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When pain ceases to accompany either experience, then you will move foward. For now, your fear of 'missing out' and 'losing' is exactly what will perpetuate a long string of 'missing out' and 'losing'. She is not without a strong sense of irony... PEACE and good-trading, Commisso

Ever wonder what life would be like if the speed of light was 186 miles per second instead of 186,000. You would be in a constant mescaline trip, well at least for the first 30 days or so and then this world would become the mescaline trip, but anyway... Imagine driving in your car and it...

My point was just that it is not as 'mystical' as people make it out to be, well the method itself is not - the experience is what it is. Zen is pretty much just a cross between Taoism and Buhdism and was adapted by the Ancient Samurai as a psycological method of getting your work done; no one...

Pabst, Zen is nothing but a psychological method of removing yourself from the equation at the moment of action. The intuition spoken of in Zen literature could very well be reworded as 'unconscious- repsonse'. In other words, the zen masters were not setting forth some sort of a cosmological...

I am not sure exactly what experiment you are referring to here, but there is something you must understand about the scientific & philosophical nature of Quantum Theory at the sub-atomic level. They are not setting out or overly concerned with explaining 'what is', but what we say 'what is'...

Jabberwocky? Beware the Jaberwock, my son! Seriously though Gann, I think you need to be a little more specific about what exactly you want to discuss in this thread... PEACE and good-trading, Commisso

"The deed is everything; the glory is naught" ~Goethe~

I saw Chris make a post today and for some reason this thread popped in my head, I just re-read it and there are some lovely contributions in her by Jem, Pabst, Rogue, Chris, etc... Just wanted to revive the thread... PEACE and good-trading, Commisso

"In our lives today, we don't leave enough room for empty spots, for doing nothing. This concept of doing nothing, which has nothing to do with just not doing something, is also an activity and an exercise --- Compare doing nothing to a pause in music. A pause is not a lack of music, it is an...

Seriously though Syant, I am sincerely apologetic for subjecting you to my extreme ignorance throughout this thread, I really know very little about very little and it is not fair to spout off nonsense to extrememly bright fellows such as yourself... Sincerely, Commisso (a fool)

I have been conversing on this thread and have been making a nice living trading for quite sometime, but when it comes to the matters at hand I am really just a babbling idiot who is trying to sharpen his blade when it comes to the art of bull-shitting :) I am indeed a fool... PEACE and...

sorry gann... :( so did you like the section devoted to my game on that site?

Dotlash, Are you serious with this? I read Popper's "Philosophy of science" 4 years ago, before Talibs book was published -- he lead me to Hume where it started, so please man... Where do you think Nassim got it from? If anybody was recycling something it was he, Hume stated blackswan...

You are pretty dense Alfonso... With the swans you did arrive at an absolute fact by falsifying the claim that 'all swans are white' because you now know undeniably that at least one black swan has existed... As for the 1+1, it is fact in principia de mathematica, but when is the last time...

Alfonso, it is only accepted as absolute fact as it relates to the confines of the system in which the proof is stated and derived from, it cannot be accepted outside the realms of mathematics as absolute fact in nature, only accepted as a theory that accurately describes and is consistent with...

Gann, Did you see the section of the site devoted to my "Glass Bead Game"? :D

Saynt, Wrong... Mathematics gave Einstien a way to express his theory and perform countless experiments to support his case, but the only 'science' that can be taken as absolute fact is arrived at through falsification, which general relativity theory was not. It might very well turn out...

Knowledge told Einstein that Space/Time was absolute, wisdom - coupled with imagination is what told him that Newton was only 'right' when dealing with macro-level phenomena. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world..." ~Einstein~...

I can just imagine bubbleheads like Sayant Chaosity (Daniel_M) embracing Jung's take on 'synchronocity' or the I-ching...

Alfonso, With all due respect, I think you are missing a glaring point -- Quantum, Atomic, Relativity, etc are theories, not much different than the philosophy to be found in that of say the Tao Te Ching, other then there is a complex mathematical language devised to explain them, and have...