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No, I quite clearly compared you to a chick stuck inside a shell. And suggested, to your benefit, to wander down the rabbit hole and see where it lead...
May 01, 2019 at 16:50
Why would they be all over the place? Are anglerfish all over the ocean? I, for one, know seers - that I would constitute as having superpowers. They,...
May 01, 2019 at 16:38
May I suggest that, to your benefit, you allow yourself the idea that there might be such people, as opposed to letting your mind stagnate in to conte...
May 01, 2019 at 16:02
I'll have you know stick war is a way better topic.
May 01, 2019 at 15:02
Emphasis on "for". Which bases it on personal desire. In this case, a lust for territory. If you want to continue this, I plead it be by PM.
May 01, 2019 at 14:38
Isn't it? What's the problem - disproportion? There's more water on the surface of the planet than landmass - is it fair? I have less land to walk on,...
May 01, 2019 at 14:16
My observation is this: My body is different organs working for a mutual cause. My organs are at peace with each other; one might even say friends. Hu...
May 01, 2019 at 14:02
Is it me... or did Skyrim peer 8 years in to the future?
May 01, 2019 at 13:54
Not necessarily. Just have to act as one or be oblivious to each other.
May 01, 2019 at 13:46
Even so, to me both parties are correct and both parties' claims are demonstrable. How? Consider we are one thing, spinning in place; like a spinning ...
May 01, 2019 at 12:59
I won't speak on the application of mathematics, but their purpose appears to be mystical. Such as: Why are there mathematics? Why can one apply mathe...
May 01, 2019 at 12:49
Being demonstrates itself by being. If being may not be demonstrated, there is no being. And if there is no being, how and why are we talking, not abo...
May 01, 2019 at 12:24
Hmm. I would say, they may be in some way, but we are simply oblivious to this way - as we are of our own breathing, most of the time. Consider that r...
May 01, 2019 at 12:12
Here is how I sum it up: Man suffers because he desires. Having eaten the Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, man desires good and if he does not...
May 01, 2019 at 11:26
The expectance of suffering is the focus on suffering - bringing about suffering. Suffering is - the tangling of desire with what is. If you simply ta...
May 01, 2019 at 07:15
"With great power comes great responsibility" And should you give common folk the power and responsibility, political leaders dissipate - becoming one...
May 01, 2019 at 05:40
If it's any consolation, they laughed at man flying. And now aeroplanes are quite mundane. A bit off-topic: People also laugh at the idea of flight in...
May 01, 2019 at 05:13
Both are accessible to everyone - in the sense that they're free to enter. Not everyone knows how to open the door to enter. As to whether it produces...
May 01, 2019 at 04:58
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You just banned Commander Sigma. How does that make you feel?
April 30, 2019 at 19:15
It still matters for the same reason that most things matters; the undigested Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil - which is to say 'decisions'. I...
April 30, 2019 at 17:42
Love, like other feelings, I would deem to be like glasses. Regardless where we look, we look through our glasses - so we are in love. The putting on ...
April 30, 2019 at 12:31
It's not that the latter are not conscious, but that they are conscious in a different way. In the physical sense of things: Humans and animals are si...
April 30, 2019 at 12:08
Time is a slideshow. Our sense of time is our view of the slideshow. If we move it moves, if we stop it stops. Is this the distinction you're looking ...
April 30, 2019 at 11:43
Some time ago, a man was walking by some magi. As he walked by, he exclaimed: What wise magi! Continuing his walk, he came across some octopi. He excl...
April 30, 2019 at 10:47
"Why do atheists ask for evidence of God, when there is clearly no such evidence?" I have thought about this. And my answer is: They know no reconcili...
April 30, 2019 at 10:27
I will try to explain. Past, present and future are all now. They all exist now. Regardless of their distance. Like two ends of a rope, past and futur...
April 30, 2019 at 06:16
I understand, but I shall repeat myself. All you see is what there is. All you say is what there is. All you do is what there is. How do you see, say ...
April 30, 2019 at 05:53
Are there non-valued dualities? If they are non-valued, are they dualities? Man and woman are valued as man and woman; if they are not, are they man a...
April 30, 2019 at 04:44
The Vedas go against this notion.
April 29, 2019 at 17:07
Consider the following. Time has gone through and is always in all states. It is a finished thing. But we, you and me, are like the little moving part...
April 29, 2019 at 15:25
Both. With the exception that there are no best guesses. Only guesses.
April 29, 2019 at 14:57
A cause is its own cause and effect. In this sense: It is self-caused, having a cause - and causeless, having no cause. Here's an analogy: You see it ...
April 29, 2019 at 09:43
How do you know that is not God? Have you seen God? If you have seen God, why do you deny God? If you have not seen God, how do you know what God is?
April 29, 2019 at 05:23
Precisely. I am missing the point. While you are still looking for it and you'll never find it, because it is like trying to look at your eyes or reac...
April 28, 2019 at 16:33
Herein lies the difference. I say, I can draw a circle and I can draw a circle because a circle exists. If a circle does not exist, I cannot draw it. ...
April 28, 2019 at 14:21
I asked a question. You did not answer. Maybe. Maybe not. Then conceptualize over what you cannot imagine and what doesn't exist, if you may. The obje...
April 28, 2019 at 13:59
Hide and Seek.
April 28, 2019 at 13:31
I play no tricks. I merely asked a question. What I have done is removed the separation. What you do, is simply add separation. The concept of sound i...
April 28, 2019 at 13:23
The possibility of something, refers to something. If it does not exist, it would be nothing. How do you refer to nothing?
April 28, 2019 at 10:12
I would take this as a lesson in perception. If houses are turning into flowers, then flowers are turning into houses. Flowers, as one might guess, ho...
April 28, 2019 at 05:37
I would be in self-denial; outside of that everything would go on without a care.
April 27, 2019 at 17:12
I will tell you God exists, but I will ask what does it matter? Before the discovery of gold, gold existed, though it was not evident. Now by the same...
April 27, 2019 at 15:44
When I sit by the campfire, it warms and enlightens me. I do not reciprocate, nor would I need to; but I am grateful. Now, when I sit by a candle, its...
April 27, 2019 at 12:43
I see no objection.
April 27, 2019 at 11:44
Every living thing dies and every person is a living thing. This much is self-evident, no?
April 27, 2019 at 09:56
Consider the following: If the prisoner is told he will be hanged, he will expect to be hanged. The date turns irrelevant. If he is expecting to be ha...
April 27, 2019 at 07:23
When one loves, one loves regardless if one is loved. When one enjoys, one enjoys regardless if one is enjoyed. Reciprocation is not affirmation, but ...
April 27, 2019 at 06:33
You have yourself and what you are is a composition. For lack of a better analogy, allow me to use soup. There are carrots, onions, water, meat. etc. ...
April 27, 2019 at 06:23
If what I say is true, it is true. If what I say isn't true, I will learn the truth. What is there to despair over? Understandably, one would compare ...
April 27, 2019 at 05:59
Thought itself is motion. Thought without motion, would be unaware - and whilst maybe not impossible, irrelevant. Thinking about something, you inadve...
April 27, 2019 at 05:46