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Nature in every aspect.

An idea worth spreading

All you receive is what you are giving with love.

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• A reply on Conversation: Is it time for philosophy to do away with metaphysics?

  1 day ago: I agree Orlando that learning depends on experience but at the same time do I know that not all experience can be described.
  For something to become knowledge it has to be clad into words, for by this the mind can record, store and reproduce it.
  Words refer to common notions we share about images that our senses tell us by which to present a world that we share and that appears outside.
  
  Reality however is one system only that we experience as being. Within this being that we call universe any point of focus finds itself at any time on a particular place embodied as an organism equipped with more or less sensory organs to depict its particular view on that totality.
  
  The picture any one organism produces has been developed over all generations of life in accordance with the enhancements on the sensory system over time. What it depicts is everything necessary to sustain life and procreate.
  
  It doesn't show what is nor what we are but just what we are equipped to.
  
  To see what is, can be done by changing the direction of focus from what we think is outside to the inside. Close all senses, center our focus and hold all attention to the source of thoughts.
  
  This experience can show everything in one glimpse. This can't be described nor read out, for it contains all connectedness, the solution of all contradictions, all light and the clearness of being itself. Consciousness contains all thoughts from all times from all living beings and to peek into this gives you an perspective that can impossible be outlaid in words for it will need at least as much time as any living thing has spend on this earth.
  
  What is, is information that we add to with every living moment and at a moment of absolute consciousness it can all be seen in one view and all time will be experienced as one moment that fills one point of unborn space.

• A reply on Conversation: What is the purpose of life?

  2 days ago: Thank you Colleen for your nice response, the joy however is mutual.
  Your purpose as you see it, is life's purpose as I see it and will always harmonize into beauty that we can enjoy.
  I've seen your garden.
  
  To participate here much is rather time-consuming for me as my English isn't fluent enough to express my thoughts in a natural way. I feel crippled by it but I love to see how many comments of yours express my thoughts in a most eloquent way.
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  A comment on Conversation: What is the purpose of life?

  3 days ago: The purpose, I think, is expanding consciousness. The way to go is to follow your joy.

• A comment on Conversation: Is it time for philosophy to do away with metaphysics?

  3 days ago: I largely agree with the professor you mentioned and disagree with the idea that science can ever describe what the world really is.
  Scientific discoveries aren't in conflict with metaphysics as they only light up some views to the mind from a limited perspective.
  To think that we can reason our way to the right answers as Sam Harris advocates is scary and arrogant.
  Wisdom comes from love and it is love that we have to install in in our hearts to give it without exception and most of all to our children that will change the coming world.
  
  There's no right, nor wrong. There's only love or lack of it.
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  A reply on Conversation: Infinity exists regardless of mankind's ability to conceptualize it.

  May 13 2013: Helen, I do understand that infinity doesn't exist. All in existence is finite.
  Infinity is the source of existence, generating all change in being.
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  A comment on Conversation: What are the problems facing Third World countries?

  May 8 2013: Remove corruption from any third world country and it will prosper within a generation.

• A reply on Talk: Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness

  Apr 22 2013: What infliction? Being born with a brain slightly different than the average?
  The reason that it becomes visible after about age 15 is because children can cope relatively well as child life is more simple and structured with all support from elders and teachers.
  Parents mostly knew all along that something was not as usual.

• A reply on Talk: Stewart Brand: The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?

  Mar 15 2013: Of course you're right.
  If the habitat of any one species is lost the animal can be seen as extinct even though there are many in captivity.
  Breeding them outside their natural world will change them over generations.
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  A comment on Conversation: If humans are supposed to be the cleverest animals in the world, why are they the only ones that have to go to work ?

  Feb 24 2013: Every time that clever human being thinks of a solution he at the same time creates a problem that has to be found a new solution for.
  
  To secure our food at any time and rest our fear of starvation we domesticated plants and animals which deprived us of many good things in nature. Born as hunter gatherers over millions of years we weren’t equipped to be farmers. And as we eroded the land nature couldn’t sustain that ever increasing population which brought to us famine and plagues of all kinds. Then we found cures and invented all things we needed now as we never did before. Now with all those property we needed laws to protect these and so creating rich and poor, dependant and independent. The solution was the exchange of labour for money after slavery was deemed unworthy. Here we are now striving for universal freedom whereas the natural world on earth is almost cleared. So we look for new solutions beyond our planet.
  Maybe we're smart but not wise because to be wise you have to give back to nature whatever you've taken.

• A reply on Conversation: Can we think without any presumptions?

  Feb 24 2013: I think DD has a limited understanding of consciousness as he uses it exclusively as what I would call self-consciousness which indeed is that edifice you talk about. Consciousness expands as it becomes oblivious of self like as you are captured by a beautiful piece of music or a story told then you're just the observer and participate in a shared consciousness of imagination.
  The moment you remember yourself or any thought enters your mind the magic is broken and the stream of consciousness too.