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Basically, I want to become an astrophysicist, and hopefully, I might even become one.

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Have you ever thought, what is the meaning behind all of this? Have you ever felt the disorientating feeling that haunts your mind? Have you ever tried to understand that go beyond the scope of perspective and scientific reasoning? Physics can explain a lot of things. But some of the things it cant thoroughly explain is the Universe, and its occupants. Through my experiences and minimal spirituality, I have begun to notice something vaguely familiar with something that happens when we fall asleep. Dreams, yes. Are they really just psychological visions of events and people conglomerated into a fantastical story or is it something we should be concerned about? Life, as we live it, strangely begins to feel like a dream. Scientists and experts and leading spiritual masters have also described events and coincidences occurring in the Universe and here on Earth, that is so inextricably linked, that it does not have a chance to happen. Think about it, could it be, that your living a dream?

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Physics, philosophy, and the questions that make us wonder, where do we really come from? Who are we truly? Think about it...

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  A comment on Conversation: How would we treat each other if we were not controlled by a need to be right?

  Dec 27 2011: Education system...hmmm...very good Don.
  Your right, no they are not the product of an educational system, because if it were, I would be sorely disappointed and I would have views similar to yours, whatever they are.
  I can see an average man's reaction to my comments above. I understand the vagueness and quite frankly, frightening nature of the comment. Please Don, don't be surprised by the comment's language which I admit is very vague. What I was trying to convey was that even a murderer has a goal in life you know, and to reach that goal he will do anything. I was trying to eliminate this idea of right and wrong, of good and evil, of light and dark. This may seem overtly spiritual but in the end it has to be. I was trying to explain the example - a very bad example it seems considering your reply - I was using to say that there is no such concept of right and wrong, it is only the result of a society.
  As to what your beliefs are, I don't know and frankly don't want to know.
  But still, thank you for updating me on the vagueness of my comment.

• A comment on Conversation: Is is ethical to try to lengthen the human lifespan?

  Dec 19 2011: Don't be offended by what I said in my previous comment Krisztian, what I was merely trying to convey to you was how human beings have begun to perceive death as being a significant issue with their lives. In the end, we must all try and understand what the world is, right? I hope you agree with that. Some of our purposes here may be different, we seek many different things in this world, but in the end, be it immoral or moral actions, we seek to understand who we are through those very actions. I'm not talking from a global perspective, I'm talking from the point of view that some people are ignorant to many things in this life and they need to change. And when you said that it was irrelevant fearing death in this conversation, please Krisztian enlighten me as to why people would even try to lengthen their lifespan if they didn't fear death at all? What I was trying to convey to you was this mass hysteria that people have concerning death. It is a natural part of life, as Emma has stated. It is part of a natural process of nature. We die and we let go. I won't question other people's beliefs in this regard, but I would like to question them, ask them why they are so afraid. Is it the social atmosphere, the constant religious upbringing that speaks of Hell and Heaven or is it some other inherent psychological issue concerning materialism. All I'm trying to say is that, people should learn to let go than accumulating anxiety, money, thought, discussion and unnecessary health issues into lengthening one's lifespan.

• A comment on Conversation: Is is ethical to try to lengthen the human lifespan?

  Dec 18 2011: Krisztian, I wouldn't regard death and aging as problems, do you?
  
  I will tell you something Krisztian, have you ever thought about why a human is 'doomed' to die in the end? Neither have I, because I wouldn't know unless I died too, hoping that our minds aren't completely destroyed by that time. I have read the Upanishads, Vedas, hardly even touched the Bible because it isn't really relevant in this issue, and I came across a stunning realization. We try to avoid death due to a fear of the unknown, due to the fear that we may be forgotten, more importantly due to the fear that all our materialistic possessions and our bodies would just disintegrate. What an extremely human view of death that is. No, I've realized that with all of our science and medicine what we've done is create more problems for ourselves rather than solve anything. No, I've realized that death is our way to living forever. This may sound like it's straight from out of a movie, but I strongly believe in this fact. I do not fear death. You can take it from a scientific point of view. Have you ever heard of the Law of Conservation of Energy and Mass? I don't think so, but I'll tell you what it is...The law states that energy and mass can neither be created nor destroyed only transformed from one form to another. That is what is happening to us. Our mass is a manifestation of pure energy, when we die, this mass will transform into energy and will ascend. Don't think I'm some sort of religious fanatic, but this is what I strongly believe. In the end Krisztian, I can't really argue with you and you can't really argue with me, because both of us have no idea what death is at this point.......unless your a zombie of course.....

• A comment on Conversation: If you could magically make everyone know one thing, fact or idea, what would it be?

  Dec 18 2011: I see, your talking about a global Inception, huh? Gotta call Leonardo for that...
  
  No, if I had one idea I would plant in every man's mind it would be:
  
  "Be yourself."

• A comment on Conversation: How would we treat each other if we were not controlled by a need to be right?

  Dec 18 2011: As I have said on many other discussions before, there is no such thing as right, I strongly believe that an individual's mind MUST satisfy its necessities because that is one of the reasons that the individual has a conscience. If a murderer is experiencing an urge to kill, but is restricted by the rules of society, he develops an even more psychotic personality, one that makes him do even worse things. See, the more people are isolated from their true nature, the more people are forced to do things when they believe that it is not, when people are pressurized to conform to the rules of a society not to their liking, they immediately become dangerous as their mindset is off and will go to any extent to give themselves a sense of security and satisfaction. Society is a good thing in general, but like the Buddha has implied in his sayings: one must choose the middle path, both good and bad, because without the other neither can survive. Nature only balances the two scales. Being bad isn't bad, it is merely a chosen way of life, and if you respect yourself for that, it is quite enough. It is the development of self that is the ultimate goal of an individual be it a murderer who believes he will attain it by going on a killing spree or a religious man who believes he will attain it by being a philanthropist. In the end it comes to a choice and choice is everything in this universe.

• A comment on Conversation: So, suppose you had no past. What's it like? What choices do you have? Where are your reference points? What are you like, having no past?

  Dec 18 2011: In this three-dimensional universe, we perceive something we call the 'arrow of time'. Now this 'arrow of time' describes how any closed system's entropy - or the process of a system becoming ordered from a previously disordered state - will eventually increase over time. This describes one of the most fundamental laws of our world. If you hold a ball in the air and leave it, it will drop to the ground. You may say that that is due to the gravitational force exerted by the Earth on the ball, but there is an underlying concept to it as well. Any potential difference in energy, or in other words and difference in potentials between two systems or more, it will always seek to bring itself to equilibrium with the surrounding larger system . This can be seen in the 'ball in the air' example I gave you. The ball you've held up is against the gravitational force. The person holding the ball is known as the constraint, something that prevents equilibrium from taking place. Now once the constraint is removed or the man drops the ball, the potential difference exists between the gravitational force and the ball's potential energy due to its height. It equalizes itself by falling to the ground. In this sense, if someone had no past, it means - in our world - they do not experience entropy, therefore they would have to be void of thermodynamic properties resembling our worlds and therefore will not exist in any point of time! Think about it....
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  A comment on Conversation: to what extent can science be considered as a biased way of obtaining knowledge?

  Dec 18 2011: Science is one of the most important facets of our everyday experience in life, as the understanding of the workings and interactions between matter and energy is what helps us live the lifestyle we have today. But, as I said so, science has really no explanation for why things happen the way they happen, or why things should happen at all, why there should be only 16 known elementary particles, four being gauge bosons or force-carriers while the rest have to constitute the particles that produce these particles. Where does the force that manipulates these so-called 'elementary particles' come from? See, science is merely a vague approximation of natural events and is nothing more. Of course science has provided us with in-depth knowledge of nature, but without the why and with just the how, you can't really understand nature. I will give you an example of how science has a tendency to 'create' new theories to fit gray areas in other theories. Almost all of the time these 'spontaneously created new theories' are somewhat vague and almost indistinguishably resemble pure fiction. These can be seen in the case of dark energy and dark matter. Even more so when we read up on the particle physics concepts of strings and membranes, where scientists describe our entire three-dimensional universe as being a rolled-up twinkie stuck in a nine-dimensional membrane. Even with these defects in science, science has made amazing new progresses that even I myself appreciate greatly.
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  A comment on Conversation: Who do you consider "Rich?"

  Dec 12 2011: The man who knows himself is rich.
  
  I hope the opportunistic Krisztian doesn't see this comment as a chance to make a joke!
  
  I hope he doesn't reply like this: 'This topic is about taxing the rich, or limiting income. so your proposal is to find out who understands himself, and tax them'?
  
  oops
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  A comment on Conversation: How would we treat each other if we were not controlled by a need to be right?

  Dec 12 2011: What is right? There is no such thing as right or wrong, it is only the individual's perception!
  For a person committing an act of murder, the act is his path to righteousness and is shunned by the socially equipped people because they don't believe that path holds true for themselves. So what?! Go on your path to finding self-realization. The ultimate goal of life is to discover who you are eventually and how you figure in the macroscopic universe filled with trillions upon trillions of stars. You might ask what the consequences are of to a traumatized victim whose loved one is murdered by someone and how that person cannot follow his path to self-realization? Wrong! You see, there is something called time and time eventually causes changes, irreconcilable changes that causes events. These events can be manipulated using willpower and ample anticipation. If the traumatized victim seeks revenge he will either kill his wrong-doer or die in the process himself. But that is his fate and through that act of total devotion and understanding of one's motivations he ascends to higher planes of consciousness.
  So the ultimate question is:
  
  Who am I?

• A comment on Conversation: In ten words or less, what is a question no one (yet) knows the answer to?

  Dec 12 2011: Is there any real truth, or is everything relative?
  
  This is the answer to your question Jordan Reeves. There is always a truth, no matter where you go, there is always a single truth. What is truth? It is the realization of yourself as being the only truth! YOU are the world and why it works. The final place or plane of existence where all things are perceived as a part of YOU. Jordan, ancient religions are teaching us that there is no difference between a being called God and you. The moment you realize yourself, your true identity and begin to act upon that, is the time you will stop asking questions and realize the need to not do so, because you are the reason for it. Every person on this planet is a part of a bigger whole but resembles each other intellectually and spiritually in every way, only the physical world and its various crude manifestations have embodied certain social, physical and mental principles in our world which is avoided and destroyed by the sages who seek true self-realization. Therefore the ultimate question is:
  
  Who am I?