I'm glad your low IQ, inability to follow a train of thought, and inability to complete an argument have brought you laughter.
After all, ignorance is bliss right?
BTW, it always makes me laugh too when dogmatic people accuse others of dogmatic belief, a true cosmic joke. I know you're a dogmatic science fanboi, so logic and rhetoric aren't necessary skills for you, but I'll throw you a bone to help your reading comprehension. When I said "...include all human experiences" the experiences I was talking about were, well, ALL HUMAN experiences.
Logically, any explanation of a system has to take all components of said system into account otherwise it's not a true explanation of the whole system. Don't they teach you anything in school except how to join sides unthinkingly in US and THEM debates?
So, why exactly are you on slashdot? Ah yes, the general decay of nerdom everwhere into fashionable geekness where you only need to be able to recognize buzzwords and repeat them ad nauseum but have no concrete knowledge or experiential use of those acronyms.
Very wrong. Just because a large portion of the population does so does not mean we all do.
Case in point, I would never judge a book by it's cover because I would never even read the title, or chapter headers, or headers in general. I never seemed to get the hang of accepting other peoples summations and organizations of data unquestioningly without having a look at said data first.
It's all relative. Your middle income lifestyle is richness beyond belief for the large majority of the world's population... after all, it's based on stealing resources from the majority of the world's population and funneling it to a lucky few.
Bad examples. You should stand by what you believe in, regardless of what you believe, because after all it's your belief. Being disingenuous about who you truly are is always a bad idea because the truth always comes out, as every single conflict in human history has proven.
You use simple psychological tools on unquestioning believers, and really believers are useless for everything except driving forth capitalistic consumption.
If you spend even one iota of your time dedicated to convincing people through psychological trickery and not cold hard facts then you're doing it wrong.
Genius is genius because it's busy being genius and not busy trying to figure out current fashion and acceptable grooming.
Maybe you should tell DaVinci or Socrates they would have accomplished more if they were clean shaven and didn't wear food stained clothing all the time.
I'm torn as to believing you are so shockingly naive and uncultured or are some new form of troll. Either way, it spells bad news for Slashdot and US'ian culture in general.
Um, same advice for any hotel room, don't leave any valuables lying around.
But, if you're US'ian and feel the need to be terrorized you should do so at an Orange Terror alert level. Feel free to up it to Red if you see any ethnic groups you aren't comfortable with or people playing with small digital devices you can't identify.
So in other words, you acknowledge all the science that supports materialism, but then insist on adding in an additional component without any basis in logic or experiment.
Learn to read. I'm not adding an additional component. I'm using logic to include all human experiences instead of the science default of excluding all human experience. While you're at it, learn to think.
My theory is almost complete, i'm just working on the computer system to explain it to people who live in a dark deterministic world like you do.
BTW, you're the science dogma bitch in this conversation, I'm the one working at breaking the dogma of both science and religion by developing a universal system that logically takes into account ALL human experience. But nice try at making yourself feel superior to overcompensate for the emptiness inside which you created but not allowing god to shine through.
Perhaps the fact that they all to some extent say exactly the same thing would be an indication that there is One God. It should be no suprise that humans with their different languages and different cultures have constructed different religions to try and explain all the God experiences of their culture. It should also come as no surprise that they bicker over this because they are still juvenile humans after all.
Or you could stop using a colloquial christian god as a strawman and perhaps focus on what religions are really saying about God.
Put simply, God is one. We live in, and are a part of a sea of conscious energy, that collective consciousness is God or The Creator, we'll use God to be defined as a subset of that energy. Science now knows that we are vibrating energy patterns in constant interaction with the world around us, it's just not simple to grasp when your mind turns all these fluctuating vibrations into a concrete, constant world, this is why the senses have to be 'transcended' in spirituality.
The energy of God can only be used and harnessed when one is sync with the intent of that energy. Gods can be created because a shared belief can act as a reservoir for the intent and energy of that belief. It's sort of like a Bose Einstein condensate. To become one with God and use the stored energy available there, one must lose individuality.
Therein lies the problem, Gods today are fractured beyond belief. Personal gods are de rigueur nowadays, driven by the stupidity of the push for Individualism in the US (of course, gods were fractured before this, but it's a little ridiculous now). These new Gods are in a sense worthless and powerless because the energy going in is usually only from one person or a small group of crazy's and they have to contend against the Science God which is the most powerful now because of all the science fanbois who believe without understanding or proof.
Oh please, can you please point to this vast amount of evidence you speak of? There exists no such thing in science. There is a lot of evidence that supports the mechanisms for the transmission of that consciousness, but nothing for the actual seat of consciousness nor its reason for existing. It's exactly the same thing that would happen if humans were invisible and scientists were studying moving cars. Just because the cars mechanisms produce movement does not mean that they are the 'cause' of that movement. I guess it's the same garbage with DNA, it's only the mechanism (it does absolutely nothing unless prompted to by outside stimuli) yet the general populace and lots of science see it as the cause. I have hope for science that it will pass this kindergarten phase of only being able to grasp one cause and one effect at the same time, because you know, reality isn't anything like that at all, everything is co-dependent by the simple fact of sharing space.
Learn what the word meditate means, erase the negative connotations of the word based on US experience of con men using meditation as a means to steal money (It's the US, con men don't have any qualms about using anything to acheive their goals), and you may find that meditation experiences are repeatable, and if taught properly, no judgement or explanatory systems are necessary to explain to the person what they are experiencing. That's how you spot a con man, they'll always tell you what you'll experience, and how much it'll cost you, as opposed to allowing you to experience sans interpretation and sans payment.
No, we don't pretty much know this. It has been theorized, never tested and never proven, then again this is slashdot where belief holds more sway than actual science.
What you BPD sufferers confuse all the time is the mechanism with the reason. I was going to say 'what came first the chicken or the egg' but you guys have such low intelligence you still haven't solved that one and it's painfully obvious.
Science will eventually discover that most of 'personality', by which we really mean quirks and habits, are defined by a person's posture. Remember, I said it first, everybody else's IQ isn't high enough to understand:)
What you missed in your science fanboi rant is that the reason there is such a widely held belief in a God is because so many people have 'experienced' God. Religions are just attempts at explaining these widely spread experiences. Of course, your posture will determine how much God experiences you will have, those with a highly developed right side and consequent left brain focus will tend to be shut out of these experiences by their close minded focus on their false perception of a concrete world.
Yeah, yeah, I sound crazy but that's just because your puny mind can't assemble the total world.
Yoga is a subjective science. It has a given set of practices/experiments that give the same repeatable results (hence the reason they're passed on). All you have to do is devote yourself to finding the truth and you do. Of course, this will never take in the US which is so obsessed with the material world and false objectivity and in which most of the subjective experiences needed to start yoga are codified as markers of mental illness in the DSM IV.
N.B.Yoga here is used in the true sense of the word with a history measured in millenia, not in the capitalistic physical gymnastic practice from the US measured in decades. Always funny to see some new yoga startup trying to poorly re-discover real Yoga, simply because they haven't read the body of repeatable knowledge that's available.
Yes, Stephen Hawking, the man with no spirituality in his life who is more robot than human living in a collapsing human husk. I'm all against the fallacy of genus, but seriously? In a cosmic joke he has rejected God in favour of his god Science, which in turn has forsaken him. When an academic attacks religion with childish name calling and not science then you know that his claim of 'truth' is just as unfounded as anybody elses.
Great, now I'm probably going to have to listen to the juvenile debates between the christian and science fanbois. Got to love US'ians, at least they know how to pick sides.
That's a pretty good antenna for the price. I had one and it allowed me to get some US channels about 100km's away when I lived in Surrey, BC. However, amazon doesn't deliver to Canada, and TigerDirect where I bought from no longer sells them.
Canada would be a perfect country if we just had the crazy mail/internet shopping and coupons that the US has.
You don't seem to understand the difference between reality and paranoid delusions. No HUMAN is going around checking your purchase habits. You don't matter anymore to business as a person. You figure the US would be so happy that not only do they get the depersonalization of service that their paranoia demands but they also get cheaper products.
Oh no! some electrical pattern in some computer in some warehouse in the middle of nowhere knows I buy apples every week and they send me a coupon every week! Where will the madness stop! What about the children?
It runs linux, you can ssh into and install or compile whatever you want, comes in upto 4 gigs and i think they just got a dual drive one. Use the built in internet access to the twonky server or install some free cloud software.
I think the whole privacy crap in the USA is because people are so self-important that they actually think their life matters to other people. But really, except for a few outliers nobody could care about your buying habits. Companies don't even care about 'your' buying habits, they care about the aggregate data. The only thing that cares about matching up your identity and buying habits is some automated software that'll send you propaganda.
What's really funny about the whole privacy issue in the states is that more people get worked up about some minor little thing that tries to get you to buy stuff you already buy or related stuff but they gave away a whole bunch of freedom and privacy in this century. Visiting the US is really like diving into 1984, the broadcasts in airports would be comical if it weren't for the fact that these people are serious! I'm not sure there's a bigger terrorizer of the US than the US itself.
If you aren't ashamed of something or doing something that shouldn't be done, then why are these people so concerned about databases (not other humans) knowing their purchasing habits?
Seriously, why are people so afraid of people finding out who they actually are?
I'd say most US'ians are just paranoid people who don't know themselves or others and want to keep it that way.
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After all, ignorance is bliss right?
BTW, it always makes me laugh too when dogmatic people accuse others of dogmatic belief, a true cosmic joke. I know you're a dogmatic science fanboi, so logic and rhetoric aren't necessary skills for you, but I'll throw you a bone to help your reading comprehension. When I said "...include all human experiences" the experiences I was talking about were, well, ALL HUMAN experiences.
Logically, any explanation of a system has to take all components of said system into account otherwise it's not a true explanation of the whole system. Don't they teach you anything in school except how to join sides unthinkingly in US and THEM debates?
So, why exactly are you on slashdot? Ah yes, the general decay of nerdom everwhere into fashionable geekness where you only need to be able to recognize buzzwords and repeat them ad nauseum but have no concrete knowledge or experiential use of those acronyms.
Case in point, I would never judge a book by it's cover because I would never even read the title, or chapter headers, or headers in general. I never seemed to get the hang of accepting other peoples summations and organizations of data unquestioningly without having a look at said data first.
It's all relative. Your middle income lifestyle is richness beyond belief for the large majority of the world's population... after all, it's based on stealing resources from the majority of the world's population and funneling it to a lucky few.
Common mistake from westerners who believe their cultural quirks are shared by the whole human race.
Bad examples. You should stand by what you believe in, regardless of what you believe, because after all it's your belief. Being disingenuous about who you truly are is always a bad idea because the truth always comes out, as every single conflict in human history has proven.
You use simple psychological tools on unquestioning believers, and really believers are useless for everything except driving forth capitalistic consumption.
If you spend even one iota of your time dedicated to convincing people through psychological trickery and not cold hard facts then you're doing it wrong.
Maybe you should tell DaVinci or Socrates they would have accomplished more if they were clean shaven and didn't wear food stained clothing all the time.
I'm torn as to believing you are so shockingly naive and uncultured or are some new form of troll. Either way, it spells bad news for Slashdot and US'ian culture in general.
But, if you're US'ian and feel the need to be terrorized you should do so at an Orange Terror alert level. Feel free to up it to Red if you see any ethnic groups you aren't comfortable with or people playing with small digital devices you can't identify.
So in other words, you acknowledge all the science that supports materialism, but then insist on adding in an additional component without any basis in logic or experiment.
Learn to read. I'm not adding an additional component. I'm using logic to include all human experiences instead of the science default of excluding all human experience. While you're at it, learn to think.
My theory is almost complete, i'm just working on the computer system to explain it to people who live in a dark deterministic world like you do.
BTW, you're the science dogma bitch in this conversation, I'm the one working at breaking the dogma of both science and religion by developing a universal system that logically takes into account ALL human experience. But nice try at making yourself feel superior to overcompensate for the emptiness inside which you created but not allowing god to shine through.
Perhaps the fact that they all to some extent say exactly the same thing would be an indication that there is One God. It should be no suprise that humans with their different languages and different cultures have constructed different religions to try and explain all the God experiences of their culture. It should also come as no surprise that they bicker over this because they are still juvenile humans after all.
Put simply, God is one. We live in, and are a part of a sea of conscious energy, that collective consciousness is God or The Creator, we'll use God to be defined as a subset of that energy. Science now knows that we are vibrating energy patterns in constant interaction with the world around us, it's just not simple to grasp when your mind turns all these fluctuating vibrations into a concrete, constant world, this is why the senses have to be 'transcended' in spirituality.
The energy of God can only be used and harnessed when one is sync with the intent of that energy. Gods can be created because a shared belief can act as a reservoir for the intent and energy of that belief. It's sort of like a Bose Einstein condensate. To become one with God and use the stored energy available there, one must lose individuality.
Therein lies the problem, Gods today are fractured beyond belief. Personal gods are de rigueur nowadays, driven by the stupidity of the push for Individualism in the US (of course, gods were fractured before this, but it's a little ridiculous now). These new Gods are in a sense worthless and powerless because the energy going in is usually only from one person or a small group of crazy's and they have to contend against the Science God which is the most powerful now because of all the science fanbois who believe without understanding or proof.
Learn what the word meditate means, erase the negative connotations of the word based on US experience of con men using meditation as a means to steal money (It's the US, con men don't have any qualms about using anything to acheive their goals), and you may find that meditation experiences are repeatable, and if taught properly, no judgement or explanatory systems are necessary to explain to the person what they are experiencing. That's how you spot a con man, they'll always tell you what you'll experience, and how much it'll cost you, as opposed to allowing you to experience sans interpretation and sans payment.
What you BPD sufferers confuse all the time is the mechanism with the reason. I was going to say 'what came first the chicken or the egg' but you guys have such low intelligence you still haven't solved that one and it's painfully obvious.
What you missed in your science fanboi rant is that the reason there is such a widely held belief in a God is because so many people have 'experienced' God. Religions are just attempts at explaining these widely spread experiences. Of course, your posture will determine how much God experiences you will have, those with a highly developed right side and consequent left brain focus will tend to be shut out of these experiences by their close minded focus on their false perception of a concrete world.
Yeah, yeah, I sound crazy but that's just because your puny mind can't assemble the total world.
N.B.Yoga here is used in the true sense of the word with a history measured in millenia, not in the capitalistic physical gymnastic practice from the US measured in decades. Always funny to see some new yoga startup trying to poorly re-discover real Yoga, simply because they haven't read the body of repeatable knowledge that's available.
Great, now I'm probably going to have to listen to the juvenile debates between the christian and science fanbois. Got to love US'ians, at least they know how to pick sides.
Canada would be a perfect country if we just had the crazy mail/internet shopping and coupons that the US has.
Perhaps the problem in your equation is not the key, the blank, or the duplicator, but rather the operator.
Oh no! some electrical pattern in some computer in some warehouse in the middle of nowhere knows I buy apples every week and they send me a coupon every week! Where will the madness stop! What about the children?
Learn to read and think. They don't care about you as an individual or a person, just an anonymous consuming unit.
It runs linux, you can ssh into and install or compile whatever you want, comes in upto 4 gigs and i think they just got a dual drive one. Use the built in internet access to the twonky server or install some free cloud software.
I think the whole privacy crap in the USA is because people are so self-important that they actually think their life matters to other people. But really, except for a few outliers nobody could care about your buying habits. Companies don't even care about 'your' buying habits, they care about the aggregate data. The only thing that cares about matching up your identity and buying habits is some automated software that'll send you propaganda.
What's really funny about the whole privacy issue in the states is that more people get worked up about some minor little thing that tries to get you to buy stuff you already buy or related stuff but they gave away a whole bunch of freedom and privacy in this century. Visiting the US is really like diving into 1984, the broadcasts in airports would be comical if it weren't for the fact that these people are serious! I'm not sure there's a bigger terrorizer of the US than the US itself.
If you aren't ashamed of something or doing something that shouldn't be done, then why are these people so concerned about databases (not other humans) knowing their purchasing habits?
Seriously, why are people so afraid of people finding out who they actually are?
I'd say most US'ians are just paranoid people who don't know themselves or others and want to keep it that way.