@xexon,
xexon;64299 wrote:Please do not mistake my confidence for attitude. I tell you what I see, not what I believe. Nobody placed anything in me from the outside I did not already possess.
I would say the exact same thing.
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The only way you will ever know is to work on those qualities that nuture compassion. When you think a lot, this interferes with that ability.
So now thinking is bad? With that bit of info I can see why you have the position you do. Perhaps your position wouldn't be so irrational if you did a little more thinking yourself. It wasn't compassion that invented the computer, it wasn't compassion that invented crop rotation, it wasn't compassion that invented the lightbulb. compassion may guide are social interactions it may even even help us mature as human beings, but it is the totally wrong tool for discovering truth. There is no replacement or substitute for rational thinking, there just isn't.
Quote:I should know. My original approach to God was through particle physics and the unified field theory. I was looking to see what the highest form of energy was. That common underlying energy from which everything else was born from.
???
You do know what energy is right?
Quote:I found physics lacking in the ability to explain that. However, the ancient sages of India knew quite abit about particle physics,
yeah and the Amish are quite adept electricians. :rollinglaugh:
Quote:The reason being goes back to perceptual range. You can't build an instrument out of physical matter to see something that exists in a more rarified reality than itself.
You assume there even is a more rarefied reality to explore in the first place, you know what Occam's razor says about this sort of reasoning?
Quote:There's only one thing that goes there. Consciousness. Another kind of energy.
And again I ask, do you even know what energy is?
Consciousness is the name of the brain process that allows us to think. Consciousness isn't energy, it isn't really anything, consciousness is just the name of a set of occurrences.
Quote:Someday you're going to break out of the egg. See reality as it is.
See this is the ills of Esotericism. This false sense of certainty, the belief that you "know" you are right and cannot be wrong, however reality shows otherwise. However certain you think you are, you could be wrong, you can always be wrong, I could be wrong, but the difference is that I am honest. I admit I could be wrong. You would only be lying to yourself if you said that you can't be wrong. There is just as much of a chance of you "realizing" that you are wrong as I am.