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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: deCypher] * 1
    #14050547 - 03/01/11 07:13 PM (13 years, 3 days ago)

Can one mock without being impertinent?


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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: circastes]
    #14050626 - 03/01/11 07:29 PM (13 years, 3 days ago)

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There's nothing to understand. So to have any method is pretty irrational. Once you find love, that's it, you no longer exist as an individual and all the problems disappear. You become love...

If you never find love, you'll keep at it with stupid questions and stupid answers until you die. Love is union, and the greatest love is the love of God, found within you, given unconditionally, because God is love and you are God.



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circastes said:
There's nothing to understand. So to have any method is pretty irrational. Once you find love, that's it, you no longer exist as an individual and all the problems disappear. You become love...

If you never find love, you'll keep at it with stupid questions and stupid answers until you die. Love is union, and the greatest love is the love of God, found within you, given unconditionally, because God is love and you are God.





Well you obviously still exist and that makes your post (as usual without evidence) suspect.

Who exactly are you trying to convince?:lol:


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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: Icelander]
    #14050636 - 03/01/11 07:31 PM (13 years, 3 days ago)

When you die, you become a Hallmark greeting card - or something... :tongue:


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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #14050757 - 03/01/11 07:52 PM (13 years, 3 days ago)

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Icelander said:
So far 100% of those polled agree with me.:satansmoking:







Prance around with dogs like a ninny?

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OrgoneConclusion said:
When asked for something better or an alternate method, nothing substantive is offered.





lol, yep, sounds about right.

I don't know where this idea comes from, but people seem to think that criticism applied to only one of a multiplicity of options somehow shows the relative value of the criticised item.  This seems the favorit tactic of those criticising "science".  I've heard lots of nonsense about "science can't measure emotion, experience, whatever" and plenty of huffing and puffing over vague terms like "singularity", "whole", and "trancend", but I've never heard of any alternative being offered that's described clear enough to actually use it.

When someone is sure they're correct but can't even explain their idea so that it can be understood, let alone judged, I think that's a pretty good sign its just an emotionally-held belief of no substance.

Seriously, out of all the science-criticising posts here, has anyone ever offered an alternative that is described at least enough to actually use it?

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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: johnm214]
    #14050770 - 03/01/11 07:54 PM (13 years, 3 days ago)

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Seriously, out of all the science-criticising posts here, has anyone ever offered an alternative that is described at least enough to actually use it?




Those who do wouldn't be able to post it because that would involve using science and technology such as the Internet and a computer.  :sorry:


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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: johnm214]
    #14050799 - 03/01/11 07:59 PM (13 years, 3 days ago)

Notice that even those that dis science start with an observation just like science (even if the conclusion is erroneous)?

"Dude, I saw a UFO/ghost/alien/BigFoot."


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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #14052355 - 03/02/11 12:27 AM (13 years, 3 days ago)

yeah, though their communication skills generally need some work, in that when reporting their observations, they find it hard to stick to the facts, and substitute their conclusions, which are obviously overtly biased by all manner of things.  I think it would be helpful if students would at least learn how an empircle scientific paper is written- far more useful than many of hte highschool "science" class lessons of memorizing random crap

Rather than relaying that they saw a small point-like white light zip across the sky at about a skylength per second's speed, they relate that they saw " a spaceship flying over the city with a bright light on it, moving at a speed too fast for any human craft"

I wonder if teh tendancy to conflate conclusions with facts/observations is correlated with erroneous conclusions?  I could see your memory being colored by what you "know" when even when you recall the event, you implicitly recall "that spaceship I saw" rather than "that point-like white light moving quite fast that I believe to be an extraterrestrial craft".  All sorts of evidence shows the maallability of memory, especially with emotional experiences and convictions, i.e. ther person who substitutes the face of the man in the mugshot they saw for the ill-defined hazy face they recall belonging to the  man that robbed them- later they testify with absolute conviction that the person they saw was the defendant on trial after seeing them in the mugshot, even if the person was the wrong guy

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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: circastes]
    #14052405 - 03/02/11 12:39 AM (13 years, 3 days ago)

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circastes said:
There's nothing to understand. So to have any method is pretty irrational. Once you find love, that's it, you no longer exist as an individual and all the problems disappear. You become love...

If you never find love, you'll keep at it with stupid questions and stupid answers until you die. Love is union, and the greatest love is the love of God, found within you, given unconditionally, because God is love and you are God.



lol love. that doesn't exist.


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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: learningtofly]
    #14052432 - 03/02/11 12:44 AM (13 years, 3 days ago)

How does love not exist?  :confused:


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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: deCypher]
    #14052817 - 03/02/11 04:14 AM (13 years, 3 days ago)

No one voted for "make something up"

But anyone who believes in god should have checked that one!

We don't understand something "oh it's the work of god."  Simple answer:awesome:

And if what ever is mentioned about god makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE WHAT SO EVER... then we can say "god works in mysterious ways." 

What we don't understand is the work of god, and the reason the world is the way it is (full of suffering) is because god works in mysterious ways... THAT'S IT!  I have the world figured out from "make something up" POV

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lol love. that doesn't exist.





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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: deCypher]
    #14053037 - 03/02/11 06:52 AM (13 years, 3 days ago)

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How does love not exist?  :confused:





Depends on what you mean by love.  The idea of unconditional love, which imo is the only way you can define the word does not exist due to basic human psychology. IMO it is an idea used as a bench mark for a preferred form of behavior. We may try to approach it but will never get there.


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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
    #14053277 - 03/02/11 08:28 AM (13 years, 3 days ago)

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learningtofly said:
lol love. that doesn't exist.







Well you can take it two ways: one being the conventional sense as Icelander has already said. The other being that there is independently existing of anything else called "love" and therefore it doesn't actually "exist"


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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: learningtofly]
    #14053857 - 03/02/11 10:42 AM (13 years, 3 days ago)

So after science, the next popular poll option is "take massive amounts of psychedelics".

Anyone want to offer an example of something they've understood using this method?


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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #14053912 - 03/02/11 10:53 AM (13 years, 3 days ago)

Best and only method's gotta be scientific if you can really bebothered to take on the endless tangent of trying to understand the world.


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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: Grapefruit]
    #14054652 - 03/02/11 01:32 PM (13 years, 3 days ago)

Awesome... :cthulhu: :cthulhu: :cthulhu: :cthulhu: :cthulhu: :cthulhu: :cthulhu: :cthulhu: :cthulhu: :cthulhu: :cthulhu: :cthulhu: :cthulhu:

bserving is obably he est ethod


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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: Ygor]
    #14054878 - 03/02/11 02:09 PM (13 years, 3 days ago)

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So after science, the next popular poll option is "take massive amounts of psychedelics".

Anyone want to offer an example of something they've understood using this method?




Well, you can try to incorporate that into scientific-minded observation.  It is observing a brain state, from the inside, other than our sober reality.  Is subjective observation of a state of consciousness not scientific?

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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: Sleepwalker]
    #14055038 - 03/02/11 02:37 PM (13 years, 3 days ago)

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Is subjective observation of a state of consciousness not scientific?




Good question. Since the mind that is affected is also the mind that is trying to observe, I don't think it would be scientific.

However if, say, you gathered several people's subjective experiences while in and altered brain state and correlated them, you'd come up with something more tenable.
I'm sure such studies have been done.


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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: Ygor]
    #14055073 - 03/02/11 02:44 PM (13 years, 3 days ago)

True, I guess you would need multiple accounts.  Same goes for sober observations. :yesnod:

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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: Sleepwalker] * 2
    #14055116 - 03/02/11 02:51 PM (13 years, 3 days ago)

fuck all that shit, lets just get loaded, 'the world' aint give a flying fuck if you figure any of its aspects out, dawg :mrt:

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Re: Best method for understanding the world? [Re: andrewss]
    #14055138 - 03/02/11 02:54 PM (13 years, 3 days ago)

also a good point. :thumbup::minigun::omgawesome::whacker:

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