What Will Happen When You Die?
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“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” - James Baldwin
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You don't get to win every argument in this folder and others through complete incoherence and Cathy Newmanisms.
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“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” - James Baldwin
Now, I remind you both not to go personal, okay?
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I'm coming to think that it's actually more common than might have been supposed (by earlier thinkers at least) that people can enjoy their own company. It's when they have to go to work, school, etc. and deal with Machiavellian characteristics in others that typically spoils it. This is part of why I also really enjoy my alone time and make the most of it - whether reading, listening to music, catching lectures, or whatever else I can do that's both useful and stimulating.
John Gray's actually written a lot about the resilience of animals in that they don't have to think of death - they just are in the moment. Pursuit of Wonder actually had an excellent video among others that proves there's an afterlife and heavens real and.....lol......just kidding, it's on existentialism and these exact points about the human condition and how we're really riveted by our insights into the nihilistic nature of reality - ie. can't live with them, wouldn't choose to live without them either.
Except crows. Crows think about death and other things and remember witnessing trauma for months. They can probably also temper their emotions, see i argued with this crow which was loud with its friend and it shut up. Better than most people.
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Perhaps, Something Different; Far From Only Objective; Yes, Subjective
That Hasn't Been Observed Before; Yet Shared As Philosophy That Helps
Folks Gain A Greater Path In Life....
Ya Can't Always Rely on Science
For Remission of Disease; Placebo
Works; Yet Not the Sugar Pill; Yet A Connection
Of Love Enough for Willingness to Believe in a Greater Outcome...
In Other 'Words', Mind Over Matter; There is Some Philosophy That will
Only Be Measured By Arts
of Course Including
Poetry, A Way
We may
Communicate
By Metaphors That May
Help Some Folks to Understand
Where Others May only See What is said
As 'Word Salad'; That's not too Odd on a Forum
Where Some Folks Have Difficulty With Metaphor;
Yet that's only One Part of the Spectrum of Autism;
As There are those Who Are Close to Empath And Farther
Away from HeART Aloof...
We Need Scientists,
And We Need Artists,
to Keep the Yang and Yin
Of Life Balanced on a Greater Scale
of Success in Culture And Societies Overall; Yes, For Real,
Additionally, Epigenetic Change Is Potential And of Course
So Is Neuroplasticity; Exploring And Adapting to
Unknown Environments And Challenges
Indeed May Unpack
DNA
Like
'Clark Kent'
Becoming Supernormal,
Like 'Superman'; Yet don't
Let me bore 'Ya' with those
Details Again, Hehe; It's True
In this Life There is 'Ripley Believe it or not' And 'Horatio';
God Yes, THere is Remission From Deadly Disease by Placebo
And Science Even Shows now that Meditative Flow As Regular Practice Actually
Regenerates Gray Brain Matter; So Wow, in Some ways 'the Fountain of Youth' is Real...
True, Yes, Visualize Exercise In Mind over Matter That Way and Science Shows Empirical
Measures of Strength Occur; For What We Will Find On this Forum Are Scientists and
Artists; True, We Need Both For A Philosophy of Life That Works; Literal Heaven instead
Of Hell
Might
Be A Greater
Effective Result Measurable
Indeed for a Philosophy Without
Even Any Science For Empirical Results Still to come...
No Need to Wait on an Abstract in Research to Go to Heaven
Now; Not Even A Church, Not Even An Organized Religion For Indeed
This Place Within, When We Become Reborn From Living Dead is Mind Over Matter
For Real
What
Will Be
Never Measured Alone
Empirically By Science Is
Love; Home Sweet Home; Love For Real...
When We Live; When We Truly Really Live; 'A Best' of All Homes...
Simply
A Best Indeed...
Oldest Most Enduring
Philosophies of Life are
Steeped in Poetry
And Other
Arts;
Not everyone's
'Cup of English Tea';
Yet Other Folks Savior's
of Life Indeed; Simply 'A Best'....
Science is A Tool; Love is Beyond Measure alone...
Considering Science Shows Love Basically Eliminates
Fear When Pure And Agape Healing; Removing Anxiety
As Even Oxytocin Delivering Naturally Will; iT Ain't that 'Bad' to try
to Understand
With Both
Art
And Science True...
Dam Sure Beats
A Continuing Real Option of
A Living DeatH; A Stone Barely Breathing;
There are some Days Where Anecdotal Metaphorical Evidence is Enough 'for one'...
Call It whatever Label Ya Like; 'Metaphysics' Or Whatever; Yet Ironically, the FACT iS It Works;
Even 'the Infant of Science' Is Finally Dropping 'A Diaper' and Putting 'Bigger Boy Pants' on...
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They seem to have a particularly interesting way of both transmitting information between members of flocks (don't know how wide the effect ranges) and across generations. It'll be interesting to see if we're able to find out more on that:
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26crow.html
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Location: "I know there's nothing we can do. But my heart can't accept it." "If this is real, then I want to change the future."
I didn't really come that close, probably. But I wanted to believe so bad.
Sending hugs, glad you didn't
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Location: "I know there's nothing we can do. But my heart can't accept it." "If this is real, then I want to change the future."
They seem to have a particularly interesting way of both transmitting information between members of flocks (don't know how wide the effect ranges) and across generations. It'll be interesting to see if we're able to find out more on that:
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/science/26crow.html
And there's a case where a budgie helped a murder case and recognized the murderer of his mama. He still recognizes her in pictures.
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Jim Rutt (GameB head, self-disclosed naive realist), interviewing philospher Forrest Landry on his Immanent Metaphysics which makes the disctinction - when given the debate of things like idealism vs. realism, taking the relationship between 'things' as more primary than subject or object and thus saying it's really six one way, half dozen the other.
Again, discussing ontology and epistemology because it's foundational.
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^^ I'm putting together cliffs notes that I'll share in a few hours (listening a second time) because it's dense but really interesting stuff. Recursive three-part model of relationships.
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“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” - James Baldwin
Update: in attempting to rekindle my spiritual side once again, I thought of an idea that I really liked. We come from the void, and return to it after we die. Like ashes to ashes, but in a different way.
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NDE's beat the heck out of that drum.
Iain McGilchrist, another Sam Harris podcast in last few days, where around 40 minutes in Iain brings up that he's of the opinion that the left and right brain receive rather than originate consciousness.
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“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” - James Baldwin