Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-07 Thread dhamiltony2k5
That is good but too long now to be a bumpersticker: "Knowledge is Structured in Consciousness - For TM'ers the basis of existence is intelligence and the perceptions are immaterial." On 2/7/2014 1:50 PM, salyavin808 wrote: I would say it's typical superstitious thinking.punditste

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-07 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 2/7/2014 1:50 PM, salyavin808 wrote: I would say it's typical superstitious thinking. > In Hindu Advaita and Yogacara Buddhism you have an idealism which asserts that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, knowledge structured in consciousness

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-07 Thread salyavin808
Comment below ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: On 2/6/2014 10:09 AM, salyavin808 wrote: It's wrong to assume that intelligent things must have had an intelligent creator. > We do not assume anything but we infer based on the valid means of knowledge: Objects that enter ou

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-07 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 2/6/2014 10:09 AM, salyavin808 wrote: It's wrong to assume that intelligent things must have had an intelligent creator. > We do not assume anything but we infer based on the valid means of knowledge: Objects that enter our consciousness experience seem already made. Some unconscious or su

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-07 Thread salyavin808
Comments below ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: > style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto;">The idea that there is a vast intelligence behind nature is ridiculous. > On 2/6/2014 10:09 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Quite easy actua

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-07 Thread Richard J. Williams
> *The idea that there is a vast intelligence behind nature is ridiculous. > *On 2/6/2014 10:09 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Quite easy actually. Kant lived long before quantum physics and our current understanding of cosmology and evolution. > The last resort of the naive realist is an appeal to ins

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-06 Thread Michael Jackson
ng it? On Thu, 2/6/14, salyavin808 wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, February 6, 2014, 4:16 PM   LOL, good c

[FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-06 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: LOL, good choice of pictures. I like the one of me particularly. Hee, hee, good one. See, a sense of humour must require a God and your ability to explain all about the nebula requires an a

[FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-06 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: I'll add something else to that. I'm into astronomy and can spend all night staring at distant galaxies through my telescope and wondering whether there is life out there. Nature is awesome and I have a deep sense of wonder about it's myster

[FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-06 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: LOL, good choice of pictures. I like the one of me particularly. Hee, hee, good one. See, a sense of humour must require a God and your ability to explain all about the nebula requires an amazing activity of synapsis and chemicals and energy

[FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-06 Thread salyavin808
I'll add something else to that. I'm into astronomy and can spend all night staring at distant galaxies through my telescope and wondering whether there is life out there. Nature is awesome and I have a deep sense of wonder about it's mysteries and functions. The more you know about life, the

[FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-06 Thread salyavin808
LOL, good choice of pictures. I like the one of me particularly. But really, there's nothing here that had a designer. The nebula is beautiful but it's just a cloud of gas lit from inside by the stars within. It's actually visible to the naked eye in the constellation of Orion. Quite amazing

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-06 Thread salyavin808
Comments below ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: On 2/6/2014 7:13 AM, salyavin808 wrote: The idea that there is a vast intelligence behind nature is ridiculous. > You are going to have to put a lot of effort into refuting the philosophers like Kant and Shankara. There is ev

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-06 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 2/6/2014 7:13 AM, salyavin808 wrote: *The idea that there is a vast intelligence behind nature is ridiculous.* > You are going to have to put a lot of effort into refuting the philosophers like Kant and Shankara. There is every reason to believe, based on logic that the physical universe ca

[FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-06 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: "“Help comes only from the Unified Field,” - Do you have any idea how creepy this sounds? I hope there aren't any genuine scholars reading this, they'd be edging towards the door by now... When you say unified field you mean god. Why not jus

[FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-02-06 Thread salyavin808
"“Help comes only from the Unified Field,” - Do you have any idea how creepy this sounds? I hope there aren't any genuine scholars reading this, they'd be edging towards the door by now... When you say unified field you mean god. Why not just admit it? The idea that there is a vast intellige

[FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-01-15 Thread anartaxius
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote [with corrections applied]: After these words the Mason leaned on his elbow on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes, as though weary of prolonged talking. Pierre gazed at that stern, immovable, old, almost death-like face, and moved his lips wi

[FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-01-15 Thread dhamiltony2k5
After these words the transcendentalist leaned on his elbow on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes, as though weary of prolonged talking. Pierre gazed at that stern, immovable, old, almost death-like face, and moved his lips without uttering a sound. He wanted to say, “Yes, a vile, idle, vi

[FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-01-14 Thread dhamiltony2k5
“Where you going now, sir?” ..answered Pierre in a tone of childish indecision, “I thank you. I agree with you in everything. But do not suppose that I have been so bad. With all my soul I have desired to be what you would wish me to be; But I have never met with help from any one . . . Though

[FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-01-11 Thread dhamiltony2k5
The transcendentalist was silent, obviously pondering something. “Help comes only from the Unified Field,” he said, “but such measure of aid as it is in the power of our movement to give you, it will give you, sir. You go to this lecture and give them this” (he took out of his notebook and wro

[FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-01-11 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Unified Field Tolstoy: Tolstoy's War and Peace, Book V: 1806 - 07 Paraphrased Transcendental Tolstoy. Dear Feste, It gets better or worst. Forgive me if I sin as doing more in this paraphrase: >Feste37> wrote: >Oh, Buck, "Paraphrasing" the Bible is OK, but doing the same

[FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-01-06 Thread dhamiltony2k5
“I don't understand,” said Pierre the non-meditator, feeling with dismay that doubt was stirring within him. The non-meditator dreaded obscurity and feebleness in the transcendentalist's argument, he dreaded being unable to believe in him. “I don't understand,” he said, “in what way human reason

[FairfieldLife] RE: Transcendental Unified Field Tolstoy

2014-01-05 Thread feste37
the misspelling here, despite appearances, is not mine but Buck's, although no doubt no one cares. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Transcendental Tolstoy. Dear Feste, It gets better or worst. Forgive me if I sin as doing more in this paraphrase: >Feste37> wrote: >