Hello Meleagar, Interesting. A smoke alarm will beep intermittently when the battery gets low in order to notify to change the battery. It is the same sound as an alarm .. but less insistent. A lomger pause between beeps while a real alarm will be faster between beeps. People have mistaken the batte...

Nothingman wrote:Here is the thing. I have "things" popping in my mind all day and then they happen. Not huge things but little things.

etc..

Are you OK with these events?

This sounds to me more like synchronicity - some call it Providence. It is fairly common with people who have begun contemplation or meditation. If your OK with it - there is no problem.

The important thing about the past is - meaning. If we can 'reach back' and change the position of the material (atoms etc) or physical causation .. I do not know. But .. we being human .. the overriding effect the past has upon us is its meaning. Example: I was abused as a child. Shall this result ...

I am absolutely for - relativism.

(no .. wait ..)

I am relativly for - relatisism.

(no .. wait .. )

I am relatively for absolutism, except when I am absolutely for relativism.

Gee.

I guess I use both .. depending on which theory works better in any given situation.

Dear lifegazer ... Thank you for your comments. I know you have a strong belief system and so I value your opinions. I agree with what you wrote. I have owned several dogs and experience that they would (in order to protect our safety) willingly charge into situations of threat to my families safety...

Something dawned on me today. I don't watch much TV. Instead .. my mind entertains itself by a low level grappling with life's questions. Whenever I do not need to place my attention on some task I am doing .. my mind automatically goes back to the puzzles of life. I expect many of us here at this f...

Scott wrote:What do you think?

I think you did a good job.

Certainly it could be put in other words to satisfy other people's need to have it in their own language of terms .. but if they gave it a little thought .. they might find yours very acceptable.

(quote not shown) Soul is the unknown power which is that special relationship between psychological mind and body. (Somewhere at this forum I posted the difference between soul, mind, and spirit - with a link to a really good study on the use of the term according to the history of classical philos...

(quote not shown) Very well put my friend. Especially after I just finished watching the BBC Horizon documentary called "Ghost in The Genes" which is another nail in the coffin of Darwin's claim of the evolutionary wheel being driven by random gene mutation and survival of the fittest. Two...

Meleagar wrote:etc..
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IOW, his entire post is self-refuting nonsense.

A very comprehensive reply Meleagar.

I especially like the part about .. he is proud because (under his theory) he is programmed to be proud.

That at least should check-mate him/her.

Bravo.

(quote not shown) I am alive! A machine is not. I know myself! A machine knows nothing. Even if - we might say that the human body/brain gives rise to the human mind and consciousness as a product of chemical and electrical processes .. the very fact of that mind IS connected to the body means that ...

(quote not shown) In as much as this type of knowledge is the same as had in contemplation and is the goal of most forms of meditation - I think 'noetic' ... from the Greek { noesis } and { nous } insight-intellect, seems fitting. Aristotle said of contemplation that it is "the highest form of ...

Dear Meleager ..

Thank you.

Belinda wrote:I would really like to know the correct names for the two sorts of knowledge that you describe. I have vague memory that Bertrand Russell wrote something about the sort of immediate knowledge you described.

I would guess that I am not the first to express something like this .. but I do not know if anyone else has or has named these two stages/types. So I just called the first one Primary.

(quote not shown) Ahh... this statement might be compatible with classical Greek philosophy (which early Christianity adopted and used). I would have to refresh myself about a few things regarding the classical before I might say for certain. Would you be so kind as to .. hone in on the word 'aspect...