Philosophical Speculations

I like those Beeples. Especially the banana, (i like surrealism), but the others have merit as well. Why are we discussing him though? and I do not get the emphasised Barfield quote. My best reading from it is that you should stay away from art depicting bad things because your world will change to...

I like those Beeples. Especially the banana, (i like surrealism), but the others have merit as well. Why are we discussing him though? and I do not get the emphasised Barfield quote. My best reading from it is that you should stay away from art depicting bad things because your world will change tow...

Aren't we deviating a bit from the topic?
EDIT: no. Cleric brought it back. (didn't see that one when i posted)

Jim Cross wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 7:37 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question

I had not read that one. Now I have. A very thoughtful philosophical contribution from Asimov.

Thanks Jim for pointing it out.

I believe I grok it. Although I might be hitting the brick wall in 4/. I recognize the topology you speak of from within myself, and given that, with a slight shift of perception, which feels a bit like widening the aperture of a camera (it was there all the time, but now it's more intense) , i do g...

Maybe higher cognition is like a unicorn. It might look good as art but nothing like it really exists. Here is a clear example of what FB refuses to acknowledge might be happening here, even though it's obvious. Jim doesn't believe such a thing as "higher cognition" exists, and likely has...

If MAL is a black hole, then MAL is fractal, and there are MALs inside MAL. Which is a somewhat appealing idea, i must say. Also, another way the trajectory might change is if the fundamental physical constants change. No evidence of it so far but... Finally, there's Vacuum Decay . An interesting wa...

Hi Martin, To be clear, Steiner isn't merely correlating skin color to spiritual capacity. Steiner is explaining why non-white skin ONLY appears when the Christ cannot be integrated. He doesn't just say this tangentially. No, Steiner goes into great detail to explain why for the next 1,500 years ON...

I understand what your'e getting at, Ashvin, but nevertheless, correlating skin color with spiritual capacity is a hard sell these days. Martin, There is no correlation with spiritual capacity in our epoch. As Dana noticed, that would make no sense if someone like myself, clearly of non-white skin ...

Then how would you resolve the following (translated) quote from Steiner? (Staudenmaier: Race and Redemption: Racial and Ethnic Evolution in Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy, p17 (Eugene's 2nd link)) Seems racist to me. I could probably overlook it as a product of European thinking of the time except...