PoeticUniverse

The adventurous Zhou was back in the light of day, wondering what the descriptions of 'God' had in common, but there was a paradox with the 'Eternal' ...

There are no permanent temporary things but just the permanent eternal. What's thought of as a 'thing' is series of events, as a hub of relations, a p...

Launch yourself into deep space and see if you keep on going?

I had to first look up the Zhou Botong character on Wiki so that the poem would make a little bit of sense.

There are no objects that are identical with themselves over time, although it appears to us that the world consists of parts that have continued on f...

I jumped off of the Empire State Building one time, and lived to tell about it because, luckily, I was only on the first step when I jumped. Geronimo!

Yes, for there can be no 'taking' in what is freely given with no conditions.

Someone, I think, Randi, offered a lot of money to whomever could show something, and though a lot of people tried no one showed anything.

Trust' is a step up from 'faith', meaning that you have at least seen something happen, such as morning dawning. 'Faith' adds zero to what is wanted.

Zhou BoTong, trapped in a cave by a poem, As by the writing on the wall stranded, Was martially both right and left handed; Such he slashed rhythms an...

Consciousness/mind is a brain process, then, a product, with the objects in the mind also a product/result, making the mind to be a reflection of what...

Hammurabi had a code of morality and rules in 1700 BC.

What manner of phenomenon is Sin? An independent entity, akin To noxious fumes, which God resolved to clear By proxy, through his Son in human skin? O...

“I love this detective school, Sherlock.” “Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary.” “This class of opium is great, too!” “High school, Watson.”

Sherlock, the great logician, even as a baby just born in a dark cave could infer the universe from a grain of sand, and in the next moment derive the...

No; it's mine. Only sometimes. Happy to see that you're not from the dark side.

Perhaps one may at first obey out of fear, but later get used to obeying, and even later reflect on what good it does, and then just be morally good a...

'Ineffability' is all there is for believers to push forward with, which doesn't really do anything, no matter how much babbling. Some, then, push bac...

The reasoning spurred by investigations into 'God' even gives us the outline of The Theory of Everything: TOE Bound The philosophical strides leap and...

NDE tunnels of light and such can be explained by neurology, and OBE’s by a condition called sleep paralysis. They can also be induced, resulting in f...

Which Calendar is More Accurate: The Pope’s or Omar Khayyam’s? Tropical year: 365.242190 days Jalil Calendar: 365.24219858156 days (Khayyam) Gregorian...

A particle, as a field quantum, is spread out, as kind of a lump.

Either way, where/when does it get its information?

I, as the conscious thing, am my own cause, or causeless?

So, the speed of light is infinite and any processing time is infinitely fast? OK. Time to go mental.

Hello argument! Now, really, who's going to notice a slight tape-like delay to consciousness? But we can be informed by brain-consciousness correlatio...

Shush… they're listening. Too late; here come the white coats; we're all mental!

Yes, it's like transmutation or topological formation; whatever transmutes can return to its previous form. The Eterne remains, always, conserved, as ...

That's a good way of putting it, for the probabilities add to 1, this being what is called 'unitary'.

Good poem! Who's the scribe of my slab written upon? I ask myself whether I’m stylus or slate, Or both the dancer and the danced upon?

It's not good to have or state a belief when the object isn't known to be so, as it might ingrain itself, as well as that others might pick up on it a...

It was fast, for there are sites on the internet for making anagrams.

The Block Universe?

Since non-existence can never be productive, much less be, Existence is eternal, as ever, and so it is not anything in particular, as random, given no...

Sin is fun's evil twin.

Never mind belief and the virtue of it or not, but rather let us get to a logic that undermines a belief in 'God'. Not a proof, mind you, but an under...

The idol house is as the mosque, a shrine. And chime of striking bells service divine; Gueber’s belt, church and rosary and cross, Each is in truth of...

It's 'merely' a summary of the derivation of the ultimate Theory of Everything, which would conclude with Totality/Existence being causeless. Yes, it'...

Yes, and a kind of a shrine/memorial, too. It's paradoxical or perhaps it's more for his other work.

It's about the human condition, pleasure, anti-Allah, and the suppression of reason and philosophy by the Islamics near and in 11th century Persia. It...

Mid Afternoon at the OK Club—Part 2—On the ‘Now’ /uploads/resized/files/ff/bwle023pfv3v6gwq.jpg Ruby Yacht comes over to my table and introduces herse...

Radical Islam isn't getting as far as it used to; drones take out the suspected night and day. I always imagined a newspaper headline of 'Obama takes ...

Original Sin doesn't work out so well, anyway, as a blame, for 'God' would be fully responsible for creating a human nature that has His intended capa...

We suspect as much, but this thread's OP ignores that kind of literal, Biblical 'God', since it is disproved by contradictions and science. Still, it ...

Evil and all the kinds of ugliness of humans needs to be of the All/'God', for how could there be something independent and separate? Dismay follows. ...

And also the children of God (El). That seems like a jump, but I'll be darned, for all along I thought "good and evil" became of "God and Devil", or v...

Nor in the eye, for which design we'd flunk our engineering course.

THE MEADOWS OF HEAVEN We as the highest consciousness ever known And of the most versatile form that’s been shown Reside as consequent beings in this ...

Yes, since what 'is', as ever, is all there is, and so, as @rlcauler says better, it has to transmute into forms of itself, heresy or not, and so this...

… Relations among basic events, or ‘ontological atoms’, can be the basis from which substantival spacetime emerges, in a similar way to how things eme...