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Smallworlds
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Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment..
#4469409 - 07/29/05 02:04 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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There are some who say that we know all things already, but that we just haven't realized it yet...
I would certainly agree with that. My inner wisdom tels me that it is true.
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: Smallworlds]
#4469417 - 07/29/05 02:05 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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I believe it. All our senses do is reshape our synapses. All the neurons are there, ready to be connected in various ways.
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: freddurgan]
#4469434 - 07/29/05 02:09 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Our minds rival limitlessness, yet do fall short of it because of our physical form.
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: Smallworlds]
#4469439 - 07/29/05 02:10 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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There will be other forms to assume.
In my humble opinion, I mean.
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: Smallworlds]
#4469447 - 07/29/05 02:11 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah, Socrates said that.
-------------------- Sometimes we let the preoccupations of this cruel world get the best of us and we lose track of the things that really matter. If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: MOTH]
#4469450 - 07/29/05 02:12 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
EllemyshShade said: There will be other forms to assume.
Agreed, it's no show-stopper.
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: InsatiableThirst]
#4469459 - 07/29/05 02:14 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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InsatiableThirst said: Yeah, Socrates said that.
Oh, that's cool. Sources please...
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: Smallworlds]
#4469476 - 07/29/05 02:17 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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I learned about Socrates last year when I was in college...I really enjoyed that Philosophy class.
The teacher really liked me. Even though I quit college two weeks before finals, she was the only professor that didn't fail me. She gave me an Incomplete, that nice lady.
Smallworlds, have you ever read Conversations with God?
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: Smallworlds]
#4469483 - 07/29/05 02:19 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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"Dialogues of Plato"
-------------------- Sometimes we let the preoccupations of this cruel world get the best of us and we lose track of the things that really matter. If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: Smallworlds]
#4469487 - 07/29/05 02:19 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Socrates believed that in every person was the collective intelligence of all other humans that preceded him.
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: Redstorm]
#4469491 - 07/29/05 02:19 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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And possibly all the humans that ever will exist after him?
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: freddurgan]
#4469499 - 07/29/05 02:21 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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It's like a a snowball rolling down a hill. The collective intelligence of all people will accumulate over time.
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: MOTH]
#4469505 - 07/29/05 02:21 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Na, I'm really light on philosophical books. Plus I spend waaaay to much time in forums such as these. Do you recommend it? If so, with the recommendation coming from you I'd read it.
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: Smallworlds]
#4469508 - 07/29/05 02:21 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah, your mind already contains all knowledge. It's called the imagination. You already have every single possiblity within your mind. Reality is just playing out one of them, and the fun is figuring out which one.
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: Redstorm]
#4469516 - 07/29/05 02:22 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Redstorm said:
It's like a a snowball rolling down a hill. The collective intelligence of all people will accumulate over time.
I buy that. Wow look, we agreed on something!!!
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: moog]
#4469527 - 07/29/05 02:24 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Indeed. They say we have all the answers, but we are waiting for the proper questions to be asked.
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: InsatiableThirst]
#4469536 - 07/29/05 02:26 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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You know I've never gotten much out of reading philosophy. It seems I think eye to eye with a lot of people just thinking for myself. All philosophers are just guessing anyway.
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: InsatiableThirst]
#4469542 - 07/29/05 02:27 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Wow, where are all the usual skepticisms? I'm genuinely proud of all of you this time.
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: Smallworlds]
#4469560 - 07/29/05 02:30 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Collective intelligence is one hell of an interesting topic.
Reading studies and whatnot about that is amazing, I wish I remembered where I saw some so I could link it here.
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Re: Tapping your inner sources for wisdom and enlightenment.. [Re: freddurgan]
#4469582 - 07/29/05 02:32 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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I like philosophy but I can only take it in segments. What I like most about it, is that it gets you to think for yourself and use your own mind.
Smallworlds: Because you opened a vague can of worms that allows everyone to agree to an extent which, for the most part, happens to coincide with your own opinion? heh
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