Does anyone here believe in reincarnation?
While living in the forest, he came up with certain things.
After he came out of the forest, he wanted to convey what he learned to others. Other people listened. His ideas spread.
Rather like folks like Jesus and Mohammed (not precisely---but there are similarities).
I once pointed out the similarities between Buddha and Jesus in high school and got a lot of angry backlash.
It would just made you sound like you where insulting their intelligence.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HLqWn5L ... -distances
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Round eathers! THey are just as delusional as Flat earthers the fact that they are right doesn't mean that their thinking is an better.
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You can't lead people to a truth they don't want to hear, but you can mislead them to it.
Lies are the sharpest weapon, truth the bluntest. And when you want to surgically remove a cancer from someone you want to use a sharp scalpel not a rusty spoon.
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I believe in synthetic "telepathy" using psychotronics...
Previous "lives" could simply be the implantation of "memories" through remote hypnotic influencing...<shrug>
Yes I know, wacky stuff...
I'm not sure on what you terminology means but it seems like what I believe in. That past life memories are just implants of the gestalt subconsciousness.
Of course I believe that speech is just how neurons fire in the hive mind.
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If your smart you palm cards from the previous hand and cheat on future ones. but most people are too honest to do that.
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if A then B doesn't mean if B then A.
A truth being revealed doesn't strip away delusions.
A clock that always says it's 2 o'clock is still just a broken when it's 2 o'clock.
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I'd add - I don't believe in the 'supernatural' so much as the yet unknown natural, just that I don't subscribe to the idea popular these days that matter and natural phenomena are strictly unconscious. That last bit is what I think the evidence points away from.
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I'd add - I don't believe in the 'supernatural' so much as the yet unknown natural, just that I don't subscribe to the idea popular these days that matter and natural phenomena are strictly unconscious. That last bit is what I think the evidence points away from.
I don't believe that knowledge isn't a physical process. In fact according to Quantum Mechanics the fundamental building block of physics is the exchange of information.
Standford's Quantum Mechanics course is a real good explanation. If you can understand what a square root is them you can understand QM that the hardest concept. Thou the Standford Quantum Entanglements course wasn't vary clear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzhlfbW ... 9CB1D13841
The New Agey explanation is that observations collapse the wave functions and observations require a conscious mind. since Observations are the same thing as entanglements and subatomic particles can get entangled then subatomic particles are conscious minds.
Or more technically Observations are a symmetric operator in QM so if you observe something that something observers you.
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That could be so, though I really feel like we're a long ways away from having a handle on things. There is more convergence starting to happen between physics, neurology, and subjective philosophies, that's promising, but I don't think it'll really pick up a whole lot of steam until the money is in that area. The financial incentives may come but I think they're still decades off.
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Bequeathing your estate to yourself while dodging inheritance taxes? Unless you could accurately predict the identity of your next incarnation, your estate is likely to go to your immediate heirs, especially since they would have more legal proof of their identities than you. Inheriting from your previous incarnation would also require extreme proof of identity.
Stashing your wealth in a secure place before your death, and then recovering it after your re-birth? Someone else could find it while you're still in limbo between lives. Someone could claim the secure place as his or her own, and thus limit your access to your secret stash. Your stash could be hidden in a secret vault under a Bel-Air mansion, yet you get re-born in an aboriginal village somewhere in the Outback. War could be declared between the country of your previous incarnation and the country of your current one. A lot can happen between lives, especially if your time in Limbo is measured in centuries, and not seconds.
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Bequeathing your estate to yourself while dodging inheritance taxes? Unless you could accurately predict the identity of your next incarnation, your estate is likely to go to your immediate heirs, especially since they would have more legal proof of their identities than you. Inheriting from your previous incarnation would also require extreme proof of identity.
Stashing your wealth in a secure place before your death, and then recovering it after your re-birth? Someone else could find it while you're still in limbo between lives. Someone could claim the secure place as his or her own, and thus limit your access to your secret stash. Your stash could be hidden in a secret vault under a Bel-Air mansion, yet you get re-born in an aboriginal village somewhere in the Outback. War could be declared between the country of your previous incarnation and the country of your current one. A lot can happen between lives, especially if your time in Limbo is measured in centuries, and not seconds.
We weren't even on that topic, you can check the chain of quotes to get some context.
As for what proof of reincarnation would be worth? Probably knowing that if we have a system that's stealing from the future or destroying future conditions to gorge ourselves in the now it's probably better if more people knew that they would be their own great grandchildren or the equivalent, ie. that if they get born into a world similar to Max Max or Book of Eli that they'll have their own past selves to blame.
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