What is Your Story?
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Dark Matter wrote: ↑April 1st, 2018, 4:43 pm Physics and the math supporting it tells us that the universe should not exist.
Quite the assertion. Care to back that up one single widgeon of evidence/logic?
I was under the impression that physics studied that which they find to exist?
They certainly cannot study what doesn't exist (which is not anything).
(And math can tell us that we are all flying unicorns, because flying unicorns exist the same place that math does, in the imagination. Like formal logic proving that lies are truth.)
Yet, here we are. I have previously stated that, in a sense, nothing really does exist,
And yet everything that we experience exists for us to experience it!
Perhaps it is not ultimately as things appear to exist, but the definition of existence is appearances, things that 'appear' to the senses.
Mirages exist, thought exists.
Even if all is 'Thought', it still exists as we know the term.
that everything balances out in the end.
No 'end', Here! Now!
"Every kind of partial and transitory disequilibrium must perforce contribute towards the great equilibrium of the whole.." - Rene' Guenon
That is a story that can be experienced/Known to the mystic.My story, the one that informs me, is one of unity and ultimate oneness, a wholeness within which boundaries are artificial constructs and indefinite at best.
Read about, by others. Perhaps intellectually known before experientially Known.
Don't denigrate the 'artificial boundaries' imposed by the duality of thought/ego, that is the only wat that the transcendental, unconditional Omni- Self! can be Known!
It is like 'make-believe', to truly 'believe' is insanity!
All being One, to Know 'your' story is to Know all stories! *__-What is your story?
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Not quite. More accurate would be "headline-hungry science journalists tell us that the universe should not exist". It's a bait, like Krauss's "universe from nothing", which he admitted was a tease for theists (he seemingly cannot help being annoying). Of course his book discussed the quantum foam and how so-called empty space is actually replete with energy.Dark Matter wrote: ↑April 1st, 2018, 4:43 pm Physics and the math supporting it tells us that the universe should not exist. Yet, here we are. I have previously stated that, in a sense, nothing really does exist, that everything balances out in the end. My story, the one that informs me, is one of unity and ultimate oneness, a wholeness within which boundaries are artificial constructs and indefinite at best. What is your story?
It's not that the universe should not exist, it's that we don't know all the mechanisms that brought it about - there are still mysteries to solve. It's clear that the universe does exist (either that or this is a helluva dream) so there must be some drivers to the state change known as the big bang that are not yet known. This is situation normal, just that we know a bit more than we did before, and that's opened up more lines of inquiry.
Situation normal: various hypotheses and speculations, sometimes irrationally presented as fact - or embellished so as to gain attention. The embellishment of stories to gain people's attention has been a device used by humans for millennia - the ignoble but much-honed art of bull faeces :)
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Hence, they avoid contemplating reality by deluding themselves into believing that reality can be contained in ideas — including the idea that they cannot know what IS.
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Which "dualism" is dead? The dualism of the majority of humanity, who are believers? Or the dualism of stuff and its form?Dark Matter wrote: ↑April 7th, 2018, 3:26 am Dualism is dead, but most people cling to it like a heroine addict clings to heroine. They are afraid to let go of their addiction, afraid to explore the alternative to its fullest. Their minds are corrupt with ideas, so many ideas that there is no room for genuine thought.
Hence, they avoid contemplating reality by deluding themselves into believing that reality can be contained in ideas — including the idea that they cannot know what IS.
If you do know what IS - what actually is it? Don't keep us in suspense.
If you are referring to the visceral nature of being, then you make the classic mistake of confusing people's words on a screen with their actual presence of being
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Just as I said on the other thread your “oneness” does not extend to human beings.My story, the one that informs me, is one of unity and ultimate oneness ...
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You claim that dualism is dead and Greta asks a reasonable question in response. We know from other discussions that you favor your own form of dualism. That is part of your story, but apparently not the one you wish to tell yourself at the moment.
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[ comments removed. Ad hominem]Fooloso4 wrote: ↑April 9th, 2018, 7:59 am Dark Matter:
Just as I said on the other thread your “oneness” does not extend to human beings.My story, the one that informs me, is one of unity and ultimate oneness ...
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You claim that dualism is dead and Greta asks a reasonable question in response. We know from other discussions that you favor your own form of dualism. That is part of your story, but apparently not the one you wish to tell yourself at the moment.
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No it doesn't. (But this part of the OP has aleady been addressed by several earlier posters.)Physics and the math supporting it tells us that the universe should not exist.
My story (in this context) is that boundaries are useful concepts and that they therefore, in every sense that matters, exist. And you wouldn't be here talking about them if you didn't share that belief. You would have mistakenly eaten the plate on which your food sits, and died. But if it makes you happy to talk about the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, I see nothing wrong with that. It does nobody else any harm and it presumably makes you happy, so there's nothing to which to object. I quite like the fundamental interconnectedness of all things too. But that doesn't stop boundaries from being useful things. As long as you don't try to make someone else pay for them.What is your story?
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That’s your story? The belief that underpins and informs all other beliefs? That’s cool. That’s all I was asking. These are things that can be discussed. Not everything is a debate.
Many people are fine it’s questioning the beliefs of others, but refrain from telling others what beliefs underpin and informs all their other beliefs.
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We learn more about you from your attacks on others than from the stories you tell yourself and others.
Here’s my story:
We live on one of billions of habitable planets in one of billions of galaxies. We are of significance to no one and nothing other than ourselves. And so, we should learn to take better care of ourselves and each other. It may be that in the not too distant future ours will no longer be a habitable planet for life forms such as ourselves, and so, we must learn to take better care of it as well. And no one lived happily ever after.
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I’m sure people will disagree and have arguments against this rather dogmatic point of view. I don’t want to debate. I want to learn from what others believe.
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The Earth has had an extraordinary story thus far and it would be pleasing to think that the story could continue in some way into (relative) perpetuity. Still, in nature, nothing is guaranteed. Caterpillars can run out of food and not all butterflies will reproduce.
If DM's First Source idea accords with reality, then maybe nothing is lost anyway. Given that our atomic nuclei are probably about as close to the stuff of the big bang as anything outside a black hole, one might say that a bit of the first source resides in every one of our atoms.
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