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- Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:37 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Reincarnation
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- Wed Dec 27, 2006 3:01 pm
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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Either one can be born in hell, or as an animal, in a future life after death, or these are mental realms of existence. They can't both be true. They are entirely different things. I have been trying to show that they are not different things at all There is a difference between being reborn as an ...
- Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:21 pm
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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K wrote: "For if enlightenment doesn't exist within the spheres of time, then we'll have to come up with another word for the time a person becomes free of delusions, other than "enlightenment". " Well, as Tonto said to the Lone Ranger as the latter suggested they make a stand against an approaching...
- Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:46 am
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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First, that last one was an excellent post. Thanks. K wrote: "Yes, the same as the essence all things. I don't know why you want to focus on mind, rather than, say, a brick. It leads people to think that you hold the essence of consciousness to be different to the essence of brick, which, essentiall...
- Tue Dec 26, 2006 12:17 pm
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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re: "[you suggest that it's an unwillingness to accept Eastern methods: alternatively, it may simply be that the Eastern methods have flaws that make their answers no better than the Western ones])." No, I didn't suggest that - nor even think it actually. There are so few westerners familiar with su...
- Tue Dec 26, 2006 6:35 am
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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Trevor: thx again for another thoughtful post. I am running off now but wanted to respond briefly to one point above in terms of physicality etc. and how we don't see it in the same way. That is fine. It is helpful, however, as I am sure you can agree, to go over the different views of the shared te...
- Tue Dec 26, 2006 4:31 am
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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no such ignorant person existed before, during or after 'enlightenment'. So we're back to where we started again. If no ignorant person exists then there's no point to anyone trying to rid themselves of their delusions and seek to live more truthfully. You're stuck with that view. there is no thing...
- Mon Dec 25, 2006 4:49 pm
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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K wrote: "and it is possible for an ignorant person to become enlightened," no such ignorant person existed before, during or after 'enlightenment'. Or: there is no thing or substance known as enlightenment, just as there will never be found a graviton or mentron. Enlightenment is a result and also,...
- Mon Dec 25, 2006 4:34 pm
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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- Mon Dec 25, 2006 4:29 pm
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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Re the nature of awareness is non-local: "If this were true then all things would have awareness. All things are not aware. Therefore your statement is false." Kevin, really, that is silly logic and you know it. In the last few posts on the thread it is clear that indeed we are not all discussing th...
- Mon Dec 25, 2006 9:58 am
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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Trevor, I appreciate the personal, direct nature of your last post and value it. To conclude you wrote: "Quite simply, there is no doubt in my mind that there is a one-to-one correspondance between mind and brain. If you don't believe this, sample a few hits of d-lysergenic acid or pop a couple pill...
- Mon Dec 25, 2006 8:32 am
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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"Why do you find this more convincing than simply putting it all in the head? Distributing the mind all over the body like this would make access times incredibly long. Our bodies already have to compensate for the time it takes information to travel to the brain by reflex action. Are people on dial...
- Mon Dec 25, 2006 3:51 am
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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though I am still waiting for a pronouncement about the fly question rather than a diversion.... You know what the answer to that question is, so there's no need for an answer from me. Well, from my perspective: size cannot be measured when dealing with consciousness any more than location pinpoint...
- Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:11 pm
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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Which is also why neither the brain or big toe can possibly ever be 'the seat of consciousness' which is essentially non-local and non-physical without any shadow of doubt, equivocation or evidence to the contrary whatsoever. (except to animals). This is where you're wrong. A person's consciousness...
- Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:27 pm
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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"If we didn't create such boundaries, nothing would exist." Very true. That is why one and many (local / universal) are both inseparable, different, true and false all at once - i.e. none more like it. Which is also why neither the brain or big toe can possibly ever be 'the seat of consciousness' wh...
- Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:24 pm
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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- Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:31 pm
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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dinner date
"So you're planning on rebirth as an animal again. See you in a few hundred lifetimes." No. I checked my schedule and remembered: I'm invited for a week-long ambrosia-fest in Tusita Heaven. Since this week lasts several centuries in human-animal time, when I come back down, although assuredly I'll b...
- Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:25 pm
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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- Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:18 pm
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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"Prove what? All you have to do is look. Other people can't do the work for you." I have looked. Have spent years looking. Unlike you, I do not take refuge in vague generalisations like 'all people have...' etc. Which is obviously not true ( the 'all' part) anyway (since some scientists now tout the...
- Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:11 pm
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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I am being somewhat flippant, Kevin, mainly in response to your haughty tone and your use of wild generalisations in order to deliver dagger-like blows. The generality blunts the delivery so much as to turn the blade into rubber. Another anecdote - which you will no doubt ridicule but anyway. As I s...
- Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:52 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Reincarnation
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- Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:49 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Reincarnation
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So that apparently sane and solid situation without a sense of humour is the animal realm." There's a place for humour, but some things are simply not funny. For example, it's not funny to hear the Dalai Lama say that new souls perhaps come from other planets, to allow for population growth. Likewi...
- Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:32 pm
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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Alright, more seriously, Kevin wrote (ignoring the two word change joke-point): "Water is one of things that causes the seat I am sitting on. (eg, the workers who made the seat depend on water). But that doesn't change the fact that a seat is still a seat. Likewise water is one of the things that ca...
- Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:25 pm
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- Topic: Reincarnation
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- Views: 38446
- Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:08 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Reincarnation
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"So you're planning on rebirth as an animal again. See you in a few hundred lifetimes." Now, now, if you keep indulging in such cat-fighting type repartee, not only are you risking remaining in animalian rigidity, but also you will be violating the non-feminine type of communication espoused by the ...