Philosophical Speculations

That's a great question, a very deep one. Our dreams are much more than a materialist imagines them to be, that's for sure. Our ego/I is transported to a different realm of conscious awareness and I am confident there are other sentient beings participating in that process, but I am not 'initiated'...

SanteriSatama wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 1:48 pmSnobs. Coffee here, very black and mostly cold and old.

OH, I still enjoy a hit of darkroast coffee, as a pick-me-up later in the day, but prefer not to kickstart the day with it.

I must concede that when I ponder the ipseity of those light beings I encountered as a child, wordlessly transmitting an indelible message of our shared quiddity, all I can really say is that they seemed very real, but now still can't definitively say that they are what they seemed to be. However, w...

Just some further thoughts on this ... I very much doubt, given the level of thinking in this forum, that anyone here would dispute, or need be constantly reminded, that dysfunctional, us-vs-them politics as usual, as a function of a deprived and foundering paradigm, is clearly not serving us well. ...

For the record, I'm not considering some free-for-all section that'll just be even more challenging to moderate. For the most part, I feel very positive and fortunate about the integrity and quality of the participation and content here, with so many bright and insightful minds sharing ideas from wh...

j000rmas wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:26 pm ...this alter knows, can't edit this now

Using Mod super powers, I've come to the rescue, so that 'altars' have been altered, morphed into conscious agents that, according to BK, 'altars' cannot be ... unless we're going with panpsychism

j000rmas wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 9:39 pm

J000rnas ... That post can still be edited to 'alters', by clicking on the 'pencil' icon.

Eugene I wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 9:20 pm We are "altars" of Mind at large.
I like that

One of those typos that spellcheck can't help with ... no doubt the masters of AI are working on meaning-check

There are all sorts of assumptions here that I will not go into because this is a sensitive issue. Philosophically there are versions of idealism. Those that reduce God to man(God apparently is not at it best right now), and there are others that do not reduce God to man. Know what, call it panenth...

Just bumping this up ... I'm assuming that any currently active participants who are likely to have checked this out have already done so ~ given there's 137 views and only 119 members. However, I was hoping for a bit more feedback regarding any concerns about my suggestion that when creating topics...