PoeticUniverse

If we were meant to be naked, 'God' would have made us that way, um, which supposedly He did, but now, with our fig clothes, we don't get used to nake...

And: If we were angels, life would be so just; Instead, we try, we push, we climb, we lust, We dance, we dream, we feel, and love with zest; Yes, all ...

They're both good, for Heraclitus promotes presentism and Parmenides promotes eternalism. Heraclitus' fire as the basis of all is akin to energy. His ...

No, I didn't know. No wonder Sodom and Gomorrah turned to stone! Oh, Olongapo, fleshpot of fertile flora, Pinatubo reseals your box pandora. Fiery ash...

This is good, as a circle perpendicular to the 2D square, like a rainbow. Here is my 4-sided circle: O. Sides one and two are the inside and the outsi...

I wrote it. It's the intro portion of a much longer poem, 'Flora Symbolica', about the lore and legends of the flowers and plants. I'll have to figure...

All that we have left of note is experience, if that's a benefit.

Long thread, but a clear OP to be directly spoken to. Strictly speaking, no objects are identical with themselves over time. What remains unchanged ov...

Then we are all made of God-stuff, as the atman in the Brahman. Or, without God's Mind, we are all made of the base existence. All that 'is' already i...

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See: http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08981 From Gustavo E. Romero: I shall offer a view of the topic in which a kind of substantivalism, relationism, and et...

The One continually transitions such that it could return to itself, such as in a topological way.

OK, it's done. How do you think it looks?

We, of the endless forms most beautiful, Are stunned that our glass to the brim is full, Life’s wine coursing through us, as ‘magical’, On this lovely...

What appears as going on 'now' to us is like a slightly tape-delayed broadcast. Who's going to notice that?

So far, I've made a circle with two sides, and I'm almost done with the third and fourth sides, and it will still be a circle, too.

Yes. Yes, and that is looking more and more as what 'god' really boils down to, without us making big unwarranted jumps to more. Instead of "I am what...

Since it cannot be made from the impossible 'Nothing' nor can it make itself, it just 'is', as ever, without beginning or end. If we still really want...

Yes, a growing block is a combination of presentism and eternalism, with the past being kept and the future not yet existent. Growing block is probabl...

The use of "Obfuscatory" was probably intentional, a kind of joke on the OP. I once attended a pretentious, cultured art lecture at Vassar College in ...

Yes, as not a smart evolved alien but as Fundamental and First, intact and complete, with no beginning and no end, as eternal, since something exists,...

Better to pass them away painlessly and gently.

Yes.

The Intro to Rubaiyat II: https://vimeo.com/356569544

You mean 'kill'?

Or at least all that's possible, which is still a heck of a lot.

Holy smokes! An obscure word! And just after the pleasant old country mill image. What a shock. In this thread, I guess we mostly aim only for the pla...

I think that math infinities don't count as actual infinities, they just being potential infinities, and that actual infinities are impossible since t...

Externally, if one could see it from the outside, which one never can, the block universe is 4 distances with no time or change, as dddd, dimensionall...

Yes, indeed, hail to the Source. We didn't arrive at 'infinite' though, at least not yet.

In the otherworld of the haunts of thoughts, the neural activities go on in the dark, which we can't introspectively know, and don't like the idea of,...

So, from there definitely being something, a lack of anything is precluded, and from existence having no opposite that can be, we get that there is an...

I haven't been able to show consciousness to even be an agent, which I would have to first do, I guess, and then go on to show that the conscious will...

In presentism, there is only the dynamic now, just generated from the past, with the past then totally gone, and the future not yet created. In eterna...

All my references are to the block universe of eternalism derived from Einstein. I am for fixed will, but fairly trying to find if free will can be; I...

Right. If only belief and saying could make something true, but it doesn't. One needs to establish a sound ground first, such as the necessity of eter...

It does, in our temporary parentheses, but overall, none to speak of.

You already discarded that old saw as logically impossible. And, yes, an omnipotent being can, by definition, do anything logically possible.

Nothing 'snide' here, just support and advancing the probabilistic quantum mechanic wave function: Yes, for the wave function is deterministic before ...

Sorry, but this is long, although on topic, as poetry after Dawkins: The Intelligent Designer I approached a semitransparent, Theistic Embellishment, ...

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The chain is forged that links a thousand deaths To a thousand future-generated breaths When lips ripe as fruit gently part in pain: The smile of a co...

Yes, for the wave function is deterministic before the collapse into a unitary probabilities that add to one, giving all a chance, eventually, and the...

Rovelli is against presentism, while his good friend and collaborator on Loop Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin is wholly for it. Each have compelling argum...

Humans became way later on, and that even within 5% of the types of energy in the universe.

Seems like there's more hope to intervene in the actions of the 'now' production rather to the same that was carved in stone, but presentism has probl...

Yes, in this new free will approach, consciousness contains all experiences and their relations and has real time access, somehow, in order for consci...

These transitions point to that there can't be anything particular remaining even for an instant, and this kind of matches the supposed nature of the ...

We could all go away in a flash; there is now a strain of bacteria resistant to even the last ditch antibiotic, it, too, as what had to transition. We...

Yes, for if there could be one Bang, then there ought to be others Not only that, but the making of 'God' to be a Person, but who makes us people, wit...