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• What would you do with a book written by "God"? Jan 26, 2012

  I think it's odd that an omnipotent god would be incapable of creating a book by any other means ...

• The Wisdom of the Wild Jan 07, 2012

  And yet, by refusing to judge in any way, we would devalue all of life. We would stand impassively by ...

• Life comes from Life Jan 06, 2012

  "Junk DNA" is a term used to describe genetic material of which we have yet to figure out the purpose ...

• The Wisdom of the Wild Jan 06, 2012

  Humans often think that it's less cruel and more moral to eat animals if they haven't been witness ...

• Coincidences Dec 31, 2011

  "saoirse; what are odds the type of flower attractive to particular butterflies happening 2 b in vacinity , on that particular ...

• Certain yogis have remarkable—and proven—abilities. Why does mainstream science remain skeptical? Dec 31, 2011

  "If they can't explain it, it doesn't exist."

  This make no sense in the context of science. If ...

• Why are we drawn to certain people? Dec 30, 2011

  If you married the man, and have lived with him for 39 years, then you must have known all along ...

• Coincidences Dec 27, 2011

  Like a lot of other things, I think this is an area where it's easy to fool ourselves, if ...

• WHAT ARE WE…..REALLY? Dec 21, 2011

  Hi Jim

  Sorry for the delayed response. The site ate my post and I didn't have time to recreate ...

• WHAT ARE WE…..REALLY? Dec 20, 2011

  I don't think there's any question about the fact that we're biological beings just like everyone else ...

• Religion and Science Unification Dec 11, 2011

  DyckDyck, I guess that would depend on how you define fact. If you define it by your personal beliefs, then ...

• Meditation increasingly acknowledged by science, and more widely disseminated. Dec 11, 2011

  Kyrani -- I've been away for a bit, so I apologize for the delayed response. Thanks for the advice! I ...

• Coincidences Dec 11, 2011

  I think coincidences are fun, as well, although I don't believe they're meaningful. I've had some funny ...

• Is Discussion also Inquiry? Dec 02, 2011

  And... that is why the studies have to be run multiple times, and by different researchers, until there's enough ...

• Meditation increasingly acknowledged by science, and more widely disseminated. Dec 02, 2011

  I photograph them in the wild... which is really just an excuse to hang out with them, although I do ...

• Meditation increasingly acknowledged by science, and more widely disseminated. Dec 01, 2011

  Thanks Kyrani! I think I sort of use rattlesnakes that way. I've tried a lot of meditation type things ...

• Neurosurgeon has NDE Dec 01, 2011

  In the meantime, we'll just think of it as a Death Nearing Experience. Works for me.

• Is Discussion also Inquiry? Dec 01, 2011

  Lawrence asked: “How can you tell the difference between a really powerful belief vs. the truth?

  This is why things ...

• Religion and Science Unification Dec 01, 2011

  Thanks Ethan! That does clarify things for me, and it definitely brings me closer to your thinking on it. That ...

• Religion and Science Unification Dec 01, 2011

  That all makes sense on the c issue. Obviously paradigm shifts happen but that one seemed so central, and so ...

• Meditation increasingly acknowledged by science, and more widely disseminated. Nov 30, 2011

  How do they define what, exactly, is and is not meditation? I've heard a lot or serious practitioners say ...

• Religion and Science Unification Nov 30, 2011

  Ethan, that makes me feel a lot better!! I "get" kind of a gestalt on the whole thing, but don ...

• Religion and Science Unification Nov 29, 2011

  Yep, that's a good one too, Ethan! I think we'll keep your quote thread, though -- Chuck Norris and ...

• Religion and Science Unification Nov 28, 2011

  I got interrupted and posted my last bit without really taking time to be clear. What I meant was, logic ...

• Religion and Science Unification Nov 27, 2011

  I'm not sure what you mean when you say logic is not objective. Logic is by definition objective. People ...

• A small problem Nov 27, 2011

  Exactly! That artist definitely said it better than I could!

• A small problem Nov 24, 2011

  James is spot-on with this one. Just because there's pressure to conform doesn't mean you have to. I ...

• What conclusions have you drawn from your search for inner wisdom? Nov 23, 2011

  Sharon, I'd have to agree with that! One thing that makes me cynical about a lot of it is ...

• Good Vs Evil Nov 18, 2011

  Kyrani, I wanted to go back to something you said earlier -- that you don't believe that someone who is ...

• Perfect Knowledge in an Imperfect World Nov 17, 2011

  Maybe faith is the wrong word. What I'm getting at is belief in the absence of evidence. I think ...

• Good Vs Evil Nov 16, 2011

  Ethan, I haven't read Crime and Punishment, but I went and read the analysis you linked to. It's ...

• What will it take for mainstream science to accept the validity of evidence for psi phenomena? Nov 13, 2011

  A friend of mine was once paid as an expert to test a psychic for an episode of Unsolved Mysteries ...

• Great Quotes Nov 13, 2011

  Love that quote about the miracle not being to walk on water! It made me think of a firefighter who ...

• Perfect Knowledge in an Imperfect World Nov 13, 2011

  Ethan, I didn't realize you were a physicist! Now I'M the one being jealous -- theoretical physics looks like ...

• Good Vs Evil Nov 13, 2011

  The problem with trying to define it is that people will always find justification for their actions. The mosquitoes, for ...

• What is the Original Origin of "Ideas?" Nov 06, 2011

  Aw, Come on -- throw the ball TO me, not AT me ;-) Just kidding! I'll try to catch it in ...

• What mind-body practices have had the most beneficial effect on your well being? Nov 06, 2011

  So... basically they get it by killing chicken embryos? Isn't that a little creepy? I know... I usually come ...

• Perfect Knowledge in an Imperfect World Nov 06, 2011

  You're right about needing more info on consciousness. There's a lot of it going on. I just heard ...

• Perfect Knowledge in an Imperfect World Nov 05, 2011

  I meant to add, Ethan, that we're totally in agreement on the cutting edge issue. Even Michio Kaku is ...

• Perfect Knowledge in an Imperfect World Nov 05, 2011

  I think the reason science doesn't place a high value on individual experiences as evidence is a sound one ...

• Perfect Knowledge in an Imperfect World Nov 05, 2011

  I see a couple of problems with that approach, FS. There is a reason that scientific "knowledge" changes over time ...

• IADC - INDUCED AFTER DEATH COMMUNICATION Nov 04, 2011

  Ah, okay. Sorry for the confusion!

• Good Vs Evil Nov 04, 2011

  There's another historic take on the serpent in Eden. One early branch of Christianity held that the god of ...

• What is the Original Origin of "Ideas?" Nov 03, 2011

  I think there's a lot going on in our brains all the time that we're not consciously attending ...

• Good Vs Evil Nov 03, 2011

  Arlo Guthrie's version, from his monologue on the unneutron bomb: "You can't have a light without a dark ...

• Great Quotes Nov 02, 2011

  I think that where he was going with that was that he saw religion as primitive superstition. I think he ...

• Perfect Knowledge in an Imperfect World Nov 02, 2011

  What I find interesting here is that Dr. Benford claims to be coming from a skeptical, scientific point of view ...

• Great Quotes Nov 01, 2011

  I love this thread!

  I've always been fond of some of Nietzsche's comments, particularly, "If you look too ...

• IADC - INDUCED AFTER DEATH COMMUNICATION Nov 01, 2011

  Gretchen, by " whole brained, " do you mean lacking a corpus callosum? Dolphins do have a corpus callosum, but it's ...

• Noetic Science mentioned on "Ancient Aliens" Oct 28, 2011

  You have to be careful with that show. I watch it pretty often, because it's fun to see a ...

• What will it take for mainstream science to accept the validity of evidence for psi phenomena? Oct 17, 2011

  Capt., I think you nailed it when you said "know or believe they have..." Science isn't about belief. Part ...

• What will it take for mainstream science to accept the validity of evidence for psi phenomena? Oct 15, 2011

  That last post illustrates a pattern that I see regularly. It accuses everyone involved in mainstream science of being closed ...

• Proving the Dilation exists and God Oct 12, 2011

  Then, would you contend that a human with mental disabilities who operates at about the same level as a chimp ...

• What brings you into the present, into the absolute NOW time? Oct 11, 2011

  I don't think there's too much confusion left over the 2 slit experiment these days, although a couple ...

• What brings you into the present, into the absolute NOW time? Oct 11, 2011

  Then there's the Swami Beyondananda's approach to living in the now:

  "How many of you would like to ...

• Proving the Dilation exists and God Oct 11, 2011

  Capt., thanks for the info on the lifespan. I'll see if I can track it down. Sorry I missed ...

• Is Discussion also Inquiry? Oct 10, 2011

  Pretty close :-) I'm just used to an environment where discussion and disagreement are a vital part of the normal ...

• Can we think our way out of extinction? Oct 10, 2011

  I'm not sure the question is so much can we think ourselves out of extinction as, can we avoid ...

• Proving the Dilation exists and God Oct 09, 2011

  I think we need to distinguish between ability and cultural tendency. Chimps in the wild do use metatools. And in ...

• Is Discussion also Inquiry? Oct 08, 2011

  I don't think that discussion and inquiry are (or should be) the same thing. I think inquiry is what ...

• Proving the Dilation exists and God Oct 06, 2011

  Capt. I'd be interested in knowing where you come by the figures about humans being 100 times more intelligent ...

• Running into Nature, when one projects no feelings Oct 05, 2011

  I'm sorry that you've misunderstood my purposes here. But you're all riled up about what you imagine ...

• Proving the Dilation exists and God Oct 05, 2011

  That's what I get for typing in a hurry! Is there really no way to edit a post after ...

• Proving the Dilation exists and God Oct 05, 2011

  The fact that the conditions in the universe are suitable for life to exist doesn't to me to be ...

• Running into Nature, when one projects no feelings Oct 02, 2011

  It's not that the rabbit doesn't register your presence. He knows you're there. He's just not ...

• Running into Nature, when one projects no feelings Oct 02, 2011

  This is connected with something I've tried to get people to understand, but most people have a hard time ...

• What do we do with this? Sep 29, 2011

  But even if it's not available to amateurs, all the big telescopes are available to professional astronomers from all ...

• What do we do with this? Sep 27, 2011

  The thing is, NASA couldn't really suppress it. Most astronomers aren't associated with NASA, so NASA has no ...

• Mentally ill, or something else? Sep 27, 2011

  I'll probably get eaten alive for this, but does it not seem a little dangerous to be diagnosing someone ...

• Modern Science: Breakthrough or taboo? Sep 26, 2011

  Good point, Ethan. How often do we hear people say, "I can't help it! He pushes my buttons!" Yet ...

• Fun piece of research to confirm the act of blessing Sep 26, 2011

  I see now that there was a higher purpose to my coming to this site. Obviously, it's my destiny ...

• Modern Science: Breakthrough or taboo? Sep 26, 2011

  To ask why we suffer, though, is to assume that there's a purpose or reason to it, and this ...

• What mind-body practices have had the most beneficial effect on your well being? Sep 26, 2011

  Deveron, I have to say, I'm totally on board with that! I'm a totally different person when I ...

• What mind-body practices have had the most beneficial effect on your well being? Sep 25, 2011

  So far, I've yet to find one that has any beneficial effect for me, though I've either deliberately ...

• IADC - INDUCED AFTER DEATH COMMUNICATION Sep 22, 2011

  It might be interesting to see what would happen if they used the same technique, but used a target other ...

• Ethical consideration when using extended forms of sight. Sep 19, 2011

  I think I may not have been clear enough on the myth/comic book issue. What I meant was, the ...

• Ethical consideration when using extended forms of sight. Sep 18, 2011

  It's been the focus of superhero comic books forever, and the subject of myth long before that. And all ...

• Excessive dreaming Sep 17, 2011

  Sounds as if something is messing with your sleep cycle. Some medications can cause this, so if you're on ...

• Ethical consideration when using extended forms of sight. Sep 17, 2011

  I think the same standards would apply to personal or casual use. I would find it unethical to spy on ...

• What will it take for mainstream science to accept the validity of evidence for psi phenomena? Sep 16, 2011

  Thanks, Capt.! I enjoy yours as well! I'm not so sure about funding being the problem, though, because in ...

• Can people cause electrical disturbances? Sep 15, 2011

  William Roll studied it extensively, years ago. Because the word "poltergeist" implies the involvement of ghosts or spirits, he never ...

• Can people cause electrical disturbances? Sep 14, 2011

  A lot of people think they're making streetlights go out, but when it's looked at empirically, it has ...

• Life after death Sep 11, 2011

  Hmm. Looking back at that, it seems that posting when I'm in a hurry makes me sound rather abrupt ...

• Life after death Sep 10, 2011

  To be honest, I'm not impressed by Windbridge. There are big issues with their studies, but since their use ...

• What will it take for mainstream science to accept the validity of evidence for psi phenomena? Sep 07, 2011

  I come from a bit different place than most here. I recognize that there is always resistance to new paradigms ...

• The Swami Beyondananda and Fool Enlightenment Sep 04, 2011

  And what better joke for the universe to play on me than for me to discover that I was preaching ...

• Ethical consideration when using extended forms of sight. Sep 03, 2011

  I can only approach it hypothetically, since I'm not on board with it as a reality. But I can ...

• What will it take for mainstream science to accept the validity of evidence for psi phenomena? Sep 01, 2011

  In response, particularly to F_Alexander, I think it really does come down to quality of evidence, in the end (there ...

• IADC - INDUCED AFTER DEATH COMMUNICATION Aug 31, 2011

  Is this the same thing Moody was doing 20 years ago? He never claimed it was actual communication, but he ...

• What brings you into the present, into the absolute NOW time? Aug 31, 2011

  Rattlesnakes. You can't get close to a rattlesnake if you're all tensed up like a predator about to ...

• USER NAMES Aug 31, 2011

  I okay with whatever people want to call themselves, as long as they contribute in a meaningful way. I'm ...

• What will it take for mainstream science to accept the validity of evidence for psi phenomena? Aug 30, 2011

  Sure... I'll zip you an email, and use my username in the subject so you'll recognize me.

• What will it take for mainstream science to accept the validity of evidence for psi phenomena? Aug 29, 2011

  One could as easily say that matter creates energy -- the two are two sides of the same thing, and we ...

• The Science channel Aug 28, 2011

  It's not really nothing, because time isn't linear. As Hawking puts it, asking what was before the big ...

• What will it take for mainstream science to accept the validity of evidence for psi phenomena? Aug 28, 2011

  I think there is an issue with the quality of evidence produced (thus far) in labs, and the fact that ...

Saoirse's Discussion Threads

• The Swami Beyondananda and Fool Enlightenment Aug 31, 2011