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What makes you say past time is infinite? Past time is 13.8 billion years. And what makes you believe these parallel universes have contact with ours ...

'Reality' might be too complex for human comprehension. We might have to be satisfied that we even got this far in our understanding.

Far cleverer people than me have figured that out. The proper distance—the distance as would be measured at a specific time, including the present—bet...

We see only as far as we can look. Even now a large part of the universe is too far away to be seen. We can only see 13.8 billion light years into the...

The Big Bang may also have occurred at different times in the past. It might be occurring right now in a parallel universe.

The evolution of culture had been made possible by the use of language. Complex language is what sets us apart from other animals and has allowed us t...

A Buddhist believes he himself contains the world (is the world). Thus by looking into himself he sees the world and learns about the world.

Hell is pain. Heaven is pleasure. Too much pleasure is a pain.

True wisdom is knowing what you are talking about and that you clearly do not. There is nothing 'beyond' pain and pleasure and that 'nothing' is calle...

Being too selfish is harmful. Being too altruistic is harmful. Goldilocks knows best.

Why do you think a man has nipples? Why do you think a female has a small penis? Why do you think a man can grow breasts? Why do you think both men an...

Society is already being harmed by the acknowledgment that there are no objective 'oughts'. The objective 'oughts' is what makes 'members of society' ...

The idea that you can find purpose in nihilism is as likely as being able to fill up a black hole. Humans have throughout history struggled to survive...

We are entering an era of migration crisis. Donald Trump is the foreguard of Fascism ready to defend nationalism. The jack-boots marching can be heard...

Behave as selfish as you can get without unnecessarily offending others has always been my motto and this has always served me well.

Exactly true. Buddha is basically we saying we want to much and therefor have too much pain. But then again, only a dead person wants nothing.

The whole logic of Christian ethics is completely convoluted when you think about it. The people who wrote the bible were no great philosophers. They ...

You have to understand that the Homo Sapiens was 200.000 years ago fully equipped to commence it's march towards modern civilization. All the biologic...

True. The creation of the Universe and Life are still miracles. This is the reason we are still in no position to abandon our Gods.

If that were the case, time would stand still in a perfect vacuum . The vacuum would disappear into the past.

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, ...

I don't think I can agree with you there. Even today's monkeys in the wild use a language for conveying information (signal danger. I think research h...

You are living in Plato's Cave, you can only see shadows.

Well you see that is where people go wrong. They don't understand that most things are a combination of what we perceive to be opposite properties and...

Might it be then the movement of anti-matter?

It is a sine qua non. No civilization without language. It lies at the very birth of civilization. Until now, the earliest tool-maker was thought to b...

Can you please quote me to make it easier for me to understand your objections?

Describing the shadows on the wall of a cave will never give you a satisfactory understanding of your surroundings no matter how sophisticated you are...

stoicism 1. the endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings and without complaint. If that is Stoicism I would never want to be stoi...

?fdrake ?Galuchat Here we are 'brains in vat' endlessly discussing how to get a grip on reality with ever more sophisticated language.

We can imagine a God creating the world but not a God creating God.

Language both connects us to, and separates us from, reality. This is the reason we enjoy taking drugs, like magic mushrooms and cannabis. They tend t...

?Galuchat Here we are 'brains in vat' endlessly discussing how to get a grip on reality with ever more sophisticated language.

ohn 1:1 is the first verse in the opening chapter of the Gospel of John. In the Douay–Rheims, King James, New International, and other versions of the...

Yes, agreed. The source of much dissatisfaction is the instability inherent in modern society. However too little instability can lead to boredom. It ...

Starting at zero, what goes up must come down. Going up is fun. Going down not so. You can not separate pleasure from pain, the up from the down. Howe...

Why indirectly? Why not directly?

That would be language.

That is also incorrect. The alleviation of pain is also good. And all pleasure does eventually become painful and then you have a problem Huston.

Totally with you there brother/sister. I just skim over the top with most of it. But I find thinking in opposites gives me great clarity in my underst...

If you believe in Hell you are already in it.

You might not have much choice in the matter. It might have to be either Heaven or Hell. But as we achieve Godlike powers it is obvious that our ideas...

This is incorrect. People are motivated by pleasure and pain.

We can imagine the universe in two dimensions as a plane, which is flat and infinite (like an infinite piece of paper). ... However, with expansion, i...

1 dollar is worth 2 50 cent pieces.

Err no. I only need one infinite quantity to map anything. If that were the case you would only need 1 infinite Universe to map our Universe. Well it ...

Let us all pray to Massimo. OHMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

You mean like baking a cake?

The moving part is the expansion of Space. It pulls apart the wavelengths of light, causing them to change color from ultraviolet to infrared.

Whatever made the Universe we may call God. There you go. In 1 sentence I have explained everything you need to know.