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#21

Laid Back Lounge / Re: What's on your mind today?

Last post by hermes2015 - April 22, 2024, 11:15:45 AM

The availability of The Asmo is slightly reduced these days. He has become project lead on a very cool, yet very time-consuming project, so for now, He basically lives at, for and by work until the first stage is completed - probably in a couple of weeks.

Congratulations and good luck! Don't forget to fortify your body with copious volumes of ethanol-rich beverages.

#22

Religion / Re: Christian Nonduality

Last post by Me_Be - April 22, 2024, 10:18:15 AM

The material world comes from the Higgs Field.
https://www.waldorflibrary.org/journals/22-research-bulletin/1199-autumnwinter-2012-volume-17-2-higgs-field-and-a-view-of-the-material-world-that-makes-sense

Fair enough. There is a field theory. So is this field conscious of itself? I mean what's viewing the field? what part does consciousness play into the equation of the field theory of reality?

Or, everything is in the past and the future never comes.
Trying to force happiness on yourself is certain to lead to unhappiness.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/happiness-secret-why-miserable-unhappy-ok-mental-health-depression-anxiety-a7837481.html

Thanks for posting the link. I've not heard that said before, but I am delighted, it's as though I was reading my exact same thoughts, it made my day even happier.   

Humans are waves.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/08/19/in-quantum-physics-even-humans-act-as-waves/?sh=40ced635312c

Okay, thanks.

Can I just ask...This assembling of all the named molecules and chemistry that just happened to have made up the material world as we know it to be.... Was all that just an accidental, opportunistic, spontaneous event...or will we never know for absolute certainty why there is something rather than nothing question?

#23

Laid Back Lounge / Re: Jokes Thread (Was named An...

Last post by The Magic Pudding.. - April 22, 2024, 09:37:06 AM

#24

Laid Back Lounge / Re: What's on your mind today?

Last post by Asmodean - April 22, 2024, 08:37:29 AM

The availability of The Asmo is slightly reduced these days. He has become project lead on a very cool, yet very time-consuming project, so for now, He basically lives at, for and by work until the first stage is completed - probably in a couple of weeks.

#25

Religion / Re: Christian Nonduality

Last post by zorkan - April 21, 2024, 05:22:03 PM

"The material world; is an imaged projection of imageless consciousness. The same but different stuff (our) apparent dreams are made of."

Nope. The material world comes from the Higgs Field.
https://www.waldorflibrary.org/journals/22-research-bulletin/1199-autumnwinter-2012-volume-17-2-higgs-field-and-a-view-of-the-material-world-that-makes-sense

"I'm happy being unhappy, and if that makes me sound like a misery guts, then I'm happy with that too. I have no particular preference to-be or not to-be; for I have no control to make what happens unhappen.
There is nothing making happening happen; nor is there anything to make what happens unhappen."

Or, everything is in the past and the future never comes.
Trying to force happiness on yourself is certain to lead to unhappiness.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/happiness-secret-why-miserable-unhappy-ok-mental-health-depression-anxiety-a7837481.html

Humans are waves.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/08/19/in-quantum-physics-even-humans-act-as-waves/?sh=40ced635312c

#26

Religion / Re: Christian Nonduality

Last post by Me_Be - April 21, 2024, 05:00:22 PM

From Buddhism, a godless religion:
The material world only exists because of consciousness.

Yes.

The material world; is an imaged projection of imageless consciousness. The same but different stuff (our) apparent dreams are made of.

The dark side of us all is that we are just a collection of assembled waves and particles.

From the internet/inner-net.
''Indeed, we are. The intricate dance of atoms and electrons forms the very fabric of our existence. From the majestic galaxies to the tiniest particles, the universe weaves its cosmic ballet. Each atom, with its nucleus at the center and electrons whirling around like celestial dancers, contributes to the grand symphony of reality.

In this cosmic choreography:

Protons and neutrons huddle together in the atomic nucleus, bound by the strong force.
Electrons, the ethereal troubadours, flit around the nucleus, their paths governed by quantum probabilities.
Energy levels dictate where these electrons can pirouette, creating the mesmerizing patterns we call chemical bonds.
Molecules, those harmonious ensembles of atoms, join hands to form everything from water to DNA.''

(Being miserable keeps me happy}.

I'm happy being unhappy, and if that makes me sound like a misery guts, then I'm happy with that too. I have no particular preference to-be or not to-be; for I have no control to make what happens unhappen.

There is nothing making happening happen; nor is there anything to make what happens unhappen.

#27

Laid Back Lounge / Re: Reasons to be cheerful!

Last post by zorkan - April 21, 2024, 12:23:30 PM

Some people are plain jealous by saying the game was fixed.
We'll write off your debts.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/highgate-united-studley-bewdley-town-32629623

I don't think so. The referee should have awarded 2 penalties.

FF to 16 minutes for the 12th goal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lz9jMLcLEs

#28

Laid Back Lounge / Re: Reasons to be cheerful!

Last post by Tank - April 20, 2024, 04:40:27 PM

Do you have any fingernails left? 

#29

Laid Back Lounge / Re: Reasons to be cheerful!

Last post by zorkan - April 20, 2024, 12:46:55 PM

Being a football (1) fan is a metaphor for suffering.
I know this from years of experience.
It's okay for the players on the pitch. They are running around and enjoying themselves.
On Thursday I travelled to an away game for my local team who needed to score at least 12 goals to get into the play-offs for promotion in the last game of the season.
Incredibly they won 12 - 0.
The last goal came 5 minutes from the end. The tension was unbearable.
Next week they play in the semi-final and I'm probably back down to earth again.

"The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning." – Pelé.

(1) In the USA it's the game of soccer.

#30

Religion / Re: Christian Nonduality

Last post by zorkan - April 19, 2024, 12:20:26 PM

From Buddhism, a godless religion:
The material world only exists because of consciousness.

"Once in Hawaii I was taken to see a Buddhist temple. In the temple a man said, "I am going to tell you something that you will never forget." And then he said, "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell."
― Richard P. Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist.

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/4021/the-dark-side-of-buddhism

"I remember one student who was having problems memorising material for tests. Distraught, she went to the monks who explained to her that she was having such trouble now because, in a past life, she was a murderous dictator who burned books, and so now, in this life, she is doomed to forever be learning challenged."

The dark side of us all is that we are just a collection of assembled waves and particles.
(Being miserable keeps me happy}.

From far, from eve and morning
     And yon twelve-winded sky,
The stuff of life to knit me
     Blew hither: here am I.

A E Housman, poet.