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John_Mann
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The Self Delusion
by John_Mann inwe already are very familiar with the god delusion, but what to think about the property of being self aware is just another illusion?.
buddhism asserts that and many people does not know that the very materialism (physicalism) asserts that too.. how can an illusion be self aware to be an illusion in itself?
what would change in your life if you accept this?.
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Have you heard Judge Rutherford give a sermon?
by Terry inthe phonograph records recorded by judge rutherford have been uploaded to the internet archives.. you can stream them and listen.. https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3a%28j.%20f.%20rutherford%29.
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John_Mann
He had a confident and smooth voice. It doesn't match with his psycopath look.
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The Self Delusion
by John_Mann inwe already are very familiar with the god delusion, but what to think about the property of being self aware is just another illusion?.
buddhism asserts that and many people does not know that the very materialism (physicalism) asserts that too.. how can an illusion be self aware to be an illusion in itself?
what would change in your life if you accept this?.
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(I'm not saying that the boy is what gives us our sense of self, but our reasoning side is the self's spokesman. Because we do write, speak, articulate, the boy exists.)
So does IBM Watson have a "boy" too?
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The Self Delusion
by John_Mann inwe already are very familiar with the god delusion, but what to think about the property of being self aware is just another illusion?.
buddhism asserts that and many people does not know that the very materialism (physicalism) asserts that too.. how can an illusion be self aware to be an illusion in itself?
what would change in your life if you accept this?.
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wearewatchingyouman the programmer is a blind process, the darwinian algorithm. Schopenhauer talked about some kind of blind "Will" too.
jgnat indeed we are a kind of verb and not a noun. But I'm not a thinking, not a writing and not a speaking. We only relate to the verb to be. But what is a verb without a noun? What is an object without a subject? Or a subject without objects?
frankiespeakin yes I like Jung. Do you know about MBTI? I'm typed as an INTP. Very interesting stuff.
punkofnice if there's some duality between object and subject, it's hard to say what is reality. But I tend to privilege the subjective view of reality.
What could be the objective reality without a subject? But if the subject is a thing in itself why the hell it needs to manifest in an objective world? Reality seems to be more consistent if you take dreams as reality. I think we just dismiss dreams as being the main reality because we do not have free will in dreams. But even without free will the dreams can be very pleasant. That's makes me wonder why worry about the existence of free will. Dreams prove to us that we can be very happy without free will. But just imagine dreams with free will? Man, I think that's the true reality: free will conscious in a dream! LOL
If someday (some says in 2045) we achieve to know how to upload our minds to a programmable substrate (computronium) we will be able to creat (hyper realistic) virtual environments to live. If the technological singularity is possible, we'll reach that reality. I hope so.
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The Self Delusion
by John_Mann inwe already are very familiar with the god delusion, but what to think about the property of being self aware is just another illusion?.
buddhism asserts that and many people does not know that the very materialism (physicalism) asserts that too.. how can an illusion be self aware to be an illusion in itself?
what would change in your life if you accept this?.
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But if there's no boy riding the elephant?
My topic is about no self at all, we are in a sense just bio-robots that have a command to simulate a self that can experience some free will.
The self is an illusion in same way of Jehovah being the creator of the universe.
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The Self Delusion
by John_Mann inwe already are very familiar with the god delusion, but what to think about the property of being self aware is just another illusion?.
buddhism asserts that and many people does not know that the very materialism (physicalism) asserts that too.. how can an illusion be self aware to be an illusion in itself?
what would change in your life if you accept this?.
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John_Mann
We already are very familiar with the God delusion, but what to think about the property of being self aware is just another illusion?
Buddhism asserts that and many people does not know that the very materialism (physicalism) asserts that too.
How can an illusion be self aware to be an illusion in itself? What would change in your life if you accept this?
What you think about it?
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Why do I bother to wake up in the morning?
by punkofnice ini'm not suicidal just fed up.. i did think of suicide (briefly), but as there is no painless way and it's not something i would willingly do just in case things would have been better the day after.
i do have a slight grain of hope.. money problems.....problems at home (that's another matter with a son up court for something he is adamant he didn't do.
first offence but the pigs police and the cps have got charges made.
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John_Mann
I have a strange ability to feel good even when I'm through deep sadness.
Being alive is what matters to me. Life will always bring interesting surprises.
I'm a nihilist.
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Mickey's epitaph, "I tried". What will yours be?
by FatFreek 2005 inmickey rooney passed,a sad loss.
yes, the above is reported to be his epitaph.
how about yours?.
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I'll be back.
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Human Brain And Quantum Physics
by frankiespeakin inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th4q9r2m8ss.
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John_Mann
This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye
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Anyone remember the old Beliefnet Poster - Apologist?
by TheListener inseveral years ago on beliefnet there was a jw apologist named "apologist".
he was very well written and defended the dubs very well.
he had several debates with auld soul and others on beliefnet which were fun to read.. i recently found out that the poster "apologist" is no longer a witness and does not consider them to have the "truth".
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John_Mann
It boggles my mind that rational truth-seeking people can leave the JWs but retain Christian Bible beliefs.
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The same method used to refute the WT can be used to refute every form of christianity.