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D P wrote: And I prefer those with a reasonable mind that will just answer the questions I pose to them, or concede my point. A reasonable mind cannot answer Dee’s question on the relationshhip between faith and knowledge. An open mind can eventually experience it. Einstein could experience it beca...

D P wrote: Yes, like technology which we have to detect what our five senses can't perceive by themselves. Yet we have not detected the 'vibrations' which you seem to insist exist. So no, there are no vibrations coming in. And if you keep insisting otherwise, map them, and demonstrate them. Otherwis...

"Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates."--The Kybalion. D P wrote: What frequency is consciousness receiving at? We have senses we receive with, I agree; five of them. Are you suggesting more? Can it be measured, if you are? What frequencies of vibration are your five sense...

Dalek Prime wrote: Plato was wrong. Our consciousness is a product of our network configuration, not something preexisting in an 'aether'. And now the other side "My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not p...

Uwot wrote: Nick_A wrote:Modern secular society is reliant on intellectual reason to supply its meaning and purpose. IMO it has ignored two other connections our inner lives have with the external world: emotion and sensation. Ok. So how does emotion inform the inner life about the external world? ...

I have just been notified that Charles H. Wadanabe is now under consideration for a NAS award in 2017 in the category Physical, Earth and Space Sciences for his scientific dedication to truth above and beyond the call of duty. A party is being planned for the farm which will include home made wine. ...

Uwot, Dr. Nicolescu is very highly regarded in the field of particle physics. Perhaps he is aware of relationships you are unaware of. For example he just concluded a dialogue in China with a Buddhist monk on the question of reality. There may have been more in their dialogue than 90% of people are ...

Scott wrote: The paradox (as to Meno by Plato) is to actually try it to determine for yourself. But if upon trying it, it should turn out to be precisely as addictive as you've been told, you LOSE for questioning the faith expected of you by others AND earn the addiction you questioned was possible...

From the OP: 1 Corinthians 2: 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. If this is true it reveals the futility of human reason for answe...

Hi Scott. You wrote: Let me translate this to what "Spirit" meant to the ancients originally. As you may be aware, 'spirit' derives from a meaning referencing a 'spire' as a term describing a rising staircase going up in a tower back then. It was a metaphorical derivative referencing the ...

Reflex wrote:I don't believe in effort. Effort focuses our attention on the very thing we want to free of and thereby reinforces it. Neither do I believe in the pursuit of truth. Pursuing truth is like looking for the lens through which you see. Do you believe in the value of the Socratic axiom: &q...

Sthit wrote: Greta, as I have pointed out to LW, there are three people trying to reason the futility of reason. Do you see the breathtaking scale of the stupidity here? And you are trying to reason with them. Simone Weil wrote: “We know by means of our intelligence that what the intelligence does n...

Reflex wrote: By that, I mean exactly what I said. I'm not going to be sullen and depressed just because I can't have sex as the result of cancer. And how can I be expected to take seriously someone who pretentiously implies that I'm a Christian and dogmatically argues that reason is not futile, an...

Reflex wrote: I'm not in a Buddhist sangha and life is too important to be taken seriously. I must admit you've lost me here. I'm not a Buddhist either but I can still agree in the way a sangha values a respectful attitude when sharing ideas. What do you mean by life being too important to be taken...

Greta wrote:

The usual cop-out is a refusal to lay "pearls amongst the swine". Let's see if you can do a little better (or not) than that.

First tell me what you think this passage means.