Sorry, not to say they don't DEEPLY respect nature but worship is the wrong word with in the correct intention of the framer. Most people are not cut out for Nirvana as is clearly indicated by the world we live in.
Greater vehicle, lesser vehicle, discuss. e.g. Tibetan Buddhism is awesome but contains VERY little Buddhism and a lot of Bon. Yes I've been there and Thailand too. As my Yoga teacher once said the Indians could only be aesthetic so long before they got bored and had to start draping flowers on things again. Just because followers think things does not effect the basic message. E.g. I have never met a Christian who behaved in anyway I think Jesus would approve of in any way. Just because Calvin wanted to have a get into Heaven card despite being rich does change the parable of Divas. Buddism is really simple, Don't want don't suffer. The rest, as I said is the stained glass windows for the illiterate peasants.
Well you're just completely wrong. Buddhism is simply a method for reliving pain by erasing desire. That's it. If I was grading a paper and that was your definition I would give you a F and ask you if you had bothered to do any reading at all and advise you that even religious studies requires something other than self involved navel gazing. I would also try to impress on you that just because some "followers" of a "religion" do something hat activity doesn't magically progress back upstream and change inviolate rules set down by the founder, as much as that may piss off the Pashtuns. .
What you are describing (with the choice thing) is somewhat closer to the Tao (but you're still not right) and so you may be confusing Buddhism with Zen which is a combination of the two. As to the nature worship you are just confusing the religion that was native to India before Buddhism which is called Hinduism or what you are talking about his more Tantra. Or you watch a lot Japanese movies and are thinking about Shino, so still totally wrong.
1st book great, 2nd book OK, 3rd book readable, 4th on... wait who the fuck is this character I forgot about 3 books ago, shit I really don't care anymore.
I have to call bullshit on what you think Buddhism is.
1. Buddhists don't worship anything, when asked he said he knew nothing about god and or the afterlife, believe what you will.
2. Buddhists are trying to relive pain.
a. Life is pain
b. Desire causes pain.
c. to end pain end desire.
d. don't be a dick
That's it. The rest is stain glass windows for the illiterate peasants. All Buddhists need, that and the middle path meaning split life and soul evenly and be realistic about the world we live in.
Actually Algae might. 250000 gallons of oil per acre in the lab. Plus hydrocarbons are awesome as previously noted by all. We have the infrastructures and engines already. You see any type of production gain efficiency as you reduce the size e.g. Von Numman machines. But most people fail to notice that we have billions of years of nanotechnology research already done for us that the ultimate self replicating solar device is already out there and kicking ass. You cannot beat primary producers in the ecosystem. The food web is all about the bottom of the pyramid.
As to getting people to act rationally good luck with that.
That's because of the availability heuristic and cognitive dissonance on your part. The real problem is with your mind not with PhDs. You have built yourself a self supporting bullshit machine that unrealistically weighs "facts" that support your preconceptions and discounts things that disagree with what you think. You saying that PhDs don't have to defend their ideas is the height of self incrimination. Do you have a PhD? I seriously doubt it.
In addition I see from your later posts that you bring up the whole "grant money" argument. This clearly identifies your as out of your mind. Just in case you missed the memo fossil fuel extraction is the MOST PROFITABLE endeavor in human history bar none. If you think that thousands of squabbling academics who's only ability to move up in their world is by gotcha and disproving each others ideas are going to magically join forces to create a false theory and data in order to what? Seriously what the fuck do they have to gain, grant money? What world do you live in? Grant money? The combined oil industry must make 100x all the academic grants in the US each quarter. You are so self deluded that is makes me wonder how you can operate a keyboard.
Zhuangzi was walking on a mountain, when he saw a great tree with huge branches and luxuriant foliage. A wood-cutter was resting by its side, but he would not touch it, and, when asked the reason, said, that it was of no use for anything, Zhuangzi then said to his disciples, 'This tree, because its wood is good for nothing, will succeed in living out its natural term of years.' Having left the mountain, the Master lodged in the house of an old friend, who was glad to see him, and ordered his waiting-lad to kill a goose and boil it. The lad said, 'One of our geese can cackle, and the other cannot - which of them shall I kill?' The host said, 'Kill the one that cannot cackle.'
Next day, his disciples asked Zhuangzi, saying, 'Yesterday the tree on the mountain (you said) would live out its years because of the uselessness of its wood, and now our host's goose has died because of its want of power (to cackle) - which of these conditions, Master, would you prefer to be in?' Zhuangzi laughed and said, '(If I said that) I would prefer to be in a position between being fit to be useful and wanting that fitness, that would seem to be the right position, but it would not be so, for it would not put me beyond being involved in trouble; whereas one who takes his seat on the Dao and its Attributes, and there finds his ease and enjoyment, is not exposed to such a contingency. He is above the reach both of praise and of detraction; now he (mounts aloft) like a dragon, now he (keeps beneath) like a snake; he is transformed with the (changing) character of the time, and is not willing to addict himself to any one thing; now in a high position and now in a low, he is in harmony with all his surroundings; he enjoys himself at ease with the Author of all things; he treats things as things, and is not a thing to them: where is his liability to be involved in trouble? This was the method of Shen Nong and Huang-Di. As to those who occupy themselves with the qualities of things, and with the teaching and practice of the human relations, it is not so with them. Union brings on separation; success, overthrow; sharp corners, the use of the file; honour, critical remarks; active exertion, failure; wisdom, scheming; inferiority, being despised: where is the possibility of unchangeableness in any of these conditions? Remember this, my disciples. Let your abode be here - in the Dao and its Attributes.'
My translation?
"If you want to live to be 200,000 years old, don't be anyone's bitch."
Really? If you have lost the hi-tech manufacturing complex how in the fuck are you going to make wafers? Anyway the pushed disease from Monsanto was far more interesting than another re-write of the ideas brought up in lets say Dune in the 1960's.
We'll use all he money we're saving by taking apart he military industrial and the prison industrial complexes. hen we can launch all the jingoists to the moon where they can live in a perfect capitalist society where they don't have to live the evils of capitalism.
Here here! In addition they have their own swath of wireless bandwidth for their radios that could be reapportioned for this by going to digital radios.
We attacked Iraq because "they tried to kill my dad." That's the short of it. The long of it was that the Vulcans wanted to swing their dicks in public. The only reasonable cause of the war to prevent Iraq creating a Euro based oil bourse but I have never seen any real documentation to support that.
The Iraqis were NEVER going to attack us. The doctrine is a lie. The Taliban / Pashtuns were NEVER going to attack us. The doctrine is a lie. Al Qaeda was an is a huge threat and needs an asymmetric warfare response to its tactics. Never forget that we adopted the Blitzkrieg and our modern army's systems from the Nazis all we needed to become the monster wee defeated was a president to fucking stupid to know that he was a fascist ( in the classical Mussolini definition ) and a people to complacent and stupid to know that we had been cooped from within.
The best I have ever seen is the ocean mounted gas gun. I saw it one time on the interest in an alternate launch vehicle web site. and I have never been able to find it again. Basically just a long tube in the ocean with valves, you sink one end and open a valve, sea water rushes in the bottom compresses the air and forces it up toward the surface, then POP! out goes the cork at a velocity that can reach orbit. Not good for people but great for payloads like water/fuel.
Wow you are totally wrong! You see there already is 'a almost limitless, cheap power' source called the FUCKING sun. 1200 watts per square meter on earth x 144% or about 17280/ meter sq. in space and 24 hrs per day.
Do we currently launch stuff into space with chemical rockets? Yes. Do we have cyclotrons? Yes. Is a physical structure more efficient than chemical rockets? Yes ($10,000/lbs vs. ?$100/lbs. to orbit est.)
So if we want stuff in space ( a totally impractical idea in and of itself ) than we should use something that is cheap, robust, and reusable. Practical also means it is build-able with current tech. Impractical is relying on non-existent tech like a pair of 24,000 km long nano-tech fibers or chemical rocket. Did you know that Saturn rocket put out as much energy as the rest of the planet combined on its launch? One planetary output of power to get two tiny boxes of meat and metal to the moon.
You need to learn what "perfect is the enemy of the good" means.
See "Space Fountain." Build-able with current technology. Basically use a particle accelerator to provide lift to the building, at the top have a turnbuckle that sends them back to the accelerator, rinse and repeat. Like trying to raise a full fire hose in the air vs. a tape measure.
Why is it nutty? Risk=Damage*Likelihood. An existential risk has, for us at least, infinite damage; therefore even if the likelihood is very small the risk is still infinite.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw Another good one from Shaw. (George Bernard Shaw telegrammed Winston Churchill just prior to the opening of Major Barbara: "Have reserved two tickets for first night. Come and bring a friend if you have one." Churchill wired back, "Impossible to come to first night. Will come to second night, if you have one.")
Your progeny are your evolutionary retirement fund, invest in their continued existence.
1. We no longer use slave labor. 2. We have OHSA. 3. We have a vague concern for the environment, 4. We have state agencies who defend their turf instead of doing their jobs. 5. We are lazy selfish shits.
He leaves out Algae and space based solar; two of the most promising. All in all just another example of a hard core nerd missing the point that perfect is the enemy of the good.
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Sorry, not to say they don't DEEPLY respect nature but worship is the wrong word with in the correct intention of the framer. Most people are not cut out for Nirvana as is clearly indicated by the world we live in.
Greater vehicle, lesser vehicle, discuss. e.g. Tibetan Buddhism is awesome but contains VERY little Buddhism and a lot of Bon. Yes I've been there and Thailand too. As my Yoga teacher once said the Indians could only be aesthetic so long before they got bored and had to start draping flowers on things again. Just because followers think things does not effect the basic message. E.g. I have never met a Christian who behaved in anyway I think Jesus would approve of in any way. Just because Calvin wanted to have a get into Heaven card despite being rich does change the parable of Divas. Buddism is really simple, Don't want don't suffer. The rest, as I said is the stained glass windows for the illiterate peasants.
Well you're just completely wrong. Buddhism is simply a method for reliving pain by erasing desire. That's it. If I was grading a paper and that was your definition I would give you a F and ask you if you had bothered to do any reading at all and advise you that even religious studies requires something other than self involved navel gazing. I would also try to impress on you that just because some "followers" of a "religion" do something hat activity doesn't magically progress back upstream and change inviolate rules set down by the founder, as much as that may piss off the Pashtuns. .
What you are describing (with the choice thing) is somewhat closer to the Tao (but you're still not right) and so you may be confusing Buddhism with Zen which is a combination of the two. As to the nature worship you are just confusing the religion that was native to India before Buddhism which is called Hinduism or what you are talking about his more Tantra. Or you watch a lot Japanese movies and are thinking about Shino, so still totally wrong.
1st book great, 2nd book OK, 3rd book readable, 4th on... wait who the fuck is this character I forgot about 3 books ago, shit I really don't care anymore.
I have to call bullshit on what you think Buddhism is.
1. Buddhists don't worship anything, when asked he said he knew nothing about god and or the afterlife, believe what you will.
2. Buddhists are trying to relive pain.
a. Life is pain
b. Desire causes pain.
c. to end pain end desire.
d. don't be a dick
That's it. The rest is stain glass windows for the illiterate peasants. All Buddhists need, that and the middle path meaning split life and soul evenly and be realistic about the world we live in.
Actually Algae might. 250000 gallons of oil per acre in the lab. Plus hydrocarbons are awesome as previously noted by all. We have the infrastructures and engines already. You see any type of production gain efficiency as you reduce the size e.g. Von Numman machines. But most people fail to notice that we have billions of years of nanotechnology research already done for us that the ultimate self replicating solar device is already out there and kicking ass. You cannot beat primary producers in the ecosystem. The food web is all about the bottom of the pyramid.
As to getting people to act rationally good luck with that.
That's because of the availability heuristic and cognitive dissonance on your part. The real problem is with your mind not with PhDs. You have built yourself a self supporting bullshit machine that unrealistically weighs "facts" that support your preconceptions and discounts things that disagree with what you think. You saying that PhDs don't have to defend their ideas is the height of self incrimination. Do you have a PhD? I seriously doubt it.
In addition I see from your later posts that you bring up the whole "grant money" argument. This clearly identifies your as out of your mind. Just in case you missed the memo fossil fuel extraction is the MOST PROFITABLE endeavor in human history bar none. If you think that thousands of squabbling academics who's only ability to move up in their world is by gotcha and disproving each others ideas are going to magically join forces to create a false theory and data in order to what? Seriously what the fuck do they have to gain, grant money? What world do you live in? Grant money? The combined oil industry must make 100x all the academic grants in the US each quarter. You are so self deluded that is makes me wonder how you can operate a keyboard.
http://ctext.org/zhuangzi/tree-on-the-mountain
Zhuangzi was walking on a mountain, when he saw a great tree with huge branches and luxuriant foliage. A wood-cutter was resting by its side, but he would not touch it, and, when asked the reason, said, that it was of no use for anything, Zhuangzi then said to his disciples, 'This tree, because its wood is good for nothing, will succeed in living out its natural term of years.' Having left the mountain, the Master lodged in the house of an old friend, who was glad to see him, and ordered his waiting-lad to kill a goose and boil it. The lad said, 'One of our geese can cackle, and the other cannot - which of them shall I kill?' The host said, 'Kill the one that cannot cackle.'
Next day, his disciples asked Zhuangzi, saying, 'Yesterday the tree on the mountain (you said) would live out its years because of the uselessness of its wood, and now our host's goose has died because of its want of power (to cackle) - which of these conditions, Master, would you prefer to be in?' Zhuangzi laughed and said, '(If I said that) I would prefer to be in a position between being fit to be useful and wanting that fitness, that would seem to be the right position, but it would not be so, for it would not put me beyond being involved in trouble; whereas one who takes his seat on the Dao and its Attributes, and there finds his ease and enjoyment, is not exposed to such a contingency. He is above the reach both of praise and of detraction; now he (mounts aloft) like a dragon, now he (keeps beneath) like a snake; he is transformed with the (changing) character of the time, and is not willing to addict himself to any one thing; now in a high position and now in a low, he is in harmony with all his surroundings; he enjoys himself at ease with the Author of all things; he treats things as things, and is not a thing to them: where is his liability to be involved in trouble? This was the method of Shen Nong and Huang-Di. As to those who occupy themselves with the qualities of things, and with the teaching and practice of the human relations, it is not so with them. Union brings on separation; success, overthrow; sharp corners, the use of the file; honour, critical remarks; active exertion, failure; wisdom, scheming; inferiority, being despised: where is the possibility of unchangeableness in any of these conditions? Remember this, my disciples. Let your abode be here - in the Dao and its Attributes.'
My translation?
"If you want to live to be 200,000 years old, don't be anyone's bitch."
Really? If you have lost the hi-tech manufacturing complex how in the fuck are you going to make wafers? Anyway the pushed disease from Monsanto was far more interesting than another re-write of the ideas brought up in lets say Dune in the 1960's.
WTF "t" key why you leaving me hanging?
We'll use all he money we're saving by taking apart he military industrial and the prison industrial complexes. hen we can launch all the jingoists to the moon where they can live in a perfect capitalist society where they don't have to live the evils of capitalism.
What a stupid thing to ask. Mission critical systems should not be attached to public networks period end of discussion.
Here here! In addition they have their own swath of wireless bandwidth for their radios that could be reapportioned for this by going to digital radios.
We attacked Iraq because "they tried to kill my dad." That's the short of it. The long of it was that the Vulcans wanted to swing their dicks in public. The only reasonable cause of the war to prevent Iraq creating a Euro based oil bourse but I have never seen any real documentation to support that.
No you fucking illiterate, I mean Fascism . Fascism is defined as the combination of corporation and state with a religious undertone.
The Iraqis were NEVER going to attack us. The doctrine is a lie.
The Taliban / Pashtuns were NEVER going to attack us. The doctrine is a lie.
Al Qaeda was an is a huge threat and needs an asymmetric warfare response to its tactics.
Never forget that we adopted the Blitzkrieg and our modern army's systems from the Nazis all we needed to become the monster wee defeated was a president to fucking stupid to know that he was a fascist ( in the classical Mussolini definition ) and a people to complacent and stupid to know that we had been cooped from within.
The best I have ever seen is the ocean mounted gas gun. I saw it one time on the interest in an alternate launch vehicle web site. and I have never been able to find it again. Basically just a long tube in the ocean with valves, you sink one end and open a valve, sea water rushes in the bottom compresses the air and forces it up toward the surface, then POP! out goes the cork at a velocity that can reach orbit. Not good for people but great for payloads like water/fuel.
Wow you are totally wrong! You see there already is 'a almost limitless, cheap power' source called the FUCKING sun. 1200 watts per square meter on earth x 144% or about 17280/ meter sq. in space and 24 hrs per day.
Do we currently launch stuff into space with chemical rockets? Yes. Do we have cyclotrons? Yes. Is a physical structure more efficient than chemical rockets? Yes ($10,000/lbs vs. ?$100/lbs. to orbit est.)
So if we want stuff in space ( a totally impractical idea in and of itself ) than we should use something that is cheap, robust, and reusable. Practical also means it is build-able with current tech. Impractical is relying on non-existent tech like a pair of 24,000 km long nano-tech fibers or chemical rocket. Did you know that Saturn rocket put out as much energy as the rest of the planet combined on its launch? One planetary output of power to get two tiny boxes of meat and metal to the moon.
You need to learn what "perfect is the enemy of the good" means.
See "Space Fountain." Build-able with current technology. Basically use a particle accelerator to provide lift to the building, at the top have a turnbuckle that sends them back to the accelerator, rinse and repeat. Like trying to raise a full fire hose in the air vs. a tape measure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain
Why is it nutty? Risk=Damage*Likelihood. An existential risk has, for us at least, infinite damage; therefore even if the likelihood is very small the risk is still infinite.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw
Another good one from Shaw. (George Bernard Shaw telegrammed Winston Churchill just prior to the opening of Major Barbara: "Have reserved two tickets for first night. Come and bring a friend if you have one." Churchill wired back, "Impossible to come to first night. Will come to second night, if you have one.")
Your progeny are your evolutionary retirement fund, invest in their continued existence.
7.8 Hz bitches.
1. We no longer use slave labor.
2. We have OHSA.
3. We have a vague concern for the environment,
4. We have state agencies who defend their turf instead of doing their jobs.
5. We are lazy selfish shits.
He leaves out Algae and space based solar; two of the most promising. All in all just another example of a hard core nerd missing the point that perfect is the enemy of the good.
quake 2 --> halflife --> natural selection
Vs. the more common depressed hard core assholes who live an unsustainable lifestyle in 10,000 sq ft McMansions where we'll start decade long wars by lying.