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Heaven’s Great Wheel e’er whirls its energy, It having to turn and return, to be, Transforming, as ne’er still—eternally, Into life’s temporary patter...
August 13, 2019 at 18:05
Energy is a beauty and a brilliance, Flashing up in its destructance, For everything isn’t here to stay its “best”; It’s merely here to die in its sub...
August 13, 2019 at 03:04
‘Possibility’ is what’s fundamental, For all that is be must first be possible. This ‘Potential’ for All is the default, Since a Not can’t be, nor eve...
August 13, 2019 at 01:18
Where is the Light that shines to make me so? ‘Twas born from the stars in that milky glow. There is a light seed grain deep inside you. You fill it u...
August 12, 2019 at 05:41
The Great Equalizer stalks all creatures made, Lying ever just ‘round the corner, in the shade, Taking both human and the beetle as one, After their l...
August 12, 2019 at 03:23
For starters, we will keep the protective DNA ends from wearing away upon cell divisions, so as to never have the real DNA get ruined by tearing into ...
August 12, 2019 at 01:01
At our level, the useful message is of stuff in time, as that is what works around here, even as not basic but as emergent from no space or time way d...
August 12, 2019 at 00:56
It's more like across all one's life alternatives, as across all one's possible world-lines, which are a heck of a lot if they diverge at every decisi...
August 12, 2019 at 00:39
In short, here are all the projected dimensions: What’s Everything, detailed? Length, width, depth, 4D— Your world-line; 5th, all your probable future...
August 11, 2019 at 02:51
Yes, I would love to. Methuselah was well on his way, at 969 years old, but, alas, he didn't look both ways when crossing a horse-cart path; however, ...
August 11, 2019 at 02:35
During conscious observation, The ‘hereness’ and ‘nowness’ Of reality crystalizes and remains, We establishing what that reality is to some extent. We...
August 07, 2019 at 04:25
Continuing from my previous post on the Being's probability of being… Since the Being never shows and we note the long and slow but natural road of 13...
August 06, 2019 at 20:35
Yes, and herein we saw the whole of Genesis not just go away but get demolished, for it was the polar opposite of what was found, along with more, suc...
August 06, 2019 at 04:50
I agree. The bedrock of what it's all made of would be the random quantum fluctuations.
August 05, 2019 at 22:21
Yes, with some demolished by science and some just plainly showing God's lack of integrity. All that remains, really, beyond the trivial, is whether a...
August 05, 2019 at 17:44
No, no anger, for they like what they want and their doing so is actual and so that's how it is and thus can be with humans. Their 'God' remains as a ...
August 04, 2019 at 19:47
Yes, this point of us out-thinking 'God' surfaces again and again, and all the blah, blah, blah from religious scholars can't overcome it. The contrad...
August 04, 2019 at 18:28
‘The God Delusion’, and ‘god is Not Great’ were well written, too.
August 04, 2019 at 03:56
Round 2 God came out quick, now claiming the writ That He guided the Earth safe through its orbit Around the the now centered sun in space, For by now...
August 04, 2019 at 02:32
The will ruminates, sometimes, or not, collapsing scenarios of consequences, often going all the way to the nerve spindles to 'actionize' without comm...
August 03, 2019 at 23:58
The same as whatever use it has.
August 03, 2019 at 22:10
Sleep 10 hours, breakfast, check computer stuff, play expert bridge tournament, lunch, play, go places, later, write books and make videos, then play,...
August 03, 2019 at 22:08
The brain uses it for something, else it wouldn't have evolved.
August 03, 2019 at 22:05
That which my will/brain has come to be of the instant. Causes/decisions precede the subjective awareness of them.
August 03, 2019 at 21:48
Cosmos to Bang to three atomic elements plus quarks/electrons to protons to stars to more atomic elements to supernovae to the rest of the atomic elem...
August 03, 2019 at 21:37
The Cosmos.
August 03, 2019 at 21:21
OK, not Sullivan. Maybe Elihu Vedder, one of the earliest illustrators, using chalk, I think. I have a 5x8 size book of it. It was also the basis of a...
August 03, 2019 at 04:41
Stranger than fiction. And lately I'm led to vote for something having to be eternal, over 'Nothing' doing anything, either way, almost, such as with ...
August 03, 2019 at 03:52
Well, then, self-contradiction still remains for disproving.
August 03, 2019 at 03:34
What shows through from the brain to consciousness? What can block consciousness? What can alter consciousness? So far, philosophers have it narrowed ...
August 03, 2019 at 03:32
It may be hard to solve right now, it being so private, but a great penultimate step would be to surround it by localizing it to the brain.
August 03, 2019 at 03:15
Probably illustrated by Edmund Sullivan, but there could be alternatives, although his was very popular and he illustrated 75 quatrains. See below, an...
August 03, 2019 at 03:11
Some entertainment for the warriors here… Back to the past: Round 1 In the Beginning, God played an active role in the Cosmos, After creating it, each...
August 02, 2019 at 22:11
In: Ignorance  — view comment
They've already achieved better than all the hating described above.
August 02, 2019 at 19:27
In: Ignorance  — view comment
There is a meta solution. One needn't regret or feel pain for what had to happen in actuality, this thus obviating "if's", "should have's", etc.
August 02, 2019 at 18:50
'Deception' is not bad when the result is a more useful face painted on reality than a truer one. My red truck is anything but true red, for nature pa...
July 31, 2019 at 20:39
Yet all our colors are made from the three primaries, no less, if not color-blind. There are three types of proteins in the eye that rotate according ...
July 31, 2019 at 19:35
I consider 'God' as highly unlikely, as the lowest form of a 'maybe' that must be accorded. Due to the 'maybe', even if 'God' thought to be a one in a...
July 31, 2019 at 19:30
How could we ever know the composition of a star? It’s not like we could go there to collect a sample. “Impossible,” it was thought. Then starlight sh...
July 31, 2019 at 18:57
OK, never mind that one. When something keeps on working, then we gain knowledge and trust that it is something known and repeatable. I trust/know tha...
July 31, 2019 at 18:13
'Knowing' is sometimes more than just 'believing', as in 'doing' or 'not doing': I know that I shouldn't keep doing that harmful thing, but I keep on ...
July 31, 2019 at 17:55
It can be seen that I am here to note that 'God' is presumed to exist here, with then a request of logic and reason to focus on His 'serving'. To port...
July 31, 2019 at 17:29
Not applicable. 'God' hasn't been established. Same for all else layered upon.
July 30, 2019 at 04:12
Basically, summing up a development, the first part of which is omitted here for brevity: Then+What is History—what has occurred, While When+What will...
July 29, 2019 at 21:29
Oh, especially in speaking do we often not realize some of our insights until we hear ourselves speak them.
July 29, 2019 at 21:19
My will has decided that it has to look into Henri Bergson due to his being a legend. For now, we do have a good nervous system that is really a usefu...
July 29, 2019 at 21:17
Good one. You are wise and adaptive. Some have better and more fortunate wills than others. The will is ever toward what it wants. Lots of wills about...
July 29, 2019 at 19:11
Consciousness is always blind to the choices made by brain/will networks until they finish and surface, consciousness being as a tourist along for the...
July 29, 2019 at 18:29
The choice is still already accomplished and so it precedes the awareness of it. Probably the brain/will process must fully attend to learning skiing ...
July 29, 2019 at 18:15
Except that there can't be conscious decisions, for the decisions reflected in consciousness have already been made elsewhere. We can't get around thi...
July 29, 2019 at 17:10