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Bad news; it's all random.
Do you have any supporting evidence for this opinion?
Bad news; it's all random.
Do you have any supporting evidence for this opinion?
Do you have any supporting evidence for this opinion?
Yes, 4.5 billion years of earth history. 13.8 billion years if I want to get fancy and add the history of the universe.
And this is not an understatement.
What I want to know is why you demand evidence to counter what is a philosophical belief?
Bad news; it's all random.
You either believe it or you don't.
Why come here to look for validation of your brand of woo?
Why I come here is to engage with skeptics - not woo-slingers.
OK.Generated Messages is what I call them.
I have no idea, as I don't know what your system is. But in order to do a blind test, you have to be blind to which GM is yours. So if you can't find a way, you will never know if your GMs are really meaningful.:?: Explain how I would 'use my system' but 'not look at' the GMs'?
No, you will. You are the one with the hypothesis, so you are the one who has to come up with an objective way of testing it. Or else stop claiming it works, because you have no way of finding out whether or not it does. All I'm doing is offering suggestions.You will need to correct your test sequence before 4 & 5 are enabled.
I see no coherency in your GMs, so that is your subjective opinion. Without objective evidence, you are wasting your time.All ways I have so far tested, show that the GMs still happen - coherency is achieved.
Exactly. That's why the scientific method had to be invented. Lots of things that seem obvious (the earth is flat, the sun goes round the earth, astrology works) turned out not to be true. Common sense has actually proved to be a very poor way of finding out how the universe works; most of modern physics is counterintuitive. So just because your GMs appear to be meaningful to you, that doesn't necessarily mean it's true.appearance is not evidence positive that what something appears to be, is actually truly what it is
Confirmation bias is not the only cognitive bias. Subjective validation is something of which you need to be equally wary. You currently have no objective evidence that your GMs are meaningful, so by your own reasoning you should be neutral about them.My preferred option is to remain neutral until evidence supporting either view is forthcoming. Believing something is true involves confirmation bias - which is best avoided.
OK.
I have no idea, as I don't know what your system is.
But in order to do a blind test, you have to be blind to which GM is yours. So if you can't find a way, you will never know if your GMs are really meaningful.
You are the one with the hypothesis, so you are the one who has to come up with an objective way of testing it.
Or else stop claiming it works, because you have no way of finding out whether or not it does.
All I'm doing is offering suggestions.
I see no coherency in your GMs, so that is your subjective opinion.
Without objective evidence,
you are wasting your time.
I am attempting to come up with the simplest possible test protocol that will produce objectively reliable results.Essentially you are attempting to complicate things.
No, it absolutely isn't.Mind is subjective. The only way to test it is for others to replicate the process and if it works for them, then that is good enough.
No, they don't. All you have is your subjective opinion that your GM is meaningful, to set against my subjective opinion that it is meaningless gibberish.It works. The results show that it works.
I know a lot about how to design objective test protocols, which is the only expertise I am offering here.Do you always offer suggestions about things you admit you do not have any idea about? How is that helpful?
Judging by the responses you have received from other posters, you are the only person here who disagrees with me.As I said, I wouldn't expect anyone to understand everything therein, because I use LEs which are specific to my own subjective experience, but there are common enough language connections which nobody can truthfully deny are understandable. Indeed you are the first personality to say you see no coherency, so I take that with a grain of salt.
The GMs are certainly data. Your subjective validation of them is data. Neither are objective evidence.The GMs are objective evidence.
The data is there.
Because unless you carefully and methodically eliminate all of the ways in which we know cognitive biases can fool us into believing things that are not true, no reliable conclusions can be drawn. You can generate GMs and subjectively validate them for the rest of your life, you can ask other people to do the same, and you will still be no nearer to discovering whether your hypothesis is correct.I don't understand why you say this.
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No objective evidence for your hypothesis.
No proposed test protocol for obtaining objective evidence for your hypothesis.
Post ignored.
I feel I owe you an explanation as to why I've taken no notice whatsoever of your description of the process by which you produce your GMs. It's the same reason I have no interest in the process by which astrologers generate their horoscopes - what planetary alignments they look at, how they interpret them etc. My interest is solely in how claims like theirs and yours can be tested.
Only if such a test showed that there was anything actually happening would I become interested in how it happened. Likewise I'm not interested in how homeopathy or dowsing are imagined by their practitioners to work, though I certainly would have been if every properly conducted test of them had not shown conclusively that they don't work.
If you ever produce some objective evidence that the GMs you are producing are meaningful, I will be very interested indeed in how you produced them. Until then, not so much. The phrase "putting the cart before the horse" comes to mind.
"If you trust in yourself ... and believe in your dreams ... and follow your star ... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things" - Terry Pratchett
This is the third in our series of online events to help us find ways of connecting with each other to explore voices and visions from different angles during the COVID-19 crisis.
On Friday 22 May, from 8-9.30pm UK Time (British Summer Time) we hosted an online gathering to explore the ways voices, visions and related experiences are portrayed in film. Rai Waddingham, in conversation with Eoin Kelly (HVN) and John Richardson (Mindwick), will be sharing a selection of film clips to provoke discussion.
We’ll looked at some of the good, the bad, the iconic and the quirky ways filmmakers, scriptwriters, actors and the special effects crew try and portray extreme experiences.
If I just look at the generated portion of the messages, all I see is randomly put together phrases. Now, if I put some effort and got creative, I could find a way to tie them all together into some semblance of coherence.
Thus, it is established that as long as GMs are coherent, they can be interpreted. Only non Coherent GMs are unable to be interpreted.
Example of none coherent GMs which first have to be decoded before any interpretation is possible:
CODE SCHOOL: TOP SECRET COMMUNICATIONS DURING WWII
Which is why I am skeptical when folk tell me they see no coherency in the GMs I present.
The problem is that what I come up with will be different than what anyone else would come up with. There may be some similarities, but that’s only because we are working with phrases for which we might have the same cultural/social/current event associations to.
That in itself is here nor there, as I am presenting GMs without interpreting them - other than narrating [in red] my immediate thoughts.
Now, whether or not each of us can come up with some “meaning,” behind the randomly put together phrases is neither here nor there -we definitely can.
Once again, a statement which supports that the GMs presented are not 'incoherent'...
But there’s nothing new about that -pareidolia is a well understood phenomenon. It’s not evidence of an objective meaning that is clear and unambiguous.
Nor it is evidence to the contrary.
What might be interesting is if several people given several sets of randomly put together phrases (“generated messages”) can find exactly the same meaning.
Highly unlikely given that we are all viewing our shared reality from a subjective viewpoint.
It would be enough if said 'several people' were to agree with the gist of the GMs...
Besides that, the way I understand the method Navigator is using, the lists he is using are all compiled by him. For us to use this method, we would have to compile our own lists. Do I have that right?
That would be the best way in which individuals can ascertain the GMs are viable - by having their own personal lists to which they each know things which are only relevant to them, when selected as part of the GMs - and how these relate or fit in with what the GM is saying...another reason why I commentate [in red] to show the process is interactive.
That is not to say that personal lists cannot crossover re sharing same line entries...
If so, the phrases that go on my list are going to be phrases that probably have some meaning to me; therefore, I will be more likely to be able to generate “messages,” because I am familiar with those phrases and I have associations with them already.
The messages are generated through the random-as-possible methods - what you are saying is that you would be better able to understand the GMs because you have line entries on your list which are specific to your subjective experience of this reality.
This same kind of principle is the same principle that Tarot cards or Runes “work” on: there is a predefined interpretation to each symbol and those interpretations are very general statements which people already have associations with.
This principle is the same re human language. Even that you were able to generate the post you did, in the way that you did, is all based upon the same principle - even that we each learned how to speak through the written word and how those words are commonly arranged is a type of predefined interpretation, especially as language is used to interpret the reality we are experiencing.
Yet - human language was not learned through the written word. It came about through sound humans made, which were discovered to be encoded and were decoded through the discovery and recoded as alphabets.
"A" is not a 'letter' so much as it is a symbol or code for a particular sound made by humans.
And - in the case of the English language, the coding in the sounds were discovered to consist of 26 different specifics.
When this was discovered, the ability to then use the codes to write down the language as in 'written language' and use the written language as a means to preserve Generated Messages was enabled.
Before the written language, all Generated Messages were passed along by word of mouth, which also suffered the fate of being interpreted by the recipients - so written language helped to stabilize the problem by capturing the spoken word with the written code.
This is not to say that misinterpretation et al did not still occur - or that folk could put their own spin on GMs...
Overall point being, that human language is more than simply some mindless accident which just happened. Just as the universes itself is more than just some mindless thing which just happened. There is a good deal of evidence supporting that the whole production is a mindful one...and something which the GMs I am posting, are pointing out quite coherently.
What the System shows is that true randomness does not exist. The Universe is not the product of mindless happenstance, because if it was, then this should not be able to work as it does, and produce coherent messages.
It also shows that sound is also mathematically coherent, and that human language is not something which just happened by accident, but is encoded into the nature of the human form.
It is good to be skeptical, but it is also good to accept evidence and do the science. What I am able to do, can be replicated by anyone, for very little cost.
Do the science, and bring your results to the table.
There is Mind involved with the ongoing the formation of the Universe, and we can commune with it if we want to.
Just as we can ignore it if we want to.
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What the System shows is that true randomness does not exist. The Universe is not the product of mindless happenstance, because if it was, then this should not be able to work as it does, and produce coherent messages.
It also shows that sound is also mathematically coherent, and that human language is not something which just happened by accident, but is encoded into the nature of the human form.
It is good to be skeptical, but it is also good to accept evidence and do the science. What I am able to do, can be replicated by anyone, for very little cost.
Do the science, and bring your results to the table.
There is Mind involved with the ongoing the formation of the Universe, and we can commune with it if we want to.
Just as we can ignore it if we want to.
the problem I see with this reasoning is that even assuming the universe is nonrandom and mindful, there is no guarantee that any given system of divination actually produces meaningful communication.
Imagine a printed page of writing in a language that you know, but it's hidden from your view. All you can know is the sum of the RGB color values of each row of pixels in a digital photograph of that page (each is a sum of several thousand eight-bit numbers). You decide you can divine the sense of the writing by taking each of those numbers modulo 100 and looking up the same-numbered entries on a list of personally meaningful phrases you've written down.
What you're counting on for your divination to be coherent in the way you describe is not just that the universe has some underlying order, and not just that your process of evaluating it (divination) is not random, but that there is some kind of resonance of meaning between one and the other. Why should there be?
If you ask advice from a Navajo speaker, even if the Navajo speaker understands your question and answers honestly in Navajo, if you don't know Navajo speech yourself you're not going to understand the advice. Write the Navajo speech down phonetically, translate the phonetic characters into numbers, combine those numbers into volume/page/words that you look up in an encyclopedia... all that will just get you farther away from what the Navajo speaker said. There's no reason to hypothesize, let alone expect, that the process will defy entropy and somehow reproduce the original meaning instead.
The problem is that even if the universe is random and unmindful your system would still "work", i.e. you would still be able to subjectively validate your GMs and convince yourself there was meaning in them. It actually was guaranteed that the system you developed and use would work in that sense. Any such system would. Astrology works in that sense. Tarot cards, the readings of psychic mediums - they all "work", which is why so many people believe in them.The system I am using is focused upon the idea that if the universe is non-random and mindful, one should be able to develop a system whereby, the mind should be able to use for the purpose of communicating.
There was no guarantee that the system I developed and use, would have worked, but it does work and that it works is one more piece of evidence to support the idea that the universe is mindful.
No. what I am saying is that there is no such “non coherent GMs” that we could not “interpret” given enough effort and creativity.Thus, it is established that as long as GMs are coherent, they can be interpreted. Only non Coherent GMs are unable to be interpreted.
Let me ask you this: have you ever encountered a “GM” that could not be interpreted? If so, post it here because I am sure I could come up with something.
A cipher is still a message in the English language, as long as the code is translatable to the English language. That’s REALLY not a good example of a “non coherent GM,” because you aren’t presenting any “GM” here in this thread that is encoded. The messages you are presenting here are in plain English.Example of none coherent GMs which first have to be decoded before any interpretation is possible:
CODE SCHOOL: TOP SECRET COMMUNICATIONS DURING WWII
Which is why I am skeptical when folk tell me they see no coherency in the GMs I present.
I can’t make heads or tails of what any of your “GMs,” are supposed to mean. Your “immediate thoughts” often don’t correlate to anything I was immediately thinking by reading the phrases. IOW, when I read the phrases, I don’t get the same chain of thought you elucidate.That in itself is here nor there, as I am presenting GMs without interpreting them - other than narrating [in red] my immediate thoughts.
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That would be the best way in which individuals can ascertain the GMs are viable - by having their own personal lists to which they each know things which are only relevant to them, when selected as part of the GMs - and how these relate or fit in with what the GM is saying...another reason why I commentate [in red] to show the process is interactive.
That is not to say that personal lists cannot crossover re sharing same line entries...
But you understand, then, that the interpretation you come up with for the phrases on your own list will not be the same interpretations that I come up with, yes? I have my own associations and therefore, will have completely different ideas about what your phrases mean.
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Overall point being, that human language is more than simply some mindless accident which just happened. Just as the universes itself is more than just some mindless thing which just happened. There is a good deal of evidence supporting that the whole production is a mindful one...and something which the GMs I am posting, are pointing out quite coherently.
You seem to be implying that there is some “other” mind which is generating these messages. If not your mind, then whose mind is generating these messages?
This principle is the same re human language. Even that you were able to generate the post you did, in the way that you did, is all based upon the same principle - even that we each learned how to speak through the written word and how those words are commonly arranged is a type of predefined interpretation, especially as language is used to interpret the reality we are experiencing.
Yet - human language was not learned through the written word. It came about through sound humans made, which were discovered to be encoded and were decoded through the discovery and recoded as alphabets.
"A" is not a 'letter' so much as it is a symbol or code for a particular sound made by humans.
And - in the case of the English language, the coding in the sounds were discovered to consist of 26 different specifics.
When this was discovered, the ability to then use the codes to write down the language as in 'written language' and use the written language as a means to preserve Generated Messages was enabled.
Before the written language, all Generated Messages were passed along by word of mouth, which also suffered the fate of being interpreted by the recipients - so written language helped to stabilize the problem by capturing the spoken word with the written code.
This is not to say that misinterpretation et al did not still occur - or that folk could put their own spin on GMs...
Overall point being, that human language is more than simply some mindless accident which just happened. Just as the universes itself is more than just some mindless thing which just happened. There is a good deal of evidence supporting that the whole production is a mindful one...and something which the GMs I am posting, are pointing out quite coherently.
You seem to be implying that there is some “other” mind which is generating these messages. If not your mind, then whose mind is generating these messages?
Where? Because you certainly haven't provided any. What you seem to think is evidence is no such thing, it's just a perception. It is, moreover, identical to the sort of perception that has been proven to be erroneous in many previous similar cases. We even know exactly why such errors occur. Consequently the most likely explanation is that you, too, are in error.I am saying that there is evidence supporting the idea that the universe is a mindful thing.
While The Subject is focused on "Egoless" the subject matter of the GM has to do with how things unfolded re the Universe...what is being referred to as "The Old Soul" may have something to do with the cosmology of The Mind of The Universe - in that - at one point so close to the beginning, there was no sense of self but with the unfolding, a sense of self developed.
I suppose that is why one is able to use such to point out similarities while at the same time allowing one to be incorrect about particulars - because no particulars are really given in the first place.
In that sense, it is classic type of "readings" so-called psychics employ - worded in such a way as what is said can fit most occasions likely to arise and impress folk enough to buy into it.
What has been established beyond reasonable doubt, it that it is illogical that "something that is, derived from something that isn't", which firmly places the idea of a Creator/Creation as primary for genuine and sustained consideration.
What hasn't been established is what preexisted this iteration of matter/energy that we refer to as the universe.
Scientists are working on finding this out. IF they are correct about the infinitesimally small object which exploded and produced what we currently are experiencing as a stage in the universes unfolding, THEN at least we can identify said object as "The Seed of Origin"
What, if anything pre-existed that - is beyond our current ability to know.
What is being measured here are the symbols used to represent sounds made by human beings. The sounds made are organized into what is called language.
We can further organize the sounds mathematically, by delegating a value to each sound symbol and sound string symbols.
The alphabet represents the sounds made.
So we are not dealing primarily with the written word, but with the human vocal sounds we call "language".
That we cannot predict something does not mean it is therefore truly random, because that would mean we are superimposing our lack of knowledge onto reality and declaring that reality must be random.
In the Ace of Wands, a hand holding a sprouting wand extends out from a cloud, as if to offer a new opportunity or idea with the potential to grow. The rich, verdant landscape is further confirmation of this growth capability. In the distance on the left sits a castle, representing the promise of opportunities to come, and hills and mountains line the horizon. Their rolling peaks remind us that there will always be challenges along the way, but they are surmountable with enough effort.
Let me ask you this: have you ever encountered a “GM” that could not be interpreted?
If so, post it here because I am sure I could come up with something.
A cipher is still a message in the English language, as long as the code is translatable to the English language. That’s REALLY not a good example of a “non coherent GM,” because you aren’t presenting any “GM” here in this thread that is encoded. The messages you are presenting here are in plain English.
I can’t make heads or tails of what any of your “GMs,” are supposed to mean.
Your “immediate thoughts” often don’t correlate to anything I was immediately thinking by reading the phrases. IOW, when I read the phrases, I don’t get the same chain of thought you elucidate.
But you understand, then, that the interpretation you come up with for the phrases on your own list will not be the same interpretations that I come up with, yes? I have my own associations and therefore, will have completely different ideas about what your phrases mean.
Honestly, I don’t see evidence of the universe having a mind.
For all we know, the stars we observe in the night sky are a written form of language, proclaiming clearly a generated message from the Universal Mind...but if we do not have the ability to recognize it as any language, we will not even think to decipher it. [SOURCE]
Your system is really only evidence of your mind talking to itself. You came up with the system, you generated the lists and phrases. You use it to spit out, in essence, random “notes to self,” that you then find a meaning in.
And don’t get me wrong, I am not knocking you at all. If you find value in it as some kind of insight or creativity tool, go for it.
The only thing I have a problem with is selling this as some kind of evidence that the universe is mindful.
"An error occurred. Please try again later."The link is to a generated message by Sir David Attenborough and his team.
You and I may interpret the GM differently.
I see evidence of a Mind behind what is being observed. What do you see?
I don’t see how that makes any sense. Any randomly generated message is going to have many ways to interpret it based on the associations/assumptions one brings to the message. How could you possibly determine the “correct” interpretation?No. I have seen GMs which are obviously misinterpreted though.
This message I’m generating right now is generated by me with an intent to communicate specific information. So this message, if I’m doing it right, should be pretty clear as to the meaning I’m trying to convey.My "Generated Messages" are no different from any message generated. What is any message generated 'supposed to mean?"
I can read the words. The words have meaning to me. But the connection between words and phrases to express clear ideas -like we do when we intend to communicate- does not exist. To glean some meaning out of it, I would have to get creative. Which might be fun, but it’s not truly meaningful in the way that our communication in daily life is meaningful. There’s a reason that our news sources don’t just randomly string words and phrases together in order to convey information!No surprises there.
The point I have been making is that coherent messages are generated - because if they were not coherent, then you would not even be able to have any 'chain of thought' associated with what you are reading.
A message is a string of text arranged in such a way as to communicate information in a way that is easily understood. You are sending me messages on this forum. I can read them and understand the meaning immediately. Hopefully, the same is true for my messages to you. We are communicating in a common language with intention. That intention in communication is key. What I’m trying to get across is that the “generated messages,” you post using your system are not messages because they do not have any clear intended meaning. It takes effort and creativity to wring something out of them. Like I said, it might be a fun exercise, but messages they are not.Yes I understand that. As I said, it is not so much how each individual interprets any particular GM - either coming from me or you or anyone else - Rather it is the fact that a message is generated.
A message is a string of text arranged in such a way as to communicate information in a way that is easily understood. You are sending me messages on this forum. I can read them and understand the meaning immediately. Hopefully, the same is true for my messages to you. We are communicating in a common language with intention. That intention in communication is key. What I’m trying to get across is that the “generated messages,” you post using your system are not messages because they do not have any clear intended meaning. It takes effort and creativity to wring something out of them. Like I said, it might be a fun exercise, but messages they are not.
Your “messages,” are randomly assembled from a list of words and phrases. There is no intentional conveyance of information by another person -unless you posit some “universal intelligence” that is trying to speak to you through these random messages.
And that’s fine if you want to think so, but the random strings of text you present are not proof of any such entity or intent to convey meaning.
The key here is that you are imposing a meaning on these strings of text.
Where is this strong case? You certainly have not made it.However, taken in congruent to other things I have mentioned, altogether there is a strong case for the idea of "Cosmic Mind" or whatever we choose to call It.
As I mentioned, the evidence is really all around us - we don't actually have to go stargazing to find it...
Yes, we know that's a meaningful message because we know it comes from a conscious entity. We don't know whether or not your GMs come from a conscious entity, that's just your hypothesis, and there is a far more likely explanation. That's why you need to come up with a way of objectively demonstrating their meaningfulness, or lack of it. Until then, the null hypothesis - that it's just another example of subjective validation - stands.Example:
Sally gets handed a note from her mum which reads;
"Someone calling themselves "JK" rang and said he will be at the usual place on Thursday a @ 7m if you want to meet with him."
Would you argue that the note is not a coherent message even if you yourself are unable to understand the bits you are not privy to?
Yes, we know that's a meaningful message because we know it comes from a conscious entity. We don't know whether or not your GMs come from a conscious entity, that's just your hypothesis, and there is a far more likely explanation. That's why you need to come up with a way of objectively demonstrating their meaningfulness, or lack of it. Until then, the null hypothesis - that it's just another example of subjective validation - stands.
Again - the discussion being had here shows me that beliefs to do with the age of the Universe are secondary in relevant importance to the fact of its existence and our existence within it.
Re: the OPQ: How Crazy does Evolution Seem?
No more or less crazy than the notion of the Universe being a Holographic Experiential Reality Simulation produced and processed within the mind of The Father God - and furthermore, this idea does not go against The Script..
The Ace of Swords shows a gleaming hand appearing from a white cloud, a representation of the Divine. It holds an upright sword, symbolic of the mind and the intellect, and at the tip of the sword sits a crown draped with a wreath, a sign of success and victory. While this Ace is a sign of triumph, the jagged mountains in the background suggest that the road ahead will be challenging. You will need mental resilience to navigate this path.
The Moon card shows a full moon in the night’s sky, positioned between two large towers. The Moon is a symbol of intuition, dreams, and the unconscious. Its light is dim compared to the sun, and only slightly illuminates the path to higher consciousness winding between the two towers.
In the foreground is a small pool, representing the watery, subconscious mind. A small crayfish crawls out of the pool, symbolizing the early stages of consciousness unfolding. A dog and a wolf stand in the grassy field, howling at the moon, representing both the tamed and the wild aspects of our minds.
In this paper, however, we wish to broaden the view of intelligence by taking a planetary view of its appearance and effect. Here, we consider the ways in which the appearance of technological intelligence may represent a kind of planetary scale transition. In this way, it might be seen not as something which happens on a planet but to a planet.
While there is truth to in your assessment here - something I also came to the conclusion of - if one doesn't factor in that the Christian idea of God is a false image of a Real Entity [I call 'It" the Cosmic Mind, but I have other names for it too.] then one loses the opportunity to do connect and converse...
What this allows me to achieve, is to connect with that Mind despite the false image Christianity [and religion in general] have superimposed upon it. This also insures that religion in general has no say in my communing with said Mind. Well they might try and have a say, but that is irrelevant and so does not work in their preventative measures re that.
Win/win re The Mind and Me.
this is total bollocks.
In conclusion, then: this is all bollocks.
just foolishness.
Our brains can find meaning in anything.
I don't understand the logic behind posting this gibberish.
Why come here to look for validation of your brand of woo?
This is just your own random version of pareidolia. The ONLY thing I, another random person, find fitting a pattern here is the undeserved hubris exhibited by every woo-hole I have encountered.
I just tried it (several times) but every attempt is the same message:
"Don't believe William. He is a liar!"
For the record, I too have no problem with anyone imagining they see messages from the universe in any random thing they like, up to and including the entrails of a freshly slaughtered goat.
“I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’ And I always say, well, when you say that, you’ve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that’s got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate…”
Then the claimant should be able to show the universe was created, without invoking some entity that's immune to the requirement of having been created itself.
Why do you think that is even a logical request to be demanding? The 'claim' as far as this thread subject is addressing is more a simple logical observation. Something which came into existence, cannot have logically done so from nothing.
To believe that it did, is really where the special pleading is coming from.
From my own understanding [self awareness] what occurred was that humans forgot what they were [Spirit-breathed into biological matter] and identified only with the flesh-container and thought of themselves in that way - much like non-theists think of themselves as 'nothing more than chemical reactions of the brain'...or how some Christians think 'flesh that will be resurrected and given the ability to never die.'
All of a sudden I feel like I'm 15 again...And trying to make sense of the lyrics to Yes' Tales From Topographic Oceans...
"As the silence of seasons on
We relive abridge sails afloat
As to call light the soul shall sing
Of the velvet sailors course on"
Shine or moons send me memories trail
Over days of forgotten tales
Course the compass to offer
Into a time that we've all seen on
High the memory carry on
While the moments start to linger
Sail away among your dreams
The strength regains us in between our time
As we shall speak to differ also
The ends meet the river's son
So the ends meet the river's son
Ours the story shall we carry on
And search the forest of the sun
We dream as we dream, dream as one
And I do think very well
That the son might take you silently
They move fast, they tell me
There's someone, rainbow, alternate tune
In the days of summer so long
We danced as evening sang their song
We wander out the day so long
The ciphers - as I explained - are representative of sounds and there are 26 distinct sounds in what we call the English language
All of a sudden I feel like I'm 15 again...And trying to make sense of the lyrics to Yes' Tales From Topographic Oceans...
Wrong. There are 26 letters in the phonetic alphabet for English. But several of these letters are redundant. Meanwhile phoneticists recognize many more than 26 distinct sounds in English.
It always seemed to me that Jon Anderson was using his voice purely as a musical instrument; the actual words didn't matter, just that they made the right kind of sound. But of course meaning can always be found if you're determined to find it.
It always seemed to me that Jon Anderson was using his voice purely as a musical instrument; the actual words didn't matter, just that they made the right kind of sound. But of course meaning can always be found if you're determined to find it.
So if you don't know what morality is, how is it you place expectation on any being who can teach it to you, to the point you are willing to worship said being?
Even that neither of us appear to be clear or agree with what worshiping something actual means/consists of re action.
My own relationship forming with the Cosmic Mind involves setting up ways of communicating and allowing it opportunity to speak for itself.
In that, I have learned to avoid bringing into that relationship pre-conceived/learned ideals/ideas of 'what morality is' and do not base my expectations and personal commitment on moral issues, but on intelligent loving communion and results therein.
I'm using it to point out that imaginative thinking is more respectable than you give it credit for being.
I would suppose that there is something to astrology but I have not studied it.I agree. We are essentially minds within/experiencing matter. Many folk appear to be quite afraid of imagination. There may be many reasons for why that is, but one legitimate reason is that when imagination is used inappropriately, harm is - not always - but often the result. So one must be careful how one uses imagination, but not so afraid of it as to think disrespectfully of its usefulness at all.
The right star system (including organics and potentially habitable planets)
Reproductive molecules (e.g. RNA)
Simple (prokaryotic) single-cell life
Complex (eukaryotic) single-cell life
Sexual reproduction
Multi-cell life
Tool-using animals with intelligence
A civilization advancing toward the potential for a colonization explosion (where we are now)
Colonization explosion
According to the Great Filter hypothesis, at least one of these steps—if the list were complete—must be improbable. If it is not an early step (i.e., in our past), then the implication is that the improbable step lies in our future and our prospects of reaching step 9 (interstellar colonization) are still bleak
The system I am using is focused upon the idea that if the universe is non-random and mindful, one should be able to develop a system whereby, the mind should be able to use for the purpose of communicating.
There was no guarantee that the system I developed and use, would have worked, but it does work and that it works is one more piece of evidence to support the idea that the universe is mindful.
Keep it simple. Use the language you are most familiar with [for me that is English] and go with that.
I am not attempting to divine anything. I am allowing the system to generate messages using as random a process as I can, so that my influence on the outcome is as small a footprint as possible.
It is not so much 'counting' on coherent messages being generated [CGMs] - because it happens every time it is done.
The universe does have an underlying order - this system simply taps into that reality and that is why it produces CGMs.
The evidence of order can be observed in the events unfolding re universe, and the Earth itself has myriad of evidence to support that understanding.
Fortunately nowadays we don't requires such method in order to understand what others say when they speak in a different language-set.
Even when that was not so much the case, we didn't need to resort to such fanciful experimentation in order to find out.
We worked with what was [sound] and no doubt also with action...The one say's "Ahi" while pointing to the campfire and we can interpret that the one is meaning 'fire' ... it is that simple, and for good reason.
What you are suggesting is a complexity which assumes [rightfully enough] that the evidence of mindfulness should be within everything. However, your example assumes that we can overreach our human capability in order to find it.
The system I am using stays within the parameters of the human experience. For all we know, the stars we observe in the night sky are a written form of language, proclaiming clearly a generated message from the Universal Mind...but if we do not have the ability to recognize it as any language, we will not even think to decipher it.
Clearly we have enough to work with here on this Planet, which can help us understand that there is actually meaningful communication to be had with the Mind involved in the process of evolving life-forms - humans [and human language] included - even if the system used is simple [primitive]. We use what is available.