tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8162762599640406564..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Time: What It Is and What To Do About ItGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86025238984909788472010-11-14T03:54:15.887-08:002010-11-14T03:54:15.887-08:00Sunday Funday
Toytown perfection writ by an Ameri...Sunday <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pbuWH3Qzx4" rel="nofollow">Funday</a> <br />Toytown perfection writ by an American, done by these Brits<br /><br />swedonca <br />was my namegehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49882217897040423142010-11-13T10:45:38.230-08:002010-11-13T10:45:38.230-08:00In the Scattered Brotherhood, they virtually all a...In the Scattered Brotherhood, they virtually all are ;)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84615386477402476322010-11-13T10:42:20.305-08:002010-11-13T10:42:20.305-08:00Well, said as always, Father Stephen.
"Why no...Well, said as always, Father Stephen.<br />"Why not a blessing?" indeed.<br /><br />Happy B-day, Julie!<br />May all your B-dudes be nonlocal!Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65982976882926473052010-11-13T10:20:59.102-08:002010-11-13T10:20:59.102-08:00Thanks, Mizze :)Thanks, Mizze :)juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51193360803548724682010-11-13T10:16:11.049-08:002010-11-13T10:16:11.049-08:00Speaking of familial coonections:
Happy Birthday ...Speaking of familial coonections:<br /><br />Happy Birthday Julie!Mizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-865067618987310672010-11-13T09:56:31.475-08:002010-11-13T09:56:31.475-08:00That said, there apparently can be some sort of fa...That said, there apparently can be <a href="http://fatherstephen.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/its-all-in-the-family/" rel="nofollow">some sort of familial connection</a>. Though I suspect it's less about genes than environment.<br /><br />Which maybe isn't so surprising - if a curse can afflict several generations, why not a blessing?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22638227636013088852010-11-13T09:47:06.006-08:002010-11-13T09:47:06.006-08:00Who said genes?
Although I was trying to telos a ...Who said genes?<br /><br />Although I was trying to telos a joke about Forest Gump and his proJenny.<br /><br />But I don't think the lineage needs to be direct.<br />That's how Bob often uses non-local operators. It's a wide noncategory.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86509786726639844362010-11-13T08:51:29.549-08:002010-11-13T08:51:29.549-08:00The crucial statement in this post (or it might ha...The crucial statement in this post (or it might have been in another one) is to "report for duty." <br /><br />If you will chew that directive thoroughly you will have captured the meaning of Bob's writing in its entirety, from the books to all the posts in the arkive.<br /><br />It is one thing to understand (and you don't have to understand all).<br /><br />It is quite another to commmit, to act, to bring forth.<br /><br />The writing is done for effect. The effect is to to increase morale, committment, and energy among the warriors.<br /><br />Those warriors are you.<br /><br />So ask: am I paying attention? Do I know my chain of command? Do I know what my standing orders are? Do I know how and where to recieve special orders? Am I committed? Do I know Who I am committed to? Do I know what the objective is? Do I understand why the objective is important?<br /><br />Do I understand that I do not live for myself?<br /><br />Etc. Etc. Please forgive the maunderings of a pompous old fool.<br /><br />But I too am a warrior under the same Commander.Open Trenchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354412002318534131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76037709726989899422010-11-13T08:03:23.769-08:002010-11-13T08:03:23.769-08:00I really don't think genes are involved, apart...I really don't think genes are involved, apart from genes being necessary to be born human.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70850302218254340422010-11-13T07:49:23.640-08:002010-11-13T07:49:23.640-08:00Other wise, what is the meaning of this B-dudes an...Other wise, what is the meaning of this B-dudes and non-local operators?<br />This is not my beautiful life!?<br /><br />wv: pring<br />BRBRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47102422679413347172010-11-13T07:36:37.262-08:002010-11-13T07:36:37.262-08:00I may not be using the word telos correctly, but i...I may not be using the word telos correctly, but is this post also suggesting, like the "past", a person's telos can exist or "finally rest" in some future descendant many generations from the present person's present?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35362730993089956842010-11-13T06:10:04.858-08:002010-11-13T06:10:04.858-08:00"even the greatest human player considers at ..."even the greatest human player considers at most a few thousand, and usually far fewer." Thus, this "billion-to-one advantage in calculating power is nullified by the human grandmaster's power of understanding"<br /><br />I have no way of knowing, of course, but could the human player's "decision experience" be similar to how you say a true mathematician has the ability to reject or accept an equation (apparently so quickly) based on it's beauty?<br />I mean, does this kind of chess player in a sense fall in love at first (mental) "sight" of a certain series of moves?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39926385851319994932010-11-13T05:09:43.835-08:002010-11-13T05:09:43.835-08:00Certain things must be, and one of them is that ou...<i>Certain things must be, and one of them is that our individual consciousness partakes of a much greater consciousness, in the same way that our little ego relates to the cosmic Dreamer who dreams us. One image Alan Watts used to employ is that of a lampshade with hundreds of pinholes. Viewed from the outside, it will look as if there are hundreds of little lights, but in reality, there is only the one bulb at the center.<br /><br />Oh yes, about that little "slot" where we dilate time and gain a more expansive view of the cosmic goings-on. Mouravieff writes that this slot is like a keyhole -- or key to the whole -- that opens many mysteries.</i><br /><br />Going back to <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=aUZBqTKTAfIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=body+of+myth&source=bl&ots=9NrxYYUlK4&sig=NGCuTsa2_aE8QBtQzpnZabzZBpY&hl=en&ei=tVfLTLuEN8O88gbZg6jTAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">the book GE linked</a> a couple weeks ago, what struck me at the time and has stuck with me was the idea of a certain kind of awareness - i.e. to hear hearing or see seeing. It reminded me of how one can be watching a movie and get completely caught up in the story - immersed in an exterior "reality," as it were - when suddenly something happens to "eject" the viewer from the story. Say, a speaker makes an unexpected sound, or something happens to the picture, or the plot takes a turn you simply can't swallow, and suddenly one is aware of the "real" world and the "real" self once more.<br /><br />Proprioception, then, is like an internal experience of the same phenomenon. Who is it that sees with our eyes and hears with our ears, who entertains these thoughts and shuffles through those memories? The Dreamer, of course, shining a light through our little pinholes. And yet, it is possible to live an entire life and never have the faintest idea.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29348742608397714522010-11-12T16:18:06.429-08:002010-11-12T16:18:06.429-08:00What Kurt said. And Magnus.
Chewing... indeed.
A...What Kurt said. And Magnus.<br /><br />Chewing... indeed.<br /><br />And struggling to maintain balance too.<br /><br />I haven’t gotten much further in today’s post, after Magnus’s first comment, it became apparent that I was trying to walk the ships deck in a storm... while wearing roller skates.<br /><br />The frontal lobe swirl was palpable... and then work turned into a duel with a pasta bowl of c++ loops through array’s of array’s... retreat became the better part of valor.<br /><br />Takes noting away from the post, or the comments though... these are the ones that give the best ROI imaginable... just need to be sure to chew well first, which I’ll just take my time and work on it through the night, and if need be, on into the dei.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14855991015475055602010-11-12T13:53:15.220-08:002010-11-12T13:53:15.220-08:00Chewing is definitely in order. In this post, the ...Chewing is definitely in order. In this post, the Gagdad brings together threads that each could be the topic of a a library, and quite possibly is. I have not even touched on his mention of the nonlocal operators standing by to help, a recurring topic in its own right. When we begin to attain an accumulation of "grace particles" (B) that forms a personal center of antigravity, the mere presence of other people's personal centers cause ours to strengthen and grow organically. I usually refer to this as riding people's coat tails. It is cheap and practical, although some of the people that act as growth hormone for our personal center are... weird. Really, really weird. Sometimes unpleasant in some way or another. Or dead. Or several of the above.<br /><br />All of this follows from the lampshade effect. Such a simple image, and you could fill a library with its implications. Albeit, sadly, a library with very few customers.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79127434669481229662010-11-12T13:35:31.780-08:002010-11-12T13:35:31.780-08:00Boy, I'm glad it's the weekend because thi...Boy, I'm glad it's the weekend because this is one post I'll be chewing over for a bit. It's interesting that I've been thinking a lot about time recently, too. But regardless of that, you had me at:<br /><br />"...spiritual knowledge can never be reduced to 'know how' in the absence of 'be who', for it always involves an expansion of being, not merely the accumulation of intellectual knowledge..."<br /><br />That, my friends, is good writing, good because it is clear, concise, clever and true. Thanks, Bob!<br /><br />KurtKurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01750808052006968358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42694460561096923202010-11-12T11:40:45.958-08:002010-11-12T11:40:45.958-08:00Anyone know what time it is?
Missing my watch.Anyone know what time it is?<br /><br />Missing my watch.black holehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07366633817665791528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79642917139375292102010-11-12T10:47:12.508-08:002010-11-12T10:47:12.508-08:00This is one more reason there can never be "a...<i>This is one more reason there can never be "artificial intelligence" except in its linear sense, but never in the holistic way in which the higher mind operates.</i><br /><br />Why not? <br /><br />If God created man in his own image, then it is entirely proper for man to be creating in HIS own image. <br /><br />Never is a long time. The current efforts at artifical intelligence may be pretty crude compared to a human mind, but there is no reason to think that that will be the case forever.anonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207020184445548247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-77812303403033343652010-11-12T10:32:07.254-08:002010-11-12T10:32:07.254-08:00I get what Van is saying. What actually happened ...I get what Van is saying. What actually happened is not liable to any changes.<br /><br />We all intuitively know and believe in the Akashic record, a huge library where all events are fixed, in storage, and can be retrieved and replayed.<br /><br />We have all accessed the Akashic records for various reasons.<br /><br />Yet, another part of our minds says "that's outlandish. There's no evidence of that." <br /><br />But, you can bypass the skeptic and you realize, "yes of course it is all there, permanantly, just as it happened. I've seen it."<br /><br />So, not to fear. Nothing is lost, nothing is later distorted. It is pristine, pure, eternal. <br /><br />And I get what Magnus says about Tolle "The Power of Now." Tolle thinks that if you succeed in dropping the past and future, the ineffable will come flooding through the slot without any further action needed, and sweep you up. <br /><br />That's because that's what happened to him, but he commits the fallacy of attribution and believes it will be the same for all.<br /><br />G'day then.Open Trenchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354412002318534131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22466995061045740102010-11-12T09:26:57.547-08:002010-11-12T09:26:57.547-08:00Today's Bleat contains some timely notes:
It’...Today's Bleat contains <a href="http://lileks.com/bleat/?p=8343" rel="nofollow">some timely notes</a>:<br /><br /><i>It’s interesting how we can imagine them, and they’ll be able to imagine us</i> [people of the future, that is - J]<i>, but people in the centuries before the 19th couldn’t imagine us, or at least didn’t bother. Perhaps I’m just unaware of the roots of proto sci-fi, but I don’t think there were novels in the 8th century imagining life in the far-distant, fascinating future of the 10th century. Most people probably didn’t even know what year it was. No one in 967 AD ever said on January 7th “I’m still writing 966 on my checks.”</i>juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65380729772471156382010-11-12T09:13:55.547-08:002010-11-12T09:13:55.547-08:00Van: what I mean is that if the past cannot be se...Van: what I mean is that if the past cannot be separated from the present and future, it is always becoming something different. It can only be fixed to the extent that we artificially cut it off from the rest of time.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15350369627519932802010-11-12T08:56:56.467-08:002010-11-12T08:56:56.467-08:00Wow - now that's what I call a feast!
Oh yes,...Wow - now that's what I call a feast!<br /><br /><i>Oh yes, about that little "slot" where we dilate time and gain a more expansive view of the cosmic goings-on. Mouravieff writes that this slot is like a keyhole -- or key to the whole -- that opens many mysteries. </i><br /><br />I was thinking about <a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap101109.html" rel="nofollow">this little slot</a> while reading. Viewed one way, it's a line, another a disk, but what it really represents is so much more than even the light years of vastness shrunk down to a speck of light visible to a human macroscope. With a different lens, perhaps it even resembles <a href="http://kaching.tumblr.com/post/1543568056/the-two-vast-structures-stretching-to-the-north" rel="nofollow">this our home space</a>.<br /><br />Tens of thousands of light years from one edge to the other, and yet the whole is a unified structure, moving as one like a school of fish or a flock of birds.<br /><br />Magnus,<br /><br /><i>For if humans were to understand just this one fact, on the level of the soul, just a bit below their flickering surface consciousness, they would stop being parodies of themselves and start to become human for real.<br /><br />But I guess you've got to have been there, which is why it is hard to talk about without sounding crazy to those who have their goals firmly planted inside the 3D world.</i><br /><br />Yes!juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45705089001398511322010-11-12T08:55:39.208-08:002010-11-12T08:55:39.208-08:00Also, this is where some adherents of Tolle can go...Also, this is where some adherents of Tolle can go horribly wrong: Deciding to live in the Now without any sustaining spiritual aperture science, they sink to the level of animals immersed in the 3D world rather than rising to the 5D world, in which, by transcending time, they would come to own all of it rather than none of it.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-11530872908064151702010-11-12T08:42:51.341-08:002010-11-12T08:42:51.341-08:00Thank you. I know you have written before about th...Thank you. I know you have written before about the expansion of the presence, but it bears repeating and putting in context. For if humans were to understand just this one fact, on the level of the soul, just a bit below their flickering surface consciousness, they would stop being parodies of themselves and start to become human for real. Or in other words, they would start to realize their human potential, not just their naked ape potential. <br /><br />Another way of saying this is that they would start adding a new dimension to their life.<br /><br />In a sense, I believe time to be a semi-spiritual dimension in its own right. I base this on the fact that only humans seem to have a well developed concept of time, while any bird is well aware of all three space dimensions. But humans seem to need to create or synthesize time, and different people do this differently and to a different degree. From this I conclude that it is a psychic function, at least in part. That science also operates with time is due to the lucky "accident" that science is currently done by humans. I severely doubt that we will ever be able to teach our computers about time.<br /><br />The reason why we can view the three dimensions with any clarity, rather than just being immersed in them, is that we are above them, by partaking in the fourth dimension of time. Likewise to have any clear sense of time we would need rise above it, by extension into the fifth dimension, whatever your name for it. Thus the various spiritual practices of the world, which support exactly this, the extension into a fifth dimension (spirituality, for lack of a better name) which puts the first four dimensions into perspective.<br /><br />But I guess you've got to have been there, which is why it is hard to talk about without sounding crazy to those who have their goals firmly planted inside the 3D world.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90817186234524572722010-11-12T08:34:02.538-08:002010-11-12T08:34:02.538-08:00"Based upon this, the past would appear to be..."Based upon this, the past would appear to be fixed, but is this really so?"<br /><br />Well... yes, the past is fixed, but our understanding of it, and it's implications, and our willing to pay attention to it, or pretend it didn't exist and so could have no implicaitons for the present or future... <i>that</i> changes.<br /><br />Or rather, our choices, here and now, are always in the process of becoming what we will some day say, was.<br /><br />But... past experience says... I should probably finish reading first. But of course, past experience also says, that sometimes I choose not to learn from past experience, even though future me may very well be very annoyed at past me... but that's not really my problem now... only then.<br /><br />Time.<br /><br />What a concept.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.com