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 Re: Belief revisited...  [Re: Swami]
#1028258 - 11/06/02 01:40 PM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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I meditated for 12 years and never once discovered or felt a chakra, never saw a blue light entering my head, never left my body nor touched the cosmic. Either I am incredibly dense or I refuse to delude myself into experiencing something that I read about in an Eastern mysticism book.
That's funny... last night I meditated for 5 minutes and touched the cosmic.. Draw your own conclusion.
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Re: Belief revisited... [Re: Swami]
#1028681 - 11/06/02 03:13 PM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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If chakras are a part of the "placebo pill effect" that allows me to base my actions in love rather than fear/uncertainty, then I'm going to eat that fucking pill.
Now, did that belief hurt you?
No?
So what's your problem?
ANY belief can turn out to be false, be it scientific "fact" or a belief in chakras.
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Re: Belief revisited... [Re: Seuss]
#1028767 - 11/06/02 03:42 PM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah. Many people think that an A-or-B-decision forces them to choose. But a neither/nor always works, too.
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Re: Belief revisited... [Re: Shroomism]
#1028806 - 11/06/02 04:00 PM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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We all know how special that you are and how the Universe has singled you out for favored treatment; or could it be that you are susceptable to everything that you read?
I only studied under the lineage of Paramahansa Yogananda and spent the better part of a year under direct tutelage of Kriyananda and approached it with tremendous youthful enthusiasm and sincerity. I was open enough for the experience to quit my job and sell everything that I owned.
If chakras were a reality that could be confirmed then there would be agreement about them, but there isn't and they can't.
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Re: Belief revisited... [Re: Swami]
#1028828 - 11/06/02 04:07 PM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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Agreement does not determine what is true.
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Re: Belief revisited... [Re: Adamist]
#1028904 - 11/06/02 04:25 PM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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I agree.
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To call humans 'rational beings' does injustice to the term, 'rational.' Humans are capable of rational thought, but it is not their essence. Humans are animals, beasts with complex brains. Humans, more often than not, utilize their cerebrum to rationalize what their primal instincts, their preconceived notions, and their emotional desires have presented as goals - humans are rationalizing beings.
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Re: Belief revisited... [Re: Swami]
#1028968 - 11/06/02 04:43 PM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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posing your question in the vaguest manner possilbe is a great way to get an answer.
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Re: Belief revisited... [Re: Adamist]
#1028971 - 11/06/02 04:44 PM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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Of course it doesn't, but is a better pointer than disagreement. Disagreement means one or both parties are wrong (open v.s. closed universe). Agreement by all parties at least allows the possibility that all parties are correct albeit, it is not a foregone conclusion as you point out.
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Re: Belief revisited... [Re: vaporbrains]
#1028979 - 11/06/02 04:46 PM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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Here is the question yet again: Why should I believe in anything for which there is no empirical evidence (such as life-after-death) other than to trick myself merely in order to feel good?
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Re: Belief revisited... [Re: Swami]
#1029062 - 11/06/02 05:14 PM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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You shouldn't, if you don't want to.
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Re: Belief revisited... [Re: Swami]
#1029746 - 11/06/02 07:31 PM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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if something physically showed you life-after-death, would you put all of your 'faith' into it? if so, why?
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Re: Belief revisited... [Re: Swami]
#1031149 - 11/07/02 02:06 AM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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Chakras are a metaphor for the body energy system. Next you'll be telling me there is no such thing as chi! ; 
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Re: Belief revisited... [Re: Swami]
#1031159 - 11/07/02 02:08 AM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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I supposae its ok if you feel good anyway....but if you dont, why wallow in misery to protect this rationalism you treasure so much? At the end of the day, alot of what you believe will probably be shown to be false in the next 100 years or so anyway, so where does that leave you??
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Re: Belief revisited... [Re: GazzBut]
#1031370 - 11/07/02 03:46 AM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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So basically what you are saying is that you CANNOT give me a straight answer. No one has in 3 years yet.
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Re: Belief revisited... [Re: Swami]
#1031483 - 11/07/02 05:09 AM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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In reply to:
For once I would LOVE to get an actual STRAIGHT answer which seems impossible. If there is no direct evidence for your pet belief, i.e. it requires faith, whether it be a particular religion or mystical thoughts; then why would you choose A over B?
I take it you mean direct evidence to be that which can be verified objectively?
If so, I would choose A over B if my subjective evidence led me to "believe" it was true.
But to qualify the above, I would be more than aware it was only a belief, not a fact and would be willing to change / discard it in the light of new direct evidence or a change in my subjective experience.
Is that a straight answer?
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 Re: Belief revisited... [Re: Swami]
#1031502 - 11/07/02 05:29 AM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hey there Swami. Hypothetical situation here: Let's say every one here at S & P had no formal(or even informal) scientific "knowledge". And we're all seeing a ruler sitting in a clear glass of water for the first time. Through empiracal evidence, wouldn't we all agree that th ruler was curved(or bent, or warped, or w/e).
Yet upon removing the ruler from the glass our illusions as th the "real nature" of the ruler would be dispelled once and for all......
Empirisicm(imho) would have been demonstarted to be a totally inadequate vehicle through/with which to determine the "true" nature of reality...
And further, the actual "truth" is that no longer is the ruler "bent", but in fact when seen in this new light, it had never actually been bent in the first place......
And yet our senses did not lie.....they reprted accurately what they percieved...it was our own collective judgement/interprtation of what we "thought" we saw that led to our collective illusion of the ruler being bent in the first place....
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Interesting point, however I must add:
Yet upon removing the ruler from the glass our illusions as th the "real nature" of the ruler would be dispelled once and for all......
Frequently beliefs are refuted, but because there is so much invested in them, the new evidence is denied. Good examples are Roswell, the Shroud of Turin, Nessie, etc.
Empirisicm(imho) would have been demonstarted to be a totally inadequate vehicle through/with which to determine the "true" nature of reality...
What is a better method in your opinion?
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Edited by Swami (11/07/02 06:26 AM)
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In reply to:
Yet upon removing the ruler from the glass our illusions as th the "real nature" of the ruler would be dispelled once and for all......
Empirisicm(imho) would have been demonstarted to be a totally inadequate vehicle through/with which to determine the "true" nature of reality...
I wouldn't say that empirisicm is totally inadequate, but it is inadequate. In your example, the empirical evidence continues to accumulate even after the ruler is removed from the glass, so empirisicm has provided you with new evidence that can help you to more correctly understand the nature of what is happening. If we were allowed in your example to apply science and/or logic to this evidence we may arrive at an understanding of the "real nature" of the ruler that is closer to the truth than our previous concept (but that wouldn't be 'empirisicm'). It is important that we learn to apply reason in formulating our concepts, the evidence of the senses is merely the begining of knowledge.
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Edited by Evolving (11/07/02 11:13 AM)
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Re: Belief revisited... [Re: Evolving]
#1032514 - 11/07/02 01:02 PM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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It is important that we learn to apply reason in formulating our concepts, the evidence of the senses is merely the begining of knowledge.
What if evidence of the senses strongly supported the existence of extra-terrestrial beings, even after one's reason worked to prove otherwise?
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Re: Belief revisited... [Re: Adamist]
#1032820 - 11/07/02 02:09 PM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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In reply to:
What if evidence of the senses strongly supported the existence of extra-terrestrial beings, even after one's reason worked to prove otherwise?
You'll have to elaborate. Can you give a hypothetical (or actual) situation?
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To call humans 'rational beings' does injustice to the term, 'rational.' Humans are capable of rational thought, but it is not their essence. Humans are animals, beasts with complex brains. Humans, more often than not, utilize their cerebrum to rationalize what their primal instincts, their preconceived notions, and their emotional desires have presented as goals - humans are rationalizing beings.
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