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Fourth Collection

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If you hypnotize someone with a specific arrangement of facts, is that any less ‘mystical’ than if you deceive them with fraudulent beliefs?

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Does your anticipation of the end lead you to jump the gun?

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The secret of life: make every breath a pleasure.

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While I am not responsible for the accidents in my life, which have conspired to make me who I am, I am responsible for who I am.

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Form without substance invariably leads to death through starvation.

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If there are no accidents, how can we be held accountable for our actions?

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Without mathematics, science could predict nothing; yet, as Mathematics has been found incomplete (Godel), there will always be that which cannot be predicted.

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The only true statements are tautologies and thus contain no useful information. Therefore, only falsehoods are useful.

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Doubt is the enemy of the charlatan, faith the friend.

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Denial is about the refusal to make causative links, even when they are blatantly obvious.

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Dug Fresh, our beloved field correspondent through whom we live, loves life but despises the Human race. Yet, as hope springs eternal, his work is dedicated to the Future-Humans and to the hope that for there to be Future-Humans they must be enlightened Future-Humans.

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One must remember to see. This is why sight is not passive: observation interferes with what is observed. Sense data can only be superimposed or built upon what is already there. From the very first imprint, the accumulation of stimulus serves to reenforce familiarity. This is why sight is active: one must remember to disconnect one’s associative mental pathways to see something new.

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The Perplexities of Faith: If there is a God and God is omniscient, God cannot interfere or we cannot have freewill. If there is a God and we have freewill, and God can interfere, God cannot be omniscient.

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If there is a creator she is probably just as mystified by her creation as we are.

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The strength of any ecology, whether environmental, or sociological, depends on diversity. This may go a long way to help explain why ‘truth’ cannot be finitely expressible.

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To communicate you must talk to people in a language they can understand. Unfortunately, some people only understand violence.

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We start out as scientists and end up as theologians. In this way does the Fool come full circle.

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Computers, and media storage devices in general, paradoxically maximize information loss through almost limitless storage. You can always buy more memory, or another hard drive but the larger the space, the more difficult it is to locate objects in it, especially through random access.

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Whoever controls the mind, controls the body.

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Authority is just an excuse for concealment and restriction, its criteria amenable only by those above, through succession or by those below, through revolution.

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Bible Thumper:”Are you for Jesus?” Babble Blocker:”No, I’m facetious!”

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Godel:”Truth is not finitely describable.”

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Hector Berlin:” Time is a great teacher, unfortunately it kills all of its pupils.”

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Spirituality is not synonymous with worship

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Happiness is an addiction if you can’t live without it.

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The difference between ‘not knowing’ and ‘ignorance’ is, the ‘ignorant’ have no desire to learn.

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If space is a vacuum, shouldn’t it be frictionless?

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Democracy only works with odd numbers of people.

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Two processes of learning:

• deduction
• observation and experiment

While deduction requires observation, observation does not require deduction. One is analytical and creative, the other does not require consciousness at all. A video camera observes but it cannot make deductions.

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Sign on the wall: effective immediately, it is illegal to do anything without a waver.

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There are limits to what can be observed, therefore, there are limits to what may be learned from observation.

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The trick it seems is not how to avoid hell but how to escape from it.

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Beyond the apparent movement of the universe, and it's seemingly inexorable flow of time, is the eternal, unchanging Atman, the jewel in the lotus...

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God Assumptions:

1. If God is omniscient, then everything is predetermined.
2. If everything is predetermined, then there is no free will.
3. If there is no free will, then there can be no freedom of choice.
4. Therefore, if there is choice then there is chance and if there is chance, God cannot be omniscient.

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Language defines and limits the illimitable. Yet the illimitable remains...

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People do not see the Deity, only a Deity.

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People often fail to see the imposition of authoritarianism and contradiction they bring to their conceptions of deity. They do not see that they do not see the deity at all but only an idol image in its place. The crucifix is one such idol image...

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It is fear which guards our cherished images and sacred dogmas. For, were we to free ourselves of these idols, in our approach to deity we might find, to paraphrase the Buddha, that there is no such thing.

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It is our ability to observe and remember changes and patterns of changes that allows us to become aware of our existence in time and space. If we were unable to distinguish patterns in time and space, or remember them, our observation of these patterns would hold no particular value or worth. Without memory, there could be no awareness of time and without an awareness of time, we would be unable to collapse the vectors into a linear unidirectional dimension, which we may call the path or the way.

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The universe is expanding due to the electromagnetic force, contracting due to the gravitational force, and remaining the same due to the nuclear force, or so it would appear.

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Bill of Blights: If survival means paying for ourselves and out biological imperatives, and slavery ensures our survival, we the people are only too willing to be slaves for money.

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Warning to all True-Believers: HAP (hidden agendas present) on board.

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There is no substance in matter, there is no form to mind.

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Without desire nothing would be possible. Without suffering, nothing would exist.

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To act natural is to pretend that someone or something is not present or does not exist.

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When you let the Lord decide your fate, every ‘accident’ becomes his will. How then can you argue? However, when you strive to do your will, chance is modified by choice. Now you have a valid dispute.

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The benefits of psychotherapy are mediocrity and conformity. In psychotherapy, mental health is defined by its absence.

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Inspiration emerges from context. We may not know when we will be inspired, only that we must be ready.

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If these words were not wrong, they would serve no purpose.

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Failure to be right, however, is not a licence to be wrong.

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We must approximate ‘rightness’ (as opposed to righteousness) to the best of our abilities, free from the misgivings of our failures and resistant to the inertia of our programs and accepted modes of behavior.

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’Free-will’ (the power to choose) emerges from the ordering of our lives and the sacrifices we make to open ourselves to chance. For, if we were to be free from chance, ‘Free-will’ would not be possible.

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The soul is what remains after the mind has laid claim to everything else.

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Some aspects of experience can be known only through state-specific sensitivities, such as though an awareness of our emotional states. These experiences cannot be seen or known from the outside, in any objective sense, except through inference. These inferences may allow us to know when certain state-specific experiences occur but they can do nothing to illuminate or express their content.

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On the ability to distinguish the Real from the Unreal: That which is personal, subjective, is real and cannot be measured. That which is impersonal, objective, is not real but can be measured.

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That which we avoid or reject distinguishes the periphery of our issues and denials.

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Familiarity is often the primary obstacle to learning anything new.

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Everything builds upon what came before but sometimes we must start from scratch.

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Repetition digs grooves often making change difficult, if not impossible.

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If you are satisfied you move on, if not you dig grooves. Thus, people are often likely to get stuck repeating things which they do not find at all satisfying.

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The Human condition, a hierarchy of Domains:

1. The Spiritual Domain
2. The Social Domain
3. The Mental Domain
4. The Emotional Domain
5. The Physical Domain

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The greatest way to a robust faith is not through obedience or conformity but through skepticism and free inquiry.

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Many things cannot be statistically defined or quantified and any attempt to do so inevitably renders them insensible and meaningless. These can include a diverse range of ideas such as: love, life, liberty, mind, consciousness, spirit, and soul, as well as phenomena such as light, gravity, time, space, and the universe.

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Dug tries to stand on the tip of his consciousness and catch things.

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Accidents inevitably lead to the end of accidents, either though entropy or through will.

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Nothing lasts forever, everything else is temporary.

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Argumentaton: “There’s no better way to start a fight than to agree with me.”

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How could an all-seeing creator create free will unless she chose not to look?

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Often it is necessary to get rid of old ideas before it is possible to entertain new ones.

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Being does not change but our sense of being does.
Being does not exist in spacetime but our sense of being not only occurs in spacetime, it creates it!

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Nothing moves yet everything changes.

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Food provides nourishment for the body, taste provides nourishment for the soul.

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There are two principle benefits to be gained from eating and drinking: satisfaction and pleasure. The former is physio-chemical, the latter is psycho-spiritual.

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Fresh: “For a moment I was beyond all doubt. Everything was absolutely clear. It was as if someone had thrown a light switch. All at once I felt completely whole, in a state of supreme bliss beyond anything I had come to know before. It was purely physical, non-conceptual, yet infinite. Then, after a time, just as suddenly, the light switch was turned off...”

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We can only know what the Universe is doing when we’re observing it. Yet, observation interferes with what is being observed. Thus, we can only know what the Universe is doing when we are interfering with it.

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No matter how fast we may travel, in a vacuum, light travels at a constant speed (186,000 mi/sec). Yet, at the speed of light, the universe reduces to a single primordial point.

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If you wait for a consensus you’ve waited too long. If you wait for the approval of others, you’ve missed your opportunity. If your every action requires a vote, you will never get anywhere.

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Imitation and self discovery are both means to an end for the body. Only self discovery is essential to the mind.

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If you exist something happens. If you do not exist, how would you know?

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Perhaps the real conspiracy is only the idea of a conspiracy.

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Keeping people employed keeps people distracted. Keeping people distracted keeps people employed. Also, people aren’t wearing enough hats.

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Is it not axiomatic to say that the whole point of contemporary, 20st century society was to keep people distracted and employed? Historically, this was accomplished by keeping people divided and at war. Unfortunately, this led us to our extinction.

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Ecstasy is a natural product of a job well done and from the liberation from doing.

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I am the tool, experience the catalyst.

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Knowledge makes the world transparent.

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To a society engaged in escapism, the inventor, the futurist, and the visionary will all appear uptight and out of touch.

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How many different ways can an idea be interpreted? As language ‘is’ fuzzy (everything ‘is’ and ‘is not’ to some degree), we can never be sure that we can count them all.

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As long as there is life, there will be somebody learning the ropes for the first time.

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Famous myths of the 20th Century: 1.) There is no free lunch 2.) You get what you deserve 3.) Everything happens for a reason 4.) Jesus died for your sins 5.) If you don’t believe in God you will Go to hell 6.) The Roman Empire fell 7.) Germany lost World War II

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Quantity destroys quality or at least makes it indistinguishable from crap.

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As long as there is life there will be innocence.

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Nothing is infinite, everything else is not.

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One of the problems when dealing with images, symbols, beliefs or ideas, with a long historical context is that they tend to pull you into the historical conflict as well.

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You must be open to receive. If you do not feel you need anything, you might not notice what you’re missing.

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Ignorance rarely misses knowledge.

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For some, the greatest traumas occur when they want something. Here is a partial list of ways people deal with not getting what they want: 1.) Tantrums 12.) Vampirism 23.) Metaprogramming 2.) Nervous breakdowns 13.) Television 3.) Panic attacks 14.) Selfishness 4.) Depression 15.) Legislation 5.) Anxiety 16.) Over consumption 6.) Suicide 17.) Denial 7.) Drug addiction 18.) Sublimation 8.) Alcoholism 19.) Transference 9.) Violence 20.) Hypnosis 10.) Foul language 21.) Religion 11.) Mind games 22.) Creativity

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When looking for something, make sure you do not already have it or you may never find it.

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Otto the Autarch: ”Democracies are the single worst form of Government when it comes to promoting sustainable growth. As no real advantage can be made between parties and their interests, mediocrity and stagnation are the inevitable result. In a democracy, valid issues and important ideas wither away through bipartisanship, in-house fighting, political posturing, lobbying and backstabbing. The only real hope for the future is in Artificial Intelligence...”

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Changing your state of consciousness is one form of movement in higher dimensions. What we perceive as time is an imperfect perception of these higher dimensions and what we experience as timelessness is the gateway.

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How can we ever have a Grand Unified Theory if Physics cannot even explain comedy?

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The removal of ‘is’ from your vocabulary does nothing to remove the ‘is’ from what it ‘is’ you are trying to say.

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