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Well I don't know if my imagination is to optimistic, but that being the case we are God and humanity is a distant memory.

Whoops wrong thread. The trouble with late night messages.

No but I just saw a bat face there. He is if you go by the grid reference I mentioned above. He is second square in from the left(if the photo is ten ...

Good start, any in 3D. Have you seen the wolf man yet? I was once in a state where I saw faces everywhere, I was in an emotionally unstable condition ...

Well, while imagining it I was brought to a shuddering halt when I realised that I would be putting a lot of immature beings in a paradise which they ...

I have found it's difficult to explain to someone where to look and what to look for. I think it can raise some interesting issues about how perceptio...

Interesting, but I keep finding I can't get to an answer without having to come to a naive assumption or three. For example, "the best possible lives ...

Phew that's a relief, the person I was thinking of would never have said that! Anyway, I don't believe that you can't see any fairies, you just haven'...

Not you again! I hope.

I have taken a photo of fairies. https://s3.postimg.org/mftqv3e0z/IMG_6171.jpg This is a high resolution image, http://www.anbdesign.co.uk/wood.jpg I ...

Thanks, nice version, some good improvisation and the last two minutes are sweet. But the Winterland version is my favourite, tight and heavy. I've go...

What about the seven eighths of the iceberg below the surface to speak by analogy?

Jimi did some nice heavy instrumental back in the day, this is one of my favourites. Jimi Hendrix, Tax free, live at Winterland. https://youtu.be/tqjR...

Yes, I've heard about the problems with migrants in Australia. Curiously the boat people who were housed on Naoru are now going to be accepted into th...

I was a reluctant remainer, this is due to my planning to live in France in a decade or so. Although I largely agree with your assessment. I would say...

Im not sure that there was a lot of purpose there, more like desire, attraction etc. This goes back to my point about cellular life though. The purpos...

But my point is that one is at liberty to programme/condition ones unconscious mind to the extent that one is able to act as a strategic agent. Also y...

Yes, I do think that it was immigration which decided the vote in the end. As an issue it was probably more important than the economics, or politics ...

Yes, it is my perception that outside the UK there is little mention of and it is largely not known about the downsides of the EU. In terms of economi...

You guys appear to be working on the assumption that the EU (as a political organisation) is functional and useful, also that it is a benefit for the ...

I understand what Willow is saying here, however I think that it is more a comment about having a respect and a sense of reverence for the living of l...

Yes, I see this, but in terms or agency this is irrelevant, we can be unconscious agents and still have agency. For example by consciously planning a ...

Yes, I realise this, but unfortunately, from my perspective, all these other realms are simply reduced to a set of mathematical relations and reificat...

Quite, but it is your assumption that the "theorising about what logic, description or concept" is in some way an alternative to quiet sanctuary. It m...

Memes, ideas, ideologies that stick around, infiltrate. Here's the church, flint construction as most are around these parts. https://s14.postimg.org/...

Are we talking about the stickiness of memes? Going back to Christianity, they went to great lengths to set their identity and ideology in stone, lite...

I may have a take on what Wayfarer is considering, but my terminology might be unpalatable in philosophical terms. The implication as I see it is that...

Is the passage from Beyond Good and Evil? It's author has a nice turn of phrase.

You misunderstand me, did I not say that mind is the obstacle? So why would you think that the mystic is putting our meaning into conceptual terms, wh...

This is all grist to the mill for the mystic. It involves collapsing all the ideas of metaphysics and reification of the human experience. All that is...

Yes, I can't help imagining a a group of monkeys, or primitive humans sitting on a ridge in the Rift Valley, dreaming up complex patterns of grunts an...

I think I am beginning to understand your question now. Another angle might be to question if we knew that after we die we will be reborn into hellish...

So is this a survival of the fittest in ideology, or perhaps survival of the most ingenious?

"The illusion of agency" is an unwarranted assumption. Determinism hasn't been proved to be the case, it is merely speculation. The distinct classific...

Yes, I know, but this is the best we can do in the absence of the knowledge of the purposes of the agency, or process resulting in the existence of th...

An answer to the question, what is the meaning or purpose in my life? Is a person's life cannot have meaning or purpose independent of the species or ...

Well I don't know the rigourous logical steps involved in this, but surely if an organism is at liberty to pursue purposes, at some point it will purs...

You will have to allow me a little room for my style of writing that is not academically precise. Read between the lines a little. I didn't contradict...

To let go of the feeling of needing to keep trying is half the battle. There are numerous techniques and affirmations which allow one to dispel these ...

Just finished, looking inland from Aldeburgh beach. https://s12.postimg.org/64s6ut3vx/IMG_6157.jpg

For me meditation was what I did to force the issue. This was during a time in my late twenties and early thirties when I was engaged in a process of ...

Quite, we might naively think we have little worth, but this is not established, it can only be a conceit at best. A human life might have great impor...

Yes I agree with your assessment, but this does not take away our (limited I know) freedom for a bit of autonomy, freedom in action, freedom to create...

This is a conflation between instinct and intellectual strategic action. Also you have ignored my classification of purposes. It's almost as though yo...

Yes, I know this distinction, I know that we as limited beings can't conceive of the reality of no existence. But we are discussing intellectualisatio...

I'm very happy for you, that you are exploring these ways of breaking the rigid conditioned thinking patterns we are given by society. At some point i...

I think its time to listen to some Leonard Cohen. https://youtu.be/nZqq-zAkGy4

Perhaps if one views the physical body as a vehicle for the self. A vehicle whereby the self does some self-ing. I would personally add another tier o...

I thought the soul entered at the quickening.

Ahh, so your question is about purpose. Then what is all that stuff about meaning, or why you should carry on with living etc? That is all about what ...