Fresh Digest
Third Collection
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Without the willingness to endure Conscious Labor and Intentional Suffering, life becomes empty and meaningless.
Images stain the retina providing the illusion of continuity. In reality, however, the source of the images is discrete. Each Photon is complete and comprises the entirety of spacetime. Only through the perception of Quantum Decoherence is the mystery of continuity revealed...
When belief is the cause, ignorance is often the effect.
Without love one cannot properly metabolize one’s impressions or easily control their effects.
Before we were created we were obsolete. Corrolary: innovation exceeds developement
The idea of praying to an omniscient deity is patently absurd. It should require no further explanation as to why this is so.
When we sacrifice our conscience for the material successes and material wealth incumbent, and seemingly integral, to our culture, when we buy into the system and play the game, when we close our hearts and minds to the repercussions of our actions, we are sure to find that what we sought as happiness is really hollowness...
The only energy in a name or symbol is the energy you or others have put into it.
If we cling to the desire to avoid suffering and seek to live perpetually in pleasure, life becomes barren and we become incapable of feeling. This is the danger inherent in all forms of addiction. Quite often it is necessary to suffer not simply to recognize pleasure but to create it.
If consciousness identifies itself only with its surface, it will be ruled by its unconscious drives.
Masocatechism: life is suffering. If life were not there would be no point. In fulfillment there is no longer a reason for existence, everything is complete. This is why pleasure is fleeting and pain seemingly eternal.
The fact that faith is a gamble is sure to undermine anyone’s authority. It cannot help but undermine one's beliefs as well.
Authority comes from hypnotizing others into believing that faith is not a gamble and that they have no other choice.
The longer the delay, the more doubtful the connection.
There are some children who resent those that won’t control them almost as much as they resent those that do.
Just as we cannot look at a recording and hear the music, so too we cannot look at the brain and see thoughts.
On the language of Dolphins: What if what we here as clicking noises, in our recordings of Dolphins, were rather the effects of language and not the language itself? Much like the clicks of a Geiger-counter are not the radiation but the effects of radiation, perhaps only the correct sensory connections can yield meaningful communication. Just as you cannot read a magnetic tape without a magnetic tapehead, perhaps you cannot understand the Dolphin language without a Dolphin-head. Perhaps what is needed is a neural net which converts Dolphin language into Human language, a Dolphin-chip.
How can you appreciate what you fail to notice?
Light is beautiful but only from a distance and then, only in relation to darkness.
Your ‘I’ is only a fraction of the whole, a fleeting wisp of smoke in an otherwise insignificant little melodrama.
Famous proverb: a child without a father is like a house without a roof.
There is no such thing as non-fiction.
The Creator exists at the end of time, not the beginning. You cannot be a Creator until after you have created. All this, the universe and everything in it, is part of the Creating, part of the Labyrinth we call time and space...
A Unique Interpretation Of Bell’s Theorem: Let us say that A is observed by B to die while traveling between two points, 1. and 2. .B, observing at point 3. records this death as an objective event. However, what, if anything, does A record? According to Bell’s Theorem, it is impossible to prove that A does not in fact record anything. Indeed, it is impossible from the perspective of A to determine if in fact A has died! From the perspective of A, A may have already passed point 2. and is now having a pleasant conversation with B at point 3. !In consideration of the Multiverse, in which all universes which can occur do occur, Bell’s Theorem contains no paradox. At the point at which B observed A’s death, the universe is said to bifurcate. In one universe B sees A die in the other A does not.
Having something to believe in may make life easier but having nothing to believe in doesn’t mean we have given up. All beliefs are eventually replaced by the truth. Beliefs are simply poor attempts to comprehend the truth, false but often useful attempts to present the truth to the mind. Beliefs are stepping stones of the mind on the way to truth. Eventually, ideally, mind will be able to apprehend the truth directly, without recourse or need for belief.
The first thing man learned was how to imitate. But from who?
The only education of value is the one you give yourself.
Just because something is legal does not make it right. Similarly, just because something is illegal does not make it wrong.
Often that which is created is far larger than its creator(s).
Facts do not require faith. They are not more factual the more you believe in them.
A fact is self-evident and/or verifiable. A belief may appear self-evident but is never verifiable. The moment a belief is verified and/or refuted, it is no longer a belief.
Beliefs are different from will. Whereas the former is based on desire, the latter is based on determination.
Learning is an act of change in conformity with will. We must be willing to change before we can learn.
Inseparability and Uncertainty. Each reconciles the other like Yin and Yang.
Inseparability ‘is’ due to the imbedding of Timespace in Hyperspace.
Faith must always include the possibility that it is wrong or it is not faith. If there is no possibility that faith is false it is not faith. You must have faith that I am wrong only so long as you cannot prove it.
If the universe were predetermined there would be no point and faith would be irrelevant and absurd.
Faith is powerless without the risk that it is wrong and the determination and will to believe it is not. The heroic tragedy is the failure of faith, the heroic act its triumph.
Music may not be able to explicitly express concepts but it is able to implicitly evoke them.
The evolution of life consists of two parts:
- Discovering problems and
- Solving them
If light did not travel faster than the observable universe, we would never be able to observe something before it occurred. If an object were traveling at the speed of light we would never have a chance to see it before it arrived.
Light is unavoidable. The moment you see it, its there.
Beware the Pharaoh-con, the myth of authority. The power you give it is the only power it has.
In unity there is no other.
A unity that divides is a false unity.
Every individual is a Timespace Singularity. Every Timespace Singularity is contained within the boundless void of Hyperspace.
Within every instant we are continually created, destroyed and recreated. The Supreme Mystery of the universe is Continuity.
Wilderness survival depends on three things: equipment, determination and commonsense, but not necessarily in that order.
Aver, the Obvious: “The Earth spins but never really completes a revolution. Rather, we arbitrarily mark off a spot on the ground and when the Earth turns and the sun returns to the same spot, we say that the Earth has completed one revolution, has aged one day. However, everything in the universe is in motion and there is no objective vantage from which all things may be measured. In one ‘revolution’ the sun has moved, the stars have moved, the galaxies have moved, and the universe has, apparently, expanded. A question we might ask ourselves when extrapolating backward in time is if the values we assign to our constants (such as the flow of time) remain invariable in time. Might time not stretch into the past and compress into the future? How do we know that the criteria used to define a year applies 15 billion years ago? Perhaps time emerged after the big bang? What then can we make of time? What can we make of the idea of a beginning, an origin in time? What we are discussing here is Cosmological Uncertainty. The idea that history is clearly defined in the past can only be seen as an untenable fiction within the vast library of the Multiverse. Just as the future is not written in stone but rather ALL futures are written in stone, all movement is an illusion of the instantaneous quantum jump from one aspect of the Multiverse to another. That is, all universes in the Multiverse can be cataloged and assigned a specific value, and movement is merely the illusion of traveling from one numerical value to another.”
Part of you remains everywhere you go.
OOSOOM: The art of invisibility is simple: Out Of Sight Out Of Mind.
Familiarity is the hedgerow of a mental labyrinth. Familiarity is what blinds us to what we do not see even as it leads us to a predetermined destination. For, just as we do not need the lights on to circumnavigate the objects in our own livingroom, we do not need to be conscious of that with which we are already familiar. In this way we are able to sleep walk through safe predictable worlds without ever noticing that our familiarity is a precursor to oblivion.
If you believe the world will end, you will act like the world will end.
If you act like the world will end, it may well end, but it might not have if you had only acted differently.
Thus, never believe the world will end and it might never end.
Believe you can live forever and you may.
The more intelligent you are the more convincing are your beliefs, if only to yourself.
What should or should not be always depends on intent, never on the object itself.
A particularly disturbing fact of Quantum Mechanics, for some, is that we cannot prove the universe does not cease to exist when it is unobserved. We can only say that particles (such as photons, etc.), when unobserved, do not display the same characteristics as when they are observed. When observed a particle possesses a concreteness we cannot infer when unobserved. Instead, an unobserved particle spreads out as a wave of probability whose position or momentum cannot be precisely determined until an observation is made. What is more, a determination of one can only be made at the expense of the other. That is, if we choose to observe a particle’s position we can no longer determine its momentum or its trajectory and if we choose to observe a particle’s momentum or trajectory we can no longer determine its position. Thus we cannot say for sure, cannot be certain of, what a particle is doing when we are not observing it. Indeed, we cannot even say for sure that it does not cease to exist when we are not observing it. By extension, as the universe as a whole cannot be observed all at once, there is bound to be a large part of the universe which must remain inexplicable and impenetrable to our investigations. Indeed, we cannot even say for sure whether it makes sense to say something exists when unobserved if we cannot corroborate its existence with observation.
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