Yes you could, and to be fair, that's how people look at it now. So again, its not based on "need" its based on "maybe needed" and it becomes a reason...
It is a beautiful woven fabric of logic inconsistency and twisting words that leaves the reader in a continual state of uncertainty about what the hec...
My apologies, for the repetition. Understood, lets keep away from money. So before money, land owners would have been the wealthy. They would have had...
Is there no prestige without wealth? Is prestige just "what you think other people think about you". For instance, does prestige have a place on a des...
If you want to understand this better, read Plato - Republic, book 2. It describes exactly what is needed for trading and you we see very quickly, thi...
Because the piece of paper we call "money" is an I.O.U. Otherwise, it would be rather meaningless. It is a debt on future energy/profit what have you....
I can't say I fully follow, but that may well be because we are looking at this completely opposite to each other or we understand the words different...
There is a book called "Life after growth, and why 200 years of growth are over" by Tim Morgan, he was involved in the oil boom as a analyst. Very cle...
Excess thought in its most apparent form occurs when someone is suffering a panic attack. Granted the effect is in the body, but the cause is from the...
You put it beautifully, and more clearly than I, thank you. It is the rising above, or going beyond thought that I was suggesting, as you rightly say....
I definitely agree its not by avoidance, but by negation - by the absence thereof. If you consider children stories, they often have a moral code behi...
Thats a fair point. I would suppose that mass consumerism has at its core the feeling of "lacking" or "not enough". It must have a cause, and the effe...
Interesting, this reminded me of my training course for Counselling. Very early on within the first 2 or 3 sessions, conformity came up as a topic and...
No actual historical data is out there on frequency because war is not triggered by time, its triggered by either "not enough" usually resources, or t...
The very nature of the physical world is atrophy. Everything naturally is losing inertia. The only thing keeping the whole thing going is new growth. ...
I would also add, if society was innate or genetic then all human beings on the planet would subscribe to them but they dont. Societies have arisen as...
I would argue just because the content is different from one society to another, tells us very little about the structure of the society. Plato create...
In Platos Republic, he identified the problem of growth of the city. The city would start to encroach on the surrounding land because the numbers requ...
Society is a fabrication fathered by Socrates / Plato. All variations thereof have stemmed from this. Does it make sense that each person in the socie...
I agree, it couldn't possibly be meaningless, I would reframe the statement to, God is ... If we accept growth in nature as the obvious workings of a ...
Nor do I except for what I have read and understood, but I have an exceptional teacher, life. So I my view the entire concept is a massive deception a...
This sounds very much like Platos Republic, book 1, where Socrates basically attempts the same arguement in the guise of "Justice" but in fact his "op...
Interesting, microbes like anything will evolve when attacked directly. This is why holistic medicine is a better approach (stengthening the natural f...
We all have to find our own purpose. I liken our predicament to Platos - Allegory of the Cave. To me, this makes perfect sense. That said, I do think ...
Absolutely so. The language of the conscious mind, which developed from picture, to symbol, to letter is not one that the sub conscious understands. I...
Thank you for the comments, and of course the solution. I will check out Raymond Smullyan and I love the Irish joke! Most lightening! I can't help but...
I don't fully agree, as it appears to be a re-creation of purpose, but one you have made up for yourself within the parameters of what you find accept...
That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. So true, I read a similar thing in the Emerald Tablets of...
That's certainly a fair comment. My point really was that belief is a placeholder for knowledge, but you're right because not all knowledge is aquired...
I have no wish to create any animosity, nor to be in a battle of winning or losing. I simply engaged to test my own wisdom and to benefit any that mig...
True, understanding is the flowering and brings something much greater into it. It is greater than the sum of its parts. Thought will always intrupt t...
Read the book, honestly even if its just a few pages and see what you think. If you object, listen to your objection, is it valid? What are you object...
In your experience, have you ever known something that was not taught to you by another human being? Have you ever had a "flash of inspiration"? Have ...
Understanding in both cases that thought is the method creating the confusion. If you go beyond thought, you gain a greater understanding of yourself ...
You are relating everything to thought still. Your point then is, if I cannot understand it with thought, or if it cannot be put into a form that thou...
Read Eckhart Tolle, Power of Now or New Earth. He most certainly understands this as having almost killed himself, had his eyes opened. Thought create...
Precisely that. Artemis sees thoughts as the "ends" of the process, where it appears as the "beginnings" of the process, but to be moved beyond and pa...
Understanding is mixed with thought mainly because of our confusion. René Descartes made the mistake of mixing thought with being, "I think therefore ...
If the statement creates a pause in the continual stream of thought, then something else has the opportunity to arise. Perhaps, something more meaning...
Not so, "a kind of thought," already implies an incomplete understanding of what thought is. What "kind" of thought do you imagine understanding to be...
Absolutely, when we are born we know very little, children make mistakes all the time - because they're learning all the time. I liken this very much ...
I would equate more silence (bigger gap) to greater understanding. However, the moment of initial understanding also interupts the process and creates...
I agree. An abundance of thought profits nothing, but silence is of great benefit. So it follows, would a person who had never developed language stil...
We haven't been able to prove what "thought" is. We haven't be able to prove for "consciousness" is. We haven't been able to prove what "sub-conscious...
True, I like the paradox, "This statement is a lie". If I am a liar, it's true. If I am truthful, it is a lie. The paradox exists because of Order. If...
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