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  1. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Really? The direct experience I am referring to occurs in total silence. Any talk from me is just a finger pointing to the Moon. The direct experience of the 'Moon', ie 'Reality', is without a single word or thought. New Age? Really? Now let's see: most of what I have talked about in...
  2. godnotgod

    The Pagan Christ?

    And here is another important aspect of the story: excerpted from: Myth and Ritual in Christianity, by Alan Watts
  3. godnotgod

    The Pagan Christ?

    I believe there was a real man named Yeshua, who was a Nazarene, from the sect of the Essenes, a Jewish mystical cult, which derived most of its teachings from the East. These original teachings were breath-based and did not include blood-sacrifice. Paul and Rome aggressively went after the...
  4. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Nothing is the what Everything comes out of. That seems to be the case in Quantum Physics as well. David Tong in his video, is pointing to the Quantum vacuum as being 'absolutely nothing'. But the fields are still there, out of which Everything is made. Saying that The Absolute is Everything...
  5. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    The matchmaker topic is dead, so why should you care what's being discussed after that fact, since you have no interest in what you think is 'woo'? Not wasting any more time with your silly protest that's wasting everyone's time and efforts. All I am doing is pointing to the moon. If that...
  6. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    No. Proselytizing would be: "there is a God; just believe" Going outside the cave to SEE the Sun, rather than to BELIEVE that is is real, cannot be proselytizing. Urging someone to experience something firsthand for themselves is not a belief. The experience of seeing the Sun is an...
  7. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    For a thread that's been 'hijacked' by me, there certainly is a huge amount of interest and response to my input, including yours. I can hardly keep up.
  8. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Did you mean 'avid'?:D
  9. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    You're just making excuses to stay inside Plato's Cave, where it is nice and comfy, and gives you that nice fuzzy feeling of thumb-sucking security. You know. The one that says you are on the 'right' side, exactly like the one the theists get by thinking they are on the right side. Neither of...
  10. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Where is the proselytizing if there is no doctrine to proselytize about? Which doctrine am I trying to convert anyone to? I am not in control of any thread. As far as I am concerned, the theory behind the watchmaker argument is dead, since it is a flawed argument from the get go. But if you...
  11. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    My approach is the attitude of 'I neither believe, nor not-believe'. That is how science and the mystic should position themselves. In Zen, we call this attitude 'no moving mind', leaning neither to the left, nor to the right. This is freedom. Just see what is. Nothing less; nothing more...
  12. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Of course not! Let's not be silly, OK? 'Whatever you desire', '(providing you obey the rules)'. Get it? Nope. We have never left the topic. All of my input is an extended response to subduction's post about the scientific method. Go to page 6 to see how everything is still linked to the...
  13. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Yes. No. It IS Everything, known and unknown. There is no 'outside'. Because that implies the existence of other absolutes, which are relative. Yes, that is The Absolute, as in: "The Universe is [none other than] The Absolute, as seen through the glass [ie 'the mind'] of Time, Space...
  14. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Right. You know, there are treatments for such kinds of rabid addictive behavior patterns which can be broken. Who knows? You may even get that one in a million opportunity to catch a glimpse of The Moon. One glimpse, and you will never return to your prior addiction Every time you see a...
  15. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Convention. Of course he didn't: "There are no particles in the world" isn't negation. Is it? Must be a mis-speak, or double-speak, brain fog, slip of the tongue, etc.... That can only mean he is a Trump supporter, LOL., like 'fake news'. Or that he was high on pot,,,or mebbe.....like...
  16. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Stealing? I am not preventing anyone from freely posting whatever they desire. Do you feel blocked from doing so? You are laughing? What is it that you find funny, Darkstorn? That the yoga you call 'woo' violates your silly beliefs, and that Western medicine has now found it to be...
  17. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    I never said that it referred to the subject of belief. What I said by 'I neither believe, nor not-believe', is that it is scientific in that it does not make assumptions about what is being observed. When the mind neither believes, nor not-believes, it is then freed from taking a position...
  18. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    It was directed to how you view the statement. You took 'moon' literally, instead of the metaphor it is for Reality. What is the problem you are having in understanding the meaning? C'mon now. Use your head. Once again: "a finger pointing to the moon" is a Zen metaphor for silently...
  19. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Google 'yoga for schizophrenia' for one. Or choose to remain ignorant. I give credit to the hippies; a lot of credit. They are the pioneers who saw that the nation was going in the wrong direction, and made efforts to humanize their world. Yes, they made a lot of mistakes, some fatal, but...
  20. godnotgod

    The Watchmaker Revisited

    Look, forget the metaphor, as you don't get it anyway. Quite simply, we look for the keys to the true nature of reality outside our own nature, when we already are in possession of those keys. Instead of looking to SEE that we are none other than the very reality we seek, we create a...
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