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This is from the GIta, which has helped answered many questions in life:
"Life is like a school, one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade, as long as a debt of karma remains however, a person must keep coming back for further education. That is the basis of Samsara, the cycle of birth and death."
In profound meditation, the ancient sages found when consciousness is so acutely focused that it is utterly withdrawn from the body and mind, it enters a kind of singularity in which the sense of ego disappears, in this supreme climax of meditation, seers discovered a core of consciousness beyond time and change, they called it Atman, simply...the self.
Once identified with the self we know that although the body will die, we will not die. Our awareness of this identity is not ruptured by the death of the physical body. Then we have realized the immortality which is the essential birthright of every human being. Death is no more dramatic than taking off an old coat. Life cannot offer any more higher realization, the supreme goal of human existence has been attained. The man or woman who realized God, has everything and lacks nothing. Having this, they desire nothing else and cannot be shaken by the heaviest burden of sorrow.
The Upanishads describe dying as a very similar process to sleep. Consciousness is withdrawn from the body into the senses, from the senses into the mind and finally consolidated in the ego. When the body is finally wrenched away, the ego remains, a potent packet of desires and karma. As our last waking thoughts shape our dreams, the contents of the unconscious at the time of death, the residue of all that we have thought and desired and lived for in the past determine the context of our next life. We take a body again, the sages say, to come back to just the conditions where our desires and karma can be fulfilled."
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This a fairly long quote from Terence McKenna. I think it's worth posting because he had some great insights into language:
Information is lose on planet three. Something unusual is going on here. The
world is not made of quarks, electromagnetic wave packets, or the thoughts of
God. The world is made of language. Language is replicating itself in DNA,
which, at the evolutionary apex, is creating societies of civilized beings
that posses language and machines that use languages. Earth is a place where
language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is
replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying
agreed-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one
has only little mouth noises. Meaning is a crude form of telepathy- as you
listen to my voice, my thoughts become your thoughts and we compare them. This
is communication, understanding, Reality is a domain of codes, and that is why
the UFO problem is like a grammatical problem- like a dangling participle in
the fourth-dimensional language that makes reality. It eludes simple
approaches because its nature is somehow embedded in the machinery of
epistemic knowing itself. -TM, Archaic Revival
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@AwkwardHuman Nah, you can give Kahn credit for inventing TCP/IP, the protocol (language) still used today for communicating over the internet...I'll give them that, it's code. People create new languages all the time tho. But the internet encompasses much more than that. Without the Paul Eisler, John Ambrose Fleming, Jack KIlby, Robert Noyce, William Yeager, to name a few, we would have no internet. It's a colab, foo.
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@smokebonde9943 If people read their history books the game would be over. Governments don't even have real power, it's imaginary power, because the moment people stop believing in it, it vanishes. The Republic by Plato should be required reading in every public school...
Every form of government tends to parish by excess of its basic principle. Aristocricy ruins itself by limiting too narrowly the circle within which power is confined. Oligarchy ruins itself by the incautious scramble for immediate wealth. In either case, the end is revolution. When revolution comes it may seem to arise from little causes and petty whims. But though it may spring from slight occasions, it is the precipitate result of grave and accumulated wrongs. When a body is weakened by neglected ills, the nearest exposure may bring serious disease.
Then democracy comes, the poor overcome their opponents, slaughtering some and banishing the rest, and give to the people an equal share of freedom and power. But even democracy ruins itself by excess... of democracy. Its basic principle is the equal right of all to hold office and determine public policy. This is at first glance a delightful arrangement. It becomes disastrous because the people are not properly equipped by education to select the best rulers and the wisest courses. As to the people, they have no understanding, and repeat what their rulers are pleased to tell them.
To get a doctrine accepted or rejected it is only necessary to have it praised or ridiculed in a popular play. Mob rule is a rough sea for the ship of state to ride, every wind of oratory stirs up the water and deflects the course. The upshot of such a democracy is tyranny or autocracy. The crowd so loves flattery, it is so hungry for honey, that at last the wiliest and most unscrupulous flatterer, calling himself the protector of the people, rises to supreme power. Consider the history of Rome. -Plato, The Republic
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Honestly... no one cares what the government knows. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there are no big secrets...that's just part of their little con game they run: to make you believe they know something you don't, because even if it's a lie, that's still power...but if you don't buy into their bullshit, there's your freedom. Think about it. Intellectuals don't fall for this kind of crap.
No one is in control guys.. It's not the establishment, the government or the Bilderberg. The truth of the matter is far more terrifying, no one is in control. Absolutely no one. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. Now, there are entities seeking control.... the world bank, the communist party, the rich, somebody or other, but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself, because the process that's underway will throw the control freak from the short and curly against the wall.
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Albin Carlstein
I believe it is true when they say life is a series of journeys, and I don't know what it is all about, but I know that much is true. It's an interesting learning process, maybe that's what we're here to do, learn? I believe the leraning process is as important if not more important that socializing with others.
Socializing is important too of course, becuase we're social creatures, and if we don't socialize, we go crazy, and I believe that's been shown XD, but educate your mind as well, and I don't mean a formal education, more like learning about life, finding out who you truly are and possibly how you related to the rest of the cosmos. "Know thy self", as Socrates put it. Unfortunately too many people spend too much time watching television and fill their minds with garbabe. BTW- thanks for your suggestion about engaging like-minded people, that's so important. I def need more of that in my life :-)
Till we meet again, Albin!
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Work smart, not hard, Thomas. If you're stuck in an office job God forbid, there are better ways of earning a paycheck. Personally speaking, I think working is rubbish. The idea of "work" anyway, i.e. going into a job, clocking in, getting salary, etc, is a fairly modern thing. Before that people were skilled at something and that became their trade. There was a bartering system. The monetary system that we have today is doomed to failure. I don't know, maybe we'll go back to trading and bartering. Last thing, this goes without being said, but if you can earn a living doing what you love, yea, everything feels free. Money is just a means to an end. I ain't never had no J.O.B. but I have everything I need. Just my two cents.
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Oh, and your logic is so out of this world...because you're saying that because there's scientific evidence for something, that makes it safe. So adderall, concerta, zoloft, ritalin, lexapro, zyprexa, etc.... all these drugs distributed to kids to control their behavior, and which they continually bash on this channel, are safe, because they have scientific documents attached to them? Winning argument there my man. How do you feel about big macs?
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It's not crazy it makes complete sense. I've read dozens of books on consciousness including some ancient scriptures, and I think Vedanta, based on Hinduism makes the most sense. They say experience requires an experiencer, but if you want to get an idea of what happens after death, think about Nirvana, which in Vedanta means annihilation. There's a poem in one of the Hindu scriptures, and it goes something like this, "There's a candle that's lit with a flame, the light gets blown out, there's no more you, but you don't even know it."
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Please give these awesome quotes a thumbs up!
They'll legalize any drug that will keep you content working in a cubicle. Case File- Wanda: "I alphabetize insurance forms for a living and I noticed I couldn't concentrate so well in my job, so my doctor put me on adderall and now I just breeze through my workday and I don't even notice that my life is being pissed away under fluorescent lighting with no real fun or expectations just ABCDEFJHIJKLMNOP" -Doug Stanhope
Scientific information is a controlled process and it's controlled by a government that has a fascist attitude towards food and drugs. If you have a democracy, you can elect yourself fascist. Fascism is the imposition of the opinions and beliefs of the minority onto the majority. -Ralph Metzner
The state, should not in the matter of drugs, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church. People want to stimulate themselves, they want to explore their consciousness, they want to sedate themselves, who are we to stand in their way with a moral ideology and the long heavy arm of the law to interfere with that. It distorts civilized values. That's the bottom line. Drug repression distorts civilized values and political discourse. -Terence McKenna
When the state sends us to prison for essentially exploring our own consciousness, this is a grotesque abuse of human rights. It's a fundamental wrong. If I as an adult am not sovereign over my own consciousness, then I'm absolutely not sovereign over anything. I can't claim any kind of freedom at all. And what has happened over the last 40-50 years under the disguise of the war on drugs, is that we have been persuaded to hand over the keys of our consciousness to the state. The most precious, the most intimate, the most sapient part of ourselves... The state now has the keys. And further more, they've persuaded us that that's in our interest. This is a very dangerous situation. -Graham Hancock
There is no war on drugs, you can't have a war on inanimate objects. There's a war on drug addicts. -Gabor Mate
Drugs might actually cause people to wake up to some of the abuses and scams being run by capitalism and government -Terence McKennna
The whole drug thing is properly understood as a civil rights issue. People should be able to take whatever drugs they damn well please. In the same way they should be able to express their sexual preferences. In the same way that women should be allowed to vote. In the same way that people of low incidence of light reflectivity should be treated like everybody else. You cannot have a free society and regulate people's drug use. Any soceity which sets out to call itself free and democratic, with the footnote that certain states of mind are forbiden, is headed down the slippery slope of totalitarianism -TM
I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to speed up and facilitate our evolution. ~Bill Hicks
So when you talk about these programs, I think it's very important: Don't accept the language that the government has defined that you should use. That is a very very bad idea. Because you can't win against abstract, nonsensical, sentimentality. (i.e. no child left behind, IRS, social security, collateral damage, national debt, law enforcement, social reform, sobriety checkpoints, the war on drugs, etc...) -Stefan Molyneux
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*****
To be honest with you, I'm unclear as to what your argument actually is. When I commented that the national debt hit 18 trillion, you said "so?" And thanks for the links, but I don't know where you're going with that.
I'm not going to pretend to understand all the complexities of the monetary system, and perhaps saying that money comes out of thing air WAS an oversimplification. It's probably much worse than that.
I think the term money created out of thin air repeated today is only one of many terms used today by bankers and politicians and media alike to keep everyone in check in what is a state of permenant confusion, or indoctrinated with lies. Money is debt is bunk, simply becuase all money that comes into existence from the very get go, is from the outset of a banks purposed obfuscation of our promisory obligations, which is money corrosion, which is a theft, it's a falsified debt, which means theft. They steal the value you give money, blood sweat and tears through labor and production, that's their game.
That's how a friend explained it to me anyway.
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Honestly, I didn't study chemistry so I can't run my own experiments and varify how many calories would be released from an apple for example, if I were to consume it cooked vs eat it raw. But to borrow from your example, I can't imagine that heating a ripe piece fruit would release 8,500 additional cal vs the 1,500 that would be released in its raw form. That just doesn't make any sense to me as fruits are farily simple compunds- sugar and fiber- compared to other foods. Either way, if you can provide me with the data I'd gladly take a look.
I come from a country where meat and cheese is the staple food. We love our beef and we're actually one of the largest exporters of quality beef in the world. Colon cancer afflicts a large portion of our population, and much like in the West, most people die from cancer. So you have to assume one of two things, humans beings are condemned to suffer disease and illness or there's a problem with consuming meat and cheese.
So I think saying that we evolved to eat meat is just a huge unverifiable claim. How can we really know? It's just another debate that will probably never be settled. So you try to make decisions based on the raw data and common sense. What is the raw data? Well, apparently, as I mentioned earlier, cancer and disease is rampant in modern society. What are the culprits? Look at the typical human diet. What do people typically consume? The big list is sugar, flour, meat, dairy, fruit, vegetables, legumes, grains, etc. Armed with this inforamtion you make lifestyle changes. That's honestly how I've approached this situation.
I don't do it to be right, or becuase I think there's only one type of food humans must eat, after all, when I was a kid I survived primarily on junk food and candy, I'm doing it becuase I see the evidence before me and what people consume and I think to myself, "something's not right", then I stop thinking and surrender to nature. Look me up when I'm 80 and I'll let you know how it's going. I don't want to live forever, just want to die gracefully
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We know fiber is a transport system and insoluble. So when drago mentioned something like an additional 8,500 calories being released by the application of heat, I assumed we were talking about nutrients available to the body- that's the point of all this- what exits as waste is not important. But that's how it is on youtube, sometimes you competence sometimes you get clumsiness lol.
BTW- it's only a hypothesis that our large brain correlates to consuming protein/fats, it's not an established theory like say, for example, "the Earth revolves around the sun" That's a proven hypothesis. The brain/protein theory is speculation and there are other theories to contend with it. I'm not trying to nitpick, but I think you also might be off humans having short guts, our guts are relatively long compared to other mammals. Cats and canines do have a shorter gut becuase they do consume meat, which becomes putrid and needs to exit the gut early. BTW- what do you consider a short gut? I'm 90% sure on this but you can look it up, but the human gut length compared to other mammals is up there: I did a quick glance on this but it might be helpful:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/vestiges/appendix.html
Last thing... to assume that the prevalence of cancer in modern society results from an increased life expectancy is an assertion that humans are intrinsically designed and predisposed to illnesses like cancer. I'm not convinced that's the case. For the sake of accuracy, let's avoid speculation and stick with the facts.
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sonicpsycho13
I'm sorry, but there's a difference between stipulation and discovery. For an argument to be valid, you must have consitency, but validity is not soundness, it's not truth. If you want certainty, you need validity and sound premesis. An argument that doesn't have sound premisis, can yield false conclusions. i.e. "Homonid brain-body ratios raising along with the discovery of artifacts used for hunting, skinning, and butchering = increased brain size" which doesn't take into account other environmental factors that could have been present leading to an increased brain size. One must not pretend to know, or have answers to questions when we don't have them. We all just assume reason's realiability without foundation, without justification, to support our knowledge claims. Reason, broadly construed, is based on presuppositions. And having presupposed a pile of things, we use reason to arrive and elaborate and defend things that make up our web of belief, or pre edifice of knowledge. That's not how logic works. I assure you, that the increase in brain size theory is still up for debate.
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Every form of government tends to parish by excess of its basic principle. Aristocricy ruins itself by limiting too narrowly the circle within which power is confined. Oligarchy ruins itself by the incautious scramble for immediate wealth. In either case, the end is revolution. When revolution comes it may seem to arise from little causes and petty whims. But though it may spring from slight occassions, it is the precipitate result of grave and accumulated wrongs. When a body is weakend by neglected ills, the nearest exposure may bring serious disease.
Then democracy comes, the poor overcome their opponents, slaughtering some and banishing the rest, and give to the people an equal share of freedom and power. But even democracy ruins itself by excess... of democracy. Its basic principle is the equal right of all to hold office and determine public policy. This is at first glance a delightful arrangement. It becomes disastrous becuase the people are not properly equipped by education to select the best rulers and the wisest courses.
As to the people, they have no understanding, and repeat what their rulers are pleased to tell them. To get a doctrine accepted or rejected it is only neccessary to have it praised or ridiculed in a popular play. Mob rule is a rough sea for the ship of state to ride, every wind of oratory stirs up the water and deflects the course. The upshot of such a democracy is tyranny or autocracy. The crowd so loves flattery, it is so hungry for honey, that at last the wiliest and most unscrupulous flatterer, calling himself the protector of the people, rises to supreme power. Consider the history of Rome.
-Plato, The Republic
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michael smithfield
Fair enough, and I agree with you in a general sense, but on the other hand, every word in the English language has some meaning, including the word fuck. And to be honest with you, we're on youtube, I wasn't looking for a formal debate, just wanted to express how I feel about religion, and I don't think any expression covers it quite like "fuck religion." But I'm a reasonable person, so with that being said, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the matter.
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Well it's pointless in so far as to think we can actually do it- that is, understand everything- but that's not to say that we shouldn't try. We're curious by nature so we'll do it regardless.
I don't know, I think that if a scientists who's intelligent, open minded and not so full of himself tried it, he might be humbled by the experience, and if he's an influential and powerful kinda fella, maybe he can pull some strings, change some policy... but I digress, I'm too much of a dreamer.
You are right though, some of us are explorers, some of us are not. BTW- how pure can you get with your recipie?
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***** I'm not making it out to be a joke. It sounds like a serious condition. However, I do believe that health begins with proper nutrition, and that means eating the foods that the human organism evolved to consume over millions of years. If you give the body what it needs, it has an amazing ability to heal itself. Too many people are under the impression that illness and sickness in old age is normal, it's not. I don't know why you have what you have, but proper nutrition is a great place to start, perhaps when you're healthy enough, fasting. There could also be other external factors other than nutrition that is causing you to have this illness. But toxicity in the human organism will manifest in many different ways in the body, cancer, skin conditions, tumors, IBS, etc... it's a long list. I'm just trying to share what I believe and I don't mean to offend anyone, just trying to help.
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All time favorite Carlin Rant:
"...But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason it will never, ever, EVER be fixed.
It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got.
Because the owners, the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the BIG owners! The Wealthy… the REAL owners! The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.
Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.
They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want:
They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests.
Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that!
You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fucking place! It's a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club.
By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people; white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don’t give a fuck about you….they don’t give a fuck about you… they don’t give a FUCK about you.
They don’t care about you at all… at all… AT ALL. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Thats what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick thats being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth.
It's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it." -George Carlin
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TheThinkingApeMan
Yes, I get what you're saying about physical systems doing whatever it is that they do regardless of human thought, but two things; One, I don't believe that human thought constitutes consciousness, rather it's an aspect of it. I believe his definition of consciousness is something much deeper and more esential, beyond the boundaries of the human mind. Two, reality is strange my friend. I mean we've been here a bleep in the scale of time, and look at what we've discovered with quantum entanglement, for example, which violates all laws of classical mechanics, and we've just scratched the surface. Complex things aren't always what they appear to be
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First you need to define what you mean by A.I. otherwise you create confusion. A lot of people are under the impression that A.I. means a self-reflecting, autonomous machine that's comparable to human consciousness, in other words, they're self aware...this will never happen. Future A.I. systems will never be more intelligent than the computer you're using to view this comment right now...they'll just be capable of processing far more data far faster than your computer, but the underlying programming language is just the same: C++, C#, Python, Bash, Java, PHP, etc, etc, etc... Cats have a far better chance of taking over than computers.
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This is why you never believe the official story. Here's the truth about the shutdown that nobody is talking about..........
There's a reason for these shutdowns and it's similar to what happened in 2008. Trillions of dollars have been printed and handed to large banks, and basically they will filter first into very large corporations.
When they did this in 2008, the first thing that happens when you print 8 trillion dollars, it's the same as counterfeiting, it robs everyone else. But when you call it quantitative easing or whatever they're going to call it this time around, everyone just seems okay with it.
When you print 2 trillion dollars you increase the total supply of US dollars by 15% or so, you rob everyone who had savings or retirement of about 15% of all of their money.
There will be a little bit of pittance paid off to keep the proletariat happy, but basically it's going to go to large banks and large corporations, and when all the small entities start to go bankrupt due to the shutdown, all the large entities will buy up, with cheap credit, all the small entities. Same thing happened in 2008. And there's nothing you can do about it.
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I want to preface this by saying that I'm not religious so as not to scare anyone away, but the Torah (the Hebrew bible) is said to be divine. Meaning it wasn't written by man. There is a man by the name of Stan Tenen that can elaborate on this, but he explains that it's a universal artifact, so any intelligent civilization in the universe (if we're not the only one) will have the common langue of the Torah.
The actual Torah was written in the Hebrew Alphabet, which came from another dimension, as silly as that sounds. And this guy Stan Tenen demonstrates exactly how this is possible, and it has to do with the Torus (in geometry the Donut shape). The whole teaching has to do with a vessel, and in order to get into this vessel, you have to respect the vessel, we have to be part of it, and then it can open up, and what's inside is worth even more. If you're religious this might sound familiar. But they're talking about consciousness here.
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Every form of government tends to parish by excess of its basic principle. Aristocricy ruins itself by limiting too narrowly the circle within which power is confined. Oligarchy ruins itself by the incautious scramble for immediate wealth. In either case, the end is revolution. When revolution comes it may seem to arise from little causes and petty whims. But though it may spring from slight occasions, it is the precipitate result of grave and accumulated wrongs.
When a body is weakened by neglected ills, the nearest exposure may bring serious disease. Then democracy comes, the poor overcome their opponents, slaughtering some and banishing the rest, and give to the people an equal share of freedom and power. But even democracy ruins itself by excess... of democracy. Its basic principle is the equal right of all to hold office and determine public policy. This is at first glance a delightful arrangement. It becomes disastrous because the people are not properly equipped by education to select the best rulers and the wisest courses.
As to the people, they have no understanding, and repeat what their rulers are pleased to tell them. To get a doctrine accepted or rejected it is only necessary to have it praised or ridiculed in a popular play. Mob rule is a rough sea for the ship of state to ride, every wind of oratory stirs up the water and deflects the course. The upshot of such a democracy is tyranny or autocracy. The crowd so loves flattery, it is so hungry for honey, that at last the wiliest and most unscrupulous flatterer, calling himself the protector of the people, rises to supreme power. Consider the history of Rome. -Plato, The Republic
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@bluepikman7851 Have you even read vaccine inserts? Straight from the CDC? Do you see the additives, heavy metals, chemicals, and dead baby parts that are being pumped into your kid? My baby has zero health problems, ZERO. When all of these chemicals are pumped into your child from birth through age 18 it lowers your body's natural defenses, allows the LIVE virus to get nice and comfy, and then boom your kid is dependent on big pharma to make them better. And that can happen with or without the actual virus becoming active. Even live viruses that stay dormant and don't make your child physically sick can cause long term health problems. Cancer, heavy metal poisoning, paralysis, gastrointestinal issues, thyroid problems, etc. Sometimes the cons outweigh the pros and if you can't see that you may need to 1) get your eyes checked 2) stop wishing harm to a strangers kid blindly
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@davidatkinson5858 Yeah, maybe it did increase brain size, but I personally doubt that was the case. Think about modern apes, while they do eat meat on occasion, their main diet is fruit based...three bananas equals roughly to about 300 calories, which btw is more than enough to fuel a modern human brain for a day.
This is a an assumption, but I take it there there was plenty of fruit available 2 million years ago in the lush African rainforest. But apes don't just eat three bananas, they forage all day long...so I don't know the numbers, but I'm sure they're getting in excess of 1,000 calories a day. A cooked steak gives you about 600 calories on average. So you see where I'm going here? The caloric intake from fruit/greens/raw meat vs cooked meats isn't vast enough to account for the increase in brain size, keeping in mind how many calories a modern brain is required to function effectively.
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I live in Pompano Beach, and like yourself I don't have much going for me in term of financial prospects, I just sit around the house all day playing guitar and watching internet videos, but I'm not intimidated any of the type of people you mentioned, but they're all social constructs, Status, like money, has no real value, it's subjectively assigned.
If you're a doctor and you're helping sick people and you're not in it for the money I can respect that, beyond that, it's whatever. I think the reason we're all here is for more important and interesting than having status and making a lot of money.
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2:36...in ancient Hindu Philosophy what Sheldon is talking about here is known as Dharma - That which supports, The roots of a tree, that which supports from within, The essence of a thing, it's virtue, that which makes it what it is. It can be explained with an ancient tale. A Sage seated beside the Ganges, notices a scorpion had fallen into the water, he reaches down to rescue it, only to be stung. Sometime later he looks down and sees the scorpion thrashing about in the water again, once more he reaches down to rescue it and once more he is stung. A bystander observing all this explains, Holy one, why do you keep doing that, don't you see that the wretched creature will only sting you in return? "Of course", the Sage replied. "It is the Dharma of a scorpion to sting, but it is the dharma of a human being to save. In a bigger sense, Dharma means the essential order of things, an integrity of harmony in the universe, rightness, justice, goodness, purpose.
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The career is a modern invention and highly overrated- Personally, I'm rather fond of staying at home and smoking herb from dusk till dawn, while running a home business in my underwear. When I have children, instead of sending them to an IVLC, I'm going to teach them entrepreneurial traits: working independently, accessing resources, responsibility, code of standards, the power of accurate observation, dealing with challenges, testing and judgment, and speaking in front of large groups.
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@Quietriot369 What do you find unappealing about non-duality? I'm "trying" to follow you, but in case there's some confusion, in Vedanta, Brahman/our reality is non-dual. I'm trying to understand why you think Brahman is the interruption. I know I pointed that out several times but I'm trying to make sure you get that, and why you find it unappealing. Personally, I like that take because there's some logic to it. Again I pointed this out, but while all of our daily lives differ, and our dreams differ, the one thing we all have in common is awareness, which hints at the fact that we "share" one consciousness. There's this quote in Ashtavakra Samhita which I love, "This entire universe that comes and goes, it does not come and go separate from you, it comes and goes within you, it is you." And this other quote from the same book. We are all one, what separates us from everyone else is attachment.
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@Quietriot369 It was kind of a trick question, but the reason I asked is because the swami I'm learning Advaita Vedanta from says the thorn, to use your example, is already removed, you just have to realize it. I hope that helps you out. When life gets me down, I have to remind myself that the thorn is already removed, and nothing in life is worth being miserable over, because that's a problem of the mind, and I really do believe that we are much more than mind. And when I remind myself of that, a small space opens up, and I feel the oneness and the problems melt away. The more I practice the more effective it becomes.
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+Stellar Aevum I've heard others make this argument... about the Alien being a modern version of God. I wish I could remember who I heard it from the first time, because he made a convincing argument. It makes sense if you think about it though, because we're always looking up to the sky for answers.
I've given up my Christian religious beliefs a while back, although I do believe that reality is more than it appears to be and I believe in a higher power, if you want to call it that, but in the spiritual sense. I don't know what that power is, or what to make of it, or if it's even an intelligent power, but my intuition tells me there's something there, although lately I've taken up an interest in the Qur'an, I'm just slightly curious.
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@rick15666 Thanks man. If you care to know where I got my username, at one point in my life I practiced astral projection, which I thought was complete nonsense until I picked up a book by Robert Monroe, did the exercises and after several months of trying I was successful, and then came up with my username.
There are several planes of existence that reside below and above us, the lower planes are dark, and the higher planes are full of light. Which leads me to your question..To be honest, my dude, my view of reality is in a constant state of transformation because I learn something new everyday, and all of the things that I learned, I picked up here and there, from this book or that video, from speaking to friends, from my own exploration through meditation, AP, and psychedelic journeys, etc...
The best advice I can give you is to explore your own mind, because therein are all the answers, and cheesy as that sounds, I find it to be completely true. One of my favorite authors, Terence McKenna always used to say, "The most richly organized material in the universe is the human cerebral cortex, and the densest and richest experience in the universe is the experience you are having right now. That is the primary datum"
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