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I'm not from this galaxy by the way, I'm just dropping by temporally to carry out my assignment of being a light worker. Which galaxy are you from? I'm from NGC 4871, it's an unremarkable little lenticular galaxy, not much going on there other than that one of the gateways for the light workers is ...

I'm not from this galaxy by the way, I'm just dropping by temporally to carry out my assignment of being a light worker. Which galaxy are you from? I'm from NGC 4871, it's an unremarkable little lenticular galaxy, not much going on there other than that one of the gateways for the light workers is ...

I haven't looked at global warming much, just some speculation. From what I gather so far, the most likely main driver of warming might be that human activity, the various released gases (plus maybe major changes in ecosystems etc.), have impacted natural cloud formation. There are slightly less clo...

You are entitled to have an opinion, but fact is, that all we percieve are photons and electromagnetic resistance/reflection. Light and electricity. What about things like the elementary particles, strong and weak nuclear forces, gravity, Higgs field, (dark matter, dark energy)? I agree and disagre...

Free will and randomness are both uncaused, but of course randomness doesn't imply free will, these two are basically unrelated concepts. Even if reality is truly random in the physical sense, that doesn't necessarily mean that we can change anything using our will.

secular philosophy which is based on one level of reality and limits Man’s need for meaning to what the world can provide People didn't ask for a one-level-reality, and it does go against man's need for meaning, but looks like it's simply how things are, so you can't blame anyone for it. People did...

Hello, There is an overall consensus throughout the scientific community, that reality consists of information. Not matter, but information. I think there may indeed be an emerging majority consensus about this. But it's more like the idea that reality is best described as information. It's the most...

In more recent memory, I have these odd sensations in bed where it feels like my mind is slowly drifting into another state as I begin to get more and more tired. I think this first started to happen when I was taking actual hypnotics, but even since, I'm still able to recognize when it starts to h...

Too bad, this way there's no outside force to save us from destroying ourselves. :) Perhaps it's too late? The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. People of Earth, your attention, please. This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. As you wi...

Yes, there's no reason to assume that a meta-mind is true, but that would appear to be the most naturalistic approach to the idea of deities. I am not sure that if a universe- or Earth-sized mind existed whether it would notice the suffering of animals/humans. It's not as though we ourselves agonis...

Imo the belief that the universe is some kind of one big non-anthropomorphic conscious entity, some kind of an all-infusive meta-mind, is a belief that usually doesn't last long. This view is joyous first, but then tends to slowly evaporate as most people realize that they are feeling love and grati...

I think the most probable scenario is that we are the most advanced species in our universe. Because whatever is to happen soon (won't go into those speculations here), seems to be able to happen through one or a few members of our species. So the minimalistic route already seems to lead through us,...

The superior race on the planet are of course the savant-geniuses, people with savant skills who are normal otherwise.

Trolls are like normal humans, they are mere cannon fodder. Insignificant and uninteresting, they failed to make the final evolutionary step. That must be disappointing.

There are (at least) two ways of thinking, the dual and non-dual one - the benefit of the non-dual understanding is that it includes understanding of duality whereas this is not so the other way round. Exactly. When most people are first introduced to this topic, they seem to misunderstand the rela...

Only once a shift of identification happens that takes us away from the idea of being a part of something rather than being the whole, can healthy individuality arise as only then is it not built on the idea of separation. Agree, agree, agree. Imo the most difficult aspect to get across is that thi...