6 billion years old. Beyond that, we just don't know. Oscilliatory Big Bang / Big Crunch inflation and deflation offers the possibility of continuous, discrete sections of the same time, traversed forwards then backwards, ...

I'm not completely sure what you're saying here mate. Are you saying that there cannot be a conscious whole unless the constituents of that conscious whole are necessarily conscious? And in fact that higher forms of consciousness could not synthesize from non-conscious constituents? And further tha...

DT: were you to read his books, you'd see he's anything but the typical new age guru. Dan: I'm prepared to accept that based on what I've read. But he too often lapses into that mode for me. Wouldn't that be true of almost any teacher for you though Dan? He doesn't write for you. And too much of hi...

DT: If you're asking how many may eventually be caused to seek enlightenment in earnest due to Tolle's influence, the answer is almost definitely very many more than the number caused to do such by the influence of the GF admins. Statistically, I don't think there's an argument against that. I mean...

What I propose is a problem is when spirituality and its teachings become a business enterprise. Tolle's official website is typical of new age guru enterprise at work. Right enough but, were you to read his books, you'd see he's anything but the typical new age guru. I've heard it suggested that t...

Dave, But was Chancie really a fool? Don't forget the final scene! Well, in 'Being there', the point was not if he was a fool or not, but generally speaking, others interpret the words he spoke in his own simplicity in the context of being a gardener, by attaching the label of “wisdom” to it si...

Now take this a bit deeper and imagine how would have a complex brain, or say even a precursor to that as in a bunch of primitive neuro-cells/nerves, or say even LIFE could have come about if there was absolutely no form of “implicit memory” involved at an atomic or quantum level? I'm not compl...

Diebert: There's that famous verse in Proverbs : "Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is considered wise". Beats old man Tzu anytime when it comes to human psychology and its multi-colored camouflaging. That reminds me of a movie - ‘Being there’ (I think) – Peter Sellers. Great film....

Dave Toast , All those things you’ve imagined I’ve said, and all the things Bob imagined I had said, are purely a product of the spectacles your ‘prominent internet philosopher drama’ brings to the reading of my words. Is all of this fuss your way of trying to deny being influenced by QRS v...

Nat: what Toast is actually doing here involves acknowledging the limitations in empirical knowledge imposed by quantum mechanics, and yet still trying to establish knowledge beyond those limitations. The only thing I’ve tried to establish is my view of the science that is often used to imply aca...

I remember that thread.David is steering Victor towards-and what I'm going to submit as my first QSR aphroism - the "argument from conditionality" via semantics.It's what always happens when this subject arises AFAICT. He is trying to get Victor to say INdeterminency,if he does then a sem...

I'm battling to make sense of what you're saying here. You seem to want to have your cake and eat it too. "Yes, particles can just pop into existence" but on the other hand, "No, this doesn't support acausality". What I want to know is why this doesn't support acausality. Becaus...

But this doesn't seem, to me at least,the 'conventional interpetation' held by QM scientists-for example I don't think Victor would say that. Well, if we look back at the fairly recent thread 'Quantum Mechanics and Randomness' and the debate on that subject, we'll find this exchange: "DQ: Are ...

Wow.

Not really. I know acausality cannot be proven true empirically or even evidenced, not because of conditionality but because of the scientific understanding of the fundamental limits to the questions we can empirically ask of the physical. That's the science of it. It seems, as I think has been men...

Solely intellectually?

Are you seriously going to contend that intellectualising is not experiencing?

Obviously, application is required but what direction is that application going to take?

It's an all too obvious point you're making, as is mine.

If I'm reading you aright, you are saying acausality only appears to be true, empirically and mathematically.It's not REALLY true,it's not part of the quantum system even though mathematics and empricism, predict ,and have observed it as such. Nope, nothing like that really mate. This is doing my h...

One does not need to complicate in order to simplify. It is not a deconstruction that is necessary, but a new "story," as Alex put it--a new understanding of yourself compatible with your held beliefs that allows you to put the methods of growth into practice within your experience. Break...