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BTW, the Urantia Book is not nonsense. Whatever else it may be, it is clearly not nonsense.

Unidian wrote: BTW, The Urantia Book is nonsense. While I concede it might be possible for certain people to sharpen their thinking skills though nonsense, most of us would be well-advised not to overdo it. Zen koans and aphorisms are a better route to this anyway. And if you want Sufi mysticism, go...

Well, that's a relief. If I'm ever in trouble, I'll just send up the brokenhead signal, and you'll come screeching up in the brokenheadmobile to save the day!

All I ask is that you use the signal judiciously.

I need guidance I don't want to study a lot only to later realize my epiphanies are faulty... MindExpansion, you can't be afraid to make mistakes or you'll never learn anything. Read everything, just be critical. Your head will crap out the shit it doesn't need, trust me. There is a breathtaking co...

And don't worry, DHodges, I got your back, bro, I'm in Philly too. We're in for a long summer---the bullpen's gonna sink the Phillies.

DHodges wrote: It's not that different from the Bible or the Book of Mormon. That makes three books he hasn't read. How can the UB be "not that different" from 2 very different books? He also wrote: I picked it up and glanced through it, curious that there could be such a huge book about s...

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MindExpansion wrote: To put it bluntly, what must I read, study, exercise in order to peak my intelligence. The Urantia Book . I believe it's public domain now. Give it time, you don't read it, you read at it. It's not like anything else. You use it like a whetstone to sharpen your mind. Don't let t...

No-brainer: Have a web site where you keep track of meeting places/dates. Plan some outings like going to hear authors speak and/or read. Get on the Web and find out what some college philosophy departments suggest as introductory reading, because you'll need some common grist for the mill. You coul...

Although if you put a few shells into the 7-11 guy, you pretty much can be.

Now he tells me...

Jamesh wrote: Awareness has zero meaning except in relation to the body. That's not true, although I see what you mean, I think. Life, in this world, at least, requires a corresponding physical body. Yet doesn't sensory deprivation heighten awareness? If you've never had an out-of-body experience, i...

I find it foolish to believe that we all should live our lives in the visions of others, such as Christianity and the beliefs based upon Jesus (no intent to center out Christians); to achieve what some will believe as, "enlightenment." All so that in the afterlife we can live perpetually ...

Carl G wrote: Three questions: 1. David who? 2. What is David's brief description? 3. Who are you, and why do you advertise your brokeness? 1. David Quinn. 2. Follow the link on page 1 3. I'm not broken. It's just an alias. It has several connotations, to my mind at least. What do you mean, who are...

So far I liked David's brief description of Jesus and His teachings the best. Jesus is the Creator of this Universe. He chose to bestow Himself on this panet as a mortal rather than on any other planet as a mortal. This Universe teems with life, both mortal (flesh and blood) and spiritual, all of Hi...

Dan Rowden wrote: I think the culture/biology question of gender roles and differences is a bit of a chicken/egg affair. There's no doubt an element of one driving the other but I'm not sure we'll ever figure out the origins. I'm not sure we really need to. At least let's get this one thing straigh...

Personally, I don't see women as objects.
Rather, I see them as subjects.... and I'm their King.

Yeah, that spraying the socks with Lysol thing only works up to three days of wearing the same pair.

Katy wrote: Anyway, I recognize that rising sea levels are suspected to be the result of global warming looking at fossils and stuff... what I can't figure out is why. i mean, there's water coming in from the icecaps, yes, but... that's ice melting. Think about it. Take a glass and fill it with ice...

If you want to be able to think and speak, sex becomes a distraction. Chakras furthest from the crown chakra should be monitored but not indulged in. Masturbation is efficient, quick and to the point. You don’t have to buy your hand flowers on Valentine’s day. The sexual urge exists to ensure th...

Julian Barbour's The End of Time (1999) is an attempt to formulate physics without time as a variable. He tries to disabuse the reader of traditional notions of time and presents a case that time itself is nonexistent.

There have been many good popular books written by physicists since the early 1980's that explore quantum reality and relativity and seek to make these scientific ideas accessible to the public. I found that one book in particular, written by a journalist, had one of the most concise and accurate ex...

Just to clarify the above description of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle : It is a mathematical expression of a physical limit. In other words, it is physically impossible to measure complementary quantities to arbitrary precision. Position and momentum are two such physical quantities. Energy ...

A good early classic exposition of 2D worlds and the like can be found in:
Tertium Organum (1922) by P. D. Ouspensky.

Scott wrote: There aren't levels to reality. There is one level of truth, and many levels of delusion. Because we're deluded, we have to deal with...but if we were enlightened, the way I define it, then we wouldn't have to deal with it because it doesn't truly exist. I agree with this when it is use...

Now how did you find this out? Reading books and talking to people that have read books, or direct experience?

Suddenly reading books is a bad thing?