I wish I understood it better, I really do. I’m not a stranger to logic by any means, especially in the world of computing, by querying datasets and writing code to solve problems, but math was never, and probably will never be my strong point.
Whenever I read an article describing a concept, it’s not long before the algorithms show up, and then I’ve reached my limit. I can swim on the surface quite competently, but do not have the lung capacity for deep dives, lets put it that way.
I don’t know anything … I’ve just been alive for what you could say 40 years but I’ve only been awake for about 2
I can relate to that, although it took even longer than 40 years..
Life is a real mother fucker sometimes lol
Ach well, better late than never 
Always… where you from man… I’m from the states… Colorado … but I recently did that gene testing stuff to get a better idea of the biological journey… I’m mostly an American mutt that is also a European mutt mostly English/Scottish/Irish mixed with Italian …. It was interesting to find out because my family raised me to believe Italian was the domino… I ate a lot of pasta growing up lol
Anyway. I think you’re onto a loser with evolution, and distinguisging chaos from order. Chaos vs. Order is such a big, fundamental matter, it’s clearly only resolved in the MInd of God, we can’t go there, it’ll be the eye trying to see itself, we definitely can’t solve that matter. So you’re on a wild goose chase with the Chaos vs. Order debate i.e. distinguisging them and picking one over the other
Anyway…. What is the problem? lol the belief there was one to begin with. No solution exists because there is no solution necessary. Problems are not part of reality they are a manifestation of mind… people don’t like that though…. Because… well… everyone has problems lol… so… they are a part the reality that is perceived… so….. a part but not really but they are…. But not though lol like the whole order chaos thing…. I guess I’m trying to bite my own teeth lol
No, I ramble recursively, it just keeps going on forever.
Physics is so full of chewing gum that it resembles the underside of a table in a diner.
Perhaps the “observable Universe” is quite new? I posted a silly story on here a while back about “bubbles”, now I’m no scientist and it was all a bit tongue-in-cheek, but who is to say what we can observe is everything?
Time. Time exists before and after everything. Everything depends on it, but it doesn’t depend on anything at all. Everything is relative to time, but time is relative to nothing. It doesn’t exist as we imagine it, it just is. We have some very wacky ideas of time, in my opinion.
No. These are all conclusions I have reached myself, and I find that they fit in quite well with scientific theory, existing religions and what I can observe around me every single day. I haven’t studied religion in any detail, although I agree there is much wisdom to be found in much of it.
I believe the true purpose of the soul is to learn and experience. For me, the soul is a tiny piece of God, and all souls are connected to Him in a network of understanding. Those who are closer to their souls and do not shun the Universal wisdom they have accrued, will therefore become closer to God and the absolute truth of the Universe.
Yes. God is the origin.
As far as I understand, you follow Islam. Morality is much less subjective as dictated by that religion, but otherwise in the west, the lines in the sand seem to be redrawn on a constant basis. I am not without ethical or moral standards, but they are not swayed by “popular” morality, I tend to focus on the basics.
Once again, I am completely disinterested in pop culture, I only know what I can observe myself, and what I have personally been affected by. My beliefs are not the result of some fashionable trend, they are the accumulation of over 50 years on this Earth searching for the truth.
This is very interesting, and I am going to read more about it.
Not me. Me and my soul have much more to learn, enjoy your heaven, I’m off somewhere else.
Oh the arrogance of humans, assuming that God has nothing better to do than constantly involve Himself in the affairs of some hairless apes on only one of the myriad of worlds He has created. The Quran opens with “All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all worlds.” There is much in Islamic teachings that I respect and agree with, and the agreed upon morality is practical and can be applied to human existence. But there are all those layers of man-made doctrine, perhaps not as bad as certain other religions, but they exist nonetheless..
Scottish / Irish. 100% Celt, for good or bad..
Yea… the love of the fire water runs deep in these veins…..
“I believe the true purpose of the soul is to learn and experience. For me, the soul is a tiny piece of God, and all souls are connected to Him in a network of understanding” - I’m standing on the same floating rock with you on this for sure.
I’ve been “in recovery” for about a year now. I have had to battle some demons and my reach for the bottle was always the first choice in the fight only to realize I was putting the barrel to my head. Sucks because I fucking love beer lol
I don’t agree with manufactured chaos. That’s about it.
The wild goose chase is the whole point of it all isn’t it? Lol if we didn’t have a goose to chase what else would we be doing? Breathing I guess lol. I’m not opposed to sitting out on the porch staring at the mountains just breathing though… the goose is just for fun lol…. I agree with that statement about manufactured chaos… it’s in the name… “man” lol kind of the dead giveaway lol
Tell me about it. I love beer and whisky. And vodka, and wine, and fuck it, anything with alcohol really..
But I managed to get away from it last year, this time I just stopped without even having a reason, and now I don’t even think about it very much at all. I’m not going back now, never been happier, and if I can come onto forums like this and vent my nonsense, then that’s enough of a release for me.
Now and again (but not very often), I partake in a certain green combustible, that’s about it.
Yea you and I are definitely parallels… I was enjoying the smoke for a bit but I had to stop that too because I just recently found out I have a heart condition that’s ticking to explode at some point… really any point lol… it’s actually a brand of hyper trophy that’s making the walls thicken to a point where eventually it’s going to quit pumping… also sucks but it’s definitely put a new spin on life. And yea I haven’t looked back either. I say about a year because I don’t even remember the day I stopped I just know it was about that time. I’m married to a Puerto Rican and have a daughter and two adult step children. One is in the marines and the other told us to get fucked lol …. Good times…. I’m also a vet… disabled of the mental verity but I do my best. I don’t work because of the whole PTSD deal fearing big crowds and anything that can go boom…. And I mean anything lol… I was a weapons maintainer… I loaded bombs that killed lots of people and carry that around with me on the daily…. It used to bother me a lot but I’ve been able to figure out how to keep a lot of that shit sort of to the side and not block my ability to experience life especially now that I have this condition… plus I’ve taken an ungodly amount of psychedelics that basically put my mind into a state of complete chaos.. also good times except for the disappearing from society part and the wondering looking for the meaning to this shit show we call life lol
Sorry to hear that, I still smoke cigarettes, one of the last truly stupid people on Earth, but that’s next on the list.
In time…. I smoked for awhile… mostly in the service… it was literally the only time we could get a break lol. No apologize necessary… like I said… we all have problems until we realize they are not what we believe…. I have come to understand problems as tools for learning…. The stronger the friction… the deeper the wisdom
We certainly do have a lot in common. I was in a very bad car smash many years ago and a child was killed, messed me up for years. Now I’m agoraphobic, but luckily my work is mostly sitting in front of a screen so it hasn’t affected me too badly. But the crowds thing.. I can’t do anything about it and I’ve come to accept that now.
As for looking for meaning, I’m sure you’ll work all that out when you move to the next plain..
Yea man i get that. Honestly… I feel like I figured a part of it being what you stated earlier… the whole here to live and learn. I can’t see how that wouldn’t be true. Most if not all the religious and or spiritual writings all point to that in some way or another. I like sitting at home were I spend most of my time reading about regions and philosophy… I’d study other stuff like math and computer science but I just haven’t the desire to… my dad is a computer guy.. he did some stuff like admin network and a little coding and then eventually went to prison at the ripe old age of sixty for shutting down some serves at his old employer to “teach them a lesson.” lol…. They didn’t learn shit but to up the network security…. He didn’t learn shit but that prison sucks ass loll… and just so you know I “lol” just about everything out of habit to express that I laugh at just about everything I say… I am defiantly my own comedian
If you haven’t already this dude Bob on this forum wrote a pretty fun piece called “Escape into Madness” that I found to be a wonderful read. If you ever have time you should check it out he posted a link on here somewhere.