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Re: even the ugliest things in life are beautiful from the right perspective [Re: Cups]
#13267298 - 09/29/10 09:58 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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That's the subjective part. We(each of us) decides even if we let others (our culture) influence that decision. Ultimately those decisions of meaning are only personal and not profound. The Tao does not seem to give a fig.
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Re: even the ugliest things in life are beautiful from the right perspective [Re: Icelander]
#13269132 - 09/30/10 09:44 AM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Icelander said: Ultimately those decisions of meaning are only personal and not profound. The Tao does not seem to give a fig.
How do you 'decide' 'meaning' ?
And just because 'meaning' is 'personal' how does that take away from the profundity of 'meaning'?
The Tao just iz.
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Re: even the ugliest things in life are beautiful from the right perspective [Re: I AM SWIM]
#13269175 - 09/30/10 09:57 AM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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You decide meaning with your brain. Most likely based on present and past experience.
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Re: even the ugliest things in life are beautiful from the right perspective [Re: Icelander]
#13269204 - 09/30/10 10:09 AM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Okay, so I decide meaning..
with my brain.
I am not my brain.
How do I decide meaning?
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And just because 'meaning' is 'personal' how does that take away from the profundity of 'meaning'?
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Re: even the ugliest things in life are beautiful from the right perspective [Re: I AM SWIM]
#13269239 - 09/30/10 10:19 AM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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You indeed are your brain. Your self concept comes from your brain as far as we can tell.
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Re: even the ugliest things in life are beautiful from the right perspective [Re: Icelander]
#13269388 - 09/30/10 11:01 AM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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What is the concept of 'self'?
You mean my identity comes from my brain?
I am not my brain, my brain is nothing without my lungs.
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Re: even the ugliest things in life are beautiful from the right perspective [Re: I AM SWIM]
#13269575 - 09/30/10 11:39 AM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Your lungs are connected to your brain via a nervous system. Without the brain the lungs are useless. Basically imo the whole body is part of the "brain". It acts as a sensory apparatus for the brain. You are your brain.
Try this, make your next post to me without involving your brain in any way.
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Re: even the ugliest things in life are beautiful from the right perspective [Re: Icelander]
#13269630 - 09/30/10 11:47 AM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Did you know our hearts have memory and generate a field?
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Re: even the ugliest things in life are beautiful from the right perspective [Re: Icelander]
#13269690 - 09/30/10 11:55 AM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Your lungs are connected to your brain via a nervous system. Without the brain the lungs are useless. Basically imo the whole body is part of the "brain". It acts as a sensory apparatus for the brain. You are your brain.
Your right, my lungs are connected to my brain, not only via a nervous system, but circulatory as well.
Without the brain, the lungs are useless. Just as without the lungs the brain is useless.
Lack of oxygen in the brain, causes death.

Basically in your opinion, the whole body is part of the brain, I would agree with your opinion. That doesn't mean I am my brain, or that I am my lungs.
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Try this, make your next post to me without involving your brain in any way.
Do or do not..
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Re: even the ugliest things in life are beautiful from the right perspective [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#13270111 - 09/30/10 01:14 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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c0sm0nautt said: Did you know our hearts have memory and generate a field?
An electrical field.
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Re: even the ugliest things in life are beautiful from the right perspective [Re: I AM SWIM]
#13270115 - 09/30/10 01:16 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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That doesn't mean I am my brain, or that I am my lungs.
I'm quite aware of that. Yet you can offer up nothing but opinion as to what you actually are. So lets be done here.
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Re: even the ugliest things in life are beautiful from the right perspective [Re: Icelander]
#13270457 - 09/30/10 02:22 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Icelander said: That doesn't mean I am my brain, or that I am my lungs.
I'm quite aware of that. Yet you can offer up nothing but opinion as to what you actually are. So lets be done here.
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Icelander said: Basically imo the whole body is part of the "brain". It acts as a sensory apparatus for the brain. You are your brain.
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Re: even the ugliest things in life are beautiful from the right perspective [Re: I AM SWIM]
#13270559 - 09/30/10 02:41 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Science has shown that the brain through the nervous system is connected to every part of the body. My opinion is based on some evidence.
Again I ask. What are you and how do you know you are that? Just curious.
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Re: even the ugliest things in life are beautiful from the right perspective [Re: Icelander]
#13270731 - 09/30/10 03:16 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Icelander said: Science has shown that the brain through the nervous system is connected to every part of the body. My opinion is based on some evidence.
Sure, and I never said I disagreed with that.
Except you also said
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Icelander said: You are your brain.
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Icelander said: Again I ask. What are you and how do you know you are that? Just curious.
Again you ask? You never even asked until now.
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Icelander said: You are your brain.
Hmmm, so I guess I am just my
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Re: even the ugliest things in life are beautiful from the right perspective [Re: I AM SWIM]
#13271000 - 09/30/10 04:03 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Glad we got that settled.
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