imaginaryme
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To exist is to have consciousness. The other things one might feel are necessary to have consciousness are more or less complicated sorts of hardware and software, patterns of mass and energy. But no pattern can have consciousness until it exists, until it is brought into reality. Existence is, finally, the only thing required for consciousness. A rock is conscious. This piece of paper is conscious.
~Rudy Rucker, Infinity and the Mind.
Not the words of a Zen mystic nor a taoist master, here speaks a sensei of the calculus - that is, a math teacher. This is convergence. This is the rise in atheism and the awareness of the universal consciousness, that all questions are the same question, that the old answers still apply. Who is god?
I am.
When one sees beyond self-awareness, one becomes aware. The sleeper wakens. There is no need to seek a higher power without when one realizes the higher power within. Consequence is but another form of causality, one that becomes particularly poignant when one has "a personal experience with god;" but the same effect that sharpens such accounts in memory is the effect that questions the deeper meaning. Duration.
There is no "duration" in eternity. I was beguiled by carrying the entitlement of prophet, and freed from that illusion from speaking prophecy; because I know now what prophecy is, and it is merely awareness. I have become something more by becoming something seemingly less, just a man. Just another voice in the jubilant cacophony that is the human experience. It is far more satisfying to be merely a philosopher of anarchy than to be a divine messenger, for I know that any direction to which I point indicates that all other directions are somehow "wrong," and I know that is not true. There is only one direction that concerns the sum total of humanity, and that is moving forward. No need to point, no need to direct, no need to lead; this is what I say when I do not have faith in god, but rather I trust in god.
Justice is a fabrication of society necessary for development. These concepts of "good and evil" were merely the forms used by our ancestors to carry society forward, and they linger in the mind when one expresses the desire to "do good" or "knowing right from wrong." All it takes to see the fallacy of such ideals is to imagine oneself being truly alone. These are merely yardsticks by which we measure the character of our fellow man against our "ideal self;" they speak nothing of this self in isolation. And this is how god got himself Capitalized, that the "good people" of the world refused to believe that the "wickedness" so apparent in others could be merely an aspect of the human condition. It is so much more comforting to accept the existence of Demons than to turn the lens of understanding inward. Here is where I do have a bit of authority - as one who loves "my Gwynnies" above all else, let it be known - we are all capable of "unspeakable evil." No Devil need apply.
~Rudy Rucker, Infinity and the Mind.
Not the words of a Zen mystic nor a taoist master, here speaks a sensei of the calculus - that is, a math teacher. This is convergence. This is the rise in atheism and the awareness of the universal consciousness, that all questions are the same question, that the old answers still apply. Who is god?
I am.
When one sees beyond self-awareness, one becomes aware. The sleeper wakens. There is no need to seek a higher power without when one realizes the higher power within. Consequence is but another form of causality, one that becomes particularly poignant when one has "a personal experience with god;" but the same effect that sharpens such accounts in memory is the effect that questions the deeper meaning. Duration.
There is no "duration" in eternity. I was beguiled by carrying the entitlement of prophet, and freed from that illusion from speaking prophecy; because I know now what prophecy is, and it is merely awareness. I have become something more by becoming something seemingly less, just a man. Just another voice in the jubilant cacophony that is the human experience. It is far more satisfying to be merely a philosopher of anarchy than to be a divine messenger, for I know that any direction to which I point indicates that all other directions are somehow "wrong," and I know that is not true. There is only one direction that concerns the sum total of humanity, and that is moving forward. No need to point, no need to direct, no need to lead; this is what I say when I do not have faith in god, but rather I trust in god.
Justice is a fabrication of society necessary for development. These concepts of "good and evil" were merely the forms used by our ancestors to carry society forward, and they linger in the mind when one expresses the desire to "do good" or "knowing right from wrong." All it takes to see the fallacy of such ideals is to imagine oneself being truly alone. These are merely yardsticks by which we measure the character of our fellow man against our "ideal self;" they speak nothing of this self in isolation. And this is how god got himself Capitalized, that the "good people" of the world refused to believe that the "wickedness" so apparent in others could be merely an aspect of the human condition. It is so much more comforting to accept the existence of Demons than to turn the lens of understanding inward. Here is where I do have a bit of authority - as one who loves "my Gwynnies" above all else, let it be known - we are all capable of "unspeakable evil." No Devil need apply.
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