Bubbles in the stream…

We exist not as separate entities.

Although we appear to do so, we are not persons moving through time/space. Rather we are expressions of the multiplicity of process that is the universe, and define ourselves as distinct solely due to the abstracting neural functioning which characterizes our particular mode of energy/matter.

This is the basis for unbelief in a universe composed of ‘things’.

Despite the apparent perception of a multiplicity of objects, I must inevitably recognize all objects depend ultimately on ultimate subject. Therefore ‘I’ cannot be object. Since subject cannot exist in the absence of object, nor object in the absence of subject, it follows neither exists apart from the convenient illusion invented by the neural process of perception/thought.

I do not, therefore, believe in my ’self’ as a being, and I certainly don’t believe in a God-being.

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RS Ophiuchi go boom!

I should think they would also be extremely grateful, not to be ‘close up’….

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Astronomers glimpse exploded star

The only problem, which is a great embarrassment to astronomers, is that they have never seen a type 1a close up - their measurements are all based on theory.

Assimilated??

We Are Borg….

CBC News: Movements controlled by thoughts alone, neuroscientists show

The BBC’s anti-FOSS bias

Umm. Hello? Have you jackasses never heard of Linux? Don’t you know 70% of the world’s supercomputers run on Linux? Don’t you know about no-brainer Linux installs, such as Ubuntu and Mepis? Have you never heard of live linux cds, such as Knoppix, which are frequently used to rescue data, and even restore crashed Windoze systems?

Why is it that the Beeb rarely, if ever, mentions Linux or, indeed, any FOSS (Free Open Source Software)?

Oh, Macs are decent computers, no doubt, but they are not the only ‘other’ choice. And Linux will run on Macs, too, btw.

Jerks!

BBC NEWS | Technology | Web perils advise switch to Macs

Meanwhile, some Mac users are discovering Linux

Lack of fish oil in the diet?

Bush is my shepherd; I dwell in want.

He maketh logs to be cut down in national forests.

He leadeth trucks into the still wilderness.

He restoreth my fears.

He leadeth me in the paths of international disgrace for his ego’s
sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of pollution and war,

I will find no exit, for thou art in office.

Thy tax cuts for the rich and thy media control, they discomfort me.

Thou preparest an agenda of deception in the presence of thy religion.

Thou anointest my head with foreign oil.

My health insurance runneth out.

Surely megalomania and false patriotism shall follow me all the days of
thy term.

And my jobless child shall dwell in my basement forever.
The united states of total paranoia - Comment - Times Online

Transcendence

Buddha said: “I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake in India as a drop of oil on my foot. I perceive the teachings of the world to be the illusion of magicians. I discern the highest conception of emancipation as a golden brocade in a dream, and view the holy path of the illuminated ones as flowers appearing in one’s eyes. I see meditation as a pillar of a mountain, Nirvana as a nightmare of daytime. I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons.”

The universe inarguably transcends its apparent ‘parts’. Any thing existing ‘outside’ or separate from the universe is irrelevant, because by definition any thing existing outside of the universe could not affect the universe, and thus for all intents and purposes does not exist.

The notion of a personal god fails because it is based upon a fallacious concept regarding the apparent cause/effect nature of reality, namely that individual, separate causes exist.The conceptualizing manner of human cognition is necessarily dualistic, which leads to a kind of ‘reification’ fallacy wherein we mistakenly treat our abstractions as if they were, in essence, real, separate ‘things’, rather than referents.While it may be argued that our cognitive skills serve as a marvelously effective survival adaptation, the mechanistic universe model of cause/effect relationships between separate objects and entities has serious, and perhaps fatal, flaws.

Reality may more accurately be considered as a constantly evolving process consisting of a vast array of interdependent sub-processes, in which no independent entity can be found.

This being the case, the idea of an external, intelligent, free-willed creator agent becomes meaningless. Every ‘thing’ simply exists, objectively only because of ’subject’, but in reality as a manifestation of the universe. There are no ‘things’, existing; what we call ‘things’, ‘entities’ or ‘beings’ are no more than abstractions, thoughts, symbols.

What we truly are transcends concept, thought, and self, and has no need of gods.