[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness

2009-12-05 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Dogma -- even dogma that seems to explain subjective experiences you've had -- doth NOT equal Truth. Never has, never will. At best believing that it does is a pleasant mind-number, something to keep you from pondering the great questions of life because you've convinced

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness

2009-12-05 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Believe what you want? Or is it merely Just Another Subjective Experience? Could the experience of enlightenment -- and one's view of what constitutes reality and Truth from the *standpoint* of enlightenment -- be Just

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness

2009-12-05 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip Dogma -- even dogma that seems to explain subjective experiences you've had -- doth NOT equal Truth. Never has, never will. At best believing that it does is a pleasant mind-number, something to keep you from

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness

2009-12-04 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: .By Ron Rosenbaum on Slate.com There's a certain kind of

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness

2009-12-04 Thread coulsong2001
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, coulsong2001 geoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: ... I don't think the Turing test helps. Barry may look and act in a way

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness

2009-12-04 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, coulsong2001 ge...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, coulsong2001 geoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: ...

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness

2009-12-03 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: .By Ron Rosenbaum on Slate.com There's a certain kind of mystery—unsolved and probably insoluble—that has a seductive attraction for me. I think the insolubility is the attraction. I'm particularly troubled by

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness

2009-12-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: .By Ron Rosenbaum on Slate.com There's a certain kind of mystery—unsolved and probably insoluble—that has a seductive attraction for me. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness

2009-12-03 Thread WillyTex
TurquoiseB wrote That's the True Believer phenomenon in a nutshell... Don't you just hate those 'True Believers'. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt A long but well-written essay from Slate that ponders some of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness

2009-12-03 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: [snip] There's a certain kind of mystery—unsolved and probably insoluble—that has a seductive attraction for me. [/snip] Yes, very interesting article. Thanks. Mysterian - I like that. - What are you? - Advaitan

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness

2009-12-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap composent...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: [snip] There's a certain kind of mystery—unsolved and probably insoluble—that has a seductive attraction for me. [/snip] Yes, very interesting

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness

2009-12-03 Thread coulsong2001
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost...@... wrote: ... I don't think the Turing test helps. Barry may look and act in a way that is indistinguishable from a regular human being - but the question of whether there IS such a thing as being Barry is a fact about the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness

2009-12-03 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, coulsong2001 ge...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: ... I don't think the Turing test helps. Barry may look and act in a way that is indistinguishable from a regular human being - but the question of

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness

2009-12-03 Thread Hugo
I'm verging on giving up here, every time I spend more than a few minutes on a post my computer crashes when I press send. Does anyone else get this problem? It never crashes with other programmes so I think it must have something to do with the yahoo software. Shame as defending Richard

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dangerous Mysteries of Consciousness

2009-12-03 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: I'm verging on giving up here, every time I spend more than a few minutes on a post my computer crashes when I press send. Does anyone else get this problem? Is your computer male? It's quite a common problem with