CosmicJoke said:

when i read the word novelty 35 times in a minute it starts to feel trite

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OrgoneConclusion said:

You mean the novelty wore off?

I like when someone reads some McKenna then cannot wait to share the original idea they just borrowed.

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Icelander said:

Posting to yourself does great things for your post count.

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OrgoneConclusion said:

You mean the novelty wore off?

I like when someone reads some McKenna then cannot wait to share the original idea they just borrowed.

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hTx said:

Icelander said:

Posting to yourself does great things for your post count.

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That's really all you have to say? I thought this was a philosophy subform not a trolling forum. Yet again, I managed to attract three trolls. LOL

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OrgoneConclusion said:

hTx said:

Icelander said:

Posting to yourself does great things for your post count.

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That's really all you have to say? I thought this was a philosophy subform not a trolling forum. Yet again, I managed to attract three trolls. LOL

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hTx said:

OrgoneConclusion said:

You mean the novelty wore off?

I like when someone reads some McKenna then cannot wait to share the original idea they just borrowed.

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Sarcasm, the sign of an immature mind. Want to give me a logical argument?

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Do you have evidence that sarcasm is the sign of an immature mind or did you just make this up? More like emotionally-charged statements with zero backing are indicative of such.

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It should not be hard to see that nature-novelty is the driving force of the universe. Novelty seems to be an actual force in the universe.

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You really want me to counter this when any high school physics book or even a dictionary would show the error? It is incredibly hard to have an actual discussion of gibberish.

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hTx said:

OrgoneConclusion said:

You mean the novelty wore off?

I like when someone reads some McKenna then cannot wait to share the original idea they just borrowed.

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I like when someone reads the word Novelty and automatically assumes it has something to do with Terence Mckenna. Lay off the shrooms man, its an actual word in the dictionary meaning "New".

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Or like when someone writes 'machine elves'; both words in the dictionary. I wonder how many non-actual words in the dictionary...

hTx said:

...[omitted, pointless]... Novelty always leads to the next step. Novelty is absolutely essential towards the evolution of our understanding. With new events comes history. With new events should come new understanding. Naturally occurring events that are outside of our control (volcanoes, meteors, weather, etc) which happen seemingly at random are responsible for keeping the novelty. Original and creative thought is novelty that is within our control. For the sake of keeping it simple, lets call the first nature-novelty and original and creative thought self-novelty.

Nature-novelty is beyond our control. It is the universe in raging chaos. The reminder that we are human. The supernova of stars, fusing elements into novel elements. Novel arrangements of elements into molecules led to the universe as we know it. Novel arrangements of molecules led to DNA. Novel interactions of DNA led to the human being, and every known living thing on the planet. Etc, Etc. It should not be hard to see that nature-novelty is the driving force of the universe.

Self-novelty is contained within nature-novelty (as we are natural, afterall)and has to do with us and how we respond not only to nature-novelty but the former novel creations of those before us. Newtonian physics, a novel theory, was recreated by another novel theory, Einsteins theory of relativity. I'm not saying what Newton contributed to physics wasn't great, it was a great novel contribution in its time.

Self-novelty increases with keen observation of nature-novelty. You know what Einstein and Newton had in common? They observed...They realized nature-novelty and got with the new. They began to think, independently and creatively, they unlearned what they "knew" and thought creatively about the problems they were observing. All of human history is recorded novelty of ever increasing complexity. I will postulate that when novelty is suppressed in a society (new technologies, new ideas, new anything that threatens said society), then corruption has taken over.
The philosophy is simple. Think independently and creatively, do new things, have new experiences..seek out the novel. Start creating. Any intelligent fool can memorize someone elses theorems on life, it takes an entirely different fool to come up with something novel.

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