27 Jul 18
Originally posted by @divegeesterWhat if we are simply part of a butterfly's dream?
What if it’s all just made up...whatever it is we believe.
What then?
Originally posted by @divegeesterActually it is a reference to an episode from Kung Fu the tv show.
Posting silly comments like this just gives the impression that you find the OP threatening to your beliefs and your pinholed perspective.
According to the Chinese philosophical classic Zhuangzi, the great Daoist thinker of that name fell asleep one day and dreamed that he was a butterfly. When he woke up, he did not know whether he really was a man who had dreamed he was a butterfly or whether he was a butterfly now dreaming he was a man.
philosophynow.org/issues/76/Zhuangzi_And_That_Bloody_Butterfly
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Originally posted by @eladarThere’s a lot of old and new worthless philosophy out there being passed of as “classic” or new thinking if you are gullible enough to soak it up.
According to the Chinese philosophical classic Zhuangzi, the great Daoist thinker of that name fell asleep one day and dreamed that he was a butterfly. When he woke up, he did not know whether he really was a man who had dreamed he was a butterfly or whether he was a butterfly now dreaming he was a man.
04 Aug 18
Originally posted by @divegeesterThen we would be dead.
What if it’s all just made up...whatever it is we believe.
What then?
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04 Aug 18
Originally posted by @secondsonIn the future sir it will be possible to download our consciousness and live forever on a floppy disc.
Then we would be dead.
04 Aug 18
Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-dukeIn the infinite realm of cyberspace as magnetic bytes traveling at the speed of light...
In the future sir it will be possible to download our consciousness and live forever on a floppy disc.
...as apposed to spiritual bodies capable of traveling at the speed of thought between the material universe and the spiritual dimensions heretofore unknown.
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Originally posted by @divegeesterWorthless is in the eye of the beholder. It does fit with the topic you brought up. Funny how you are so closed minded.
There’s a lot of old and new worthless philosophy out there being passed of as “classic” or new thinking if you are gullible enough to soak it up.
04 Aug 18
Sounds like Last Thursdayism. The idea that the universe was created last Thursday, but with the physical appearance of being billions of years old. It's also a counter to the creationism theory. Under Last Thursdayism, books, fossils, light already on the way from distant stars, and literally everything (including your memories of the time before last Thursday) were all formed at the time of creation (last Thursday) in a state such that they appear much older.
04 Aug 18
Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-dukeWhy do you think I would answer you? There that's the closest thing to an answer you will get.
Do you consider yourself an open-minded person?
04 Aug 18
Originally posted by @pianoman1It could be true but could be false. Your beliefs about it reveal the unproven beliefs that govern your decision making.
Sounds like Last Thursdayism. The idea that the universe was created last Thursday, but with the physical appearance of being billions of years old. It's also a counter to the creationism theory. Under Last Thursdayism, books, fossils, light already on the way from distant stars, and literally everything (including your memories of the time before last Th ...[text shortened]... all formed at the time of creation (last Thursday) in a state such that they appear much older.
04 Aug 18
Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-dukeLol. You are a waste of time so I am closed minded. Gotcha
Yes, about what I expected from someone with a closed mind.
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04 Aug 18
Originally posted by @eladarFopdoodle.
Lol. You are a waste of time so I am closed minded. Gotcha