Armchair Philosophy

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Calling all arm chair philosophers, or are there only arm chair tards on here

Some Mckenna in the house

Lots to think on...

I'll try and comment on this sentence to start:

"The world isn't made up of separate things and separate events."

I don't know about that. I was thinking with all the things people believe in this world. Our perceptions can only be of this world...or your world...or my world. Wouldn't that be separate? Now, take this example for consideration: I'll use astronomy and astrology. We see the sky and make our horoscopes from this planet. What if we could go to another planet and see the stars from there. Would not the rules of astrology change and be a separate view.

Oh well, I need to think about it some more. I'll save this thread and read it over from time to time. It does cause one to think, tho...so, thank you OP

Oh, I forgot, we are all one....

all we need do is blow up the earth to know that. How about blowing up the universe. Wouldn't He get really mad...or does the silence of His Word quash any word we can make....

The perception would surely change.

you should read Carl Jung - dreams , recollections and memories . pertains to your line of thought .

I am another yourself, just a unique and different perspective of the same thing. I think this explains it quite nicely.

Thanks dude, Jung is always a good read.

Last Edited by Cloud Hidden on 06/18/2013 01:05 PM

Few philosophical questions;

Who am I?

Is my definition with the "I" a concept?

Is life serious?

For all infinite lies that separate us there all but one finite truth that unites us.

Here read this free book. It should answer all your questions and if nothing else, inspire you to new and bigger ones.

[link to www.humanitysteam.ru]

And it is, to be missing.

I cant philosophy with you at the moment but check out alan watts. If you havnt already

All good homie

And so, the search begins.

Always up for a new read, thanks

what are we searching for?

Searching implies there is something missing.

There was a thread started here earlier about free will. I tried to get the conversation going but it just went into godly figures, heavens and hells and never really about the reality of this free will.

"Free will" is open for discussion too.

I see free-will as how you choose to BE. It is an attitude and how you choose to create and experience your life.

'Be the love that you are.'

I see free will as an illusion itself, but this isn't supposed to be depressing.

An illusion because the self which I identify with is nothing more than a concept. We were taught to identify ourselves with things which are "voluntary" and whatever is "involuntary" is certainly not "us".

I will expand further on why the self which I believe to really exist is really an illusion..

Or.. just watch this video

I agree with you. Most people tend to see themselves as their ego which is a false persona instead of who they really are- a unique and different perspective of the same thing- for there is only 'one' with many perceptions. There in lies the choice. It is yours to see the 'one' and your relation to it.

"Be the love that you are" I like that
sounds easy and effortless, thanks

Then you will enjoy this! Beingness is what life is about. Please note it is
Excerpted from page 90/91 of the same book I linked earlier: ·Conversations with God
· an uncommon dialogue ·
book 1
Neale Donald Walsch
1992 -1994
[link to www.humanitysteam.ru]
"There’s a difference between being and doing, and
most people have placed their emphasis on the latter.
Shouldn’t they?
There’s no “should” or “should not” involved. There’s only what you choose, and how you can
have it.
If you choose peace and joy and love, you won’t get much of it through what you’re doing. If
you choose happiness and contentment, you’ll find little of that on the path of doingness. If
you choose reunion with God, supreme knowing, deep understanding, endless compassion,
total awareness, absolute fulfillment, you won’t achieve much of that out of what you’re doing.
In other words, if you choose evolution—the evolution of your soul—you won’t produce that
by the worldly activities of your body.
Doing is a function of the body. Being is a function of the soul. The body is always doing
something. Every minute of every day it’s up to something. It never stops, it never rests, it’s
constantly doing something.
It’s either doing what it’s doing at the behest of the soul—or in spite of the soul. The quality of
your life hangs in the balance.
The soul is forever being. It is being what it is being, regardless of what the body is doing, not
because of what it’s doing.
If you think your life is about doingness, you do not understand what you are about.
Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a living—and when your life is over, neither will you.
Your soul cares only about what you’re being while you’re doing whatever you’re doing.
It is a state of beingness the soul is after, not a state of doingness."
"The soul is concerned only with where you are going to be.
Are you going to be in a place called fear, or in a place called love? Where are you—and
where are you coming from—as you encounter life?
Now, in the example of the two equally qualified workers, one is successful and the other is
not, not because of anything either is doing, but because of what both are being.
One person is being open, friendly, caring, helpful, considerate, cheerful, confident, even
joyful in her work, while the other is being closed, distant, uncaring, inconsiderate, grumpy,
even resentful of what she is doing.
Now suppose you were to select even loftier states of beingness? Suppose you were to
select goodness, mercy, compassion, understanding, forgiveness, love? What if you were to
select Godliness? What then would be your experience?
I tell you this:
Beingness attracts beingness, and produces experience.
You are not on this planet to produce anything with your body. You are on this planet to
produce something with your soul. Your body is simply and merely the tool of your soul. Your
mind is the power that makes the body go. So what you have here is a power tool, used in
the creation of the soul’s desire."-God

What will it be like when death occurs? What was it like before I was born?

Nothing that is real ever dies, only thoughts, names, and symbols.

Good stuff here, Cloud. THanks! I love Terrence McKenna and Alan Watts.