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  1. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    ha ha ha..what a thoroughly idiotic post! ''Peace" for you is smugness. READ: The original meaning of 'no-mind' in Zen has NOTHING to do with the Samurai and their use of it. It is that original meaning which I am talking about, not your rambling on about what came afterward and how it was...
  2. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    You simply misunderstand, gnostic. 'Pure Conscisousness', aka 'Brahman', 'The Ground of All Being', 'The Absolute', 'The Void', 'Tao', 'The Unified Field', all are not just absolutes, but are THE Absolute, since no relative 'other' exists to compare it to, the sole reason for capitalization...
  3. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    WOW! This is one of the most compelling talks I have ever seen/heard! Just beautiful!
  4. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    In order for you to test the evidence for an observer-independent reality, an observer is required. The observer must always be part of the 'independent' reality being tested. The consciousness by which you know this is Ultimate Reality. You don't notice it because it is the passive...
  5. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    'Pure', in this sense, simply means 'clear', or unobstructed or uncontaminated by concept, idea, conjecture, etc. IOW, clear of thought or emotion. 'No-mind' in Zen, for example; 'no self-view', in Buddhism, etc. 'First there is a mountain; then there is no mountain' then there is'
  6. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Point #1: The conceptual framework of the subject/object split is automatically built into the scientific method. It is assumed that the object, 'moon', exists whether the subject, 'observer', is present or not*. Reality exists as an independent object of the observer. Point #2: In order...
  7. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

  8. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    So if a claim is not verifiable via science, it can only be a belief? Science claims that there is an observer-independent reality, but it is not testable. Science says that if it is not testable, it cannot be said to exist. Therefore, an observer-independent reality does not exist, according...
  9. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    He won some European contest. Start a new thread on martial arts. This has gone too far from the original intent of consciousness existing in places other than the brain.
  10. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Probably for much the same reason that geologists don't enter into debate with flat-earthers.:D
  11. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    I never implied aikido to contain 'woo'; I am only saying it is an authentic martial art. It is absent from MMA probably because it never initiates the attack, and because MMA fighters may consider it ineffective. As for that kick, the karate master had no idea he was going to be taken down...
  12. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Once is enough, but actually, I believe he said it at least twice if not thrice. Tong said: "There are no particles in the world". What is it about that statement you do not understand, or you understand him as saying the opposite? Not only did he say that there are no particles, but that...
  13. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    In the video I posted, which you refuse to watch, a world champion karate expert whose forte is his powerful kick, with which he can break 2 baseball bats at once, was at first a complete sceptic, even mocking aikido as a serious martial art. At the end of the video, he had a complete...
  14. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Of course not! I never claimed that they were. But what makes you think science is the Gold Standard of Knowledge? Science is nothing more than a method for detecting characteristics and prediction of behavior, but behavior and characteristics are not the true nature of reality. My claims...
  15. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Calling the content of my posts 'mystical, metaphysical nonsense' and 'woo' without evidence does not make them woo or nonsense. The problem is that you think anything that falls outside the spheres of Reason, Logic, and Analysis is bunk, but you have no experience with those other kinds of...
  16. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Why not watch the rest of the video so you can unlearn your preconceptions and ignorance about aikido? Again, do you have a clue as to why it is an outgrowth of the Samurai tradition?
  17. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Chi is a Chinese word meaning aliveness, life force energy or life breath 
- also known as Ki, Qi or Prana. Chi, Universal Life Force Energy, Aura, Chakras, Meridians.
  18. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    So you failed to see that the error was, in fact, yours, I see. Read my post again to see that it was. Maybe you just don't get it yet. Let it sink in a bit. It is you who is scraping the surface with your sterile reductionist view of chi. I don't entertain any such belief in 'woo', but...
  19. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    I never said I was teaching you anything. I'm not trying to convince you of anything. Is that what you think? I'm just a finger pointing to the moon, but instead of you looking at the moon, you attack the pointing finger, at the ringing of the proverbial Pavlovian bell, in typical knee-jerk...
  20. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    I have provided you more than a clue with the posted video. I put stock in what it says, and not in your iobvious gnorance about and uninformed denigration of aikido. I doubt if you even took the time to watch it. We're off-topic here, so I will end this part of the discussion as largely...
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